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♪ godzik: it was new years eve. cops ring the doorbell, and they tell you to sit down. they said, "we just want you to know your brother is identified with the gacy case." my brother was the fourth body that was recovered from the home. it is very, very devastating, but it was a relief to know its over. so you have two years of, like, "could it? would it? maybe. could be. i dont know." its finality. reporter: gacys home has become a tourist attraction. every day for a week, outsiders came here...

Well, gacy said, sure, help yourself. and he went back in the bathroom and he said the smell came up from the ventilation system which was underneath the floor, that he said, i smelled decomposing flesh. >> he smells what he believed was similar, something similar to what he would smell at the county morgue. anybody thats been to the morgue would know what that smell is. its something you dont really forget. >> detectives were alarmed. but they still needed evidence to build a case. while the su...

Victims. and as it turns out there have been at least a dozen more cases just like steven sodens. >> the unusual thing is id been able to identify more non-gacy victims than gacy victims through this. only two of the eight unidentified victims are -- we know who they are. >> out of the 170 leads he has received about missing persons during his work on the gacy case, the majority remain unsolved. >> what do you do when a lead is not related to gacy but its a missing person? >> i will pursue it un...

Period of time went missing, they should come forward. >> and the investigation is still taking new and unexpected turns. >> i knew he was telling the truth. but my mind wouldnt accept it. >> raising questions and revealing answers to dozens of unsolved mysteries. >> families of long-term missing persons. they live in a cruel limbo. >> i always thought that some day i would get a phone call and it would be from steve. >> tonight, a cnn special report. "the curious case of the killer clown." ♪ ...

Of what those people have gone through. i dont know how they live day-to-day with that event occurring in their life. from a law enforcement standpoint, this is what were supposed to do, this is sort of our job. >> does it haunt you when you cant find the answers? >> i dont say it haunts me, but it does occupy my space. this type of job, you dont go home at 5:00 and, you know, see you tomorrow. you know, theres many times where i sit up thinking or feeling something about the cases im involved i...

Since his execution, cook county investigators exhumed the remains of eight of his victims to collect dna. >> this is the grave of victim number 10. >> victim number 10 was one of eight young men murdered by gacy who were never identified. >> all of the unidentified victims have the same markers, these "we remembered" with the date of internment. sometimes it helps to see it visually, you know, that this person doesnt have a name on their headstone, and that potentially theres a family out there...

Done by cold case investigators when they solve a case. why was it important to you? >> i just felt obligated to really close this part of their lives out for them in that way. and thats what these services sort of do. >> it was so nice. yeah, we got as many people as we could get together, family-wise, you know, people, and we flew in from different areas of the country, and we had a memorial. >> sheriff tom dart and sergeant m moran were also there. >> we were in this with them. we reopened th...

>> right. he called me and said, laurie, i would like to get together with your family, is there a place where we can get together? >> moran traveled to st. paul to meet with lorie and other members of the family. so youre at the door, ringing at the doorbell or knocking at the door. what was it like? >> i didnt even have to knock. they were waiting. they saw me pull up. they were on pins and needles. >> he introduced himself and shook everybodys hand. and then he sat down. >> i talked about the...