(Reuters)Notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy has been dead for more than two decades, but some of his victims are still regaining their names, one by one. Before July 6, Haakenson, who ran away at age 16 from his Minnesota home and vanished in Chicago in 1976, was known only by a grim moniker: Gacy Victim #24. At the time of Gacy’s execution in 1994 by lethal injection, only 25 victims had been identified, according to the New York Times. [Timeline of John Wayne Gacy’s case]In 2011, Dart reopened the investigation and sent out a request for saliva samples of close relatives of young men who disappeared between 1970 and Gacy’s arrest in 1978. And 23 years later, Gacy Victim #24 became Jimmie Haakenson.

Source: Washington Post July 20, 2017 00:04 UTC