You might think a confession, a conviction, even an execution might spell the end of a case. Not always. John Wayne Gacy spent six years murdering dozens of boys and young men, burying their remains under his house. By the time investigators recovered their corpses, they were unrecognizable — anonymous sons, slaughtered by a serial killer. Two men worked for decades to give them back their names.

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