1 00:00:28,353 --> 00:00:32,008 Derrick: I HAVEN'T BEEN HERE AT THE HARRIS COUNTY CEMETERY IN YEARS, 2 00:00:32,043 --> 00:00:35,836 BUT I SURE REMEMBER THE DAY IN 2009 THAT WE BURIED HIM. 3 00:00:37,111 --> 00:00:38,939 [ OWL HOOTING ] 4 00:00:38,974 --> 00:00:43,111 WE BURIED HIM IN BABYLAND, IN THE CHILDREN'S PART OF THE CEMETERY. 5 00:00:46,111 --> 00:00:49,318 HE WAS IN THIS BEAUTIFUL WHITE CASKET, 6 00:00:49,353 --> 00:00:51,939 THAT WAS A CHILD-SIZE CASKET BECAUSE HE WAS SKELETAL. 7 00:00:54,353 --> 00:00:58,008 WE KNOW HOW HE DIED AND IT WASN'T AN EASY DEATH. 8 00:01:03,525 --> 00:01:09,215 I'VE SPENT 14 YEARS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO THIS BOY IS. 9 00:01:09,249 --> 00:01:12,077 Narrator: HE'S THE LAST UNIDENTIFIED BOY WHO DIED AT THE HANDS 10 00:01:12,111 --> 00:01:16,698 OF ONE OF AMERICA'S WORST SERIAL KILLERS: DEAN ALLEN CORLL, 11 00:01:16,732 --> 00:01:20,284 OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE CANDY MAN. 12 00:01:20,318 --> 00:01:22,974 Hollandsworth: THIS IS A STORY WITHOUT ANY REDEMPTION. 13 00:01:23,008 --> 00:01:29,008 THERE IS NOTHING BUT TERROR AND MADNESS AND GRIEF IN THIS STORY. 14 00:01:29,043 --> 00:01:31,629 THE NEWS TONIGHT BEGINS WITH MURDER. 15 00:01:31,663 --> 00:01:34,215 Man on TV: SO FAR, 17 BODIES HAVE BEEN FOUND IN THE BOATHOUSE. 16 00:01:34,249 --> 00:01:37,491 POLICE EXPECT TO FIND MORE WHEN THEY RESUME DIGGING LATER TODAY. 17 00:01:37,525 --> 00:01:41,180 Narrator: THE CANDY MAN'S REIGN OF TERROR WAS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY OVERTAKEN 18 00:01:41,215 --> 00:01:43,801 BY ANOTHER KILLER PREYING ON YOUNG MEN. 19 00:01:43,836 --> 00:01:48,698 JOHN WAYNE GACY, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE KILLER CLOWN. 20 00:01:48,732 --> 00:01:52,180 TOGETHER OVER EIGHT YEARS, THEY KILLED MORE THAN 60 BOYS. 21 00:01:52,215 --> 00:01:54,043 Man 1: THEY WERE LIKE KIDS IN A CANDY SHOP. 22 00:01:54,077 --> 00:01:57,043 THEY JUST SAW OPPORTUNITY EVERYWHERE THEY LOOKED. 23 00:01:57,077 --> 00:02:00,525 Woman: HE CAME HOME AND SAID, "OH, WE WERE DIGGING AROUND HIS HOUSE," 24 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,629 AND IT ENDED UP THEY WERE DIGGING THEIR OWN GRAVES. 25 00:02:03,663 --> 00:02:05,698 THESE KIDS WERE CRYING FOR THEIR MOMS. 26 00:02:05,732 --> 00:02:08,905 James: THEY WOULD TIE THEM ON THE TORTURE BOARD AND MOLEST THEM. 27 00:02:08,939 --> 00:02:10,870 Narrator: MANY THOUGHT THAT JOHN WAYNE GACY 28 00:02:10,905 --> 00:02:13,456 AND DEAN CORLL WERE LONE PSYCHOPATHS, 29 00:02:13,491 --> 00:02:16,456 BUT THIS SERIES INVESTIGATES EVIDENCE THEY WERE LINKED 30 00:02:16,491 --> 00:02:18,387 TO A SECRET, NATION-WIDE NETWORK. 31 00:02:18,422 --> 00:02:21,353 Man on TV: POLICE IN DALLAS THINK THEY'VE UNCOVERED A NATION-WIDE 32 00:02:21,387 --> 00:02:23,284 PROCUREMENT RING FOR HOMOSEXUALS. 33 00:02:23,318 --> 00:02:24,939 Man 2: I'D CALL IT A PEDOPHILE CELL, 34 00:02:24,974 --> 00:02:27,939 AND I THINK IT COULD BE COMPARED TO A TERRORIST CELL. 35 00:02:27,974 --> 00:02:31,629 Man 1: I WAS SEXUALLY EXPLOITED BY A PEDOPHILE RING FROM AGE FIVE TO AGE 12. 36 00:02:31,663 --> 00:02:34,284 IT'S LIKE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL QUICKSAND. 37 00:02:34,318 --> 00:02:36,043 Narrator: IT WAS A MASSIVE NETWORK 38 00:02:36,077 --> 00:02:38,767 AND ONE OF ITS MASTERMINDS, A SHADOWY FIGURE. 39 00:02:38,801 --> 00:02:40,215 Man 3: IT'S A SNAKE OF SNAKES. 40 00:02:40,249 --> 00:02:41,560 HIS NAME IS JOHN DAVID NORMAN. 41 00:02:41,594 --> 00:02:44,284 HE'S A PEDOPHILE, AND HE RAN A RING. 42 00:02:44,318 --> 00:02:47,767 Man 4: HE SENT BOYS TO SERVICE CLIENTS THROUGHOUT THE STATES. 43 00:02:47,801 --> 00:02:49,456 THEY CAME FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE. 44 00:02:49,491 --> 00:02:51,698 DOCTORS, LAWYERS, ALL THE WAY DOWN. 45 00:02:51,732 --> 00:02:54,698 Man 3: AND, YES, THEY WERE IN COMMUNICATION WITH ONE ANOTHER. 46 00:02:54,732 --> 00:02:56,698 THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT WAS GOING ON. 47 00:02:56,732 --> 00:02:59,387 Narrator: THIS SERIES UNCOVERS A HIDDEN CONSPIRACY 48 00:02:59,422 --> 00:03:01,525 OF PEDOPHILES AND CHILD-KILLERS 49 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,939 AND IN NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD CONVERSATIONS, 50 00:03:03,974 --> 00:03:07,353 A GLIMPSE INTO THE TWISTED WORLD OF THE KILLER CLOWN. 51 00:03:07,387 --> 00:03:09,560 Phone Operator: YOU HAVE A COLLECT CALL FROM... 52 00:03:09,594 --> 00:03:10,629 Gacy: JOHN GACY. 53 00:03:32,456 --> 00:03:34,146 Hollandsworth: THERE'S AN ENTIRE INDUSTRY 54 00:03:34,180 --> 00:03:38,318 DEVOTED TO SERIAL KILLERS IN AMERICA. 55 00:03:38,353 --> 00:03:43,456 EVEN WITH ALL THE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE NOW HAVE TO CATCH KILLERS LIKE THIS, 56 00:03:43,491 --> 00:03:49,146 IT'S BEWILDERING THAT NO-ONE SAW IT HAPPENING BACK IN 1970 TO 1973. 57 00:03:50,387 --> 00:03:53,180 WELL, I'M A TRUE CRIME WRITER AT TEXAS MONTHLY, 58 00:03:53,215 --> 00:03:56,663 AND I THOUGHT I KNEW ALL THE MAJOR CRIME STORIES. 59 00:03:56,698 --> 00:03:59,974 THIS OLD RETIRED RADIO REPORTER I MET 60 00:04:00,008 --> 00:04:03,008 TOLD ME THAT THE MOST DEVASTATING STORY 61 00:04:03,043 --> 00:04:05,043 HE HAD EVER WORKED ON IN HIS ENTIRE CAREER 62 00:04:05,077 --> 00:04:08,801 WAS THE STORY OF WHAT DEAN CORLL DID TO THOSE BOYS IN HOUSTON. 63 00:04:08,836 --> 00:04:11,249 AND I SAID, "WHO'S DEAN CORLL?" 64 00:04:15,318 --> 00:04:18,594 Narrator: THE ANSWER BEGINS WITH A PHONE CALL TO THE POLICE 65 00:04:18,629 --> 00:04:21,905 ON A HOT SUMMER MORNING IN 1973, 66 00:04:21,939 --> 00:04:25,249 AND A DARK SECRET WORLD STARTS TO UNRAVEL. 67 00:04:30,111 --> 00:04:31,870 OUTSIDE 2020 LAMAR, 68 00:04:31,905 --> 00:04:34,732 THE POLICE FIND THREE SHAKEN TEENS. 69 00:04:34,767 --> 00:04:37,180 SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD ELMER WAYNE HENLEY, 70 00:04:37,215 --> 00:04:39,318 NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD TIM KERLEY, 71 00:04:39,353 --> 00:04:42,043 AND FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD RHONDA WILLIAMS 72 00:04:42,077 --> 00:04:44,560 AND A .22 CALIBER GUN ON THE GROUND. 73 00:04:46,422 --> 00:04:48,767 Smith: THEY WERE ALL SITTING ON A CURB, 74 00:04:48,801 --> 00:04:51,905 AND IMMEDIATELY WHEN HENLEY MADE A STATEMENT 75 00:04:51,939 --> 00:04:56,801 THAT HE'D SHOT DEAN CORLL AND THAT HIS BODY WAS INSIDE THE HOUSE. 76 00:04:56,836 --> 00:04:58,146 [ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS ] 77 00:04:58,180 --> 00:05:01,215 Narrator: IN THE HALLWAY IS A MAN'S NAKED BODY. 78 00:05:01,249 --> 00:05:03,767 HE'S BEEN SHOT SIX TIMES. 79 00:05:03,801 --> 00:05:07,284 A SEARCH OF THE HOUSE SHOWS THIS IS ANYTHING BUT ROUTINE. 80 00:05:08,974 --> 00:05:10,974 Smith: IN ONE BEDROOM, THERE WERE POLYETHYLENE. 81 00:05:11,008 --> 00:05:13,939 PLASTIC WAS ROLLED OUT ON THE FLOOR, 82 00:05:13,974 --> 00:05:17,905 AND A BOARD WITH HOLES IN IT, 83 00:05:17,939 --> 00:05:23,594 HANDCUFFS AND ROPES ATTACHED TO VARIOUS SEXUAL DEVICES. 84 00:05:28,111 --> 00:05:31,663 A LOT OF, AH, ACRYLIC SPRAY CANS, MARIJUANA. 85 00:05:34,939 --> 00:05:39,146 Narrator: THIRTY-THREE- YEAR-OLD DEAN CORLL SEEMED AN UNLIKELY MURDER VICTIM. 86 00:05:39,180 --> 00:05:41,836 A LINEMAN AT THE HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPANY, 87 00:05:41,870 --> 00:05:44,767 HE WAS A FAMILIAR FACE IN THE HEIGHTS. 88 00:05:44,801 --> 00:05:47,043 HIS MOTHER HAD OWNED THE CANDY STORE AND FACTORY 89 00:05:47,077 --> 00:05:48,008 IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 90 00:05:49,077 --> 00:05:50,870 Milligan: I WAS IN THE FIFTH GRADE, 91 00:05:50,905 --> 00:05:52,629 AND WE WERE ON THE PLAYGROUND 92 00:05:52,663 --> 00:05:55,905 AND SOMEONE YELLED, "THE CANDY MAN." 93 00:05:55,939 --> 00:05:58,905 AND THESE LITTLE KIDS WERE RUNNING LIKE MAD 94 00:05:58,939 --> 00:06:00,491 TO THE FENCE TO GET CANDY, 95 00:06:01,905 --> 00:06:04,008 AND I TURNED TO A FRIEND OF MINE AND I SAID, 96 00:06:04,043 --> 00:06:05,974 "WHO'S THE CANDY MAN?" 97 00:06:06,008 --> 00:06:09,043 HE GOES, "AH, HIS FAMILY RUNS A CANDY STORE ABOUT FOUR BLOCKS OVER." 98 00:06:12,249 --> 00:06:15,870 Hollandsworth: DEAN CORLL WAS HIS BIG, BROAD-SHOULDERED YOUNG MAN, 99 00:06:15,905 --> 00:06:20,974 THICK BLACK HAIR, BIG BLACK SIDEBURNS, AND FRIENDLY. 100 00:06:21,008 --> 00:06:23,905 HE WAS ALWAYS GOOD WITH THE KIDS WHO CAME BY THE CANDY FACTORY. 101 00:06:23,939 --> 00:06:26,043 HE WOULD GIVE THEM FREE CANDY THAT HIS MOM HAD MADE, 102 00:06:26,077 --> 00:06:30,870 PRALINES OR TURKISH DELIGHTS OR PECAN LOGS. 103 00:06:30,905 --> 00:06:34,456 HE SET UP A POOL TABLE IN THE BACK ROOM, HE LET THE KIDS PLAY THERE. 104 00:06:34,491 --> 00:06:37,008 HE WOULD SOMETIMES GIVE THEM RIDES ON HIS MOTORCYCLE. 105 00:06:38,318 --> 00:06:40,387 HE WAS SORT OF LIKE A GOOD BOY SCOUT LEADER. 106 00:06:40,422 --> 00:06:42,491 HE WASN'T SOMEONE THAT PEOPLE WERE SCARED OF. 107 00:06:44,077 --> 00:06:47,387 Narrator: WHY, THEN, WOULD A 17-YEAR-OLD KID FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD 108 00:06:47,422 --> 00:06:50,836 CLAIMED HE HAD TO KILL THE CANDY MAN IN SELF-DEFENSE? 109 00:06:52,008 --> 00:06:53,939 THE STORY HENLEY TELLS THE POLICE 110 00:06:53,974 --> 00:06:55,870 PAINTS A VERY DIFFERENT PICTURE 111 00:06:55,905 --> 00:06:58,560 OF THE FRIENDLY GUY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 112 00:06:58,594 --> 00:07:00,525 Smith: THEY WERE HAVING A PARTY THERE. 113 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:03,939 THEY WERE, UH, WHAT WE CALLED IN THOSE DAYS, BAGGING, 114 00:07:03,974 --> 00:07:07,594 THEY'RE SNIFFING THE ACRYLIC SPRAY OUT OF A BAG TO GET HIGH. 115 00:07:09,077 --> 00:07:11,353 THEY GOT SO HIGH THEY PASSED OUT, 116 00:07:11,387 --> 00:07:13,043 AND WHEN THEY WOKE UP, 117 00:07:13,077 --> 00:07:15,353 UH, THEY WERE ALL TIED UP OR HANDCUFFED, 118 00:07:15,387 --> 00:07:19,043 ALL THREE OF 'EM, INCLUDING WAYNE HENLEY. 119 00:07:19,077 --> 00:07:22,767 Narrator: HENLEY TELLS THE POLICE THAT THE CANDY MAN HAD A SECRET OBSESSION. 120 00:07:22,801 --> 00:07:25,594 HE LIKED UNDERAGE BOYS. 121 00:07:25,629 --> 00:07:29,387 CORLL HAD NO AFFINITY FOR WOMEN WHATSOEVER. 122 00:07:29,422 --> 00:07:32,284 HE WAS ANGRY WITH HENLEY BECAUSE HENLEY HAD BROUGHT THE GIRL THERE. 123 00:07:34,111 --> 00:07:37,043 CORLL WANTED HENLEY TO HAVE SEX WITH THE GIRL 124 00:07:37,077 --> 00:07:39,870 WHILE HE HAD SEX WITH THE OTHER YOUNG BOY THAT WAS THERE, 125 00:07:39,905 --> 00:07:43,456 AND HENLEY HAD REFUSED. 126 00:07:43,491 --> 00:07:46,215 Narrator: HENLEY SAYS CORLL THREATENED HIM WITH A GUN, 127 00:07:46,249 --> 00:07:50,249 SO HE AGREED TO DO WHATEVER CORLL WANTED. 128 00:07:50,284 --> 00:07:54,732 HENLEY TALKED HIM INTO LETTING HIM OUT OF THE HAND CUFFS, 129 00:07:54,767 --> 00:07:58,525 AND WHEN HE DID THAT, HE IMMEDIATELY GRABBED THE PISTOL AND SHOT HIM. 130 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,043 [ GUNSHOTS ] 131 00:08:02,456 --> 00:08:05,249 Narrator: IT SEEMED AN UNBELIEVABLE STORY, 132 00:08:05,284 --> 00:08:07,111 AND MIGHT HAVE ENDED THERE: 133 00:08:07,146 --> 00:08:10,456 A DRUG-FUELED SEX ORGY THAT GOT OUT OF HAND, 134 00:08:10,491 --> 00:08:13,801 UNTIL HENLEY TELLS THEM AN INSANE STORY. 135 00:08:13,836 --> 00:08:17,008 Smith: THAT'S WHEN HE TOLD THE STORY ABOUT CORLL TELLING HIM 136 00:08:17,043 --> 00:08:19,180 ABOUT MURDERING, TORTURING, 137 00:08:19,801 --> 00:08:22,111 SEXUALLY ASSAULTING YOUNG BOYS 138 00:08:22,146 --> 00:08:24,629 AND BURYING THEM IN A BOATSHED. 139 00:08:24,663 --> 00:08:26,801 [ TYPEWRITER KEYS CLICKING ] 140 00:08:26,836 --> 00:08:29,249 AND HE EVEN HAD NAMES OF SOME OF THE BOYS 141 00:08:29,284 --> 00:08:31,180 THAT HE SAID CORLL KILLED. 142 00:08:32,456 --> 00:08:34,249 I DIDN'T BELIEVE HIM. 143 00:08:34,284 --> 00:08:37,180 IT JUST SEEMED SUCH A BIZARRE STORY, 144 00:08:37,215 --> 00:08:39,663 AND I'VE HEARD MANY BIZARRE STORIES BEFORE 145 00:08:39,698 --> 00:08:41,939 THAT DIDN'T TURN OUT TO BE TRUE. 146 00:08:43,629 --> 00:08:47,836 WE STARTED CHECKING OUT THESE NAMES TO SEE IF THEY WERE MISSING PERSONS 147 00:08:47,870 --> 00:08:51,180 OR RUNAWAY JUVENILES, AND THAT'S WHEN WE LEARNED 148 00:08:51,215 --> 00:08:55,043 THAT SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN LISTED AS MISSING OR RUNAWAYS. 149 00:08:58,318 --> 00:09:01,560 Narrator: MISSING BOYS, BODIES IN A BOATSHED. 150 00:09:01,594 --> 00:09:03,491 HENLEY SAYS HE CAN TAKE THEM THERE. 151 00:09:07,215 --> 00:09:10,767 HENLEY WAS, I WOULD SAY, MATTER-OF-FACT. 152 00:09:10,801 --> 00:09:13,422 HE WAS A VERY SMART, STREETWISE KID. 153 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:16,249 HE SHOWED NO EMOTION ABOUT IT. 154 00:09:18,146 --> 00:09:21,732 Narrator: THAT AFTERNOON, HENLEY LEADS THE POLICE ON THE 30-MINUTE DRIVE 155 00:09:21,767 --> 00:09:24,146 TO 4500 SILVER BELL STREET. 156 00:09:26,387 --> 00:09:29,974 Smith: WE FOUND THE BOATSHED BUT IT WAS LOCKED. 157 00:09:30,008 --> 00:09:33,353 I GOT A TIRE TOOL OUT OF THE CAR 158 00:09:33,387 --> 00:09:37,215 AND I BROKE THE HINGES OFF OF A GALVANIZED DOOR. 159 00:09:38,629 --> 00:09:41,077 AND IMMEDIATELY, WHEN WE OPEN THE DOOR, 160 00:09:41,111 --> 00:09:43,905 IT SMELLED REALLY BAD. 161 00:09:43,939 --> 00:09:47,043 AT THAT POINT, I THOUGHT HENLEY'S RIGHT. 162 00:09:48,249 --> 00:09:49,249 I BELIEVED HIM. 163 00:09:52,732 --> 00:09:56,387 Smith: I KNEW FOR A FACT THAT SOMETHING WAS DEAD INSIDE THAT BOATSHED. 164 00:09:57,318 --> 00:09:59,146 I MEAN, I'D SMELLED THAT BEFORE. 165 00:10:00,594 --> 00:10:03,663 LOOKING AROUND THE GROUND, I SAW A POSITION 166 00:10:03,698 --> 00:10:05,353 ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BOATSHED 167 00:10:05,387 --> 00:10:08,284 WHERE THE GROUND WAS CRACKED AND RAISED UP. 168 00:10:09,387 --> 00:10:11,525 THAT'S WHERE I GRABBED A SHOVEL. 169 00:10:11,560 --> 00:10:15,249 I HAD SOME TRUSTEES THERE. 170 00:10:15,284 --> 00:10:18,491 AND WE STARTED DIGGING, AND ABOUT SIX OR EIGHT INCHES UNDER THE GROUND, 171 00:10:18,525 --> 00:10:20,111 WE FOUND THE FIRST BODY. 172 00:10:21,594 --> 00:10:23,663 NUDE, WRAPPED IN PLASTIC. 173 00:10:24,594 --> 00:10:26,836 IT HAD BEGUN DECOMPOSITION, 174 00:10:26,870 --> 00:10:30,456 BUT, UH, IT HADN'T BEEN THERE THAT LONG. 175 00:10:33,594 --> 00:10:37,008 James: YOU COULD SMELL IT WHEN YOU GOT OUT OF THE CAR, 176 00:10:38,491 --> 00:10:40,905 IT WAS BLACK GUMBO 177 00:10:40,939 --> 00:10:47,456 IN A, YOU KNOW, 15 BY 25-FOOT BOAT STALL. 178 00:10:47,491 --> 00:10:50,525 IT HAD THE MOST HORRIBLE SMELL YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE. 179 00:10:53,870 --> 00:10:55,732 OF COURSE, IT WAS NEW TO ME. 180 00:10:55,767 --> 00:10:59,939 I'D ONLY BEEN IN HOMICIDE FOR ABOUT A MONTH WHEN THAT TOOK PLACE. 181 00:10:59,974 --> 00:11:01,801 [ DIGGING ] 182 00:11:03,077 --> 00:11:06,180 Smith: WE JUST KEPT DIGGING AND KEPT FINDING MORE. 183 00:11:06,215 --> 00:11:08,870 THEY WERE LAYERED ON TOP OF ONE ANOTHER. 