Mr. Gacy was convicted in 1980 of killing 33 people and was executed in 1994. The police notified Mr. Haakenson’s family on Monday that his remains had been identified. His body was found in Mr. Gacy’s crawl space in December 1978 in a make-do grave alongside two others. The authorities identified Mr. Haakenson’s remains by requesting DNA samples from two of his siblings and submitting them to the University of Northern Texas Center for Human Identification. They also reviewed the original missing person’s report filed by Mr. Haakenson’s family, information from the Social Security Administration and post-mortem reports.

Source: New York Times July 19, 2017 22:33 UTC