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FILE - This 1978 file photo shows serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Cook County Sheriff Sheriff Tom Dart plans to provide an update on a years long effort to identify unnamed victims of Gacy Wednesday, July 19, 2017 in Chicago. Dart will discuss the investigation that he launched in 2011. His office exhumed the skeletal remains of eight of at least 33 young men Gacy stabbed or strangled in the 1970s. (AP Photo/File)
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Ruth Rodriguez speaks at a news conference Wednesday, April 23, 2014, in Maywood, Ill., after Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, right, announced that the remains of a man found in 2008, belonged to Rodriguez's brother, Edward Beaudion, who went missing in 1978. Investigators identified the remains just a few miles from serial killer John Wayne Gacy's house. They also say they know the identity of his now-deceased killer. The discovery was the result of an ongoing effort to name several unidentified victims of Gacy, who was executed in 1994. Looking on are Cook County Sheriff's Detective Jason Moran, left, Edward's father, Louis Beaudion and Ruth's son, Jesus Rodriguez, second from left, holding a photo of Edward. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media, Brian Jackson) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES
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Louis Beaudion holds a photo of his son, Edward Beaudion, at a news conference Wednesday, April 23, 2014, in Maywood, Ill., where Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced that the remains of a man found in 2008, belonged to Edward, who went missing in 1978. Investigators identified the remains just a few miles from serial killer John Wayne Gacy's house. They also say they know the identity of his now-deceased killer. The discovery was the result of an ongoing effort to name several unidentified victims of Gacy, who was executed in 1994. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media, Brian Jackson) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES
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Ruth Rodriguez speaks at a news conference Wednesday, April 23, 2014, in Maywood, Ill., after Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced that the remains of a man found in 2008, belonged to Rodriguez's brother, Edward Beaudion, who went missing in 1978. Investigators identified the remains just a few miles from serial killer John Wayne Gacy's house. They also say they know the identity of his now-deceased killer. The discovery was the result of an ongoing effort to name several unidentified victims of Gacy, who was executed in 1994. Looking on are Edward's father, Louis Beaudion and Ruth's son, Jesus Rodriguez, holding a photo of Edward. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media, Brian Jackson) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES
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FILE - This 1978 file photo shows serial killer John Wayne Gacy. The case of John Wayne Gacy has helped authorities solve another slaying, one that he didn’t commit. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office is scheduled to announce Wednesday, April 23, 2014, they have identified the remains found in a forest preserve in 2008 as those of 22-year-old Edward Beaudion of Chicago. Beaudion was identified after his relatives came forward to submit DNA samples as part of the effort to identify several of Gacy’s 1970s victims. Authorities believe Missouri resident Jerry Jackson killed Beaudion in 1978. But without a body at the time, they never charged him. Jackson died last year at age 62. (AP Photo/File)
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This photo taken Nov. 30, 2012, in Chicago shows three vials of mass murderer John Wayne Gacy's blood recently discovered by Cook County Sheriff's detective Jason Moran. The sheriff’s office is creating DNA profiles from the blood of Gacy and other executed killers and putting them in a national DNA database of profiles created from blood, semen, or strands of hair found at crime scenes and on the bodies of victims. What they hope to find is evidence that links the long-dead killers to the coldest of cold cases and prompt authorities in other states to submit the DNA of their own executed inmates and maybe evidence from decades-old crime scenes to help them solve their own cases. (Associated Press)
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John Wayne Gacy
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Cook County, Ill., Sheriff Tom Dart addresses a press conference in Chicago on Wednesday about the renewed effort to identify eight long-unidentified victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. (Associated Press)
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This undated photo provided by the Cook County Sheriff's Department shows victims remains of serial killer John Wayne Gacy being exhumed by authorities. The Cook County Sheriff's Department last spring secretly exhumed the bones of the 8 victims who were never identified in the hopes that scientific tests that were not around between 1972 and 1978 when Gacy killed his 33 victims will make identification possible. (Associated Press/Cook County Sheriff's Department)
