that s why john gacy got away with it for so long nobody was looking for these kids. but like almost all criminals, he got stupid, got lazy, got to the point where he was just plain careless. albrecht: robert piest was a great kid. everybody had just great things to say about him. duke: he went missing after his shift at the nisson pharmacy, and gacy was the logical suspect because he was the last one known to have seen rob piest. sullivan: gacy drove him to his house, knowing full well the owners of the drugstore knew that gacy was the one who was with piest. that s when everything began to fall apart for john wayne gacy.
duke: it was a pickup slip for a roll of film that was being developed at the nisson pharmacy. and that was the pharmacy where rob piest disappeared from. sullivan: a day or so after the first search warrant, i asked the police department if they would put a 24-hour surveillance on gacy with the hopes that, in fact, he would go back to wherever rob was now. two 12-hour shifts, two guys they watched him around the clock. hachmeister: my partner and i really, we had no exact direction where to go with this case, other than the fact that we were not to lose him. albrecht: i decided pretty much that the first night that we were out, that if gacy went into a public place, dave and i would go in and follow him. hachmeister: we didn t want to leave him alone for one minute.
and i had it in my car. i ran out to the car, and i go in with the bottle. gacy says, fill it up. we all toasted. gacy glug, glug, glug, glug drank it. fill it up again. poured another little thing. we each had a shot. glug, glug, glug, glug. and he looks at me, and he says, i m gonna tell you the whole story from the beginning. i ve been a judge, jury, and executioner of many, many people. now i want to be my own judge, jury, and executioner. my heart started pounding, like, ba-bum, ba-bum. what are you talking about, john? and he goes, i don t want you to interfere. i just want you to listen to what i have to say. meanwhile, across town, cops had a big breakthrough. they finally figured out that that photo receipt they found in gacy s garbage belonged to a woman named kim byers, and she happened to be a coworker of rob piest at nisson pharmacy. and the story behind that was kim byers was gonna go out and take a break,
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