184 00:11:08,905 --> 00:11:11,387 SOME HAD BEEN BURIED FOR A LONG TIME, 185 00:11:11,422 --> 00:11:14,249 SOME OF THEM WERE NOTHING BUT SKELETONS. 186 00:11:16,111 --> 00:11:18,043 James: YOU'D HIT LIME FIRST, 187 00:11:18,077 --> 00:11:20,732 AND WHEN YOU HIT A SECTION OF LIME, 188 00:11:20,767 --> 00:11:22,974 YOU KNEW THAT THERE WAS A BODY UNDERNEATH IT. 189 00:11:27,698 --> 00:11:29,525 WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE GLOVES. 190 00:11:29,560 --> 00:11:31,870 ALL WE HAD, WE HAD BODY BAGS. 191 00:11:35,146 --> 00:11:37,284 YOU KNOW, THERE WASN'T MUCH TALKING 192 00:11:37,318 --> 00:11:40,939 UNTIL YOU STUCK A SHOVEL IN 193 00:11:40,974 --> 00:11:44,008 AND PULLED OUT SOME WHITE LIME. 194 00:11:44,043 --> 00:11:45,801 YOU SAID, "WELL, HERE'S ANOTHER ONE." 195 00:11:46,939 --> 00:11:49,801 Narrator: BODY AFTER BODY, HOUR AFTER HOUR. 196 00:11:49,836 --> 00:11:52,974 THE MORE THEY DUG, THE MORE THEY FOUND. 197 00:11:53,974 --> 00:11:55,215 Smith: IT WAS CHAOS. 198 00:11:55,249 --> 00:11:57,249 WE TRIED TO KEEP THE MEDIA AT BAY, 199 00:11:57,284 --> 00:12:01,249 BUT THEY WOULD, UH, GET CLOSER ALL THE TIME. 200 00:12:01,284 --> 00:12:03,491 I HAD TO TELL SOME OF THEM TO GET OUT 201 00:12:03,525 --> 00:12:07,043 BECAUSE THEY WERE WALKING INTO THE BOATSHED. 202 00:12:07,077 --> 00:12:10,491 AFTER AN HOUR OF MOVING THE SHELL AND SOFT SANDY CLAY AROUND, 203 00:12:10,525 --> 00:12:14,767 THE SKELETAL REMAINS OF BODY NUMBER NINE IS FOUND UNDER A LAYER OF LIME. 204 00:12:14,801 --> 00:12:17,801 Smith: HENLEY, HE WAS STANDING OUTSIDE THE BOATSHED. 205 00:12:17,836 --> 00:12:19,318 HE WAS STILL HANDCUFFED 206 00:12:19,353 --> 00:12:23,008 BUT HE ASKED ME IF HE COULD CALL HIS MOTHER. 207 00:12:23,043 --> 00:12:25,836 ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA HAD A CAR PHONE. 208 00:12:26,215 --> 00:12:27,767 [ HENLEY SPEAKING ] 209 00:12:27,801 --> 00:12:29,180 [ MARY HENLEY SPEAKING ] 210 00:12:42,663 --> 00:12:46,284 THE ONLY EMOTION I EVER SAW FROM HIM IS WHEN HE WAS ON THE PHONE 211 00:12:46,318 --> 00:12:49,111 WITH HIS MOTHER THAT NIGHT AT THE BOATSHED. 212 00:12:49,146 --> 00:12:53,353 OTHER THAN THAT, HE WAS JUST MATTER-OF-FACT. 213 00:12:53,387 --> 00:12:57,180 James: HENLEY THOUGHT THAT SINCE HE HAD KILLED CORLL, IT WAS OVER. 214 00:12:58,318 --> 00:12:59,456 IT WAS JUST BEGINNING. 215 00:13:01,594 --> 00:13:04,249 Narrator: THE GORY DETAILS SWEPT THROUGH HOUSTON. 216 00:13:04,284 --> 00:13:07,146 LOCAL TV STATIONS CUT INTO REGULAR PROGRAMMING. 217 00:13:07,180 --> 00:13:09,801 POLICE IN HOUSTON, TEXAS, TONIGHT ARE UNRAVELING 218 00:13:09,836 --> 00:13:11,905 THE GRISLY DETAILS OF A MASS MURDER. 219 00:13:11,939 --> 00:13:13,594 TWELVE BODIES HAVE BEEN FOUND. 220 00:13:13,629 --> 00:13:15,767 IT'S FEARED THERE MAY BE MORE. 221 00:13:15,801 --> 00:13:18,698 HENLEY SAID THE MURDERS TOOK PLACE AT A TORTURE CHAMBER IN THIS HOUSE, 222 00:13:18,732 --> 00:13:21,422 AND HE KILLED CORLL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON IN SELF-DEFENSE 223 00:13:21,456 --> 00:13:23,077 AFTER A PAINT-SNIFFING SEX PARTY. 224 00:13:23,111 --> 00:13:26,215 WHILE HIDING HIS FACE IN THE BACKSEAT OF A POLICE CAR. 225 00:13:26,249 --> 00:13:29,905 HENLEY TALKED TO KHOU NEWSMAN JUDD MCILVAIN. 226 00:13:29,939 --> 00:13:31,215 [ MCILVAIN SPEAKING ] 227 00:13:33,215 --> 00:13:34,560 [ HENLEY SPEAKING ] 228 00:13:45,939 --> 00:13:48,629 Milligan: WHEN THE STORY BROKE ABOUT THE KILLINGS, 229 00:13:48,663 --> 00:13:50,767 AND ALL OF US KNEW SOMEONE, 230 00:13:50,801 --> 00:13:56,215 MULTIPLE PEOPLE WHO WERE TOUCHED BY THIS. 231 00:13:56,249 --> 00:13:59,491 Furstenfeld: OH, IT WAS HUGE NEWS, ESPECIALLY TO THOSE OF US IN THE HEIGHTS, 232 00:13:59,525 --> 00:14:02,629 THAT THOUGHT OF THE HEIGHTS AS A SAFETY GROUND. 233 00:14:03,974 --> 00:14:06,249 Narrator: IT WAS A TYPICAL WORKING-CLASS NEIGHBORHOOD, 234 00:14:06,284 --> 00:14:08,560 LIKE SO MANY OTHERS ACROSS AMERICA. 235 00:14:10,456 --> 00:14:14,387 THE NEXT MORNING, ANOTHER TEEN FROM THE HEIGHTS TURNS HIMSELF IN, 236 00:14:14,422 --> 00:14:18,077 AND THINGS GO FROM BAD TO WORSE. 237 00:14:18,111 --> 00:14:22,836 DAVID BROOKS WENT INTO THE HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH HIS FATHER. 238 00:14:22,870 --> 00:14:26,629 Narrator: THE EIGHTEEN- YEAR-OLD SAYS HENLEY ISN'T TELLING THE WHOLE STORY. 239 00:14:26,663 --> 00:14:29,215 HE SAYS CORLL DIDN'T ACT ALONE. 240 00:14:29,249 --> 00:14:31,698 HENLEY WASN'T AN INNOCENT BYSTANDER, 241 00:14:31,732 --> 00:14:33,560 HE WAS A WILLING PARTICIPANT. 242 00:14:34,801 --> 00:14:38,180 Smith: THAT'S WHEN HENLEY DECIDED TO TELL THE TRUTH. 243 00:14:38,215 --> 00:14:41,318 Male Reporter: LATE TODAY, POLICE SAID HENLEY, WHO'S ALREADY BEEN IMPLICATED 244 00:14:41,353 --> 00:14:43,974 IN THE 12 MURDERS, HAS CONFESSED TO INVOLVEMENT 245 00:14:44,008 --> 00:14:47,043 IN A TOTAL OF 25 TO 30 MURDERS. 246 00:14:47,077 --> 00:14:49,043 AND TONIGHT, POLICE ARE GOING TO ANOTHER SITE 247 00:14:49,077 --> 00:14:50,767 AT LAKE SAM RAYBURN, 248 00:14:50,801 --> 00:14:52,732 ABOUT 100 MILES AWAY, TO LOOK FOR MORE BODIES. 249 00:14:53,111 --> 00:14:54,767 [ DIGGING ] 250 00:14:56,318 --> 00:14:58,008 Narrator: THAT EVENING AT THE LAKE, 251 00:14:58,043 --> 00:15:01,180 IN THE WOODS NEAR A COTTAGE OWNED BY CORLL'S PARENTS, 252 00:15:01,215 --> 00:15:04,043 THE POLICE DIG UP FOUR MORE GRAVES. 253 00:15:04,077 --> 00:15:06,180 THERE SEEMED TO BE NO END IN SIGHT. 254 00:15:06,215 --> 00:15:08,180 [ HELICOPTER HOVERING ] 255 00:15:08,215 --> 00:15:10,663 Hollandsworth: HENLEY SAID, "WELL, THERE'S SOME MORE BODIES," 256 00:15:10,698 --> 00:15:13,077 AND THEY'RE OVER AT HIGH ISLAND. 257 00:15:13,111 --> 00:15:18,043 AND SO THEY DID THIS KIND OF EN MASSE TRIP TO HIGH ISLAND, 258 00:15:19,939 --> 00:15:23,146 AND BROOKS AND HENLEY SAT ON A SAND DUNE. 259 00:15:23,180 --> 00:15:26,560 REPORTERS WENT UP TO 'EM AND ASKED THEM QUESTIONS, TOOK THEIR PHOTOS, 260 00:15:28,387 --> 00:15:31,008 AND THEY WATCHED AND POINTED TO WHERE THEY SAW, 261 00:15:31,043 --> 00:15:33,146 THEY REMEMBERED THE BODIES BEING BURIED. 262 00:15:33,180 --> 00:15:35,043 THERE WERE YOUNG FAMILIES OUT THERE, 263 00:15:35,077 --> 00:15:38,215 AND KIDS WITH PAILS AND SHOVELS DIGGING IN THE SAND. 264 00:15:38,249 --> 00:15:41,836 IT WAS THE WEIRDEST SURREAL SCENE YOU COULD IMAGINE. 265 00:15:43,974 --> 00:15:46,180 James: I WAS OUT THERE MORE OR LESS, 266 00:15:46,215 --> 00:15:49,456 I GUESS, BABYSITTING HENLEY AND BROOKS, 267 00:15:49,491 --> 00:15:53,732 WHILE OTHER DETECTIVES AND OTHER AGENCIES WERE LOOKING FOR BODIES. 268 00:15:54,870 --> 00:15:57,974 DAVID OWEN BROOKS WAS VERY QUIET. 269 00:15:58,008 --> 00:16:01,077 HE WAS JUST LIKE HE WAS KIND OF STARING OFF INTO SPACE. 270 00:16:01,111 --> 00:16:02,560 [ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS ] 271 00:16:02,594 --> 00:16:05,387 AND I TRIED A COUPLE OF TIMES. SINCE HE DIDN'T REPLY, 272 00:16:05,422 --> 00:16:06,939 I JUST GAVE UP ON IT. 273 00:16:08,318 --> 00:16:11,594 I DID SPEAK AT LENGTH WITH ELMER WAYNE HENLEY JR. 274 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:14,353 HE WAS VERY TALKATIVE. 275 00:16:14,387 --> 00:16:16,422 HE WAS JUST TALKING LIKE A MAGPIE, YOU KNOW. 276 00:16:17,146 --> 00:16:19,249 AND HE WAS TELLING ME 277 00:16:19,284 --> 00:16:21,974 HOW THEY WOULD GO OUT AND FIND BOYS WALKING THE STREET. 278 00:16:24,353 --> 00:16:27,456 THEY'D SAY, "HEY, YOU WANT TO GO TO A PARTY? WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A PARTY." 279 00:16:27,491 --> 00:16:29,870 AND THEY WOULD EITHER OFFER 'EM MONEY, 280 00:16:29,905 --> 00:16:32,560 UH, BOOZE, OR THERE'D BE GIRLS THERE. 281 00:16:34,456 --> 00:16:36,767 Narrator: HENLEY EXPLAINS THAT ONCE INSIDE, 282 00:16:36,801 --> 00:16:38,939 THE PARTY TURNED INTO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 283 00:16:40,663 --> 00:16:43,215 James: HENLEY TOLD ME THAT HE HAD A TORTURE BOARD THERE. 284 00:16:43,249 --> 00:16:47,560 HE SAID THEY WOULD TIE THEM ON THE TORTURE BOARD AND MOLEST THEM. 285 00:16:47,594 --> 00:16:52,284 THEY WOULD LET THE BOYS GO AND THEY WOULD COME BACK ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION. 286 00:16:52,318 --> 00:16:57,594 THEN HE SAID WHEN THEY GOT TIRED OF 'EM, THEY WOULD KILL 'EM. 287 00:16:57,629 --> 00:17:01,111 AND HENLEY SAID, I DIDN'T KNOW HOW HARD IT WAS TO STRANGLE SOMEONE. 288 00:17:05,111 --> 00:17:07,422 I WAS JUST FLOORED BY THAT. 289 00:17:10,525 --> 00:17:12,870 HE SAID THAT THEY WOULD LOAD THE BODIES IN THE VAN. 290 00:17:12,905 --> 00:17:15,456 THAT'S HOW THEY REMOVED THEM FROM THE HOUSE, 291 00:17:15,491 --> 00:17:18,698 AND THEY WOULD EITHER BURY 'EM OR PUT 'EM IN THE BOAT STALL. 292 00:17:20,249 --> 00:17:24,008 THEN THEY STARTED GOING TO LAKE SAM RAYBURN AND HIGH ISLAND. 293 00:17:24,043 --> 00:17:25,456 Smith: THEY ALL WENT TOGETHER, 294 00:17:25,491 --> 00:17:29,456 AND USUALLY BROOKS DROVE DEAN CORLL'S WHITE VAN, 295 00:17:29,491 --> 00:17:32,594 THAT HAD THE BODY BOX INSIDE, WHAT THEY CALLED THE BODY BOX. 296 00:17:34,663 --> 00:17:36,732 HENLEY SURE WASN'T UPSET ABOUT IT. 297 00:17:36,767 --> 00:17:38,801 HE NEVER SHED A TEAR. 298 00:17:38,836 --> 00:17:40,836 HE JUST DIDN'T. 299 00:17:40,870 --> 00:17:43,146 IT WAS JUST ANOTHER DATE FOR HIM, I GUESS. 300 00:17:49,284 --> 00:17:51,318 Hollandsworth: HENLEY AND BROOKS 301 00:17:51,353 --> 00:17:54,732 DIDN'T JUST TALK TEENAGERS INTO GETTING INTO THE VAN. 302 00:17:54,767 --> 00:17:57,111 ONCE THEY GOT TO THE APARTMENT, 303 00:17:57,146 --> 00:18:01,836 THEY HELPED GET THEM STRAPPED TO THE TORTURE BOARD, 304 00:18:01,870 --> 00:18:07,008 THEY GAGGED THEIR MOUTHS, THEY BOUND THEIR HANDS. 305 00:18:07,043 --> 00:18:11,008 THEY PUT THEM IN POSITION SO THAT DEAN COULD HAVE SEX WITH THEM. 306 00:18:11,043 --> 00:18:14,008 IT WAS JUST AS VICIOUS AS WHAT DEAN WAS DOING. 307 00:18:14,043 --> 00:18:17,422 Narrator: IT WAS A BRUTAL, CALCULATED KILLING MACHINE. 308 00:18:17,456 --> 00:18:19,732 HOW DID CORLL BUY THEIR SILENCE? 309 00:18:19,767 --> 00:18:23,008 AND HOW DID NO-ONE IN THE HEIGHTS NOTICE WHAT WAS HAPPENING? 310 00:18:23,043 --> 00:18:23,939 [ POLICE SIREN BLARING ] 311 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:31,146 Hollandsworth: I'M STILL THE SAME STAFF WRITER I WAS 30 YEARS AGO. 312 00:18:32,249 --> 00:18:34,180 THIS IS A STORY WITHOUT ANY REDEMPTION. 313 00:18:35,974 --> 00:18:42,249 THERE IS NOTHING BUT TERROR AND MADNESS AND GRIEF IN THIS STORY. 314 00:18:42,284 --> 00:18:46,663 BEFORE A FEW DAYS AGO, THE PUBLIC HAD NEVER HEARD OF DEAN ALLAN CORLL. 315 00:18:46,698 --> 00:18:52,318 NOW HE'S LAID TO REST AS THE STATE'S MOST PUBLICIZED MURDER SUSPECT. 316 00:18:52,353 --> 00:18:55,249 Narrator: SIX DAYS AFTER WAYNE HENLEY KILLED DEAN CORLL, 317 00:18:55,284 --> 00:18:58,318 THE POLICE UNEARTHED THE BODIES OF 27 BOYS, 318 00:18:58,353 --> 00:19:00,249 SEVENTEEN FROM THE BOATSHED, 319 00:19:00,284 --> 00:19:04,422 SIX FROM THE BEACH, AND FOUR FROM LAKE SAM RAYBURN. 320 00:19:04,456 --> 00:19:08,560 THIS ORGY OF MURDER WAS THE WORST IN AMERICAN HISTORY. 321 00:19:08,594 --> 00:19:11,422 James: I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT IT EVERY NIGHT FOR A LONG TIME. 322 00:19:12,491 --> 00:19:15,387 YOU STILL THINK ABOUT IT, EVEN TODAY, 323 00:19:15,422 --> 00:19:18,905 AND WHETHER OR NOT WE GOT ALL THE BODIES. 324 00:19:20,456 --> 00:19:23,387 Narrator: DESPERATE AND ANGRY PARENTS OF BOYS WHO HAD DISAPPEARED 325 00:19:23,422 --> 00:19:26,180 FLOODED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH CALLS. 326 00:19:26,215 --> 00:19:30,560 WHEN WE WENT BACK TO PULL REPORTS WITH KIDS WHO WERE STILL MISSING, 327 00:19:30,594 --> 00:19:33,732 THERE WAS MAYBE 40 TO 50 OF THOSE. 328 00:19:33,767 --> 00:19:37,767 WE CONTACTED PARENTS, ASKED FOR DENTAL RECORDS. 329 00:19:37,801 --> 00:19:39,939 Hollandsworth: THEY WERE IDENTIFIED THROUGH BELTS, 330 00:19:39,974 --> 00:19:41,594 THE TENNIS SHOES THEY WORE. 331 00:19:41,629 --> 00:19:44,456 YOU KNOW THERE'S NO DNA GOING ON BACK THEN. 332 00:19:44,491 --> 00:19:45,974 Narrator: AT THE MORGUE, 333 00:19:46,008 --> 00:19:49,318 THE MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE WORKED AROUND THE CLOCK. 334 00:19:49,353 --> 00:19:52,594 FAMILIES JUST WAITED FOR THE KNOCK ON THE DOOR. 335 00:19:52,629 --> 00:19:55,732 Massey: I PERSONALLY HAD TO GO TO THE MORGUE DAILY. 336 00:19:55,767 --> 00:19:57,836 THAT WAS JUST A HORRIFIC EXPERIENCE, 337 00:19:57,870 --> 00:20:00,629 BECAUSE AS SOON AS YOU GOT OFF THE ELEVATOR, 338 00:20:00,663 --> 00:20:05,077 THE SMELL OF DECOMPOSING BODIES WAS JUST OVERWHELMING. 339 00:20:05,111 --> 00:20:11,491 I DON'T KNOW HOW THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS WORKED IN THAT ENVIRONMENT. 340 00:20:12,836 --> 00:20:15,284 WHEN YOU GO BACK TO THE FAMILY AND SAY, 341 00:20:15,318 --> 00:20:18,387 "YOUR CHILD HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED, AND WAS A VICTIM," 342 00:20:18,422 --> 00:20:21,525 AND IT WAS REALLY, REALLY HEARTBREAKING. 343 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,939 Man on TV: ONE OF THE FIRST VICTIMS IDENTIFIED WAS 13-YEAR-OLD DAVID HILLIGIEST, 344 00:20:24,974 --> 00:20:27,456 WHO HAS BEEN MISSING FOR MORE THAN TWO YEARS. 345 00:20:27,491 --> 00:20:29,560 THE HILLIGIESTS' HAD SPENT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS 346 00:20:29,594 --> 00:20:32,111 FOR PRIVATE DETECTIVES AND IN ADVERTISEMENTS 347 00:20:32,146 --> 00:20:34,111 IN UNDERGROUND NEWSPAPERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR SON 348 00:20:34,146 --> 00:20:36,560 AND A NEIGHBOR WHO DISAPPEARED WITH HIM. 349 00:20:36,594 --> 00:20:37,974 I FEARED FROM THE VERY BEGINNING 350 00:20:38,008 --> 00:20:40,905 THAT SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED TO THEM. 351 00:20:40,939 --> 00:20:42,491 BUT NATURALLY, ALONG WITH OUR FEARS, 352 00:20:42,525 --> 00:20:45,249 WE HELD OUR HOPES THAT SOME DAY THEY WOULD COME BACK. 353 00:20:49,077 --> 00:20:51,974 Narrator: DAVID AND HIS 16-YEAR-OLD FRIEND MALLEY 354 00:20:52,008 --> 00:20:53,594 DISAPPEARED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. 355 00:20:55,077 --> 00:20:57,629 Winkle: MALLEY AND DAVID WERE GOING SWIMMING, 356 00:20:57,663 --> 00:20:59,318 SWIMMING AT THE LOCAL POOL. 357 00:21:01,491 --> 00:21:03,387 THE POOLS OPEN IN AUGUST, SEPTEMBER. 358 00:21:04,387 --> 00:21:05,939 LET'S HAVE SOME FUN, LET'S GET WITH IT, 359 00:21:05,974 --> 00:21:06,801 LET'S DO WHATEVER. 360 00:21:09,318 --> 00:21:11,008 AND THEN THEY WERE GONE. 361 00:21:12,387 --> 00:21:15,456 Narrator: BOTH BOYS WERE BAREFOOT, WEARING THEIR SWIMSUITS 362 00:21:15,491 --> 00:21:17,836 AND LAST SEEN GETTING INTO A WHITE VAN. 363 00:21:19,249 --> 00:21:22,318 HENLEY GOT SO INVOLVED IN THIS 364 00:21:22,353 --> 00:21:25,111 THAT HE BROUGHT HIS OWN FRIENDS 365 00:21:25,146 --> 00:21:27,111 TO MEET CORLL AND LATER BE KILLED. 366 00:21:27,698 --> 00:21:29,146 DAVID HILLIGIEST, 367 00:21:29,180 --> 00:21:32,629 WHO LIVED JUST DOWN THE BLOCK FROM HENLEY'S HOME. 368 00:21:32,663 --> 00:21:35,215 MARK SCOTT, WHO INVITED HIM LATE 369 00:21:35,249 --> 00:21:36,732 TO ONE OF HIS BIRTHDAY PARTIES. 