Word: piest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elizabeth Piest's 46th birthday, and before a family party, she stopped by a pharmacy in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, Ill., to pick up her 15-year-old son Robert. Just as Mrs. Piest and her son were about to leave the store, he said, "Mom, wait a minute, I've got to talk to a contractor about a summer job that will pay me $5 an hour." That was the last Mrs. Piest...
Though the police are sometimes cavalier in dealing with reports of missing teenagers, Mrs. Piest's call for help reached Lieut. Joseph Kozenczak, whose son attended the same high school as the missing youth. He began investigating, and he soon found the contractor Piest had mentioned, John Wayne Gacy, 36, owner of the P.D.M. Construction Co., which had been renovating the drugstore. There was evidence that Piest had been at Gacy's brick ranch house-a receipt for a roll of Piest's film was found there-but Gacy appeared to be a respectable citizen, a father...
...beams. "We are looking for any scrap of evidence-a ring, a belt buckle, a button-that will help us to identify the victims," says Dr. Robert Stein, Cook County medical examiner. Gacy cannot help with most of them because he never knew their names. He does recall Robert Piest: he was thrown in the river, and his body has not been found. Gacy-whose confession, if true, would make him the worst mass murderer in U.S. history-is now strapped into a bed at the hospital in the Cook County jail. Before the police came, he had bedecked...