5 - the fifth victim discovered at the Gacy house, now found to be Mr. Alexander’s family was no different, he said: “They were not unlike other families, where they really didn’t know what to think.” Some don’t want to believe their loved ones are dead.” Some families have real outlandish ideas. “Some families have told me in the past that maybe their loved one had amnesia. For decades, his relatives had little idea where he had gone.ĭetective Jason Moran of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, who worked on the case, said he had interviewed dozens of families whose relatives have gone missing for extended periods. Alexander’s family did not call the Chicago Police Department to ask for help or file a missing persons report, officials said. He was no longer at that address, the police replied.
The family contacted the police in California and asked them to check the return address on the postcard. In 1976, a postcard from California arrived. Alexander’s divorce, he continued to contact his family in North Carolina, calling to check in or sending notes from his travels.
Gacy was known to have targeted other victims, including William Bundy, a 19-year-old construction worker.Īfter Mr. He lived on Winona Street on the North Side of Chicago, in a neighborhood where Mr. The couple divorced months later, and Mr. Alexander moved to Chicago from New York with his wife in 1975, officials said. Gacy’s crawl space, with his identity so many decades later. On Monday, authorities described how they had connected Mr. Our only comfort is knowing this killer no longer breathes the same air as we do.” Our hearts are heavy, and our sympathies go out to the other victims’ families. “He was killed at the hands of a vile and evil man. “It is hard, even 45 years later, to know the fate of our beloved Wayne,” the statement said.
In a statement, the Alexander family thanked the Sheriff’s Department for the investigation and said it finally had a sense of resolution.
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