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Aug 10, 2021 · January 3, 1972: Gacy kills his first victim. Returning to the bus station, Gacy picks up his first known murder victim, later identified as Timothy McCoy. After bringing the teenager home,...
Nov 26, 2018 · Gacy told investigators his first murder victim was a teenage boy he picked up outside Chicago’s Greyhound Bus Station in the winter of 1972. Unlike his later victims, who were strangled, Gacy said he stabbed the boy in the chest. He was also the first of his victims to be buried in the crawl space beneath his house.
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Body 9 (Timothy McCoy, identified via dental records and a distinctive belt buckle in May 1986) was found beneath a layer of concrete and had several stab wounds to the ribs and sternum, suggesting he was Gacy's first victim. On December 27, eight more bodies were discovered.
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- March 17, 1942, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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- May 10, 1994 (aged 52), Stateville Correctional Center, Illinois, U.S.
Aug 9, 2021 · John Wayne Gacy`s first victim has been identified 14 years later as a teenaged boy who stopped in Chicago on the way home from a Christmas vacation, forensics experts said.The first victim of the...
Feb 27, 2023 · Cite. In January 1972, Timothy “Tim” McCoy, a blond and affable 16-year-old, vanished while traveling home to Nebraska. More than a decade later, authorities identified him as the first known murder victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
May 9, 2024 · In 1978, after one of Gacy’s victims, Robert Piest, was reported missing, police learned that Gacy was the last person known to have seen him. After obtaining a search warrant, police discovered the bodies of 29 boys and young men in or near Gacy’s house; four other bodies were found in the nearby Des Plaines River.