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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 doesn't have a name on their headstone, and that potentially there's a family out there looking for their missing loved one. >> since 2011, sergeant jason moran has been investigating t...

And the sheriff and i and others had often spoke about some of these unidentified victims being wards of the state and that's 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 soden's dna did in the identify any of the gacy victims. >> that was a relief because i didn't want to think of him as being dead. >> ron still wanted answers and sergeant moran could not let the case go. so he entered the soden's dna into a national database hoping one day he could solv...

>> 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 you're at the door, ringing at the doorbell or knocking at the door. what was it like? >> i didn't even have to knock. they were waiting. they saw me pull up. they were on pins and needles. >> he introduced himself and shook everybody's hand. and then he sat down. >> i talked about the circumstances in the case. and then told them that i was sorry to report that their missing brot...

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 that's when i lost it, because it really is true. my brother and i were -- we were crying then, because we didn't realize jimmy's in there, in that picture that they showed us. you know, an unknown. it just had a date on there. "we remembered." it wasn't his name or anything like that, obviously. so yeah, that was -- that was hard. >> unable to provide the haakenson family with all the answers to their families about jimmy's death, sergeant mora...

>> 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 you're working with these families, you become close with them sometimes. professional, but close. you know, you can't help but look at your own humanity to a certain extent. most policemen have children and how would you want your children to be t...