Siblings of a man identified as a victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy say they are shocked but grateful to police who used DNA to confirm his fate. They say the family spent years hoping he was alive.
Alexander’s family spent the next 40-plus years hoping he had a reason for staying away, trying not to linger on the possibilities.
Sanders said their mother, who is 87, spoke to Alexander every month and last remembered speaking to him in November 1976, when Alexander asked her to mail his birth certificate to California because he hoped to get a security job. This summer, a detective from the Cook County Sheriff’s Office contacted the family in search of DNA to test against human remains from a cold case.
“I remember him as a jokester and yet sensitive,” she said. “We were seven years apart and he would have tea parties with me. He loved me. He loved us all.”Investigators don’t know how Gacy came to know and target Alexander, who was born in North Carolina and lived in New York before moving to Chicago in the mid-1970s. They said he lived in an area Gacy that frequented and where some of his other victims had lived.
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