NEIGHBORS RELIEVED GACY DIG OVER NORTH SPORTS FINAL Edition

On the trail of a dead killer, Chicago police took shovels in hand on a windy Monday and dug up a glass marble, a flattened sauce pan and the memory of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. But the highly publicized excavation, which took place beneath a white tent at the Northwest Side apartment building...

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Published inChicago tribune (1963)
Main Author Robert L. Kaiser, Tribune Staff Writer. Tribune staff writers Sue Ellen Christian, John Chase, Abdon M. Pallasch, William Recktenwald and Bechetta Jackson contributed to this report
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago, Ill Tribune Publishing Company, LLC 24.11.1998
Subjects
Gacy, John Wayne
Investigations
Murders & murder attempts
Chicago Illinois
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Summary:On the trail of a dead killer, Chicago police took shovels in hand on a windy Monday and dug up a glass marble, a flattened sauce pan and the memory of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. But the highly publicized excavation, which took place beneath a white tent at the Northwest Side apartment building where Gacy once worked as a maintenance man, turned up no human remains or other dark secrets. The unusual investigation, prompted by a retired detective's haunted memory of having once seen Gacy holding a shovel in the dark hours before dawn, began with a radar scan of the site earlier this year. That test, which indicated irregular soft spots in the soil in front of the building and beneath the pavement of a small, triangular parking lot on the side, led authorities to believe that some of Gacy's victims might be buried near the red-brick apartment building.
ISSN:1085-6706