We wrap up our coverage of John Wayne Gacy with a discussion about why so many young men and boys went missing in Chicagoland without any repercussions, the locations that Gacy was known to cruise for sexual partners and for victims, and the long term impact that these crimes have had on Chicago.

TW: Kidnapping, sexual assault involving minors, torture, murder
  
 Research sources include:

Wilkinson, Alec. “Conversations with a Killer.” The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 1994. www.newyorker.com, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/04/18/conversations-with-a-killer.

“DNA Test Confirms Teen Missing since 1976 Was John Wayne Gacy Victim.” USA TODAY, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/19/dna-test-confirms-teen-missing-since-1976-john-wayne-gacy-victim/492937001/. 

Stroud, Matt. “Grave Mistake: The Controversial, High-Tech Search for John Wayne Gacy’s Lost Victims.” The Verge, 10 May 2013, https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/10/4315390/the-controversial-high-tech-search-for-john-wayne-gacy-lost-victims.

People v. Gacy, 103 Ill. 2d 1 (1984) | Caselaw Access Project. https://cite.case.law/ill-2d/103/1/. 

“The Lost and the Dead: How John Wayne Gacy Led a Family to Its Missing Son.” NBC News, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lost-dead-how-john-wayne-gacy-led-family-its-missing-n156666.

“Walter Jacobson Tells All, and It’s Almost All Worth Reading.” Chicago Magazine, https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Felsenthal-Files/September-2012/Walter-Jacobson-Tells-All-and-Its-Almost-All-Worth-Reading/. 

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