Did John Wayne Gacy Act Alone?

By Chuck Sudo in News on Feb 10, 2012 5:00PM

Today's lead story in the Sun-Times is about the possibility that serial killer John Wayne Gacy may have had at least an accomplice in three of his murders.

Criminal defense attorneys Robert Stephenson and Steven Becker re-examined the cases of Russell Nelson of Minneapolis, and Robert Gilroy and John Mowery of Chicago. they were among the 29 of Gacy's 33 victims found under the crawlspace of his Norwood Park home in 1979. Becker and Stephenson reviewed Gacy's work and travel records, which they say indicated he was out of town when Nelson and Gilroy disappeared. They also contend Gacy's work records didn't leave him enough time to abduct and kill Mowery.

The evidence seems to strongly indicate Gacy had accomplices in the Gilroy and Nelson deaths. Stephenson said Gacy flew to Pittsburgh on Sept. 12, 1977 and returned to Chicago on Sept. 16, 1977. Robert Gilroy was reported missing Sept. 15, 1977.

Russell Nelson went missing Oct. 19, 1977 while he and a friend were at a bar in Chicago. Nelson's mother said the friend later gave her a different account of his disappearance and revealed the friend offered two of Nelson's brothers jobs in Chicago with Gacy.

Stephenson said he and Becker are ready and willing to share their findings with Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, including thee name of Nelson's friend. Dart's office has been working to identify the remains of Gacy's eight John Doe victims through DNA testing since last summer. Two presumed victims were found to be living alive and well in Florida and Oregon, while the remains of one of the John Does was identified as William George Bundy.

This isn't the first time that it's been presumed Gacy had accomplices. Gacy himself suggested that to CBS 2's Walter Jacobson a few years before he was executed in 1994. We've included video of Gacy's assertion to Jacobson below.