370 00:21:36,767 --> 00:21:40,284 HOMER GARCIA, WHO WAS IN HENLEY'S DRIVER'S ED CLASS. 371 00:21:40,318 --> 00:21:41,560 ALL OF THEM WERE MURDERED. 372 00:21:42,525 --> 00:21:45,077 ALL OF THEM DISAPPEARED. 373 00:21:45,111 --> 00:21:48,663 ALL OF THEM HAD PARENTS WHO DROVE THE STREETS AT NIGHT 374 00:21:48,698 --> 00:21:50,491 LOOKING FOR THEM. 375 00:21:50,525 --> 00:21:52,491 Winkle: WAYNE HENLEY EVEN PUT UP POSTERS 376 00:21:52,525 --> 00:21:55,732 THAT THEY JUST MADE FOR DAVID AND MALLEY. 377 00:21:58,387 --> 00:22:00,008 UH, HE PUT THEM UP AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD 378 00:22:00,043 --> 00:22:02,629 AND HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR ABDUCTING HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE. 379 00:22:04,801 --> 00:22:07,180 MALLEY MAY HAVE WORKED FOR DEAN CORLL 380 00:22:07,215 --> 00:22:09,629 AT THE CANDY SHOP FOR A LITTLE PERIOD OF TIME. 381 00:22:12,077 --> 00:22:14,180 IT TURNS THE PIT OF MY STOMACH. 382 00:22:14,215 --> 00:22:17,456 IT IS SO VERY SCARY AND PAINFUL 383 00:22:17,491 --> 00:22:20,284 THAT HE WAS THAT CLOSE TO THAT MAN. 384 00:22:21,801 --> 00:22:23,560 Narrator: QUESTIONS SWIRLED. 385 00:22:23,594 --> 00:22:25,939 HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES? 386 00:22:25,974 --> 00:22:27,594 AND OF ALL PEOPLE, 387 00:22:27,629 --> 00:22:30,043 THE GUY EVERYONE CALLED THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN, 388 00:22:30,077 --> 00:22:31,249 THE CANDY MAN. 389 00:22:33,767 --> 00:22:36,353 Hollandsworth: DEAN CORLL GREW UP IN INDIANA AND TENNESSEE 390 00:22:36,387 --> 00:22:38,077 HIS DAD WAS AN ELECTRICIAN. 391 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,215 THEY CAME TO TEXAS IN 1962. 392 00:22:42,249 --> 00:22:43,801 THEY OPENED A CANDY SHOP. 393 00:22:46,698 --> 00:22:48,043 DEAN WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL. 394 00:22:48,905 --> 00:22:50,732 HE PLAYED TROMBONE IN THE BAND. 395 00:22:51,939 --> 00:22:54,215 HE WAS WELL-LIKED, HE MADE DECENT GRADES. 396 00:22:54,249 --> 00:22:55,870 HE HAD GIRLS THAT LIKED HIM. 397 00:22:57,043 --> 00:22:58,905 HE WENT TO THE US ARMY. 398 00:22:58,939 --> 00:23:01,767 HE BECAME AN EXPERT IN RADIO OPERATIONS. 399 00:23:03,215 --> 00:23:06,353 HE CAME BACK TO HOUSTON, WORKED FOR HIS MOM, 400 00:23:06,387 --> 00:23:08,146 BECAME THE NEIGHBORHOOD CANDY MAN. 401 00:23:12,732 --> 00:23:16,180 HIS MOM GETS DIVORCED, SHE MARRIES A MERCHANT MARINE. 402 00:23:16,215 --> 00:23:18,525 AND HE SAYS TO HER, 403 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,836 "YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH DEAN. 404 00:23:20,870 --> 00:23:23,284 I THINK HE'S GOT SOME HOMOSEXUAL TENDENCIES. 405 00:23:23,318 --> 00:23:26,249 HE SURE DOES LIKE BEING AROUND OTHER BOYS." 406 00:23:27,146 --> 00:23:29,525 HIS MOTHER WAS SO UPSET 407 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,525 THAT SHE DIVORCED THE MERCHANT MARINE 408 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,111 AND SHE CLOSED THE CANDY FACTORY AND MOVED TO COLORADO. 409 00:23:36,318 --> 00:23:38,939 NOW SHE MIGHT HAVE ASSUMED THAT DEAN, 410 00:23:38,974 --> 00:23:42,180 WHO WAS SO CLOSE TO HER, WOULD COME WITH HER. 411 00:23:42,215 --> 00:23:44,698 BUT HE SAID, I'M STAYING IN HOUSTON, 412 00:23:44,732 --> 00:23:47,318 AND I'M GONNA WORK AT THE HOUSTON POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY 413 00:23:47,353 --> 00:23:48,491 AS A LINEMAN, 414 00:23:48,525 --> 00:23:51,353 AND FOR THE FIRST TIME HE WAS ALONE, 415 00:23:51,387 --> 00:23:52,939 HE HAD AN APARTMENT, 416 00:23:52,974 --> 00:23:55,353 AND THAT'S WHEN SOMETHING CAME UNLEASHED IN HIM. 417 00:23:58,146 --> 00:24:01,215 Narrator: CORLL FELT FREE TO ACT ON HIS DARK DESIRES 418 00:24:01,249 --> 00:24:03,870 AND LURED TWO TEENS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD 419 00:24:03,905 --> 00:24:06,422 TO BE PART OF HIS KILLING MACHINE. 420 00:24:06,456 --> 00:24:09,663 AS BROOKS AND HENLEY GOT INVOLVED, 421 00:24:09,698 --> 00:24:13,043 THE CANDY TURNED TO SEX PARTIES AND WEED. 422 00:24:14,629 --> 00:24:18,008 BROOKS WAS A BOY OF ABOUT 12 423 00:24:18,043 --> 00:24:21,077 WHO STARTED COMING OVER TO THE CANDY FACTORY, 424 00:24:21,111 --> 00:24:25,525 AND SO HAD KNOWN THE CORLLS FOR A LONG TIME, 425 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,180 AND WOULD HANG OUT THERE 426 00:24:27,215 --> 00:24:31,387 BECAUSE HE HAD NO FATHER TO WATCH OVER HIM, 427 00:24:31,422 --> 00:24:35,422 AND HIS MOTHER SORT OF WAS HAPPY THAT HE HAD SOMEPLACE TO GO. 428 00:24:36,353 --> 00:24:39,732 BROOKS' FATHER SAID, 429 00:24:39,767 --> 00:24:41,318 "DEAN'S THE FIRST GROWN MAN I KNOW 430 00:24:41,353 --> 00:24:42,767 THAT HASN'T MADE FUN OF YOU." 431 00:24:44,767 --> 00:24:48,318 CORLL HAD AN APARTMENT AT THE YORKTOWN APARTMENTS, 432 00:24:48,353 --> 00:24:51,077 WHICH WAS A PLACE WHERE A LOT OF YOUNG SINGLES 433 00:24:51,111 --> 00:24:53,905 WERE STARTING TO MAKE THEIR FIRST MARKS IN BUSINESS 434 00:24:53,939 --> 00:24:55,525 AND ECONOMY, AND IN HOUSTON. 435 00:24:56,801 --> 00:25:01,249 AND IT WAS THERE THAT HE BROUGHT DAVID BROOKS, 436 00:25:01,284 --> 00:25:05,491 WHO IS THIS AESTHETIC-LOOKING, PIMPLY-FACED YOUNG MAN 437 00:25:05,525 --> 00:25:08,422 WHO A LOT OF KIDS MADE FUN OF BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE LOOKED. 438 00:25:08,456 --> 00:25:11,732 HE HAD LONG BLONDE HAIR. HE WORE THICK AVIATOR GLASSES. 439 00:25:13,525 --> 00:25:16,043 DEAN HAD GIVEN HIM MONEY AND HE'D BOUGHT HIM A CAR. 440 00:25:16,077 --> 00:25:17,560 HE HAD TAKEN CARE OF HIM 441 00:25:17,594 --> 00:25:20,663 IN A WAY THAT HIS OWN FATHER HAD NOT. 442 00:25:20,698 --> 00:25:23,318 AND BROOKS SORT OF SAW DEAN AS A FATHER FIGURE. 443 00:25:25,180 --> 00:25:27,077 WHEN DEAN ASKED BROOKS TO PULL DOWN HIS PANTS 444 00:25:27,111 --> 00:25:28,870 SO HE COULD GIVE HIM WHAT TEXAS LAW AT THE TIME 445 00:25:28,905 --> 00:25:31,525 DESCRIBED AS ORAL SODOMY, 446 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:32,767 DAVID DID IT. 447 00:25:35,008 --> 00:25:37,077 IT WASN'T THAT DAVID WAS GAY. 448 00:25:37,111 --> 00:25:39,146 DAVID FELT LIKE THAT'S WHAT HE HAD TO DO 449 00:25:39,180 --> 00:25:42,456 TO CONTINUE TO KEEP HIS FATHER FIGURE'S AFFECTION. 450 00:25:44,594 --> 00:25:46,870 A FEW WEEKS AFTER THAT HAPPENED, 451 00:25:46,905 --> 00:25:49,422 DAVID GOES UP TO THE APARTMENT 452 00:25:49,456 --> 00:25:51,663 AND JUST ASSUMED HE COULD WALK IN, 453 00:25:51,698 --> 00:25:53,801 AND HE SAW DEAN HAVING ANAL SEX 454 00:25:53,836 --> 00:25:56,249 WITH TWO TERRIFIED TEENAGE BOYS ON THE BED. 455 00:25:57,456 --> 00:25:59,146 AND DEAN SAID, "GET OUT OF HERE." 456 00:26:00,318 --> 00:26:01,801 LATER, DEAN TOLD DAVID 457 00:26:01,836 --> 00:26:03,732 THAT HE SHOT BOTH OF THOSE BOYS 458 00:26:03,767 --> 00:26:05,284 AND BURIED THEM IN A BOAT SHED. 459 00:26:08,836 --> 00:26:10,698 SO HE INITIALLY WENT TO DAVID AND SAID, 460 00:26:10,732 --> 00:26:12,456 "THIS IS WHAT I'M DOING. 461 00:26:12,491 --> 00:26:14,353 IF YOU WILL BRING ME BOYS, 462 00:26:14,387 --> 00:26:16,629 I WILL PAY YOU $ 200 PER BOY." 463 00:26:19,525 --> 00:26:21,905 AND HE BEGAN TO LURE BOYS INTO THE VAN, 464 00:26:21,939 --> 00:26:24,111 SAYING, "HEY, WE'VE GOT SOME MARIJUANA, 465 00:26:24,146 --> 00:26:25,111 WE HAVE SOME BEER." 466 00:26:27,870 --> 00:26:30,353 AND THEN ONE OF THE BOYS HE LURED INTO THE VAN 467 00:26:30,387 --> 00:26:32,043 WAS ELMER WAYNE HENLEY, 468 00:26:32,077 --> 00:26:35,491 WHO CAME FROM A BROKEN HOME AS DID DAVID. 469 00:26:35,525 --> 00:26:37,491 AND ELMER GOT INVOLVED, 470 00:26:37,525 --> 00:26:42,215 AND HE BEGAN TO HELP RECRUIT OTHER BOYS 471 00:26:42,249 --> 00:26:44,836 AND BROUGHT THEM INTO THE VAN OR THE CAR 472 00:26:44,870 --> 00:26:46,525 AND TOOK THEM TO ONE OF DEAN'S APARTMENTS. 473 00:26:47,767 --> 00:26:50,836 DEAN WAS SO WELL-LIKED BY THESE KIDS, 474 00:26:50,870 --> 00:26:54,043 PARENTS WHO GOT TO KNOW HIM, THAT THEY INVITED HIM OVER. 475 00:26:55,215 --> 00:26:57,698 HENLEY'S MOM INVITED DEAN OVER FOR DINNER, 476 00:26:57,732 --> 00:27:00,801 AND DEAN TOOK THE TIME TO FIX HER CAR. 477 00:27:00,836 --> 00:27:05,698 SO SHE WAS VERY AWARE THAT HER SON, WAYNE, 478 00:27:05,732 --> 00:27:07,698 WAS HANGING OUT WITH DEAN CORLL, 479 00:27:07,732 --> 00:27:09,870 AND IT DIDN'T BOTHER HER WHATSOEVER. 480 00:27:11,318 --> 00:27:16,353 IN A WAY, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND EVERY 15 OR 16 YEAR OLD BOY 481 00:27:16,387 --> 00:27:19,594 WHO'S LONELY, WHO FEELS LIKE AN OUTCAST, 482 00:27:19,629 --> 00:27:21,870 WHO'S EMBRACED BY THIS OTHER KIND OF PERSON. 483 00:27:22,594 --> 00:27:24,629 YOU CAN UNDERSTAND IT, 484 00:27:24,663 --> 00:27:27,939 BUT YOU JUST NEVER EXPECT IT TO GO AS FAR AS IT DID. 485 00:27:43,077 --> 00:27:46,249 Narrator: DEAN CORLL HAS BEEN DEAD FOR ALMOST 50 YEARS. 486 00:27:46,284 --> 00:27:48,974 BUT WHAT HE DID TO 16-YEAR-OLD MALLEY WINKLE 487 00:27:49,008 --> 00:27:51,146 STILL HAUNTS HIS BROTHER, BEN. 488 00:27:53,732 --> 00:27:56,387 I MEAN, HE WAS A GOOD KID. HE WAS A GOOD BROTHER. 489 00:27:58,939 --> 00:28:00,594 I ALWAYS WANTED TO HANG OUT WITH MALLEY. 490 00:28:00,629 --> 00:28:02,077 I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE WITH HIM. 491 00:28:05,663 --> 00:28:07,801 WE'D JUST RUN AROUND, DO THINGS THAT KIDS DID. 492 00:28:10,870 --> 00:28:13,146 WE SLEPT IN THE SAME ROOM TOGETHER, SO, AND... 493 00:28:13,180 --> 00:28:16,111 HE TOOK CARE OF ME AS BEST HE COULD. 494 00:28:16,146 --> 00:28:18,318 RIGHT? HE TRIED TO MAKE SURE I DIDN'T GET IN ANY TROUBLE 495 00:28:18,353 --> 00:28:19,284 AND STUFF LIKE THAT. 496 00:28:19,801 --> 00:28:21,767 Kid: WHAT'S YOUR NAME? 497 00:28:21,801 --> 00:28:24,491 -MALLEY WINKLE. -MALLEY WINKLE? 498 00:28:25,318 --> 00:28:27,939 UH, WHAT'S YOUR CITY? 499 00:28:27,974 --> 00:28:29,249 HOUSTON. 500 00:28:31,111 --> 00:28:33,801 Narrator: BUT, LIKE MANY OF THE OTHER MURDERED BOYS, 501 00:28:33,836 --> 00:28:35,663 BEN'S FAMILY WAS BROKEN. 502 00:28:37,456 --> 00:28:38,491 Winkle: WHEN I WAS EIGHT, 503 00:28:38,525 --> 00:28:41,594 MY MOM, SHE ACTUALLY LOST EVERYTHING. 504 00:28:43,008 --> 00:28:46,491 SHE WAS A SINGLE MOM WORKING TWO OF OUR SHIPS. 505 00:28:46,525 --> 00:28:48,491 A LOT OF THE TIME WE WERE THERE BY OURSELVES. 506 00:28:49,353 --> 00:28:51,043 THAT WAS A BIG DEAL. MY MOM WOULD SAY, 507 00:28:51,077 --> 00:28:53,215 "MALLEY, TAKE BEN WITH YOU AND TAKE CARE OF HIM." 508 00:28:55,422 --> 00:28:56,422 HIS DATING. 509 00:28:56,456 --> 00:28:59,077 HE WAS TRYING TO DATE. I ALWAYS REMEMBER... 510 00:28:59,111 --> 00:29:00,663 THE CONCEPT OF HIM TRYING TO DATE, 511 00:29:00,698 --> 00:29:02,870 YOU KNOW, 15, 16-YEAR-OLD KID. 512 00:29:04,249 --> 00:29:06,043 I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE WITH HIM. 513 00:29:06,077 --> 00:29:08,284 AND AS AN EIGHT-YEAR OLDER BROTHER, 514 00:29:08,318 --> 00:29:09,663 HE NEVER WANTED ME TO BE WITH HIM. 515 00:29:12,732 --> 00:29:15,146 MY MOM, WHEN SHE WASN'T HOME, 516 00:29:15,180 --> 00:29:16,663 I WASN'T HOME EITHER. 517 00:29:18,422 --> 00:29:20,974 AND SHE JUST COULDN'T CONTROL ME. 518 00:29:21,974 --> 00:29:24,008 SHE HAD PLACED ME INTO A BOY'S HOME 519 00:29:24,043 --> 00:29:26,043 CALLED BOY'S HARBOR IN LA PORTE, TEXAS. 520 00:29:28,836 --> 00:29:31,043 AND SHE TRIED TO GET MALLEY INTO THE HARBOR AS WELL. 521 00:29:31,077 --> 00:29:32,318 AND HE DIDN'T GET IN. 522 00:29:32,353 --> 00:29:34,456 I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS HIS AGE OR WHAT, 523 00:29:34,491 --> 00:29:35,870 UH, BUT HE WASN'T ALLOWED IN. 524 00:29:38,043 --> 00:29:40,284 HE HAD COME OUT ON ONE OF THE VISITING SUNDAYS, 525 00:29:40,318 --> 00:29:42,353 AND THAT'S WHEN THAT PICTURE WAS TAKEN. 526 00:29:43,905 --> 00:29:46,008 AND IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR, HE WAS ABDUCTED. 527 00:29:48,180 --> 00:29:49,629 HE WAS FOUND IN THE BOAT SHED. 528 00:29:53,939 --> 00:29:57,456 OBVIOUSLY, LATER IN LIFE, I LEARNED THE TRUTH 529 00:29:57,491 --> 00:30:02,111 AND, UH, IT HAS BEEN VERY PAINFUL SINCE THEN. 530 00:30:06,422 --> 00:30:09,318 Narrator: BACK IN '73 WHEN HENLEY SHOT CORLL 531 00:30:09,353 --> 00:30:11,353 AND THE STORY HIT THE NEWSPAPERS, 532 00:30:11,387 --> 00:30:14,801 20-YEAR OLD BERNIE MILLIGAN COULD THINK OF ONLY ONE NAME. 533 00:30:16,077 --> 00:30:19,560 Milligan: FRANK AGUIRRE WAS ONE OF THE MISSING KIDS, 534 00:30:19,594 --> 00:30:22,870 AND HE AND I HAD ATTENDED HAMILTON JUNIOR HIGH TOGETHER. 535 00:30:22,905 --> 00:30:24,146 WE HAD A LOT OF MUTUAL FRIENDS. 536 00:30:26,249 --> 00:30:30,111 I HAD NO IDEA WHO THE PERPETRATORS WERE 537 00:30:30,146 --> 00:30:33,905 UNTIL I OPENED THAT NEWSPAPER AND SAW THEIR FACES. 538 00:30:33,939 --> 00:30:36,663 Narrator: ONE OF THOSE FACES WAS DEAN CORLL. 539 00:30:38,836 --> 00:30:40,146 HE AND I HAD AN ENCOUNTER. 540 00:30:42,008 --> 00:30:43,456 Narrator: THREE YEARS EARLIER, 541 00:30:43,491 --> 00:30:46,111 CORLL TRIED TO LURE BERNIE INTO HIS CAR. 542 00:30:47,939 --> 00:30:51,456 Milligan: AS I WAS WALKING, CORLL APPROACHED ME 543 00:30:51,491 --> 00:30:53,456 ON THE SIDE WITH HIS LIGHTS OFF. 544 00:30:55,318 --> 00:30:57,560 HE KEPT TRYING TO OFFER ME A RIDE. 545 00:30:57,594 --> 00:31:01,284 "HEY, MAN, I'LL DRIVE YOU WHEREVER YOU WANT TO GO", 546 00:31:01,318 --> 00:31:03,387 AND I'M TRYING TO BE VERY CLEAR, 547 00:31:03,422 --> 00:31:06,387 I'M NOT GONNA TAKE A RIDE IN ANYONE'S CAR. 548 00:31:08,905 --> 00:31:11,284 AND HE FINALLY SAID, "HEY, BE A GUY." 549 00:31:11,318 --> 00:31:14,111 THAT WAS THE FIRST STRANGE THING I HEARD OUT OF HIM. 550 00:31:15,387 --> 00:31:17,043 AND HE GOT A LITTLE MORE INSISTENT, 551 00:31:17,077 --> 00:31:18,594 AND I TOOK OFF. 552 00:31:18,629 --> 00:31:20,422 [ RUNNING FOOTSTEPS ] 553 00:31:20,456 --> 00:31:22,387 THANK GOODNESS I WAS AN ATHLETE, 554 00:31:22,422 --> 00:31:24,767 BECAUSE I WAS MAKING TRACKS, RUNNING. 555 00:31:26,767 --> 00:31:29,456 I WOULD STOP AND STAND IN AN ALLEY 556 00:31:29,491 --> 00:31:32,387 'CAUSE I COULD HEAR HIM WITH THOSE LIGHTS ON, DRIVING AROUND. 557 00:31:35,318 --> 00:31:38,284 AND, UH, FINALLY, I LOST HIM. 558 00:31:41,801 --> 00:31:43,284 I TOLD MY MOTHER ABOUT IT. 559 00:31:43,318 --> 00:31:44,629 WE DIDN'T CALL THE POLICE 560 00:31:44,663 --> 00:31:46,905 'CAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE A DESCRIPTION OF THE CAR. 561 00:31:46,939 --> 00:31:48,249 I FOCUSED ON HIM. 562 00:31:52,077 --> 00:31:54,905 Narrator: BERNIE HAS A SECOND ENCOUNTER WITH CORLL. 563 00:31:54,939 --> 00:31:58,111 THIS TIME, CORLL BRINGS HIS FRIENDS. 564 00:31:58,146 --> 00:32:00,663 Milligan: I TURNED AROUND AND THERE WAS A CAR. 565 00:32:00,698 --> 00:32:02,456 THERE SAT DAVID BROOKS 566 00:32:02,491 --> 00:32:05,629 AND ELMER WAYNE HENLEY WAS IN THE BACK SEAT. 567 00:32:06,318 --> 00:32:07,422 AND THERE WAS A DRIVER, 568 00:32:07,456 --> 00:32:09,318 BUT I COULDN'T SEE THE DRIVER FROM WHERE I WAS. 569 00:32:11,008 --> 00:32:13,629 DAVID BROOKS GOES, "HEY, WE'RE HEADING UP TO SAM RAYBURN. 