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During his decadeslong career, Mr. Egan worked in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office and in private practice as a criminal defense attorney.Robert Egan’s wife, Tracy, remembers her husband as a gifted storyteller, though she said he rarely spared the gory details, even at the dinner table. After decades working in criminal law, he had plenty of material. One of Mr. Egan’s most notorious cases was the trial of Chicago-area serial killer John Wayne Gacy, for which he served as a lead prosecutor. Gacy, known as the “Killer Clown,” was put to death for murdering...

Jimmy Carter’s Baptist faith was one of his calling cards in the 1976 presidential campaignJimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president. Then the 1976 Democratic nominee brought up sex and sin as he explained his religious faith to Playboy magazine. Carter was not misquoted. But he was certainly misunderstood, as his thoughts in the wide-ranging interview were reduced in the popular imagination to utterances about “lust” and “adultery.” Nearly a half-century later, as the 98-year-old Carter receives hospice care in the same south-Georgia home where he once spoke with...

Another of John Wayne Gacy’s victims has finally been identified more than 40 years after dying at the hands of the twisted killer. Francis Wayne Alexander, of North Carolina, was identified through dental and DNA records, law enforcement announced Monday. Alexander’s body was one of 26 cops discovered in Gacy’s crawl space in December 1978. He was killed sometime between early 1976 and 1977, when he would have been just 21 or 22 years old, according to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. He was one of six victims that had still not been identified over more than 40 years later.

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...

For decades, the family of Robert Horton thought he had been killed by the notorious serial killer while hitchhiking through Chicago in 1972. But, following a tip, investigators found the man living in a small Montana town, making him the fifth potential Gacy victim found alive in the past two years. A man believed to be murdered by serial killer John Wayne Gacy was found living in Montana this year — making him the fifth potential victim found alive in the past two years. Investigators tracked down Richard Hutton in April after his sister submitted the missing man’s name as...

John Wayne Gacy Victim Finally Identified November 29, 2011 10:56 AM William George Bundy has been identified as one of John Wayne Gacy's victims. (CBS) CHICAGO (CBS) — One of the unknown victims of John Wayne Gacy has been identified, more than 30 years after his death at the hands of one of the nation’s most notorious serial killers. Using DNA technology, investigators were able to determine that William George Bundy, who was last seen on October of 1976, was killed by Gacy. The news comes after Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart launched a new effort to determine the eight...

The problem with having John Wayne Gacy's brain in your basement is that people want to see it. Or at least they think they want to see it. Certainly, they want to know how you got it and why you keep it there. These are issues facing Helen Morrison, a psychiatrist who has had the serial killer's brain in the basement of her Chicago home for the last decade, resting, more or less, in peace. Gacy was executed after being convicted of murdering 33 young men and boys during the 1970s and burying most of their bodies in the crawl...

"Rewarding Murder" Posted by Doc Farmer Saturday, July 19, 2003 About 20 years ago, there was a vicious triple murder in my hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana. A man, his wife, and their 11-year-old son were brutally bludgeoned to death one weekend in their own home. When the man didn’t arrive at work on Monday morning, his co-workers got worried, went to his home, and found the bodies. And they found wandering among the corpses the only survivor--a toddler, barely two years old. The little girl had been alone for two days with her murdered family. The police investigated, the...