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>> one year later, gacy was convicted of more murders than anyone in u.s. history at the time, and sentenced to death. it was enclosure for dozens of families. but many of the victims were still unidentified. buried across chicago cemeteries with the grave stostone "we remembered." >> things went cold. there was no callousness by anyone in the investigation. everyone just knew theres nothing we can do at this point. >> tom dart is the sheriff for cook county. >> and so then people -- some went o...

Killing spree where he handcuffed his victims, then strangled them until they stopped breathing. a technique he demonstrated on assistant states attorney larry finder. >> and he reaches into his pocket and takes out his rosary. he said to larry, put your harm in here. and larry just kind of naturally flinched. and he said, relax, larry, im not going to kill you. so larry put his arm in. and gacy demonstrated on larrys wrist how he used the rope to kill these kids. >> these young men, they suffer...

And he said, this is where i threw robert piest. >> for weeks the scene outside gacys suburban chicago home was grim. families with missing brothers and sons watched in panic as crime scene technicians pulled the remains of 29 boys and young men from the crawl space, backyard, and from under the concrete in his garage. you had never seen anything like this in your career. >> who had? no, nobody had. not at all. ♪ >> 400 miles away in st. paul, minnesota, laurie sisteman was anxious. >> i heard...

Store earlier in the day. >> the next day they realize weve got to take this seriously and they started to investigate. what was the first thing they did? >> they went to gacys house. and hes essentially said, yeah, i was at the drugstore and i dont remember talking to robert, i didnt know robert, i talk to a lot of kids wherever i go to see if they want summer jobs. i may have said something but i dont remember directing it to robert. they said, okay, and looked around the house, just casually,...

>> detectives were alarmed. who exactly was john gacy? and where was robert? wh when we come back, police question gacys employees. >> we interviewed these kids, we talked to no one who worked for him who went missing. what was all that about? [speaking in italian] ...i just got my ancestrydna results: 74% italian.

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...

To me how much it meant to them. and it reinforced to us, we have to do more, we have to keep this thing going. >> sheriff dart and sergeant mor moran have continued to search for answers. but there have been constant challenges. there are six more victims remaining with no name. and moran doesnt know if he will ever solve those cases. >> theres a reason why these victims werent identified the first time around. its like any cold case. you know, theres a reason why these cases are not solved. >>...

Here. >> i remember it was like it was yesterday. he said, pardon me, oh, shit. we said, whats wrong? he said, i got another rib cage down here. and we all stood there and looked at each other and went, wow. >> later that night, at the des plaines police station, gacy gave a shocking confession. >> he said, were going to clear up like about 30 homicide. which i thought was a lot of bs, ill be honest with you. >> but gacy kept talking. >> his attorneys are there, and somebody said, who was the fi...

That decades later decided wanted to know answers. >> right, for literally ten years or more, you know, he has been in the computer looking, searching sites and stuff. >> so you get a phone call from jimmy haakensons nephew. >> mm-hmm. >> out of the blue. >> yes. >> what did he say? >> he says that his uncle has been missing for 35 or more years, and he would like to learn if his missing uncle jimmy haakenson was one of gacys unidentified victims. >> moran learned jimmy disappeared in chicago in...

Captain in that particular ward. >> and he also was at times a clown. >> pogo the clown, as a matter of fact, was his name. he used to go out on weekends and entertain kids. >> he has a picture on his wall standing next to rosalyn carter. to hear him tell it, he was a really important guy. >> but he also made disturbing statements to the surveillance team. what did he say? >> a clown can get away with murder. >> thats a bizarre statement. >> not unless youre a murderer and you want to play with ...