570 00:32:13,663 --> 00:32:15,043 WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO FISHING?" 571 00:32:16,525 --> 00:32:19,249 AND I NOTICED THE DRIVER LOOKED THROUGH, 572 00:32:19,284 --> 00:32:21,146 TURNED HIS HEAD TO THE SIDE, 573 00:32:21,180 --> 00:32:24,422 AND UH, HE RECOGNIZED ME. 574 00:32:24,456 --> 00:32:26,111 I DIDN'T KNOW DEAN CORLL'S NAME. 575 00:32:26,146 --> 00:32:28,077 I ONLY RECOGNIZED HIM AS THE GUY 576 00:32:28,111 --> 00:32:30,249 IN SEPTEMBER OF 1969. 577 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:35,422 AND ALL HE SAID WAS, "WE HAVE TO GO RIGHT NOW," 578 00:32:35,456 --> 00:32:37,698 AND THREW THE CAR INTO DRIVE. 579 00:32:40,111 --> 00:32:42,974 Narrator: ONCE AGAIN, BERNIE ESCAPED CARL'S GRASP. 580 00:32:44,111 --> 00:32:46,663 ONE MONTH LATER, CORLL WAS DEAD, 581 00:32:46,698 --> 00:32:48,974 SHOT BY HIS BUDDY WAYNE HENLEY. 582 00:32:52,629 --> 00:32:54,629 A FEW WEEKS AFTER THE NEWS BROKE, 583 00:32:54,663 --> 00:32:56,629 THERE WERE WHISPERS AROUND THE HEIGHTS 584 00:32:56,663 --> 00:32:58,146 THAT BOTH HENLEY AND BROOKS 585 00:32:58,180 --> 00:33:00,525 WERE TRYING TO BREAK FREE FROM CORLL. 586 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:04,008 Milligan: BROOKS WAS TERRIFIED FOR HIS LIFE. 587 00:33:04,043 --> 00:33:06,422 HE HAD JUST GOT MARRIED AND HE HAD A CHILD. 588 00:33:06,456 --> 00:33:09,387 HE WAS GOING TO HAVE TO BREAK AWAY 589 00:33:09,422 --> 00:33:11,008 FROM WHAT WAS GOING ON. 590 00:33:12,525 --> 00:33:15,525 THE STORY I RECEIVED 591 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:19,180 IS DAVID WOULD TAKE A COUCH OR CHAIR, 592 00:33:19,215 --> 00:33:21,043 AND MOVE IT IN FRONT OF THE DOOR EVERY NIGHT 593 00:33:21,077 --> 00:33:24,077 AND SIT WITH A SHOTGUN... 594 00:33:24,111 --> 00:33:27,905 THINKING THAT HENLEY AND DEAN CORLL WERE GONNA BREAK THROUGH THE DOOR 595 00:33:27,939 --> 00:33:29,939 AND KILL HIM AND BRIDGET AND THE BABY. 596 00:33:31,905 --> 00:33:34,663 HE HAD APPARENTLY CONFESSED TO HIS FATHER. 597 00:33:34,698 --> 00:33:37,767 HIS FATHER HAD INFORMED DAVID THAT THE SUPREME COURT 598 00:33:37,801 --> 00:33:41,215 WAS WORKING ON OUTLAWING THE DEATH PENALTY. 599 00:33:41,249 --> 00:33:42,836 KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. 600 00:33:43,353 --> 00:33:44,836 THIS IS WHAT I WAS TOLD. 601 00:33:44,870 --> 00:33:47,387 I DID NOT HEAR IT FROM DAVID BROOKS 602 00:33:47,422 --> 00:33:48,732 OR EVEN BRIDGET MYSELF. 603 00:33:48,767 --> 00:33:51,663 Narrator: HENLEY ALSO FEARED FOR HIS LIFE. 604 00:33:51,698 --> 00:33:55,146 DEAN TOLD HIM HE BELONGED TO AN ORGANIZATION OUT OF DALLAS 605 00:33:55,180 --> 00:33:57,353 THAT BOUGHT AND SOLD BOYS. 606 00:33:57,387 --> 00:33:58,456 HENLEY SAID, 607 00:33:58,491 --> 00:34:00,870 "DEAN TOLD ME HIS ORGANIZATION WOULD GET ME 608 00:34:00,905 --> 00:34:03,249 IF I EVER DID ANYTHING TO HIM. 609 00:34:03,284 --> 00:34:05,284 HE SAID HE TRIED TO TELL HIS MOTHER, 610 00:34:05,318 --> 00:34:07,663 BUT SHE JUST WOULDN'T BELIEVE ME." 611 00:34:07,698 --> 00:34:10,111 Hollandsworth: THE TRUTH IS THAT MRS. HENLEY NEEDED MONEY. 612 00:34:10,146 --> 00:34:11,215 SHE WAS DIVORCED, 613 00:34:11,249 --> 00:34:13,249 AND HER HUSBAND WASN'T GIVING HER MUCH CHILD SUPPORT. 614 00:34:14,422 --> 00:34:17,456 AND SO WAYNE GETTING $200 615 00:34:17,491 --> 00:34:19,663 IS A HUGE DEAL, 616 00:34:19,698 --> 00:34:23,318 EVEN IF IT REQUIRED HIM TO TURN A BOY IN TO BE KILLED. 617 00:34:25,698 --> 00:34:31,560 IF HENLEY HAD NOT MENTIONED THE BOAT SHED TO THE POLICE, 618 00:34:31,594 --> 00:34:33,974 HOW ARE THE POLICE GONNA KNOW ABOUT IT? 619 00:34:34,008 --> 00:34:36,905 IT JUST COULD HAVE BEEN THIS ONE SORT OF CRAZED NIGHT 620 00:34:36,939 --> 00:34:40,284 OF PAINT HUFFING IN A HOUSE IN PASADENA 621 00:34:40,318 --> 00:34:43,146 WITH DEAN CORLL AND THREE TEENAGERS. 622 00:34:43,180 --> 00:34:44,905 AND NO ONE WOULD HAVE MADE THE CONNECTION 623 00:34:44,939 --> 00:34:46,456 TO THE OTHER DISAPPEARING BOYS. 624 00:34:46,491 --> 00:34:48,422 NO ONE HAD MADE THAT CONNECTION YET. 625 00:34:48,456 --> 00:34:48,767 WHY WOULD THEY START NOW? 626 00:34:55,629 --> 00:34:57,111 I DON'T MEAN THIS TO SOUND CRASS. 627 00:34:57,146 --> 00:34:59,111 I MEAN, THERE'S PEDOPHILIA, 628 00:34:59,146 --> 00:35:01,284 AND THEN THERE'S THIS STUFF THAT DEAN CORLL DID. 629 00:35:02,594 --> 00:35:03,974 HE WOULD DO THIS GAME WITH THEM 630 00:35:04,008 --> 00:35:05,870 WHERE HE WOULD PUT HANDCUFFS ON THEM AND SAY, 631 00:35:05,905 --> 00:35:08,284 "LET'S SEE HOW QUICKLY YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDCUFFS OFF." 632 00:35:09,594 --> 00:35:11,318 HE WOULD DO THE HANDCUFF GAME FIRST, 633 00:35:11,353 --> 00:35:13,939 THEN HE WOULD GIVE THE HANDCUFFS TO THE OTHER BOY. 634 00:35:13,974 --> 00:35:16,629 THAT BOY COULD NOT GET THE HANDCUFFS OFF, 635 00:35:16,663 --> 00:35:18,456 AND THAT'S WHEN IT BEGAN. 636 00:35:19,698 --> 00:35:21,387 IT'S SO HARD TO TALK ABOUT, 637 00:35:21,422 --> 00:35:23,801 AND I'VE COVERED A LOT OF CRIMES. 638 00:35:23,836 --> 00:35:26,215 WHEN I REALIZED THAT THIS WAS GOING ON 639 00:35:26,249 --> 00:35:30,870 IN WHAT IS NOW THIS BEAUTIFUL YUPPIE NEIGHBORHOOD, 640 00:35:30,905 --> 00:35:32,732 THAT BACK THEN, THE KIND OF DEPRAVITY 641 00:35:32,767 --> 00:35:34,974 THAT JUST DOES NOT SEEM POSSIBLE... 642 00:35:35,008 --> 00:35:37,111 IT'S STILL HARD FOR ME TO IMAGINE. 643 00:35:39,387 --> 00:35:42,111 OF THESE 28 EIGHT BOYS WHO WERE KILLED 644 00:35:42,146 --> 00:35:44,318 IN THE MOST GRUESOME OF FASHION, 645 00:35:44,353 --> 00:35:46,836 AT LEAST 22 OF THEM HAD GROWN UP 646 00:35:46,870 --> 00:35:48,801 IN A NEIGHBORHOOD CALLED THE HEIGHTS. 647 00:35:48,836 --> 00:35:53,905 11 OF THOSE BOYS WENT TO THE SAME JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. 648 00:35:53,939 --> 00:35:55,836 NEWSREADER: THE HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS 649 00:35:55,870 --> 00:35:57,801 IT GETS MORE THAN 5,000 REPORTS 650 00:35:57,836 --> 00:35:59,663 OF RUNAWAY CHILDREN EACH YEAR, 651 00:35:59,698 --> 00:36:02,111 AND THERE IS NO WAY TO CHECK THEM OUT THOROUGHLY. 652 00:36:02,146 --> 00:36:03,905 THEY SAY THERE AREN'T ENOUGH POLICEMEN. 653 00:36:05,767 --> 00:36:08,870 Narrator: BETWEEN 1971 AND 1973, 654 00:36:08,905 --> 00:36:12,111 MORE THAN 400 KIDS WERE REPORTED MISSING IN THE HEIGHTS, 655 00:36:12,146 --> 00:36:15,215 AN AREA TWO MILES WIDE AND THREE MILES DEEP. 656 00:36:15,249 --> 00:36:16,560 Smith: IT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME. 657 00:36:17,732 --> 00:36:20,077 KIDS HITCHHIKED ALL OVER. 658 00:36:20,111 --> 00:36:22,077 SOME OF THESE VICTIMS WERE HITCHHIKERS. 659 00:36:23,456 --> 00:36:26,560 YOU KNOW, IT WAS THE AGE OF DRUGS, SEX AND ROCK AND ROLL. 660 00:36:27,905 --> 00:36:29,905 Hollandsworth: IT WAS A STRANGE TIME IN AMERICA 661 00:36:29,939 --> 00:36:33,939 BECAUSE THERE WERE A LOT OF BOYS WHO DID DISAPPEAR. 662 00:36:33,974 --> 00:36:38,077 AND THERE WERE, IN TRUTH, SOME BOYS WHO RAN AWAY 663 00:36:38,111 --> 00:36:40,594 AND SOME BOYS WHO WANTED TO GO SEE 664 00:36:40,629 --> 00:36:43,146 WHAT THE OTHER PART OF THE WORLD WAS LIKE. 665 00:36:43,180 --> 00:36:46,353 Narrator: BACK THEN, BEING A RUNAWAY WASN'T A CRIME 666 00:36:46,387 --> 00:36:49,456 NOR A PRIORITY FOR THE POLICE. 667 00:36:49,491 --> 00:36:52,422 RUNAWAYS OR MISSING PERSONS WHO WERE JUVENILES 668 00:36:52,456 --> 00:36:55,698 WAS HANDLED BY A DIVISION CALLED THE JUVENILE DIVISION, 669 00:36:55,732 --> 00:36:57,353 WHICH WAS SEPARATE FROM HOMICIDE. 670 00:36:57,387 --> 00:36:58,939 THEY WERE ON THE FOURTH FLOOR, 671 00:36:58,974 --> 00:37:01,491 WE WERE ON THE THIRD FLOOR. 672 00:37:01,525 --> 00:37:03,629 Smith: OFFENSE REPORTS BY PATROL OFFICERS 673 00:37:03,663 --> 00:37:06,008 WERE FREQUENTLY HAND-WRITTEN. 674 00:37:06,043 --> 00:37:08,456 IN FACT, THE JUVENILE DIVISION, THE WAY IT WAS SET UP, 675 00:37:08,491 --> 00:37:11,629 WE DID ALL OF OUR REPORTING ON MANUAL TYPEWRITERS. 676 00:37:11,663 --> 00:37:14,318 THERE WAS PROBABLY ONLY TWO OR THREE ELECTRIC TYPEWRITERS 677 00:37:14,353 --> 00:37:16,284 IN THE WHOLE DIVISION FOR A HUNDRED PEOPLE. 678 00:37:18,043 --> 00:37:21,249 Narrator: 14-YEAR-OLD JIMMY GLASS, ONE OF THE FIRST VICTIMS, 679 00:37:21,284 --> 00:37:24,146 DISAPPEARED IN DECEMBER OF 1970. 680 00:37:24,180 --> 00:37:27,698 HE WAS LAST SEEN LEAVING A CHURCH SERVICE. 681 00:37:27,732 --> 00:37:30,698 Hollandsworth: JIMMY GLASS HAD RUN AWAY FROM HOME BEFORE 682 00:37:30,732 --> 00:37:32,456 FOR A VERY BRIEF AMOUNT OF TIME. 683 00:37:32,491 --> 00:37:35,284 BUT WHEN THE JUVENILE OFFICER FOR THE HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT 684 00:37:35,318 --> 00:37:38,353 WAS ASSIGNED THAT CASE AND LEARNED THIS, 685 00:37:38,387 --> 00:37:41,491 HE SHUT THE FILE, FIGURING HE'D JUST RUN AWAY AGAIN. 686 00:37:41,525 --> 00:37:44,043 IT HAPPENED OVER AND OVER AND OVER. 687 00:37:44,870 --> 00:37:46,698 IT WAS TOTALLY MISHANDLED. 688 00:37:46,732 --> 00:37:50,284 AND AS THAT GRIEF BEGAN TO POUR OUT, 689 00:37:50,318 --> 00:37:53,077 THERE WAS A LOT OF ANGER AT THE COPS. 690 00:37:53,111 --> 00:37:54,836 WE HAVE THE STATISTICAL DATA ON IT, 691 00:37:54,870 --> 00:37:57,284 EXACTLY HOW MANY WERE REPORTED MISSING, 692 00:37:57,318 --> 00:37:59,077 AND WE SEE NOTHING OVER THAT PERIOD OF TIME 693 00:37:59,111 --> 00:38:00,422 THAT INDICATED A PATTERN AT ALL. 694 00:38:00,456 --> 00:38:03,077 AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE HAD A LOT HEAVIER INCIDENTS 695 00:38:03,111 --> 00:38:05,525 IN SOME OF THE OTHER DISTRICTS. 696 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,422 Hollandsworth: HERMAN SHORT SAID, 697 00:38:07,456 --> 00:38:09,422 "THE PROBLEM HERE IS THE PARENTS. 698 00:38:09,456 --> 00:38:12,525 THE PARENTS NEED TO KEEP MORE CONTROL OVER THEIR BOYS, 699 00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,077 OTHERWISE THESE BOYS WOULD NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEMS." 700 00:38:15,111 --> 00:38:18,008 SOME OF THESE PARENTS ARE NOT EXACTLY 701 00:38:18,043 --> 00:38:20,146 UH, DISCHARGING THEIR OWN RESPONSIBILITY 702 00:38:20,180 --> 00:38:22,870 SO FAR AS THESE RUNAWAYS ARE CONCERNED, 703 00:38:22,905 --> 00:38:26,318 SO FAR IS RAISING AND DISCIPLINING THEIR CHILDREN. 704 00:38:28,698 --> 00:38:31,905 Hollandsworth: THESE PARENTS WOULD COME TO THE HOUSTON POLICE AND SAY, 705 00:38:31,939 --> 00:38:34,525 "MY BOY JUST DOESN'T RUN AWAY FROM HOME. 706 00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:38,456 HE WAS PACKED AND READY TO GO ON A FAMILY VACATION THE NEXT DAY. 707 00:38:38,491 --> 00:38:40,077 HE'S DISAPPEARED. 708 00:38:40,111 --> 00:38:42,146 SOMETHING HORRIBLE HAS HAPPENED TO HIM." 709 00:38:42,180 --> 00:38:44,043 AND THE HOUSTON POLICE SAID, 710 00:38:44,077 --> 00:38:48,215 "MA'AM, THERE'S JUST A LOT OF RUNAWAYS IN AMERICA AT THIS TIME. 711 00:38:48,249 --> 00:38:49,698 THIS IS THE HIPPIE ERA. 712 00:38:49,732 --> 00:38:50,905 THEY GET DISGRUNTLED 713 00:38:50,939 --> 00:38:52,491 AND THEY'RE TOLD TO RUN AWAY BY THEIR FRIENDS, 714 00:38:52,525 --> 00:38:54,422 AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DO. 715 00:38:54,456 --> 00:38:57,353 Narrator: BEN KNOWS HIS BROTHER WAS NO RUNAWAY. 716 00:38:57,387 --> 00:38:58,767 Winkle: MALLEY AND DAVID, 717 00:38:58,801 --> 00:39:00,905 THEY WERE JUST GOING DOWN THERE TO GO SWIMMING. 718 00:39:01,836 --> 00:39:03,146 DO YOU RUN AWAY IN YOUR SWIMSUIT? 719 00:39:03,180 --> 00:39:04,767 I MEAN, THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. 720 00:39:11,836 --> 00:39:13,422 Newsreader: UNDER TEXAS LAW, 721 00:39:13,456 --> 00:39:15,801 ELMER WAYNE HENRY FACED A MAXIMUM SENTENCE 722 00:39:15,836 --> 00:39:18,905 OF LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR EACH OF THE SIX MURDERS. 723 00:39:18,939 --> 00:39:20,663 AFTER LESS THAN AN HOUR'S DELIBERATION, 724 00:39:20,698 --> 00:39:22,732 THEY RETURNED THE MAXIMUM PENALTY: 725 00:39:22,767 --> 00:39:26,249 SIX SEPARATE 99-YEAR SENTENCES. 726 00:39:26,284 --> 00:39:28,629 Narrator: NINE MONTHS LATER, DAVID OWEN BROOKS 727 00:39:28,663 --> 00:39:30,767 WAS CONVICTED OF ONE MURDER: 728 00:39:30,801 --> 00:39:34,422 THE STRANGULATION OF 15-YEAR-OLD BILLY RAY LAWRENCE, 729 00:39:34,456 --> 00:39:36,146 AND RECEIVED A LIFE SENTENCE. 730 00:39:39,870 --> 00:39:43,146 WITH CORLL DEAD AND HIS TWO ACCOMPLICES BEHIND BARS, 731 00:39:43,180 --> 00:39:46,905 THE HOUSTON MASS MURDERS FADED FROM THE HEADLINES. 732 00:39:46,939 --> 00:39:49,111 AMERICA'S FASCINATION WITH SERIAL KILLERS 733 00:39:49,146 --> 00:39:51,318 WAS STILL YEARS IN THE FUTURE, 734 00:39:51,353 --> 00:39:55,939 BUT FOR MANY OF THE FAMILIES, THE GRIEF LASTS A LIFETIME. 735 00:39:55,974 --> 00:39:58,318 Winkle: MY MOM, IT DESTROYED HER. 736 00:39:59,353 --> 00:40:02,284 HIS MURDER OVERSHADOWED MOST EVERYTHING ELSE. 737 00:40:03,905 --> 00:40:05,422 SHE MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE. 738 00:40:06,456 --> 00:40:08,456 SHE GAVE UP ONE SON 739 00:40:08,491 --> 00:40:10,870 BY PUTTING ME IN THE HARBOR, BOY'S HARBOR, 740 00:40:10,905 --> 00:40:12,491 AND THEN SHE LOST HER OTHER SON. 741 00:40:14,767 --> 00:40:17,043 HE WAS VERY INNOCENT. HE WAS JUST AN INNOCENT KID. 742 00:40:17,939 --> 00:40:19,111 HE NEVER REALLY HAD A CHANCE. 743 00:40:30,525 --> 00:40:33,732 Narrator: UNLUCKIER STILL ARE THE FAMILIES OF CORLL'S VICTIMS 744 00:40:33,767 --> 00:40:36,215 WHOSE BODIES WERE NEVER IDENTIFIED. 745 00:40:40,491 --> 00:40:42,663 DR. SHARON DERRICK STARTED A NEW JOB 746 00:40:42,698 --> 00:40:45,767 AT THE HARRIS COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE IN HOUSTON. 747 00:40:47,180 --> 00:40:49,560 AS SHE LOOKED AROUND HER NEW WORKPLACE, 748 00:40:49,594 --> 00:40:52,560 SOMETHING OLD SUDDENLY BECAME NEW AGAIN. 749 00:40:53,422 --> 00:40:55,732 Dr. Derrick: I SAW THESE THREE BOXES 750 00:40:55,767 --> 00:40:59,767 AND EACH OF THEM SAID "HOUSTON MASS MURDERS" ON THEM. 751 00:40:59,801 --> 00:41:03,318 AND I IMMEDIATELY CLICKED BACK TO WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL. 752 00:41:05,008 --> 00:41:06,560 AND I THOUGHT, "OH, MY GOSH, 753 00:41:06,594 --> 00:41:08,870 THEY HAVE SOME OF THE REMAINS FROM THAT 754 00:41:08,905 --> 00:41:10,353 AND THEY'RE NOT IDENTIFIED?" 755 00:41:10,387 --> 00:41:14,008 I WAS KIND OF STAR STRUCK AT THE THREE BOXES, 756 00:41:14,043 --> 00:41:15,111 TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH. 757 00:41:16,663 --> 00:41:18,836 AND SO I ASKED THE DEPUTY CHIEF 758 00:41:18,870 --> 00:41:20,698 MAY I BE ASSIGNED THESE CASES, 759 00:41:20,732 --> 00:41:22,180 AND HE SAID YES. 760 00:41:22,215 --> 00:41:24,111 Narrator: IT WASN'T GOING TO BE EASY. 761 00:41:24,146 --> 00:41:27,353 THOSE BOXES CONTAIN THE FORGOTTEN BONES AND BITS 762 00:41:27,387 --> 00:41:30,491 OF THE LAST NAMELESS VICTIMS OF THE CANDY MAN. 763 00:41:31,491 --> 00:41:33,180 IT BECAME A LOT MORE THAN JUST 764 00:41:33,215 --> 00:41:35,663 PUTTING THE BONES ON THE TABLE AND SORTING THEM OUT. 765 00:41:35,698 --> 00:41:38,801 YOU HAD TO LOOK BACK INTO ALL OF THE OLD FILES 766 00:41:38,836 --> 00:41:40,353 THAT ARE STILL PRESENT. 