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And really, that was an archeological dig. it was a very slow process. reporter: are you men sifting by hand through the dirt to catch any kind of a trace of evidence, hair, teeth? yes, for the most part, yes. reporter: so you've got about half or three-quarters of this crawl space yet to go through? i would say about three-quarters. finder: what i'll never forget was the stench. it just overwhelmed a person's olfactory sense. this was a mass graveyard. hachmeister: they were slowly but surely pulling out bodies and transporting them with the paddy wagon back to the medical examiner's office. ...

Plus $1,500 purchase allowance on a 2023 xt5 and xt6 when you finance through cadillac financial. ♪ reporter: this morning, police searched gacy's home. they became suspicious when 15-year-old robert piest disappeared after he allegedly was last seen with gacy. they started tearing up the flooring and working that way in the crawl space. albrecht: it was probably like a lot of other crawl spaces that people have. it was just dirt and clay. hachmeister: and the very first dig with the shovel, they struck a human bone. so, it was at that time that i arrested john for murder.

Quite naturally, some of the first paths that we took were to try to interview some of the people that worked for gacy. and one of the key things that they found out was that he had instructed these employees to go into his crawl space and dig trenches. and he claimed it was because they had a sewage issue and that he was trying to resolve that problem. and occasionally, the smell would come back up, so he'd instruct them to go in there with lime and spread lime down there, which would cover up that smell for a while. sullivan: they certainly were helpful in telling us that we really probably ...

The way he said he handled each victim. amirante: how he killed them, what he did to them. officer: what was your initial emotional response? amirante: i aged so much that night. it was the longest night of -- of my life. never showed any remorse, as if they weren't people at all. that's how he felt. he was just -- it was phenomenal. but the cops would soon discover for themselves just how deep this went. and working in the crawl space.

But instead what they found was a crime scene beyond anything they had imagined. and as the public watched the terrifying story unfold on television, families of missing young men waited on pins and needles to find out if their loved ones were among the victims. reporter: cook county sheriff's police and des plaines detectives had this house under surveillance for about two weeks. last night about 9:00 pm, officers armed with warrants entered the house, arrested its owner, 36-year-old contractor john gacy. reporter: they suspect there are several more bodies buried here. officer: it's suspecte...