![]() ![]() According to WGN, the friend demanded money from Nelson’s mother in exchange for helping the family search for him. The friend who was with Nelson at the time of his disappearance is also allegedly suspect. Thirteen victims died the same way, according to WGN. And like Gilroy, Nelson had been suffocated with a similar cloth stuffed in his throat. Stephenson told the Sun-Times he doesn’t believe Gacy could have seized the 21-year-old without the friend noticing. The autopsy also reported finding a “cloth-like material” in his throat.Ĭomplications also arose with the case of Russell Nelson, the Minneapolis architecture student kidnapped while with a friend outside a bar in October of the same year. Autopsy reports, however, found that Gilroy did die from asphyxiation, but had been suffocated, not strangled. The victims would essentially strangle themselves while struggling. Gacy was infamous for handcuffing the young men, wrapping a rope around their necks and turning a wooden stick to tighten it, WGN reports. Not only was Gacy allegedly out of town, but also Gilroy was murdered in a different way than the other victims. This also echoes claims Gacy had made while in prison, saying he was not in Illinois during 16 of the disappearances. 12 to 16, making it unlikely he could have snatched and killed Gilroy, the Sun-Times reports. ![]() Allegheny Airlines tickets indicate Gacy had been out of town from Sept. Apparently, the convicted murderer had been in Pittsburgh when the 18-year-old disappeared on Sept 15, 1977. One of the murders raising questions is that of Robert Gilroy. This supports an earlier claim from Jeffrey Rignall, a victim who survived, who said another man was in the room while Gacy raped him, WGN notes. So far, the lawyers believe Gacy may have had accomplices in at least three of the notorious killings of 33 young men and boys, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. “There is significant evidence out there that suggests that not only did John Wayne Gacy not operate alone, he may not have been involved in some of the murders, and the fact that he was largely a copycat murderer,” Stephenson told WGN-TV. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, criminal defense attorneys Robert Stephenson and Steven Becker have developed a new theory. Prompted by requests for more closure from several victims’ families, two Chicago-based lawyers voluntarily spent the last six months re-examining the case’s loose ends. ( MORE: Supposed John Wayne Gacy Victim Found Alive and Well in Florida) Now, nearly 20 years after his execution, the “Killer Clown’s” infamous string of rape and murders takes yet another turn. First with former Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s gaffe in which she confused John Wayne the serial killer with John Wayne the actor, then with the exhumation of his victims in the fall. history.Īnd just this past year, he’s re-entered the limelight repeatedly. Follow for his volunteer work as “Pogo The Clown,” his rambling interviews (see CBS Chicago’s exclusive interview from 1992, above) and his lucrative painting hobby, John Wayne Gacy remains one of the most morbidly fascinating criminals in U.S.
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