767 00:41:40,387 --> 00:41:42,008 THERE AREN'T VERY MANY. 768 00:41:42,043 --> 00:41:45,180 Narrator: SINCE 2006, WITH THE HELP OF DNA, 769 00:41:45,215 --> 00:41:48,284 SHE'S IDENTIFIED FIVE OF THOSE BOYS. 770 00:41:48,318 --> 00:41:49,974 ONE LAST BOY REMAINS. 771 00:41:51,215 --> 00:41:55,318 WE NEED FAMILY WHO THINK THEY MIGHT HAVE HAD A VICTIM 772 00:41:55,353 --> 00:41:59,974 OF THIS TERRIBLE CRIME SUBMIT DNA. 773 00:42:00,008 --> 00:42:03,180 Narrator: IF THE LAST NAMELESS BOY WASN'T FROM THE HEIGHTS, 774 00:42:03,215 --> 00:42:05,249 WHERE DID HE COME FROM? 775 00:42:05,284 --> 00:42:08,422 BOYS WERE DISAPPEARING ACROSS AMERICA, 776 00:42:08,456 --> 00:42:10,525 AND A THOUSAND MILES AWAY, 777 00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:14,698 A SIMILAR MONSTER HAD JUST BEGUN OPERATING IN PLAIN SIGHT. 778 00:42:14,732 --> 00:42:17,456 HE JUST HADN'T BEEN CAUGHT YET. 779 00:42:17,491 --> 00:42:19,836 WHEN JOHN WAYNE GACY THE CLOWN 780 00:42:19,870 --> 00:42:22,180 BEGAN HIS RAMPAGE IN CHICAGO, 781 00:42:23,215 --> 00:42:24,801 AND WHEN IT WAS FINALLY DISCOVERED 782 00:42:24,836 --> 00:42:27,767 THAT HE HAD NUMEROUS BOYS IN THE BASEMENT OF HIS HOME, 783 00:42:28,629 --> 00:42:30,629 YOU HAD TO WONDER 784 00:42:30,663 --> 00:42:33,560 IF GACY WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A COPYCAT OF DEAN CORLL. 785 00:42:45,043 --> 00:42:50,801 MOST OF THE THE BOYS THAT GACY KILLED WERE STREET KIDS, 786 00:42:50,836 --> 00:42:55,939 RUNAWAYS, PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH THE LAW. 787 00:42:55,974 --> 00:43:01,456 GACY'S PROBLEM CAME WHEN HE PICKED A GOOD KID TO TAKE. 788 00:43:05,008 --> 00:43:07,594 Narrator: IT'S TWO WEEKS BEFORE CHRISTMAS. 789 00:43:07,629 --> 00:43:10,146 THE PARENTS OF 15-YEAR-OLD ROBERT PIEST 790 00:43:10,180 --> 00:43:12,043 COME INTO THE DES PLAINES POLICE STATION 791 00:43:12,077 --> 00:43:14,560 TO REPORT THEIR SON'S DISAPPEARANCE. 792 00:43:14,594 --> 00:43:18,939 IT'S ONLY BEEN A FEW HOURS, BUT THEY'RE WORRIED. 793 00:43:18,974 --> 00:43:22,353 THE HIPPIE ERA WAS ENDING. 794 00:43:22,387 --> 00:43:26,387 I MEAN, IT WAS NOT UNCOMMON FOR KIDS TO RUN AWAY. 795 00:43:26,422 --> 00:43:28,456 Tovar: MAYBE THEY'RE OUT DRINKING. 796 00:43:28,491 --> 00:43:30,801 MAYBE THAT YOUNG MAN GOT LUCKY 797 00:43:30,836 --> 00:43:34,698 WITH A YOUNG LADY SOMEWHERE, YOU KNOW. 798 00:43:34,732 --> 00:43:38,939 IT STARTED OFF JUST AS A SIMPLE MISSING PERSON'S, YOU KNOW? 799 00:43:38,974 --> 00:43:41,594 IT WASN'T A BIG DEAL AT THE TIME. 800 00:43:41,629 --> 00:43:44,077 Narrator: ROB PIEST WORKED PART-TIME AS A STOCK BOY 801 00:43:44,111 --> 00:43:46,732 AT NISSON PHARMACY IN DES PLAINES. 802 00:43:46,767 --> 00:43:50,525 HE WORKED THE DAY SHIFT AND WAS WRAPPING UP FOR THE EVENING. 803 00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,732 HIS MOM HAD COME TO PICK HIM UP. 804 00:43:53,767 --> 00:43:56,180 Albrecht: ACTUALLY, THAT WAS HIS MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY, 805 00:43:56,215 --> 00:44:00,836 AND THEY'RE GONNA DO THEIR BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. 806 00:44:00,870 --> 00:44:03,318 Sullivan: AT CLOSING TIME, HE JUST TOLD HER, 807 00:44:03,353 --> 00:44:06,663 "MOM, I'M GONNA TALK TO THIS GUY ABOUT A JOB." 808 00:44:06,698 --> 00:44:08,870 HE'D BE RIGHT BACK. 809 00:44:08,905 --> 00:44:10,836 AND HE NEVER CAME BACK. 810 00:44:10,870 --> 00:44:13,146 Narrator: THE PIEST FAMILY IS ADAMANT 811 00:44:13,180 --> 00:44:15,077 ROB WOULDN'T LEAVE HIS MOM WAITING, 812 00:44:15,111 --> 00:44:17,146 ESPECIALLY ON HER BIRTHDAY. 813 00:44:17,180 --> 00:44:19,180 Sullivan: THEY KNEW THAT THERE WAS A MAN 814 00:44:19,215 --> 00:44:22,249 BY THE NAME OF JOHN GACY WHO ROB HAD TALKED TO, 815 00:44:22,284 --> 00:44:23,870 BUT THEY COULDN'T FIND HIM 816 00:44:23,905 --> 00:44:26,629 OR COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING ABOUT HIM. 817 00:44:26,663 --> 00:44:28,008 Albrecht: AND THE OFFICER THAT HANDLED IT, 818 00:44:28,043 --> 00:44:30,456 HE TOOK THE REPORT AND MADE A POINT 819 00:44:30,491 --> 00:44:33,525 OF TALKING TO THE JUVENILE DIVISION. 820 00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:34,870 AND A LOT OF TIMES WHAT HAPPENED, THESE KIDS 821 00:44:34,905 --> 00:44:37,491 WEREN'T ENTERED INTO THE COMPUTER AS MISSINGS RIGHT AWAY. 822 00:44:37,525 --> 00:44:42,284 BUT HE FELT THERE WAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS CASE. 823 00:44:42,318 --> 00:44:45,249 Narrator: STILL, THE PIESTS ARE TOLD NOTHING CAN BE DONE 824 00:44:45,284 --> 00:44:46,767 UNTIL THE MORNING. 825 00:44:46,801 --> 00:44:50,836 A MISSING-PERSON REPORT NORMALLY CARRIES A 24-HOUR WAITING PERIOD 826 00:44:50,870 --> 00:44:53,801 BEFORE THE POLICE INVESTIGATE. 827 00:44:53,836 --> 00:44:56,698 THE PARENTS WERE OUT ALL NIGHT LOOKING FOR ANYTHING 828 00:44:56,732 --> 00:44:58,180 THAT THEY POSSIBLY COULD, 829 00:44:58,215 --> 00:45:02,387 ALL THE WAY FROM THE PRIEST AT THE GREEK CHURCH 830 00:45:02,422 --> 00:45:05,801 TO CHRISTMAS-TREE LOTS 831 00:45:05,836 --> 00:45:10,387 TO EVERYTHING TO TRY TO FIND ANYBODY WHO KNEW ABOUT IT. 832 00:45:12,491 --> 00:45:13,974 Narrator: THE NEXT MORNING, 833 00:45:14,008 --> 00:45:16,560 ROB'S PARENTS ARE BACK AT THE POLICE STATION 834 00:45:16,594 --> 00:45:20,008 LOOKING FOR AN UPDATE -- ANYTHING. 835 00:45:20,043 --> 00:45:23,180 HERE'S A YOUNG MAN WHO ALL OF A SUDDEN DISAPPEARS, 836 00:45:23,215 --> 00:45:26,905 AND IT'S HIS MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY. 837 00:45:26,939 --> 00:45:31,629 HE WAS NOT A PROBLEM IN SCHOOL, A GOOD STUDENT. 838 00:45:31,663 --> 00:45:33,111 Tovar: YOU KNOW, IN MY JOB, 839 00:45:33,146 --> 00:45:35,801 I'VE SEEN MANY, MANY DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES. 840 00:45:35,836 --> 00:45:38,594 THIS WAS NOT ONE OF THEM. THIS WAS A GOOD FAMILY. 841 00:45:38,629 --> 00:45:40,732 ALL SEEMED TO CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER. 842 00:45:40,767 --> 00:45:43,043 IT JUST DIDN'T FIT. 843 00:45:43,077 --> 00:45:45,111 I DID A CRIMINAL-HISTORY CHECK ON ALL THE PEOPLE 844 00:45:45,146 --> 00:45:48,008 THAT WERE LISTED IN THE REPORT. 845 00:45:48,043 --> 00:45:51,767 A MAN CALLED JOHN WAYNE GACY HAD BEEN IN THE DRUGSTORE 846 00:45:51,801 --> 00:45:53,905 THAT NIGHT BEFORE. 847 00:45:53,939 --> 00:45:56,456 WE LEARNED THAT HE WAS A CONTRACTOR. 848 00:45:56,491 --> 00:46:02,456 HE WAS DOING SOME ESTIMATING OR TALKING TO THE OWNER. 849 00:46:02,491 --> 00:46:06,698 HE WAS AN EX-CON OUT OF IOWA, AND HE HAD A CRIMINAL HISTORY 850 00:46:06,732 --> 00:46:08,767 WHICH INVOLVED SODOMY OF A CHILD. 851 00:46:08,801 --> 00:46:10,491 [ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS ] 852 00:46:10,525 --> 00:46:17,146 Sullivan: GACY WAS CONVICTED OF HAVING TWO BOYS IN HIS HOUSE. 853 00:46:17,180 --> 00:46:22,629 HANDCUFFED THEM TO ONE OF THE BIG LEGS OF THE POOL TABLE, 854 00:46:22,663 --> 00:46:25,077 AND THAT'S WHERE HE SODOMIZED THEM. 855 00:46:25,111 --> 00:46:27,215 Narrator: GACY RECEIVED A 10-YEAR SENTENCE, 856 00:46:27,249 --> 00:46:29,801 BUT SERVED ONLY 18 MONTHS. 857 00:46:29,836 --> 00:46:32,525 THERE WAS NO SEX REGISTRY IN 1970, 858 00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:35,801 SO THE CONVICTION DIDN'T FOLLOW HIM TO CHICAGO. 859 00:46:35,836 --> 00:46:37,629 Kozenczak: AND WHEN WE HEARD THAT, 860 00:46:37,663 --> 00:46:40,249 THE HAIR LITERALLY STOOD UP ON THE BACK OF OUR NECKS. 861 00:46:40,284 --> 00:46:44,353 THIS MUST BE SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE SERIOUS 862 00:46:44,387 --> 00:46:46,698 THAN WHAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT HERE. 863 00:46:49,318 --> 00:46:53,939 AND THAT'S WHAT PROMPTED US TO GO TO GACY'S HOUSE 864 00:46:53,974 --> 00:46:57,525 AND CONFRONT HIM ONE-ON-ONE. 865 00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,732 SO HE OPENED THE DOOR. HE WAS NOT VERY CLEAN. 866 00:47:00,767 --> 00:47:03,249 HE WASN'T A CLEAN PERSON. HE WAS UNSHAVEN. 867 00:47:03,284 --> 00:47:05,353 HIS CLOTHES WERE DIRTY. 868 00:47:15,353 --> 00:47:19,353 HE STARTED TO TELL ME THAT HIS MOTHER HAD JUST CALLED HIM. 869 00:47:19,387 --> 00:47:20,767 HIS UNCLE HAD DIED, 870 00:47:20,801 --> 00:47:23,284 AND HE WAS HELPING HIS MOTHER WITH FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS. 871 00:47:28,836 --> 00:47:31,732 ONCE HE FOUND OUT WE DID NOT HAVE A SEARCH WARRANT, 872 00:47:31,767 --> 00:47:34,353 HE GOT REAL BELLIGERENT. 873 00:47:34,387 --> 00:47:37,318 SO WHEN WE WALKED OUTSIDE, WE ALL AGREED THAT THIS GUY 874 00:47:37,353 --> 00:47:39,870 KNEW MORE THAN WHAT HE WAS TELLING US. 875 00:47:42,732 --> 00:47:44,146 Narrator: GACY'S BEHAVIOR, 876 00:47:44,180 --> 00:47:46,525 COUPLED WITH HIS SODOMY CONVICTION IN IOWA, 877 00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:48,422 STRIKES AN OMINOUS NOTE, 878 00:47:48,456 --> 00:47:50,215 AND IT'S ENOUGH TO CONVINCE A JUDGE 879 00:47:50,249 --> 00:47:53,663 TO AGREE TO A SEARCH WARRANT FOR GACY'S HOUSE. 880 00:47:53,698 --> 00:47:57,111 Sullivan: I WANTED TO SEE IF THE POLICE OFFICERS COULD FIND 881 00:47:57,146 --> 00:48:01,249 ANYTHING THAT WOULD SHOW THAT THERE WAS A BODY THERE, 882 00:48:01,284 --> 00:48:04,353 TO SHOW THAT THERE WAS A LIVE BODY, HOPEFULLY, 883 00:48:04,387 --> 00:48:07,629 AND SOMEONE WHO WAS BEING HELD AGAINST HIS WILL. 884 00:48:07,663 --> 00:48:11,318 Tovar: FROM THE TIME WE WENT IN, WE COULD TELL THAT 885 00:48:11,353 --> 00:48:13,353 HE WAS MARCHING TO A DIFFERENT DRUMMER 886 00:48:13,387 --> 00:48:16,456 BECAUSE THE PAINT JOB, FOR EXAMPLE. 887 00:48:16,491 --> 00:48:19,249 THE HALL WAS PAINTED BROWN AND THEN HAD, LIKE, 888 00:48:19,284 --> 00:48:23,077 ZIGZAG GOLD LINES GOING UP AND DOWN THROUGH IT. 889 00:48:23,111 --> 00:48:27,146 I MEAN, IT WAS REALLY WEIRD. 890 00:48:27,180 --> 00:48:30,249 CLOWN PICTURES WERE EVERYWHERE. HE HAD ONE RIGHT OVER HIS BED. 891 00:48:30,284 --> 00:48:36,939 ♪♪ 892 00:48:36,974 --> 00:48:39,870 AND THEN HE HAD JUNK STACKED EVERYWHERE. 893 00:48:39,905 --> 00:48:44,525 Narrator: THEY SEARCHED THE HOUSE TOP TO BOTTOM. 894 00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:49,043 Tovar: WE FOUND SEX BOOKS, SEX TOYS. 895 00:48:49,077 --> 00:48:50,560 WE FOUND A BOARD. 896 00:48:50,594 --> 00:48:52,905 IT'S A 2x4 WITH HOLES AT THE END OF IT, 897 00:48:52,939 --> 00:48:54,836 WHICH COULD BE USED LIKE OLD-FASHIONED STOCKS 898 00:48:54,870 --> 00:48:56,732 WHERE THEY USED TO BUTCHER. 899 00:48:56,767 --> 00:48:59,318 SO IT WAS SOME STRANGE STUFF. 900 00:48:59,353 --> 00:49:01,732 Narrator: IN A CLOSET OFF THE FRONT ROOM, 901 00:49:01,767 --> 00:49:05,146 THEY FOUND A TRAP DOOR LEADING TO A CRAWL SPACE. 902 00:49:05,180 --> 00:49:07,353 THE PLACE WAS A DIRTY, STINKY PLACE. 903 00:49:07,387 --> 00:49:10,732 THE WATER TANK WAS VERY HIGH IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD THERE, 904 00:49:10,767 --> 00:49:16,663 SO THE SUMP PUMP WAS CONSTANTLY GOING AND THE EARTH WAS MUDDY. 905 00:49:16,698 --> 00:49:18,767 SO WE WERE LOOKING FOR A MOUND OF DIRT, MAYBE, 906 00:49:18,801 --> 00:49:21,525 IF HE HAD BURIED SOMEONE DOWN THERE. 907 00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:24,318 Narrator: BUT THEY FIND NOTHING. 908 00:49:24,353 --> 00:49:27,801 HOWEVER, OTHER ITEMS SCATTERED AROUND THE HOUSE RAISE QUESTIONS 909 00:49:27,836 --> 00:49:30,318 ABOUT THE SUBURBAN CONTRACTOR -- 910 00:49:30,353 --> 00:49:33,594 A PHOTO RECEIPT FROM NISSON PHARMACY, 911 00:49:33,629 --> 00:49:35,111 HANDCUFFS, 912 00:49:35,146 --> 00:49:37,043 VARIOUS SETS OF CAR KEYS, 913 00:49:37,077 --> 00:49:40,525 AND A LOT OF POLICE BADGES. 914 00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:44,387 Kozenczak: AND WE FOUND VARIOUS JEWELRY AND ID CARDS 915 00:49:44,422 --> 00:49:47,905 AND DRIVER'S LICENSES THAT DIDN'T BELONG TO GACY. 916 00:49:47,939 --> 00:49:50,629 Narrator: THE ROB PIEST CASE WAS TAKING A BIGGER 917 00:49:50,663 --> 00:49:53,008 AND DISTURBING TURN. 918 00:49:53,043 --> 00:49:57,284 THAT WAS THE START OF REALIZING THAT WE WERE ON TO SOMETHING, 919 00:49:57,318 --> 00:49:57,663 A HECK OF A LOT MORE THAN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ONE KID. 920 00:50:01,801 --> 00:50:03,146 ♪♪ 921 00:50:03,180 --> 00:50:04,836 [ CROW CAWS ] 922 00:50:04,870 --> 00:50:08,284 Narrator: JEWELRY, HIGH-SCHOOL RINGS, ID BRACELETS, 923 00:50:08,318 --> 00:50:11,422 DRIVER'S LICENSES, AND DOZENS OF POLICE BADGES, 924 00:50:11,456 --> 00:50:13,974 ALL FOUND IN CONTRACTOR JOHN GACY'S HOME, 925 00:50:14,008 --> 00:50:16,249 NONE OF IT BELONGING TO HIM, 926 00:50:16,284 --> 00:50:19,974 AND NO SIGN OF THE MISSING TEEN ROB PIEST. 927 00:50:20,008 --> 00:50:23,456 Sullivan: WE TRULY HAD HOPED THAT HE WAS ALIVE 928 00:50:23,491 --> 00:50:28,111 AND THAT WE MIGHT FIND HIM BOUND UP IN GACY'S HOUSE. 929 00:50:28,146 --> 00:50:30,456 Narrator: DETECTIVES WIDEN THEIR SEARCH. 930 00:50:30,491 --> 00:50:31,836 THEY START BY GOING BACK 931 00:50:31,870 --> 00:50:33,767 AND TALKING TO EVERYONE IN THE PHARMACY 932 00:50:33,801 --> 00:50:36,077 THE NIGHT ROB DISAPPEARED. 933 00:50:36,111 --> 00:50:39,870 WE KNEW FROM TALKING TO PEOPLE THAT HE HAD GONE OUT 934 00:50:39,905 --> 00:50:44,111 WITH JOHN WAYNE GACY TO GET AN APPLICATION FOR A JOB. 935 00:50:44,146 --> 00:50:46,939 JOHN WAYNE GACY HAD BEEN IN THE MODELING COMPANY 936 00:50:46,974 --> 00:50:51,836 CALLED P.D.M. PAINTING, DECORATING, AND MAINTENANCE. 937 00:50:51,870 --> 00:50:55,560 Albrecht: HE WAS OFFERING HIM A SUMMER JOB FOR $7.50 AN HOUR. 938 00:50:55,594 --> 00:50:57,249 SO A 15-YEAR-OLD KID, 939 00:50:57,284 --> 00:51:01,836 AND HE WAS ALL ANXIOUS ABOUT TURNING 16 AND BUYING A CAR. 940 00:51:01,870 --> 00:51:03,456 Tovar: THIS YOUNG GIRL KIM, 941 00:51:03,491 --> 00:51:05,974 SHE WAS WORKING THE COUNTER UP NEAR THE FRONT DOOR. 942 00:51:06,008 --> 00:51:08,801 SHE WAS COLD, AND SHE BORROWED ROBERT'S JACKET. 943 00:51:08,836 --> 00:51:11,284 IT WAS A NICE, BLUE, DOWN JACKET. 944 00:51:11,318 --> 00:51:14,698 Sullivan: WHEN HE WAS GOING OUT TO SEE GACY, 945 00:51:14,732 --> 00:51:18,180 HE SAID, "KIM, LET ME GET MY JACKET BACK." 946 00:51:18,215 --> 00:51:20,146 Tovar: HE TOLD HER, "I'M GOING WITH THIS GUY 947 00:51:20,180 --> 00:51:21,939 TO FILL OUT AN APPLICATION." 948 00:51:23,974 --> 00:51:26,801 A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE ACTUALLY DIDN'T NOTICE 949 00:51:26,836 --> 00:51:28,939 ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS. 950 00:51:28,974 --> 00:51:30,836 Sullivan: THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON 951 00:51:30,870 --> 00:51:33,249 TO THINK THAT HE WOULDN'T HAVE COME HOME. 952 00:51:33,284 --> 00:51:35,249 [ SIREN WAILING ] 953 00:51:35,284 --> 00:51:37,353 ♪♪ 954 00:51:37,387 --> 00:51:40,284 Narrator: DESPITE GACY'S SODOMY CONVICTION IN IOWA, 955 00:51:40,318 --> 00:51:42,905 THE 36-YEAR-OLD SUBURBAN CONTRACTOR 956 00:51:42,939 --> 00:51:46,456 APPEARS TO BE A LIKABLE, HARDWORKING BUSINESSMAN. 