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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 victims of john gacy and reached out to sergeant moran. >> i learned from lron that steven and april's bi...

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 haakenson's 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 gacy's unidentified victims. >> moran learned jimmy disappeared in chicago in 1976. right in the middle of gacy's killing spree. now he needed dna samples from jimmy's family....

Difficult to do. it's painful to hear. >> for six years after that first identification, sergeant moran's work yielded no positive results. >> there's some of these missing persons, i would have bet a week's 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 they're still missing. that is sometimes frustrating. >> in the back of my mind i would wonder, where's i didn't mean jimmy? >> then in 2016, jimmy haakenson's sister laurie sisterman learned of the reopened gacy investigation. >> so you...

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 wouldn't 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." ♪ >> the '70s was a unique time period in this country. >> jason moran is a detective sergeant with t...

Of what those people have gone through. i don't know how they live day-to-day with that event occurring in their life. from a law enforcement standpoint, this is what we're supposed to do, this is sort of our job. >> does it haunt you when you can't find the answers? >> i don't say it haunts me, but it does occupy my space. this type of job, you don't go home at 5:00 and, you know, see you tomorrow. you know, there's many times where i sit up thinking or feeling something about the cases i'm involved in. you try not to, but it's really a -- it's no end. you can't stop it sometimes. >> sergeant...