Buried Dreams by Tim Cahill

Author:Tim Cahill
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Open Road Media

Mrs. Godzik called the police and suggested they talk to John Gacy.

At this time, Marco Butkovitch was still calling the police, begging them to interview John Gacy about the disappearance of his son a year and a half earlier.

Butkovitch was calling the police’s Area 6.

The Godzik family was calling the police’s Area 5.

There seemed to be no communication between the two departments.

After John Gacy was arrested and charged with murder, Harold Thomas, commander of the Chicago Youth Division, explained to the Chicago Tribune how a serial killer could slip through holes in the system: “You must realize that you don’t treat every missing-person case [as] a possible homicide.”

The Godzik family—like the families of other victims—conducted a private search for their son. They contacted the Salvation Army and other groups dealing with runaways and street people. After six months of fruitless searching on their own, they hired one of Chicago’s most famous and expensive private investigators, who also came up empty-handed.

Judy Patterson, thinking Gacy might be able to help her find her boyfriend, visited his house a few weeks after Greg disappeared, sometime between Christmas and New Year’s of 1976–77.

Judy said that Gacy “seemed like I was bothering him and he didn’t have time for me.” She was in and out of the house in five minutes, but in that time Gacy said that Greg had planned to run away and that he had mentioned these plans to his boss. Judy recalls that Gacy said he wanted the name and address of the guy Greg fought with in early December. “I’m in the Syndicate,” Gacy said, “and we’ll look into this our own way.”

Years later, John recalled quite clearly how a seed sort of dropped right out of his subconscious mind. He was up in 3 North, working on a kind of written variation of the motormouth approach to finding the Other Guy: some deal where he had the names of the victims in front of him, the five he remembered, and he was supposed to describe them in adjectives, without really thinking.

When he got to John Szyc—who disappeared on January 20, 1977, about five weeks after Greg Godzik—John was motormouthing along with the pencil, not thinking, and he found himself writing pretty much the same stuff as he did for all the others: dumb, stupid, greedy, naive . . . and right in the middle of all those adjectives, a name: “Rossi.”

John remembers, right away, he stopped and started erasing what he’d written. The doc, John couldn’t remember which one it was, noticed and asked him what he was doing. John explained that he was supposed to write adjectives and here he’d written a name: “Rossi.” The doc said, “Just leave it.”

John wished the doc would let him erase the name. Coming out under Szyc like that, it was almost like an accusation. God forbid that he should accuse someone else of “the crimes,” even subconsciously.

The whole thing with Szyc was pretty foggy, anyway. John remembered that it was raining and that he was cruising when he saw this kid walking along and struck up a conversation.

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