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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 there's nothing we can do at this point. >> tom dart is the sheriff for cook county. >> and so then people -- some went on with their lives. but for most people, they never really went on with their lives. they always wo...

Killing spree where he handcuffed his victims, then strangled them until they stopped breathing. a technique he demonstrated on assistant state's 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, i'm not going to kill you. so larry put his arm in. and gacy demonstrated on larry's wrist how he used the rope to kill these kids. >> these young men, they suffered before they died. >> yeah, it was a -- it was very brutal. these were sexually motivated crime...

And he said, this is where i threw robert piest. >> for weeks the scene outside gacy's 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 it on the news. i said, mom, we need to do something. >> laurie wondered about her

Store earlier in the day. >> the next day they realize we've got to take this seriously and they started to investigate. what was the first thing they did? >> they went to gacy's house. and he's essentially said, yeah, i was at the drugstore and i don't remember talking to robert, i didn't 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 don't remember directing it to robert. they said, okay, and looked around the house, just casually, and couldn't find anything interesting, and they left. they left and went back to the station...

>> detectives were alarmed. who exactly was john gacy? and where was robert? wh when we come back, police question gacy's 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.