University of North Texas lab identifies another victim of bizarre killer John Wayne Gacy
FORT WORTH -- For the second time in six years, officials at the UNT Center for Human Identification have helped identify a victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced Wednesday 16-year-old Jimmy Haakenson of Minnesota was among the dozens of bodies found in a crawl space of Gacy’s Chicago-area home in 1978.
The remains were only recently identified thanks to the UNT Center for Human Identification. UNT officials have been assisting the Cook County Sheriff’s Office since 2011 with the Gacy case.
“Back then, our lab developed DNA profiles from eight unidentified Gacy victims,” UNT spokesman Jeff Carlton said in a Thursday email. “These DNA profiles have been continuously compared to family references of missing persons.”
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