957 00:51:46,491 --> 00:51:51,077 THE NEIGHBORS LOVED HIM. HIS ASSOCIATES LOVED HIM. 958 00:51:53,732 --> 00:51:55,939 Albrecht: GACY WOULD HAVE PARTIES 959 00:51:55,974 --> 00:51:59,456 AROUND JULY 4th EVERY YEAR, AND PEOPLE THAT ATTENDED THEM 960 00:51:59,491 --> 00:52:02,111 WAS THE WHO'S WHO OF CHICAGO POLITICS. 961 00:52:02,146 --> 00:52:03,974 Narrator: HE WAS A PARADE ORGANIZER 962 00:52:04,008 --> 00:52:05,629 FOR THE MAYOR OF CHICAGO 963 00:52:05,663 --> 00:52:07,939 AND A DEMOCRATIC PRECINCT CAPTAIN. 964 00:52:07,974 --> 00:52:10,491 HE SEEMED A MODEL CITIZEN. 965 00:52:20,767 --> 00:52:22,663 HE WAS VERY ACTIVE IN BUSINESS 966 00:52:22,698 --> 00:52:25,215 AND VERY ACTIVE WITH POLITICS. 967 00:52:25,249 --> 00:52:26,870 Sullivan: AT ONE PARTICULAR TIME, 968 00:52:26,905 --> 00:52:28,249 THERE'S A POLISH DAY PARADE. 969 00:52:28,284 --> 00:52:31,767 THE FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES, ROSALYNN CARTER, 970 00:52:31,801 --> 00:52:33,525 WAS IN FOR THE PARADE, 971 00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:37,043 AND HE ACTUALLY GOT UP ON THE STAGE WITH HER 972 00:52:37,077 --> 00:52:39,594 AND EVEN HAD HIS PICTURE TAKEN WITH HER. 973 00:52:39,629 --> 00:52:42,525 ♪♪ 974 00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:46,318 HE WAS A CERTIFIED CLOWN 975 00:52:46,353 --> 00:52:48,318 THAT WOULD VOLUNTEER HIS TIME 976 00:52:48,353 --> 00:52:51,629 TO GO TO HOSPITALS AND ENTERTAIN CHILDREN. 977 00:52:51,663 --> 00:52:54,215 Narrator: HE CALLS HIMSELF POGO THE CLOWN, 978 00:52:54,249 --> 00:52:56,387 AND HE TOOK IT SERIOUSLY. 979 00:53:14,456 --> 00:53:18,215 HOWEVER, A DIG INTO GACY'S PAST PAINTS A DIFFERENT PICTURE 980 00:53:18,249 --> 00:53:21,525 THAN THE MODEL CITIZEN IN CHICAGO. 981 00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:24,387 Tovar: WELL, WE INTERVIEWED PEOPLE IN SPRINGFIELD, IOWA, 982 00:53:24,422 --> 00:53:27,043 ALSO, WHERE HE HAD LIVED. 983 00:53:27,077 --> 00:53:29,180 HE DID NOT GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL. 984 00:53:29,215 --> 00:53:32,836 HE WENT OUT TO LAS VEGAS TO WORK, 985 00:53:32,870 --> 00:53:34,974 AND WHILE HE WAS THERE, HE WORKED FOR AN AMBULANCE COMPANY. 986 00:53:35,008 --> 00:53:38,215 HIS JOB WAS PICKING UP DECEASED REMAINS 987 00:53:38,249 --> 00:53:40,043 AND DELIVERING THEM TO EITHER 988 00:53:40,077 --> 00:53:42,594 FUNERAL HOMES OF CHOICE OR WHATEVER. 989 00:53:45,249 --> 00:53:47,249 WELL, THEY STARTED FINDING SOME DISTURBING THINGS 990 00:53:47,284 --> 00:53:52,077 AS THAT HE WAS MESSING WITH THE BODIES. 991 00:53:52,111 --> 00:53:55,318 HE WAS NECROPHILIAC, AND HE WAS HAVING SEX WITH THE BODIES 992 00:53:55,353 --> 00:53:58,422 AT NIGHT IN THE FUNERAL HOME. 993 00:53:58,456 --> 00:54:01,180 THEY DISCOVERED THAT BECAUSE THEY FOUND THE CLOTHING 994 00:54:01,215 --> 00:54:04,111 ON THE BODIES MESSED UP AND THEY APPROACHED HIM ABOUT IT, 995 00:54:04,146 --> 00:54:07,767 AND I GUESS HE CONFESSED TO IT, SO THEY FIRED HIM. 996 00:54:07,801 --> 00:54:10,974 Narrator: GACY WAS MARRIED TWICE AND DIVORCED TWICE. 997 00:54:11,008 --> 00:54:14,008 HE HAS TWO KIDS FROM THE FIRST MARRIAGE IN IOWA 998 00:54:14,043 --> 00:54:15,663 AND LIVES ALONE. 999 00:54:19,077 --> 00:54:21,215 BACK AT THE DES PLAINES POLICE STATION, 1000 00:54:21,249 --> 00:54:25,146 DETECTIVES SIFT THROUGH THE ITEMS TAKEN FROM GACY'S HOUSE. 1001 00:54:25,180 --> 00:54:28,698 A HIGH-SCHOOL RING WITH THREE INITIALS, J.A.S., 1002 00:54:28,732 --> 00:54:30,974 GETS THEIR ATTENTION. 1003 00:54:31,008 --> 00:54:34,560 WE WERE WORKING ON THE ROB PIEST DISAPPEARANCE. 1004 00:54:34,594 --> 00:54:37,801 AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, 1005 00:54:37,836 --> 00:54:40,146 FINDING SOMETHING LIKE A CLASS RING 1006 00:54:40,180 --> 00:54:42,456 THAT HAD INITIALS ON IT. 1007 00:54:42,491 --> 00:54:44,663 Tovar: WE LEARNED THAT ULTIMATELY TURNED OUT 1008 00:54:44,698 --> 00:54:46,698 TO BELONG TO JOHN SZYC. 1009 00:54:46,732 --> 00:54:49,939 Narrator: 19-YEAR-OLD JOHN SZYC WAS FROM DES PLAINES 1010 00:54:49,974 --> 00:54:51,215 BUT WAS LIVING IN CHICAGO 1011 00:54:51,249 --> 00:54:55,663 WHEN HE WENT MISSING A YEAR EARLIER IN JANUARY 1977. 1012 00:54:55,698 --> 00:54:58,180 Tovar: WE SPOKE TO HIS MOTHER, AND SHE TOLD US 1013 00:54:58,215 --> 00:54:59,698 HE HAD BEEN MISSING 1014 00:54:59,732 --> 00:55:03,491 AND THAT HIS CAR WAS MISSING AS WELL AS A TELEVISION. 1015 00:55:03,525 --> 00:55:06,387 WE HAD SEEN A TELEVISION THAT KIND OF, MAYBE MATCHED 1016 00:55:06,422 --> 00:55:08,146 IN THE HOUSE. 1017 00:55:08,180 --> 00:55:10,215 WE STARTED DIGGING FOR INFORMATION 1018 00:55:10,249 --> 00:55:12,801 ON OTHER MISSING KIDS. 1019 00:55:12,836 --> 00:55:16,698 WE FOUND A LIST OF EMPLOYEES, AND WE STARTED CHECKING ON THEM, 1020 00:55:16,732 --> 00:55:20,870 STARTED FINDING OUT THAT A LOT OF THOSE WERE ALSO MISSING. 1021 00:55:20,905 --> 00:55:23,801 Sullivan: HOW MANY OTHER KIDS HAD HE OFFERED THE SAME DEAL 1022 00:55:23,836 --> 00:55:25,870 AS HE WAS DOING WITH PIEST? 1023 00:55:25,905 --> 00:55:28,801 IN OTHER WORDS, "COME WITH ME 1024 00:55:28,836 --> 00:55:32,008 AND I'LL DOUBLE WHATEVER YOU'RE MAKING RIGHT NOW." 1025 00:55:32,043 --> 00:55:34,767 Narrator: GACY'S NAME COMES UP MORE THAN HALF A DOZEN TIMES 1026 00:55:34,801 --> 00:55:36,801 IN CHICAGO POLICE REPORTS, 1027 00:55:36,836 --> 00:55:40,043 RANGING FROM KIDNAPPING TO RAPE AND ASSAULT. 1028 00:55:40,077 --> 00:55:42,284 CHICAGO POLICE DID INVESTIGATE, 1029 00:55:42,318 --> 00:55:45,594 BUT NOTHING CAME OF ANY ONE OF THEM. 1030 00:55:45,629 --> 00:55:47,801 Hachmeister: IT WAS AT THAT POINT, REALLY, 1031 00:55:47,836 --> 00:55:49,663 TURNED EVERYTHING UPSIDE DOWN. 1032 00:55:49,698 --> 00:55:52,629 HE WAS NO LONGER, IN MY OPINION, A PERSON OF INTEREST. 1033 00:55:52,663 --> 00:55:54,456 HE WAS DEFINITELY A SUSPECT. 1034 00:55:57,491 --> 00:56:00,146 ROB PIEST HAS BEEN MISSING FOR FOUR DAYS, 1035 00:56:00,180 --> 00:56:02,318 AND ALL EYES ARE ON GACY, 1036 00:56:02,353 --> 00:56:05,077 BUT THE POLICE NEED MORE EVIDENCE. 1037 00:56:05,111 --> 00:56:07,732 THEY PUT HIM ON ROUND-THE-CLOCK SURVEILLANCE. 1038 00:56:07,767 --> 00:56:10,249 I WAS HOPING THAT IF, IN FACT, 1039 00:56:10,284 --> 00:56:12,456 HE HAD DONE SOMETHING WITH ROB PIEST, 1040 00:56:12,491 --> 00:56:16,077 THAT HE WOULD LEAD US THERE. 1041 00:56:16,111 --> 00:56:19,111 THIS IS THE FOUR OF US THAT WERE ON THE SURVEILLANCE. 1042 00:56:19,146 --> 00:56:21,422 BOB AND RON HAD THE NOON TO MIDNIGHT, 1043 00:56:21,456 --> 00:56:24,905 AND DAVE I HAD THE MIDNIGHT TO NOON. 1044 00:56:24,939 --> 00:56:27,767 Hachmeister: OUR GOAL AS A SURVEILLANCE UNIT WAS TO, 1045 00:56:27,801 --> 00:56:31,146 NO MATTER WHAT, KEEP HIM IN VIEW 1046 00:56:31,180 --> 00:56:35,456 SO THAT IF THERE'S ANY EVIDENCE TO BE OUT THERE THROUGH GACY, 1047 00:56:35,491 --> 00:56:39,318 HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DESTROY ANY OF THE EVIDENCE. 1048 00:56:39,353 --> 00:56:41,525 SURVEILLANCE WORK CAN BE BORING AT CERTAIN TIMES, 1049 00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:43,215 ALTHOUGH I KIND OF HAD THE PERSONALITY FOR IT. 1050 00:56:43,249 --> 00:56:44,974 I COULD SIT AND, YOU KNOW, I HAD A LOT OF PATIENCE 1051 00:56:45,008 --> 00:56:48,146 FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER. 1052 00:56:48,180 --> 00:56:52,767 THAT FIRST NIGHT, I SAT BY MYSELF FOR QUITE A WHILE. 1053 00:56:52,801 --> 00:56:55,422 THIS WAS AN EXTREMELY COLD DAY. WE'RE IN DECEMBER. 1054 00:56:55,456 --> 00:56:59,525 IT WAS SO COLD THAT I HAD TO KEEP MY CAR RUNNING. 1055 00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:02,663 WHEN HE CAME HOME, HE COULD SEE THE EXHAUST FROM MY CAR 1056 00:57:02,698 --> 00:57:05,491 BILLOWING UP FROM THE CAR, 1057 00:57:05,525 --> 00:57:08,801 SO AS HE DROVE BY, HE KNEW THAT WE HAD INTEREST IN HIM. 1058 00:57:08,836 --> 00:57:11,456 HE SPOTTED THE CAR, AND THE FIRST THING HE DID 1059 00:57:11,491 --> 00:57:13,629 WAS WAVE TO ME AS HE DROVE BY. 1060 00:57:13,663 --> 00:57:15,836 SO HE KNEW RIGHT AWAY THAT WE WERE FOLLOWING HIM, 1061 00:57:15,870 --> 00:57:17,905 AND WE JUST HAD TO MAKE THE BEST OF IT. 1062 00:57:20,525 --> 00:57:22,767 YOU'D THINK THIS GUY IS LIKE A BAD GUY, 1063 00:57:22,801 --> 00:57:25,732 HE'S REALLY GONNA BE A TOUGH GUY TO DEAL WITH, 1064 00:57:25,767 --> 00:57:27,146 BUT HE WAS JUST THE OPPOSITE. 1065 00:57:27,180 --> 00:57:30,905 I MEAN, HE WELCOMED US WHEN WE FOLLOWED HIM INTO BARS. 1066 00:57:30,939 --> 00:57:33,491 HE WOULD BUY US BEERS. 1067 00:57:33,525 --> 00:57:35,353 AFTERWARDS, WE WOULD GO TO RESTAURANTS, 1068 00:57:35,387 --> 00:57:37,043 HE WOULD INVITE US TO HIS TABLE. 1069 00:57:37,077 --> 00:57:39,629 WE'D HAVE BREAKFAST WITH HIM. 1070 00:57:39,663 --> 00:57:41,456 HE SEEMED LIKE A GREAT GUY. 1071 00:57:41,491 --> 00:57:43,767 HE SEEMED TO BE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT ROB PIEST, 1072 00:57:43,801 --> 00:57:46,905 SAYING HE WOULD DO ANYTHING TO HELP US OUT. 1073 00:57:46,939 --> 00:57:52,249 LIE-DETECTOR TESTS, DO ANYTHING. HE WAS VERY, VERY CONCERNED. 1074 00:57:52,284 --> 00:57:54,077 AND, MATTER OF FACT, MY PARTNER AND I 1075 00:57:54,111 --> 00:57:57,284 WOULD HAVE TO OCCASIONALLY REMIND EACH OTHER, 1076 00:57:57,318 --> 00:58:00,111 "HEY, WE'VE GOT TO BE REALLY ON OUR TOES HERE." 1077 00:58:11,870 --> 00:58:17,008 ♪♪ 1078 00:58:17,043 --> 00:58:19,008 THERE WAS ONE TIME THAT WE WERE FOLLOWING GACY, 1079 00:58:19,043 --> 00:58:21,318 ABOUT 2:00 OR 3:00 IN THE MORNING, 1080 00:58:21,353 --> 00:58:24,801 HE WAS CHECKING ON A JOB SITE. 1081 00:58:24,836 --> 00:58:28,801 ON HIS WAY HOME, HE WAS GOING THROUGH GAY NEIGHBORHOOD, 1082 00:58:28,836 --> 00:58:32,905 AND HE HAPPENED TO SPOT SOME GUY WALKING DOWN THE STREET. 1083 00:58:32,939 --> 00:58:36,560 HE JUST ABOUT TURNED HIS HEAD TOTALLY AROUND 1084 00:58:36,594 --> 00:58:38,249 LOOKING AT THIS YOUNG MAN. 1085 00:58:38,284 --> 00:58:41,318 YOU COULD TELL THAT HE WAS REALLY WANTING TO DO SOMETHING, 1086 00:58:41,353 --> 00:58:46,387 BUT HE COULDN'T DO ANYTHING BECAUSE WE WERE SO CLOSE TO HIM. 1087 00:58:46,422 --> 00:58:48,387 HE NEVER TALKED TO US ABOUT BEING GAY. 1088 00:58:48,422 --> 00:58:50,801 I MEAN, HE WOULD ALWAYS ACTUALLY KIND OF GO OVERBOARD 1089 00:58:50,836 --> 00:58:52,732 ABOUT SAYING, "WOW, DID YOU SEE THAT WOMAN? 1090 00:58:52,767 --> 00:58:54,008 WHAT A GOOD-LOOKING WOMAN," YOU KNOW, 1091 00:58:54,043 --> 00:58:55,974 AND HE WOULD KIND OF GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO MENTION 1092 00:58:56,008 --> 00:59:00,939 TO US TO MAKE US THINK THAT HE WAS STRAIGHT AS AN ARROW. 1093 00:59:00,974 --> 00:59:02,594 Narrator: HIS BLUSTER EXTENDS 1094 00:59:02,629 --> 00:59:06,629 TO THE PERKS OF WORKING AS POGO THE CLOWN. 1095 00:59:06,663 --> 00:59:10,008 Albrecht: GACY, THE COCKY BRAGGER THAT HE WAS, 1096 00:59:10,043 --> 00:59:11,732 HE LOOKED AT US AND SAID, "YOU KNOW WHAT? 1097 00:59:11,767 --> 00:59:13,422 YOU COULD SIT ON A WOMAN'S LAP, YOU KNOW, 1098 00:59:13,456 --> 00:59:16,318 AND YOU COULD SIT THERE AND TALK TO THEM AND FEEL THEM UP 1099 00:59:16,353 --> 00:59:17,698 OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO, 1100 00:59:17,732 --> 00:59:19,249 AND CLOWNS DO GET AWAY WITH THAT." 1101 00:59:19,284 --> 00:59:20,698 AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW -- HE LOOKED AT US 1102 00:59:20,732 --> 00:59:21,905 AND HE SAID, "YOU KNOW, CLOWNS -- 1103 00:59:31,008 --> 00:59:33,008 ♪♪ 1104 00:59:33,043 --> 00:59:36,111 Narrator: IT'S BEEN FIVE DAYS SINCE ROB PIEST DISAPPEARED 1105 00:59:36,146 --> 00:59:39,456 AND DES PLAINES DETECTIVES LEAN ON GACY'S EMPLOYEES, 1106 00:59:39,491 --> 00:59:43,008 HOPING THEY'LL PROVIDE SOME CLUE ABOUT THE TEEN'S WHEREABOUTS. 1107 00:59:43,043 --> 00:59:45,353 Hachmeister: HE HAD TWO REALLY LOYAL FOLLOWERS 1108 00:59:45,387 --> 00:59:48,767 WHO WORKED FOR HIM, MICHAEL ROSSI AND DAVID CRAM. 1109 00:59:48,801 --> 00:59:52,801 Narrator: THE YOUNG MEN HAD BEEN WORKING FOR GACY FOR TWO YEARS. 1110 00:59:52,836 --> 00:59:55,767 Sullivan: ONE WAS MORE COOPERATIVE THAN THE OTHER. 1111 00:59:55,801 --> 00:59:59,180 I WOULDN'T SAY THAT EITHER OF THEM WERE REAL COOPERATIVE. 1112 00:59:59,215 --> 01:00:03,801 Kozenczak: I THINK HE SAW GACY WAS IN TROUBLE, 1113 01:00:03,836 --> 01:00:09,663 AND HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE BROUGHT INTO IT ANY MORE THAN HE HAD TO. 1114 01:00:09,698 --> 01:00:13,767 AND HE STARTED GIVING US INFORMATION ABOUT EMPLOYEES 1115 01:00:13,801 --> 01:00:15,905 WHO COME TO WORK ONE DAY 1116 01:00:15,939 --> 01:00:18,077 AND THEN THE NEXT DAY THEY WERE JUST GONE. 1117 01:00:20,146 --> 01:00:22,353 Narrator: ROSSI MENTIONS ONE KID IN PARTICULAR 1118 01:00:22,387 --> 01:00:24,525 WHO WORKED FOR GACY TWO YEARS EARLIER, 1119 01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:26,836 WHO NEVER SHOWED UP FOR WORK ONE DAY 1120 01:00:26,870 --> 01:00:29,905 AND NEVER PICKED UP HIS LAST PAYCHECK. 1121 01:00:29,939 --> 01:00:31,732 GREGORY GODZIK WAS 17 1122 01:00:31,767 --> 01:00:37,732 WHEN HE TOOK A PART-TIME JOB AT P.D.M. CONSTRUCTION IN 1976. 1123 01:00:37,767 --> 01:00:41,422 I REMEMBER THE DAY WHEN HE CAME HOME AND HE SAID TO MY MOM, 1124 01:00:41,456 --> 01:00:45,043 "YOU KNOW, I MET THIS MAN, AND HE'S OFFERING ME A NEW JOB." 1125 01:00:45,077 --> 01:00:47,870 AND MY MOTHER SAID, "OH, MY GOD, WHAT KIND OF JOB? 1126 01:00:47,905 --> 01:00:50,801 FINISH SCHOOL SO YOU CAN GO TO COLLEGE. 1127 01:00:50,836 --> 01:00:56,146 AND AT THE TIME, HE WAS MAKING $2.25 AN HOUR, AND HE SAID, 1128 01:00:56,180 --> 01:01:00,387 "MOM, THIS MAN'S OFFERING ME $5 AN HOUR." 1129 01:01:00,422 --> 01:01:03,767 AND MY MOTHER SAID, "I DON'T WANT YOU TO DO THAT." 1130 01:01:03,801 --> 01:01:06,525 OF COURSE, EVERY 17-YEAR-OLD, 1131 01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:08,387 YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GONNA DO WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO. 1132 01:01:08,422 --> 01:01:11,767 AND I REMEMBER A COUPLE DAYS LATER HE SAID, 1133 01:01:11,801 --> 01:01:15,732 "MOM, I GOT THIS JOB FROM THAT MAN I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT." 1134 01:01:15,767 --> 01:01:20,043 Narrator: THREE WEEKS LATER, GREGORY DISAPPEARED. 1135 01:01:20,077 --> 01:01:22,560 [ DOG BARKING ] 1136 01:01:22,594 --> 01:01:25,180 Godzik: HE WAS GOING OUT ON A DATE WITH A NEW GIRLFRIEND 1137 01:01:25,215 --> 01:01:26,387 OR SOMEBODY. 1138 01:01:26,422 --> 01:01:28,767 THE NEXT MORNING, MY MOTHER SAID, 1139 01:01:28,801 --> 01:01:32,180 "DID YOU SEE YOUR BROTHER?" AND I SAID, "NO, WHY?" 1140 01:01:32,215 --> 01:01:34,732 BECAUSE EVERY TIME MY BROTHER WOULD COME HOME, 1141 01:01:34,767 --> 01:01:37,698 HE'D ALWAYS, "MOM, I'M HOME," OR GIVE HER A KISS. 1142 01:01:37,732 --> 01:01:39,491 AND SHE SAID, "HE DIDN'T COME IN." 1143 01:01:39,525 --> 01:01:42,387 AND I SAID, "THAT'S ODD." 1144 01:01:42,422 --> 01:01:45,146 AND THEN IT WAS LIKE TWO DAYS AFTER THAT, 1145 01:01:45,180 --> 01:01:50,594 THEY FOUND MY BROTHER'S CAR IN A PARKING LOT, AND IN THE CAR, 1146 01:01:50,629 --> 01:01:54,353 THERE WAS HIS DRIVER'S LICENSE AND HIS WALLET AND... 1147 01:01:54,387 --> 01:01:56,560 AND EVEN MY MOTHER SAID, YOU KNOW, 1148 01:01:56,594 --> 01:02:01,560 "WHY WOULD HE LEAVE HIS CAR? IT WAS A PRIZED POSSESSION." 