Posted on 07/20/2017 11:18:07 AM PDT by nickcarraway
An Illinois sheriff's office has identified another victim of the notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy: a 16-year-old runaway from Minnesota, CBS Radio station WBBM reports.
James Byron Haakenson's family received the grim news from a Cook County Sheriff's Office investigator this week.
Gacy was convicted of luring 33 young men and boys to his Chicago home, then strangling them and burying them on his property. The murders took place between 1972 and 1978.
"It's not every day you heard this: A monster murdered your brother," said James' sister Lorie Sisterman. "It's just not an everyday, normal conversation that you have with a detective from a different state that tells you this awful news."
Sisterman's DNA helped identify her brother's remains. The DNA was submitted after someone in the family wondered if James had been a Gacy victim.
Sisterman, the oldest sibling, said the father of the family drank and wasn't always around. Her brother was a troubled youth and ran away to Chicago at the age of 16.
She remembered a conversation with another sibling around that time:
"And he said something like, 'Jimmie's wearing makeup.' And I'm like, 'What?' So starting to dabble, maybe, in the gay lifestyle. But all of us not understanding it."
Jimmie Haakenson called his mother from Chicago on Aug. 5, 1976.
Then, no word for 40 years.
This week, a Cook County sheriff's detective went to Minnesota to tell the family the news.
"We talked, and then he says, 'I regret to inform you that, yes,'" Sisterman said. "A couple of people bursted out crying, and all I could say was, 'Wow.'"
Does she feel any sense of closure?
Sisterman, who described herself as in a fog, replied: "I don't know what that feels like."
There are still six unidentified victims killed by Gacy, who was executed in 1994. It had been five years since his last victim was identified.
John Wayne Gacy - DEMOCRAT.
And FAGGOT.
...and a monster!
And close enough to Democrats to pose for pictures with them - like Fitz Mondull for instance.
Looks like Bobby from Brady Bunch.
They can't have Gacy associated with their
favorite victim group while they're trying
to normalize homosexual behavior.
Clown.
I survived that homo. Picked me up hitchhiking in Chicago, a total freak.
Wow.
Lucky you, and blessed too.
I survived the Tate-LaBianca murders. Was invited to the party that night...vehemently refused to go. No clue why I was so vehement, but my date that night believed me and didn’t press the point. He was a client of Jay Sebring, hair stylist to the stars, who was killed by the Manson Family that night.
Gives me chills even now.
God was looking out for me. A guy gave me a knife when he let me out before Gacey picked me up and that saved my life.
This is an incredible post. Glad you didn’t go. How horrible those people were.
Glad also for you, that you did not get to know Gacy too well, at all.
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