The Wikipedia Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Wikipedia

Author:Wikipedia
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781510755390
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2020-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

Des Plaines River: the final murders

Gacy later confessed to police that he had initially considered stowing bodies in his attic, but had been worried of complications arising from “excessive leakage.”[190] Therefore, he chose to dispose of his victims off the I-55 bridge into the Des Plaines River. Gacy stated he had thrown five bodies off the I-55 bridge into the Des Plaines River in 1978, one of which he believed had landed upon a passing barge,[191] although only four of these five bodies were ever found.

The first known victim thrown from the I-55 bridge into the Des Plaines River, 20-year-old Timothy O’Rourke, was killed in mid-June after leaving his Dover Street[192] apartment, having informed his roommate of his intention to purchase cigarettes;[193] his body was found 6 miles (10 km) downstream on June 30. On November 4, Gacy killed a 19-year-old named Frank Landingin. His body was found in the Des Plaines River on November 12. Less than three weeks later, on November 24, a 20-year-old Elmwood Park youth named James Mazzara disappeared after sharing Thanksgiving dinner with his family; his body was found on December 28. The cause of death in the case of Landingin was certified as suffocation through the youth’s own underwear being lodged down his throat, plugging his airway[194] and effectively causing him to drown in his own vomit.[195] Mazzara had been strangled with a ligature.[196]

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