1149 01:02:01,594 --> 01:02:05,525 MY MOTHER WENT TO GACY'S HOUSE THAT WEEK. 1150 01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:08,077 SHE SAID, "WELL, HE SHOULD KNOW 1151 01:02:08,111 --> 01:02:10,767 IF HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING." 1152 01:02:10,801 --> 01:02:14,905 AND HE SAID, "OH, YEAH, I SAW HIM A WHILE AGO, 1153 01:02:14,939 --> 01:02:18,111 BUT, OH, YEAH, HE LEFT A MESSAGE ON MY MACHINE." 1154 01:02:18,146 --> 01:02:20,077 MY MOTHER SAID, "OH, WELL, LET'S HEAR THE MACHINE." 1155 01:02:20,111 --> 01:02:23,215 HE GOES, "OH, I ERASED THAT." 1156 01:02:23,249 --> 01:02:25,180 AND HE SAID, "OH, 17-YEAR-OLDS, 1157 01:02:25,215 --> 01:02:27,905 THEY RUN AWAY, BUT THEY'LL BE BACK," YOU KNOW. 1158 01:02:27,939 --> 01:02:30,318 MY MOTHER SAID, "NOPE, THAT'S NOT MY SON. 1159 01:02:30,353 --> 01:02:32,801 MY SON WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT." 1160 01:02:32,836 --> 01:02:35,284 BUT YOU HAVE YOUR HANDS TIED. 1161 01:02:35,318 --> 01:02:37,111 WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO? YOU ONLY CAN DO SO MUCH. 1162 01:02:37,146 --> 01:02:40,008 YOU HIRE A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR, YOU GO TO THE POLICE. 1163 01:02:40,043 --> 01:02:42,491 THEY DON'T -- YOU KNOW, "WE HAVE OTHER THINGS." 1164 01:02:42,525 --> 01:02:44,353 YOU KNOW, "WE'RE DOING THE BEST WE CAN." 1165 01:02:44,387 --> 01:02:48,387 AND YOU JUST LIVE WITH IT. 1166 01:02:48,422 --> 01:02:52,318 Narrator: THREE TEENS -- ROB PIEST, GREGORY GODZIK, 1167 01:02:52,353 --> 01:02:55,077 AND THE OWNER OF THE RING FOUND IN GACY'S HOUSE, 1168 01:02:55,111 --> 01:02:57,215 17-YEAR-OLD JOHN SZYC -- 1169 01:02:57,249 --> 01:03:00,870 ALL MISSING, ALL TIED TO JOHN GACY. 1170 01:03:04,077 --> 01:03:08,249 THEN AN ITEM, A SLIP OF PAPER FOUND IN GACY'S TRASH, 1171 01:03:08,284 --> 01:03:12,767 BECOMES A TURNING POINT IN THE SEARCH FOR ROB PIEST. 1172 01:03:12,801 --> 01:03:15,974 Hachmeister: WE RECOVERED A PHOTO RECEIPT 1173 01:03:16,008 --> 01:03:19,870 FROM NISSON PHARMACY, AND IT ONLY HAD NUMBERS ON IT, 1174 01:03:19,905 --> 01:03:21,629 SO YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHO IT WAS ISSUED TO. 1175 01:03:21,663 --> 01:03:24,801 THIS RECEIPT, AND THE FILM FINALLY CAME BACK, 1176 01:03:24,836 --> 01:03:28,077 AND THE NUMBERS CORRESPONDED TO KIM BYERS, 1177 01:03:28,111 --> 01:03:34,180 WHO WAS AN EMPLOYEE WITH ROB PIEST AT NISSON PHARMACY. 1178 01:03:34,215 --> 01:03:38,456 Sullivan: SHE PUT THAT RECEIPT IN ROB'S POCKET, 1179 01:03:38,491 --> 01:03:41,594 AND THEN ROB CAME AND GOT THE CHECK. 1180 01:03:41,629 --> 01:03:43,249 Narrator: THAT'S WHEN ROB LEFT THE PHARMACY 1181 01:03:43,284 --> 01:03:45,905 TO TALK TO GACY ABOUT A JOB. 1182 01:03:45,939 --> 01:03:49,801 PROOF ROB'S JACKET WAS IN GACY'S HOUSE. 1183 01:03:49,836 --> 01:03:51,870 SO WHERE IS THE TEEN? 1184 01:03:54,905 --> 01:03:59,180 INVESTIGATORS KEEP THE PRESSURE ON GACY'S TWO CLOSEST EMPLOYEES. 1185 01:03:59,215 --> 01:04:01,456 BOTH MIKE ROSSI AND DAVID CRAM 1186 01:04:01,491 --> 01:04:04,353 HAD LIVED IN GACY'S HOUSE FOR A TIME. 1187 01:04:04,387 --> 01:04:06,629 Hachmeister: THE INVESTIGATORS, THEY WERE NONSTOP. 1188 01:04:06,663 --> 01:04:09,077 THEY'D FOLLOW THESE INDIVIDUALS EVERYWHERE, 1189 01:04:09,111 --> 01:04:11,491 INTERVIEW THEM AT WORK, AT HOME. 1190 01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:17,111 AND THEY WERE STARTING TO GET TIRED OF SEEING THE POLICE. 1191 01:04:17,146 --> 01:04:19,974 Narrator: ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES AGREES TO COME TO THE STATION 1192 01:04:20,008 --> 01:04:22,077 AND ANSWER MORE QUESTIONS. 1193 01:04:22,111 --> 01:04:25,180 GACY HAD HAD THESE KIDS 1194 01:04:25,215 --> 01:04:29,698 DIGGING IN HIS CRAWL SPACE IN THE BASEMENT. 1195 01:04:29,732 --> 01:04:34,491 THEY WERE DIGGING WHERE GACY WOULD BE ABLE TO PUT SOME LIME, 1196 01:04:34,525 --> 01:04:37,629 WHICH WOULD ABSORB ODORS. 1197 01:04:37,663 --> 01:04:39,387 THIS WAS KIND OF ODD TO US, YOU KNOW. 1198 01:04:39,422 --> 01:04:41,146 WHY WOULD YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT? 1199 01:04:41,180 --> 01:04:42,387 BUT THEY EXPLAINED IT AWAY, 1200 01:04:42,422 --> 01:04:44,939 THAT GACY SAID THAT THERE WAS A SEWAGE ISSUE 1201 01:04:44,974 --> 01:04:48,905 AND THAT IT WAS DRAINAGE FOR THAT SEWAGE ISSUE. 1202 01:04:48,939 --> 01:04:50,663 Kozenczak: AND THEN I FINALLY SAID, 1203 01:04:50,698 --> 01:04:53,043 "COULD YOU JUST TELL ME, PLEASE, 1204 01:04:53,077 --> 01:04:57,249 IF I WAS GONNA LOOK FOR ROBERT, WHERE SHOULD I LOOK FOR HIM?" 1205 01:04:57,284 --> 01:04:59,870 AND HE PUT HIS HEAD DOWN AND HE SAID, 1206 01:04:59,905 --> 01:05:01,870 "IN JOHN'S CRAWL SPACE." 1207 01:05:04,318 --> 01:05:08,801 SO WE KNEW AT THAT POINT THAT WE HAD TO GET ANOTHER WARRANT 1208 01:05:08,836 --> 01:05:11,525 AND GO BACK INTO GACY'S HOUSE, 1209 01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:16,215 INTO HIS CRAWL SPACE AND START LOOKING AGAIN 1210 01:05:16,249 --> 01:05:20,870 BECAUSE APPARENTLY, WE MISSED SOMETHING THE FIRST TIME AROUND. 1211 01:05:20,905 --> 01:05:23,008 Narrator: THE SURVEILLANCE TEAM HAS BEEN TAILING GACY 1212 01:05:23,043 --> 01:05:25,318 FOR MORE THAN A WEEK. 1213 01:05:25,353 --> 01:05:28,284 Hachmeister: AT THIS POINT, HE HADN'T SHAVED FOR A COUPLE DAYS. 1214 01:05:28,318 --> 01:05:32,008 HE'S SLOUCHING. HIS WHOLE DEMEANOR IS DIFFERENT. 1215 01:05:32,043 --> 01:05:34,353 HE WAS DOING SOME UPPERS AND DOWNERS. 1216 01:05:34,387 --> 01:05:37,146 IT HAD TO BE KILLING HIM ON THE INSIDE, 1217 01:05:37,180 --> 01:05:41,215 KNOWING THAT WE WERE NOT GONNA LET UP ON THIS INVESTIGATION. 1218 01:05:41,249 --> 01:05:44,180 AT THIS POINT, WE WERE LIKE DOGS WITH A BONE. 1219 01:05:44,215 --> 01:05:46,387 Narrator: ON THE MORNING OF DECEMBER 21st, 1220 01:05:46,422 --> 01:05:48,939 THEY FOLLOW GACY TO HIS LOCAL GAS STATION, 1221 01:05:48,974 --> 01:05:52,180 WHERE THEY WITNESS HIM HANDING OVER DRUGS TO THE ATTENDANT. 1222 01:05:52,215 --> 01:05:53,870 Hachmeister: WHEN HE LEFT THE GAS STATION... 1223 01:05:53,905 --> 01:05:56,732 [ TIRES SQUEAL ]...HE TOOK OFF LIKE A WILD MAN. 1224 01:05:56,767 --> 01:05:58,353 SO WHEN WE PULLED HIM OUT OF THE CAR, 1225 01:05:58,387 --> 01:06:02,180 I KIND OF PUSHED HIM AROUND A LITTLE BIT AND SAID, 1226 01:06:02,215 --> 01:06:03,732 "JOHN, YOU'RE UNDER ARREST 1227 01:06:03,767 --> 01:06:07,491 FOR POSSESSION OF AND DELIVERY OF MARIJUANA." 1228 01:06:07,525 --> 01:06:08,629 HE DIDN'T REALLY SAY ANYTHING. 1229 01:06:08,663 --> 01:06:11,767 HE JUST SEEMED TO BE STARING INTO SPACE. 1230 01:06:26,836 --> 01:06:31,732 Narrator: THAT SAME DAY, THE SECOND SEARCH WARRANT ARRIVES. 1231 01:06:31,767 --> 01:06:33,732 Sullivan: WE HAD TO GET DOWN TO THE CRAWL SPACE 1232 01:06:33,767 --> 01:06:37,008 BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE TWO KIDS 1233 01:06:37,043 --> 01:06:39,594 WHO WORKED FOR HIM SAID THEY WERE DIGGING TRENCHES. 1234 01:06:39,629 --> 01:06:41,836 [ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING ] 1235 01:06:41,870 --> 01:06:43,663 Tovar: I THINK IT WAS PHIL BETTIKER 1236 01:06:43,698 --> 01:06:46,318 WHO STARTED DIGGING. 1237 01:06:46,353 --> 01:06:50,146 AND HE FOUND A LEFT FEMUR. 1238 01:06:50,180 --> 01:06:54,284 SO HE KEPT DIGGING, FOUND A SECOND LEFT FEMUR. 1239 01:06:54,318 --> 01:06:57,456 KEPT DIGGING, FOUND A THIRD ONE. 1240 01:06:57,491 --> 01:06:59,939 Sullivan: THAT'S WHEN I SAID, "STOP THERE." 1241 01:06:59,974 --> 01:07:02,043 AND WE CALLED IN THE MEDICAL EXAMINER, 1242 01:07:07,353 --> 01:07:10,836 ♪♪ 1243 01:07:10,870 --> 01:07:13,180 Narrator: FOUR DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS, 1244 01:07:13,215 --> 01:07:17,836 AND JOHN WAYNE GACY SITS IN THE DES PLAINES POLICE STATION. 1245 01:07:17,870 --> 01:07:21,801 SEVEN MILES AWAY, POLICE UNCOVER BONES IN HIS BASEMENT, 1246 01:07:21,836 --> 01:07:24,422 BONES BELONGING TO MORE THAN ONE BODY. 1247 01:07:24,456 --> 01:07:26,077 [ TRUCK BEEPING ] 1248 01:07:26,111 --> 01:07:30,008 THESE BODIES WERE DECAYED FOR THE MOST PART. 1249 01:07:30,043 --> 01:07:33,629 ROBERT PIEST HAD ONLY BEEN MISSING FOR 10 DAYS. 1250 01:07:33,663 --> 01:07:36,594 SO WE KNEW FOR A FACT THAT THIS WAS NOT ROBERT PIEST. 1251 01:07:36,629 --> 01:07:38,353 IT WAS SOMEBODY ELSE. 1252 01:07:38,387 --> 01:07:39,767 Hachmeister: I GET A PHONE CALL. 1253 01:07:39,801 --> 01:07:42,387 THEY SAID, "WE HAVE DEAD BODIES IN A CRAWL SPACE." 1254 01:07:42,422 --> 01:07:43,870 I TURNED TO GACY, AND I SAID, 1255 01:07:43,905 --> 01:07:46,008 "JOHN, YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR MURDER." 1256 01:07:46,043 --> 01:07:50,353 I WAS ELATED. I HAD TO TRY TO BE CALM AND COOL. 1257 01:07:50,387 --> 01:07:53,422 BUT IT WAS LIKE THE MOST UNBELIEVABLE THING 1258 01:07:53,456 --> 01:07:56,043 THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME -- UNDESCRIBABLE. 1259 01:07:56,077 --> 01:07:58,284 Tovar: HE KNEW AT THIS POINT 1260 01:07:58,318 --> 01:07:59,939 THAT WE WERE GONNA FIND ALL THE BODIES. 1261 01:07:59,974 --> 01:08:02,629 AND WE TOLD HIM WE'D ALREADY STARTED DIGGING. 1262 01:08:02,663 --> 01:08:04,491 Albrecht: GACY LOOKS AT ME, AND HE SAYS, 1263 01:08:04,525 --> 01:08:06,767 "WERE YOU GUYS IN A CRAWL SPACE?" 1264 01:08:06,801 --> 01:08:08,422 I SAYS, "YEAH, JOHN. WHY?" 1265 01:08:08,456 --> 01:08:10,663 HE SAYS, "WELL, THAT'S WHAT THE LIME WAS FOR." 1266 01:08:10,698 --> 01:08:12,801 I SAID, "WELL, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE LIME WAS?" 1267 01:08:12,836 --> 01:08:14,318 "TO COVER THE SMELL." 1268 01:08:14,353 --> 01:08:16,077 AND HE SAID SOMETHING REALLY RIDICULOUS. 1269 01:08:16,111 --> 01:08:19,836 HE SAID, "WELL, I DON'T WANT YOU GUYS MESSING MY CARPETS UP, 1270 01:08:19,870 --> 01:08:24,456 SO I'LL DRAW YOU A MAP OF WHERE EVERYTHING IS." 1271 01:08:24,491 --> 01:08:27,939 THIS DRAWING IS A PHOTOCOPY OF 1272 01:08:27,974 --> 01:08:31,767 GACY'S CRAWL SPACE, THAT HE MADE THIS DRAWING, 1273 01:08:31,801 --> 01:08:32,905 AND YOU CAN SEE IN ONE SPOT HERE, 1274 01:08:32,939 --> 01:08:37,422 THERE'S A RECTANGLE WITH AN "X" ON IT. 1275 01:08:37,456 --> 01:08:42,146 THAT'S WHERE THE FIRST BODY WAS BURIED. 1276 01:08:42,180 --> 01:08:43,525 Narrator: OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS, 1277 01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:46,836 GACY CONFESSES TO KILLING DOZENS OF BOYS AND YOUNG MEN 1278 01:08:46,870 --> 01:08:49,560 AND BURYING THEIR BODIES UNDER HIS HOUSE. 1279 01:08:49,594 --> 01:08:50,905 IN CHILLING DETAIL, 1280 01:08:50,939 --> 01:08:54,629 HE TELLS THEM THE MURDERS STARTED IN 1972. 1281 01:08:54,663 --> 01:08:57,318 THE FIRST ONE WAS SELF-DEFENSE. 1282 01:08:57,353 --> 01:08:59,836 THIS KID TRIED TO COME AFTER HIM WITH A KNIFE IN THE MORNING 1283 01:08:59,870 --> 01:09:02,491 AFTER THEY HAD SPENT THE NIGHT TOGETHER HAVING SEX. 1284 01:09:02,525 --> 01:09:04,905 HE KNIFED HIM. 1285 01:09:04,939 --> 01:09:08,594 Narrator: WHAT GACY DESCRIBES GOES BEYOND SELF-DEFENSE. 1286 01:09:48,353 --> 01:09:50,939 Albrecht: AT THAT TIME, HE WAS MARRIED, STILL. 1287 01:09:50,974 --> 01:09:52,836 HIS WIFE WAS STILL THERE. 1288 01:09:52,870 --> 01:09:55,905 HE MENTIONED -- IT WAS EITHER MOTHER'S DAY OR EASTER 1289 01:09:55,939 --> 01:09:58,801 THAT HE TOLD HIS WIFE, "THIS IS THE LAST DAY 1290 01:09:58,836 --> 01:10:02,008 THAT WE'RE EVER GONNA HAVE ANY TYPE OF SEXUAL CONTACT." 1291 01:10:06,284 --> 01:10:09,836 Narrator: IT WAS THE START OF A THREE-YEAR KILLING SPREE, 1292 01:10:09,870 --> 01:10:12,077 PICKING UP MOST OF HIS VICTIMS AT NIGHT, 1293 01:10:12,111 --> 01:10:16,387 CRUISING AROUND CHICAGO'S GAY AREA, BUGHOUSE SQUARE. 1294 01:10:27,180 --> 01:10:30,560 HE HAD THIS CAR THAT HE OUTFITTED 1295 01:10:30,594 --> 01:10:33,663 TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE IT WAS A POLICE CAR. 1296 01:10:33,698 --> 01:10:37,663 AND HE WAS ABLE TO STOP KIDS AND TELL THEM TO GET IN THE CAR. 1297 01:10:37,698 --> 01:10:42,146 Narrator: THIS RUSE WAS PART OF HIS WELL-HONED ROUTINE. 1298 01:10:58,456 --> 01:11:01,180 ♪♪ 1299 01:11:01,215 --> 01:11:05,801 ONCE HE HAD THEM IN THE CAR, HE DROVE TO HIS HOUSE. 1300 01:11:05,836 --> 01:11:08,663 THERE, HE PLIED THE KIDS WITH ALCOHOL AND DRUGS 1301 01:11:08,698 --> 01:11:11,663 AND ENTERTAINED THEM WITH HIS HANDCUFF TRICK, 1302 01:11:11,698 --> 01:11:15,387 THE SAME TRICK USED BY DEAN ALLEN CORLL, THE CANDYMAN, 1303 01:11:15,422 --> 01:11:19,732 ON HIS 29 VICTIMS IN HOUSTON JUST A FEW YEARS EARLIER. 1304 01:11:45,146 --> 01:11:48,180 UNWITTINGLY, THESE YOUNG MEN WOULD HANDCUFF THEMSELVES, 1305 01:11:48,215 --> 01:11:51,318 AND ONCE THEY WERE INCAPACITATED LIKE THAT, 1306 01:11:51,353 --> 01:11:54,353 HE WOULD DO THE ROPE TRICK. 1307 01:11:54,387 --> 01:11:56,284 Tovar: WHEN HE WOULD TURN THEM AROUND, 1308 01:11:56,318 --> 01:11:58,491 HE'D TAKE A PIECE OF ROPE WITH THE LOOPS ON THE END, 1309 01:11:58,525 --> 01:11:59,767 LOOP THEM TOGETHER, 1310 01:11:59,801 --> 01:12:03,353 PUT A PIECE OF WOOD THROUGH IT AS A TOURNIQUET, 1311 01:12:03,387 --> 01:12:07,180 AND START TIGHTENING IT AROUND THEIR NECK. 1312 01:12:07,215 --> 01:12:09,387 Hachmeister: HE HAD IT DOWN TO SUCH A SCIENCE 1313 01:12:09,422 --> 01:12:12,560 THAT HE COULD GET IT TO WHERE HE COULD REST THE STICK 1314 01:12:12,594 --> 01:12:16,560 ON THE INDIVIDUAL'S BACK AND IT WOULDN'T UNWIND, 1315 01:12:16,594 --> 01:12:19,353 AND THEN HE COULD GO AROUND AND DO DIFFERENT THINGS IN THE HOUSE 1316 01:12:19,387 --> 01:12:22,594 AND GO BACK AND TORTURE THE YOUNG MAN AND KILL HIM. 1317 01:12:22,629 --> 01:12:24,560 [ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS ] 1318 01:12:24,594 --> 01:12:27,767 WE TRIED TO REMAIN AS CALM AS WE COULD LISTENING TO THIS 1319 01:12:27,801 --> 01:12:30,284 AND HOW HE TORTURED THESE YOUNG MEN. 1320 01:12:30,318 --> 01:12:32,594 IT ACTUALLY MADE THE HAIR ON THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD STAND UP. 1321 01:12:32,629 --> 01:12:38,008 IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE. 1322 01:12:38,043 --> 01:12:40,629 Narrator: GACY ADMITS TO RAPING AND KILLING 1323 01:12:40,663 --> 01:12:47,353 MORE THAN 30 YOUNG MEN IN HIS HOME FROM 1972 TO 1978. 1324 01:12:47,387 --> 01:12:53,008 HE WAS FLIPPANT ABOUT IT. TO HIM, IT WAS A GAME. 1325 01:13:10,387 --> 01:13:12,905 ♪♪ 1326 01:13:12,939 --> 01:13:16,111 BY NOW, WORD SPREAD AROUND CHICAGO -- 1327 01:13:16,146 --> 01:13:19,939 BODIES IN A BASEMENT ON SUMMERDALE AVENUE. 1328 01:13:19,974 --> 01:13:23,905 THE POLICE HAD INFORMATION WHERE THE BODIES WERE 1329 01:13:23,939 --> 01:13:26,215 AND WERE GOING TO BRING THEM OUT. 1330 01:13:26,249 --> 01:13:28,663 I, LIKE ALL THE OTHER REPORTERS IN TOWN, 1331 01:13:28,698 --> 01:13:31,698 RUSHED TO THE SCENE AND WATCHED IT HAPPEN. 