Word: piest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history. A building contractor who lived outside Chicago in Norwood Park, Gacy appeared to be a friendly neighbor who delighted in entertaining kids by dressing up as Pogo the Clown. But in December 1978, when police questioned him about the disappearance of a local 15-year-old named Robert Piest, Gacy began jabbering about a seven-year career of murder, of picking up boys and young men, forcing them to perform sexual acts and then strangling them. Police discovered 26 bodies in a 40-ft. crawl space beneath his house, one body under his dining room and two buried...
...execution date for June 2, but there will be an automatic appeal under Illinois law. The case will drag on for months, if not years, and some cannot wait for it to end. "He killed my son and we're going to kill him," vowed Harold Piest, 46, the father of Gacy's last victim. "I'll go down and pull the switch myself if they want...