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I heard that they would help with the search. i contacted them several times. no results there. i would look in the directories for the name steven soden and find phone numbers and call. anytime i saw anything in the newspaper, heard anything on the news about anything pertaining to a missing boy or missing boys, i would make contact there. i made contact with a forensic anthropologist down in texas one time. >> then in 2011 ron learned about the cold case investigation to identify unnamed victi...

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...

Difficult to do. its painful to hear. >> for six years after that first identification, sergeant morans work yielded no positive results. >> theres some of these missing persons, i would have bet a weeks salary that they were one of the unidentified victims. they fit the victim profile so well. but not only are they not one of the unidentified victims, but theyre still missing. that is sometimes frustrating. >> in the back of my mind i would wonder, wheres i didnt mean jimmy? >> then in 2016, ji...

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...

And the sheriff and i and others had often spoke about some of these unidentified victims being wards of the state and thats why no one came forward to claim them or identify them. >> detective moran asked me if we would do dna tests. so i contacted my sisters and we did dna tests and sent them in. >> but the sodens dna did in the identify any of the gacy victims. >> that was a relief because i didnt want to think of him as being dead. >> ron still wanted answers and sergeant moran could not let...

>> 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...

Cemetery where jimmy was buried. >> i knew seeing those things would help them visually understand where jimmy had been for all of these years. >> and thats when i lost it, because it really is true. my brother and i were -- we were crying then, because we didnt realize jimmys in there, in that picture that they showed us. you know, an unknown. it just had a date on there. "we remembered." it wasnt his name or anything like that, obviously. so yeah, that was -- that was hard. >> unable to provid...

>> sergeant moran says cold case work from missing persons is an underserved field in law enforcement across the country. >> the rapes, robberies and murders that occur today take precedent over someone that went missing 50 years ago. >> today we add another level of healing to our wounds. >> but moran is determined to do something about it. >> when youre working with these families, you become close with them sometimes. professional, but close. you know, you cant help but look at your own human...