1332 01:13:31,732 --> 01:13:34,767 Tovar: THE MEDICAL EXAMINER SAID HE WANTED US TO DIG 1333 01:13:34,801 --> 01:13:37,353 IN A ARCHEOLOGICAL-TYPE SITUATION 1334 01:13:37,387 --> 01:13:40,905 SO WE COULD VERIFY WHERE EVERYBODY WAS TAKEN. 1335 01:13:40,939 --> 01:13:44,939 SO EACH ONE OF US GOT A SECTION OF THE HOUSE TO DIG. 1336 01:13:44,974 --> 01:13:48,491 MINE WAS THE KITCHEN. 1337 01:13:48,525 --> 01:13:53,387 EVENTUALLY, THE WHOLE FLOOR WAS COMPLETELY TAKEN UP 1338 01:13:53,422 --> 01:13:57,111 SO THAT THE INVESTIGATORS HAD ENOUGH ROOM 1339 01:13:57,146 --> 01:14:01,318 IN A NARROW CRAWL SPACE TO BE ABLE TO DIG. 1340 01:14:03,560 --> 01:14:06,111 Tovar: WHOEVER WAS IN THE HOLE DIGGING UP THE BODY 1341 01:14:06,146 --> 01:14:09,043 WOULD PUT THE PIECES OF FLESH AND BONES 1342 01:14:09,077 --> 01:14:11,560 INTO A BODY BAG DOWN IN THE HOLE, 1343 01:14:11,594 --> 01:14:13,939 AND THEN YOU'D GIVE THEM TO SOMEONE WHO WAS ABOVE YOU 1344 01:14:13,974 --> 01:14:15,525 ON THE FLOOR LEVEL. 1345 01:14:15,560 --> 01:14:16,905 [ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS ] 1346 01:14:16,939 --> 01:14:23,146 WE TOOK EXTREME CARE TO HONOR AND RESPECT THE REMAINS. 1347 01:14:23,180 --> 01:14:25,456 Jacobson: THE STORY WAS HUGE FROM THE MINUTE 1348 01:14:25,491 --> 01:14:28,939 WE FIRST SAW OR HEARD OF THE FIRST BODY 1349 01:14:28,974 --> 01:14:31,629 AND THEN SUBSEQUENTLY, EVERYONE THEREAFTER, 1350 01:14:31,663 --> 01:14:33,180 THE STORY JUST GOT BIGGER. 1351 01:14:33,215 --> 01:14:35,732 POLICE DIGGING UNDER A HOUSE IN DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS, 1352 01:14:35,767 --> 01:14:37,456 FOUND FOUR MORE BODIES TODAY. 1353 01:14:37,491 --> 01:14:39,180 THAT BRINGS THE TOTAL TO NINE. 1354 01:14:39,215 --> 01:14:40,801 Man: THEY FOUND TWO MORE BODIES TODAY, 1355 01:14:40,836 --> 01:14:42,456 LONG DEAD AND DECOMPOSED, 1356 01:14:42,491 --> 01:14:45,663 Man #2: SIX BODIES BRING THE TOTAL FOUND TO 15. 1357 01:14:45,698 --> 01:14:48,043 Narrator: EACH DAY, THE CROWDS GREW. 1358 01:14:48,077 --> 01:14:52,008 HUNDREDS STOOD OUTSIDE, REPORTERS AND ONLOOKERS 1359 01:14:52,043 --> 01:14:55,215 ALL WAITING FOR THE NIGHTLY BODY COUNT. 1360 01:14:55,249 --> 01:14:58,318 HUMAN NATURE LOVES BAD CRIME STORIES. 1361 01:14:58,353 --> 01:15:00,491 THIS COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY WORSE. 1362 01:15:00,525 --> 01:15:02,422 SO EVERYBODY WAS INTERESTED. 1363 01:15:02,456 --> 01:15:04,422 [ INDISTINCT CHATTER ] 1364 01:15:05,836 --> 01:15:08,629 YOU HAVE TO REALIZE, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE A FEW TV STATIONS 1365 01:15:08,663 --> 01:15:10,215 AND EVERYBODY CARRIED THE SAME THING, 1366 01:15:10,249 --> 01:15:13,456 AND WHEN IT CAME ON, I DO REMEMBER MY MOTHER SAID, 1367 01:15:13,491 --> 01:15:16,767 "YOUR BROTHER'S ONE OF THEM." 1368 01:15:16,801 --> 01:15:19,974 Narrator: BY DECEMBER 28, 21 BODIES WERE REMOVED 1369 01:15:20,008 --> 01:15:22,594 FROM THE HOUSE ON SUMMERDALE AVENUE. 1370 01:15:22,629 --> 01:15:25,525 GACY'S MAP WAS PROVING ACCURATE. 1371 01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:28,629 STILL, THERE WAS THE QUESTION OF ROB PIEST, 1372 01:15:28,663 --> 01:15:31,698 THE YOUNG MAN WHOSE DISAPPEARANCE 10 DAYS EARLIER 1373 01:15:31,732 --> 01:15:33,836 LED TO ALL OF THIS. 1374 01:15:33,870 --> 01:15:35,767 HE NEVER SEEMED TO BE RATTLED ABOUT ANYTHING. 1375 01:15:35,801 --> 01:15:37,560 THE ONLY TIME I SAW HIM GET IRRITATED 1376 01:15:37,594 --> 01:15:41,629 WAS WHEN DETECTIVE ADAMS ASKED HIM ABOUT ROBERT PIEST, 1377 01:15:41,663 --> 01:15:43,629 WHETHER HE HAD SUFFERED. 1378 01:15:43,663 --> 01:15:46,698 Narrator: IN CHILLING DETAIL, GACY TELLS THEM WHAT HAPPENED 1379 01:15:46,732 --> 01:15:49,008 THAT NIGHT AT THE NISSON PHARMACY. 1380 01:16:15,836 --> 01:16:18,629 ROB PIEST'S DEATH WAS LIKE SO MANY OTHERS. 1381 01:16:18,663 --> 01:16:20,836 GACY'S PATTERN REMAINED THE SAME. 1382 01:17:01,008 --> 01:17:03,111 Tovar: I-55 IS A MAJOR INTERSTATE 1383 01:17:03,146 --> 01:17:04,491 GOING SOUTH FROM HERE, 1384 01:17:04,525 --> 01:17:07,456 AND IT CROSSES THE DES PLAINES RIVER. 1385 01:17:07,491 --> 01:17:10,560 AND WHAT GACY DID TO ROBERT PIEST 1386 01:17:10,594 --> 01:17:12,491 AND THREE OTHER VICTIMS 1387 01:17:12,525 --> 01:17:16,905 IS HE'D PULL UP TO THE SIDE OF THE BRIDGE 1388 01:17:16,939 --> 01:17:18,870 AND TURN ON THAT RED LIGHT HE HAD. 1389 01:17:18,905 --> 01:17:22,215 SO PEOPLE DRIVING BY ASSUMED THERE WAS A POLICE OFFICER, 1390 01:17:22,249 --> 01:17:25,111 AND THEY JUST WOULDN'T PAY ANY ATTENTION. 1391 01:17:25,146 --> 01:17:26,732 AND HE'D OPEN THE TRUNK, TAKE THE BODY, 1392 01:17:26,767 --> 01:17:29,043 AND JUST THROW IT OVER THE SIDE INTO THE RIVER. 1393 01:17:29,077 --> 01:17:33,456 ♪♪ 1394 01:17:33,491 --> 01:17:37,629 Narrator: 29 ON HIS PROPERTY, FOUR IN THE RIVER, 1395 01:17:37,663 --> 01:17:41,146 ALL YOUNG MEN, ALL RAPED AND STRANGLED. 1396 01:17:41,180 --> 01:17:43,767 JOHN WAYNE GACY WAS NOW "THE KILLER CLOWN" 1397 01:17:43,801 --> 01:17:47,594 AND AMERICA'S MOST PROLIFIC KILLER. 1398 01:17:47,629 --> 01:17:49,663 BY NEW YEAR'S DAY, DENTAL RECORDS HELPED 1399 01:17:49,698 --> 01:17:54,249 POLICE IDENTIFY SIX VICTIMS, INCLUDING 19-YEAR-OLD JOHN SZYC, 1400 01:17:54,284 --> 01:17:56,767 WHO DISAPPEARED TWO YEARS EARLIER. 1401 01:17:56,801 --> 01:17:59,974 HIS HIGH-SCHOOL RING WAS FOUND IN GACY'S HOUSE. 1402 01:18:00,008 --> 01:18:03,905 GREGORY GODZIK'S FAMILY ALSO GOT THE KNOCK ON THE DOOR. 1403 01:18:06,043 --> 01:18:09,491 I REMEMBER THEY COME IN, THEY MAKE YOU SIT DOWN. 1404 01:18:09,525 --> 01:18:13,180 AND THEY SAID, "MR. GODZIK AND MRS. GODZIK, 1405 01:18:13,215 --> 01:18:15,525 I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU YOUR SON 1406 01:18:15,560 --> 01:18:19,560 IS ONE OF THE OFFICIAL VICTIMS OF JOHN WAYNE GACY." 1407 01:18:19,594 --> 01:18:24,180 AND THEY TURN AROUND AND THEY WALK OUT. 1408 01:18:24,215 --> 01:18:25,801 AND THAT'S WHEN I SAID TO MY MOTHER, 1409 01:18:25,836 --> 01:18:25,905 "I TOLD YOU HE'D COME HOME. 1410 01:18:34,284 --> 01:18:36,870 Narrator: IT WAS THE EARLY SPRING BEFORE ROB PIEST'S BODY 1411 01:18:36,905 --> 01:18:40,491 WAS RECOVERED FROM THE DES PLAINES RIVER. 1412 01:18:40,525 --> 01:18:44,249 BY THEN, GACY IS CHARGED WITH 33 COUNTS OF MURDER. 1413 01:18:44,284 --> 01:18:46,456 [ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS ] 1414 01:18:46,491 --> 01:18:49,422 HE PLEADS NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY, 1415 01:18:49,456 --> 01:18:51,801 NOW CLAIMING IT WAS HIS ALTER EGO, 1416 01:18:51,836 --> 01:18:55,560 JACK, WHO DID THE MURDERS, NOT HIM. 1417 01:18:55,594 --> 01:19:00,180 BY MAKING A STATEMENT TO US ABOUT A SPLIT PERSONALITY, 1418 01:19:00,215 --> 01:19:03,836 HE REALLY CEMENTED HIMSELF IN WITH THAT DEFENSE 1419 01:19:03,870 --> 01:19:05,594 BY THE TIME IT CAME TO TRIAL. 1420 01:19:05,629 --> 01:19:08,180 IT DIDN'T WORK. 1421 01:19:08,215 --> 01:19:11,663 Narrator: THE TRIAL LASTS FIVE WEEKS. 1422 01:19:11,698 --> 01:19:13,939 Woman: IT TOOK THE JURY OF SEVEN MEN AND FIVE WOMEN 1423 01:19:13,974 --> 01:19:15,456 LESS THAN TWO HOURS TO FIND 1424 01:19:15,491 --> 01:19:19,387 JOHN WAYNE GACY GUILTY OF MURDERING 33 YOUNG MEN. 1425 01:19:19,422 --> 01:19:21,698 GACY WAS CONVICTED OF MURDERING MORE PEOPLE 1426 01:19:21,732 --> 01:19:23,629 THAN ANYONE ELSE IN U.S. HISTORY. 1427 01:19:23,663 --> 01:19:28,525 I FEEL THAT THE JURY CERTAINLY SENT A LOUD MESSAGE TO HIM 1428 01:19:28,560 --> 01:19:31,560 AND OTHERS WHO MIGHT WANT TO DO IT IN THAT MANNER BY THE FACT 1429 01:19:31,594 --> 01:19:34,180 THAT THEY ONLY DELIBERATED FOR AN HOUR AND 45 MINUTES. 1430 01:19:34,215 --> 01:19:36,939 Woman: IT WAS AN EMOTIONAL TIME FOR RELATIVES OF THE VICTIMS, 1431 01:19:36,974 --> 01:19:39,456 AND MANY, LIKE KEN PIEST, WHOSE BROTHER WAS KILLED, 1432 01:19:39,491 --> 01:19:40,732 WANT REVENGE. 1433 01:19:40,767 --> 01:19:42,629 THERE'S ONLY ONE SOLUTION NOW. 1434 01:19:42,663 --> 01:19:43,801 WHAT IS THAT? 1435 01:19:43,836 --> 01:19:45,422 I WANT TO SEE HIM GO TO THE CHAIR. 1436 01:19:45,456 --> 01:19:47,801 I HOPE HE DOES GET THE ELECTRIC CHAIR. 1437 01:19:47,836 --> 01:19:49,456 THEN IT'LL MAKE EVERYBODY FEEL BETTER. 1438 01:19:49,491 --> 01:19:53,698 I'M SURE IT'LL MAKE THE OTHER MOTHERS FEEL BETTER, TOO. 1439 01:19:53,732 --> 01:19:56,146 Narrator: GACY IS SENTENCED TO DEATH. 1440 01:19:56,180 --> 01:20:01,594 REVENGE -- THAT HE KILLED MY SON AND THAT WE'RE GONNA KILL HIM. 1441 01:20:01,629 --> 01:20:03,318 AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S A LIFE FOR A LIFE, 1442 01:20:03,353 --> 01:20:06,836 IS WHAT IT BOILS DOWN TO. 1443 01:20:06,870 --> 01:20:09,905 Tovar: WE STARTED OUT WITH A MISSING 1444 01:20:09,939 --> 01:20:14,146 15-YEAR-OLD BOY IN A SUBURBAN TOWN. 1445 01:20:14,180 --> 01:20:16,180 AND THEN IT JUST GREW TO WHAT IT GREW. 1446 01:20:16,215 --> 01:20:20,043 ♪♪ 1447 01:20:20,077 --> 01:20:23,456 Albrecht: THEY WERE JUST YOUNG KIDS, 1448 01:20:23,491 --> 01:20:25,353 15 TO 17 YEARS OLD, 1449 01:20:25,387 --> 01:20:30,905 AND GOT TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY A VICIOUS, EVIL MAN. 1450 01:20:30,939 --> 01:20:35,491 ♪♪ 1451 01:20:35,525 --> 01:20:37,318 Sullivan: NOT ONLY DID HE HAVE HIS VICTIMS, 1452 01:20:37,353 --> 01:20:41,870 BUT HE AFFECTED SO MANY, SO MANY PEOPLE. 1453 01:20:44,422 --> 01:20:46,663 A MOM AND A DAD, 1454 01:20:46,698 --> 01:20:50,180 MAYBE A BROTHER AND A SISTER, MAYBE MORE THAN THAT. 1455 01:20:50,215 --> 01:20:51,629 FRIENDS. 1456 01:20:54,422 --> 01:21:00,560 NOW TAKE THAT AND MULTIPLY THAT BY 33 THAT WE KNOW OF. 1457 01:21:00,594 --> 01:21:06,318 ♪♪ 1458 01:21:06,353 --> 01:21:12,111 ♪♪ 1459 01:21:12,146 --> 01:21:15,008 Tovar: HAD HE NOT TAKEN ROBERT PIEST, 1460 01:21:15,043 --> 01:21:17,318 WHO KNOWS HOW LONG HE COULD HAVE KEPT GOING ON? 1461 01:21:17,353 --> 01:21:22,318 ♪♪ 1462 01:21:22,353 --> 01:21:24,387 Godzik: MY FATHER WAS VERY RELIGIOUS. 1463 01:21:24,422 --> 01:21:26,905 HE WAS VERY CATHOLIC WITH THE ROSARIES, 1464 01:21:26,939 --> 01:21:31,491 AND HE SAID, "GOD WOULD NEVER DO THIS TO ME, BUT HE DID." 1465 01:21:31,525 --> 01:21:33,387 AND FROM THAT POINT ON, 1466 01:21:33,422 --> 01:21:36,525 MY FATHER NEVER WENT BACK TO CHURCH AGAIN AFTER THAT. 1467 01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:37,767 NEVER. 1468 01:21:37,801 --> 01:21:42,767 ♪♪ 1469 01:21:42,801 --> 01:21:45,215 WE WERE LUCKY ENOUGH THAT IN TWO YEARS, 1470 01:21:45,249 --> 01:21:47,939 WE FOUND CLOSURE IN OUR FAMILY, 1471 01:21:47,974 --> 01:21:52,111 BUT OTHER PEOPLE COULD BE WONDERING, "WHERE ARE THEY? 1472 01:21:52,146 --> 01:21:54,939 WHO ARE THEY?" THAT'S THE SAD PART. 1473 01:21:54,974 --> 01:22:02,698 ♪♪ 1474 01:22:02,732 --> 01:22:05,801 Moran: I GREW UP IN CHICAGO. 1475 01:22:05,836 --> 01:22:09,422 THERE WASN'T REALLY A PERSON IN THE CHICAGO AREA 1476 01:22:09,456 --> 01:22:12,801 THAT DID NOT KNOW OF THE GACY KILLINGS. 1477 01:22:14,870 --> 01:22:18,249 Narrator: LIEUTENANT JASON MORAN WAS A KID IN 1978 1478 01:22:18,284 --> 01:22:22,146 WHEN CHICAGO'S MOST NOTORIOUS MURDER SPREE UNRAVELED. 1479 01:22:22,180 --> 01:22:23,836 HE NEVER DREAMED, WHEN HE BECAME HEAD 1480 01:22:23,870 --> 01:22:26,284 OF COOK COUNTY'S COLD CASE UNIT, 1481 01:22:26,318 --> 01:22:30,387 THAT THE KILLER CLOWN'S CASE WOULD BE ONE OF THEM. 1482 01:22:30,422 --> 01:22:32,077 LIEUTENANT MORAN CAME TO ME AND SAID, 1483 01:22:32,111 --> 01:22:38,077 "HEY, YOU KNOW, THE LARGEST COLD CASE IS THE GACY CASE." 1484 01:22:38,111 --> 01:22:40,077 HE WAS CONVICTED OF ALL THOSE CASES, 1485 01:22:40,111 --> 01:22:46,077 BUT THERE WAS EIGHT BOYS WHO WERE NEVER IDENTIFIED. 1486 01:22:46,111 --> 01:22:49,525 Narrator: IN 2011, ARMED WITH DNA TECHNOLOGY, 1487 01:22:49,560 --> 01:22:50,974 LIEUTENANT MORAN SET OUT 1488 01:22:51,008 --> 01:22:54,836 TO IDENTIFY THOSE LAST EIGHT YOUNG MEN. 1489 01:22:54,870 --> 01:22:58,249 Moran: AS SOON AS WE ANNOUNCED THE REOPENING OF THE CASE, 1490 01:22:58,284 --> 01:23:00,870 I MEAN, IT WAS ABSOLUTELY OVERWHELMING, YOU KNOW, 1491 01:23:00,905 --> 01:23:02,663 BECAUSE THERE COULD ONLY BE EIGHT. 1492 01:23:02,698 --> 01:23:04,663 THERE WAS ONLY EIGHT UNIDENTIFIED VICTIMS, 1493 01:23:04,698 --> 01:23:06,180 SO THERE COULD ONLY BE EIGHT FAMILIES 1494 01:23:06,215 --> 01:23:08,836 LOOKING FOR THEIR MISSING LOVED ONE. 1495 01:23:11,008 --> 01:23:14,387 WITHIN A COUPLE OF DAYS, WE RECEIVED OVER 100 CALLS 1496 01:23:14,422 --> 01:23:18,870 FROM FAMILY MEMBERS OF MISSING PERSONS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, 1497 01:23:18,905 --> 01:23:23,111 AND I WAS BECOMING A NATIONAL REPOSITORY 1498 01:23:23,146 --> 01:23:26,456 FOR MISSING KIDS FROM THE '70s. 1499 01:23:26,491 --> 01:23:27,974 Narrator: THE KILLER CLOWN 1500 01:23:28,008 --> 01:23:30,146 AND MASS MURDERER DEAN ALLEN CORLL, 1501 01:23:30,180 --> 01:23:31,629 THE CANDYMAN IN HOUSTON, 1502 01:23:31,663 --> 01:23:36,594 AWAKENED AMERICA TO A NIGHTMARE HIDDEN IN ITS OWN BACKYARD. 1503 01:23:36,629 --> 01:23:39,215 Moran: WHEN YOU DO CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS 1504 01:23:39,249 --> 01:23:40,491 FOR ANY AMOUNT OF TIME, 1505 01:23:40,525 --> 01:23:45,629 YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S ALWAYS MORE TO A CASE 1506 01:23:45,663 --> 01:23:49,801 THAN YOU HEAR IN COURT OR THAT YOU HEAR IN THE MEDIA. 1507 01:23:49,836 --> 01:23:52,077 Narrator: AND THERE WAS A LOT MORE. 1508 01:23:52,111 --> 01:23:56,249 GACY AND CORLL WERE TWO PIRANHAS IN A MUCH LARGER POND, 1509 01:23:56,284 --> 01:24:01,525 A HIDDEN NETWORK, A WEB STRETCHING ACROSS AMERICA. 1510 01:24:19,353 --> 01:24:22,387 THIS WAS A GUY THAT JUST COULD NOT STOP. 1511 01:24:22,422 --> 01:24:24,456 Woman: THE RAID LAST NIGHT NETTED POLICE 1512 01:24:24,491 --> 01:24:27,870 BOX AFTER BOX OF PICTURES OF YOUNG MALES AVAILABLE 1513 01:24:27,905 --> 01:24:31,008 TO OLDER MEN FOR HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITIES. 1514 01:24:31,043 --> 01:24:33,974 THIS WAS A POND OF PERVERSITY. 1515 01:24:34,008 --> 01:24:36,801 Narrator: NEXT TIME ON "THE CLOWN & THE CANDYMAN"... 1516 01:24:36,836 --> 01:24:39,767 AND THIS JOHN DAVID NORMAN WAS ABSOLUTELY A TRAVELING CRIMINAL. 1517 01:24:39,801 --> 01:24:43,284 Man: HE SENT BOYS TO SERVICE CLIENTS THROUGHOUT THE STATES. 1518 01:24:43,318 --> 01:24:45,111 THEY CAME FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE. 1519 01:24:45,146 --> 01:24:46,629 Man #2: THEY WOULD INFILTRATE ORGANIZATIONS 1520 01:24:46,663 --> 01:24:48,387 LIKE THE BOY SCOUTS, LIKE BIG BROTHERS, 1521 01:24:48,422 --> 01:24:49,491 POLICE DEPARTMENTS. 1522 01:24:49,525 --> 01:24:50,974 Man #3: THIS WAS A NATIONAL SCHEME. 1523 01:24:51,008 --> 01:24:53,732 THEY WERE SUPPLYING BOYS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. 1524 01:24:53,767 --> 01:24:56,180 IT'S A VERY GOOD COVER FOR THESE INDIVIDUALS BECAUSE 1525 01:24:56,215 --> 01:24:57,767 THEY LOOK LIKE "PHILANTHROPISTS," 1526 01:24:57,801 --> 01:24:59,698 THAT THEY'RE HELPING YOUNG BOYS. 1527 01:24:59,732 --> 01:25:02,318 GROOMING IS LIKE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL QUICKSAND.