Within weeks, the sheriffвЂ™s office announced that it had identified one set of remains as those of William Bundy, a 19-year-old construction worker. That was the time when Gacy was luring young men and boys to his home to eventually kill them. Dart called on anyone who had a male relative disappear in the Chicago area in the 1970s to submit DNA. In 2011, DartвЂ™s office exhumed the remains of eight victims, including Alexander, who had been buried without police knowing who they were. Three other victims were found buried on GacyвЂ™s property and another four people whom Gacy admitted killing were found in waterways south of Chicago.

вЂ¦ We can now lay to rest what happened and move forward by honoring Wayne.вЂќДЄlexanderвЂ™s remains were among 26 sets that police found in the crawl space under GacyвЂ™s home just outside the city. Our hearts are heavy, and our sympathies go out to the other victimsвЂ™ families.

вЂњHe was killed at the hands of a vile and evil man. вЂњIt is hard, even 45 years later, to know the fate of our beloved Wayne,вЂќ Sanders wrote. In a statement, AlexanderвЂ™s sister, Carolyn Sanders, thanked the sheriffвЂ™s office for giving the family some level of вЂњclosure.вЂќ вЂњThey just loved him, but they thought that he wanted nothing more to do with them, so thatвЂ™s why there was never a missing personвЂ™s report,вЂќ Dart said. Pelkey at the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery.CHICAGO > A North Carolina man who moved to Chicago was one of the victims of John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted of killing 33 young men and boys in the 1970s, authorities said today.ДЇrancis Wayne Alexander would have been 21 or 22 years old when Gacy killed him sometime between early 1976 and early 1977, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said at a news conference in announcing the identification of AlexanderвЂ™s remains.ДЄlexanderвЂ™s family didnвЂ™t even realize he had been dead all these years, the sheriff said.

The Department of Public Safety has purchased a new grave marker identifying the final resting place of Ms. The surviving next of kin of Robin Pelkey has requested that they not be contacted directly while they come to grips with this heartbreaking news. The Alaska Department of Public Safety has used genetic genealogy in the 1978 Shelley Connolly homicide, 1993 Sophie Sergie homicide, and 1996 Jessica Baggen homicide. In the past few years, genetic genealogy has developed into a tremendous forensic tool for identifying both the perpetrators of unsolved homicides and as in this case their unidentified victims. вЂњThe Alaska Department of Public Safety will leave no stone unturned in our efforts to solve major crimes in our state, hold anyone that violates our laws accountable, and bring closure to a victimsвЂ™ family.вЂќ Pelkey may have never been known,вЂќ said Alaska Department of Public Safety Commissioner James Cockrell. Without their hard work and tenacity, the identity of Ms. вЂњI would like to thank all of the troopers, investigators, and analysts that have diligently worked on this case over the last 37 years. Hansen eventually admitted to murdering a total of 17 women and accompanied investigators on a helicopter flight where he pointed out the grave sites. In February 1984, Hansen agreed to plead guilty to the four murders and several other felony crimes. At the time, he was suspected of murdering four women, whose bodies had been discovered in Southcentral Alaska between 19. In October 1983, Alaska State Troopers arrested suspected serial killer Robert Hansen. Kinship DNA analysis completed in September 2021, confirmed that вЂњHorseshoe HarrietвЂќ is in fact Robin Pelkey. The sample was sent to the State of Alaska Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory in Anchorage. They contacted a very close relative of PelkeyвЂ™s and obtained a DNA sample. Pelkey would have been 19 at the time of her murder and no record was found reporting her missing.ДЄBI contacted the Arkansas State Police and requested their assistance.

Records indicated that she had been living in Anchorage in the early 1980s when Hansen was active. Additional research identified a few potential relatives of PelkeyвЂ™s that currently reside in Alaska and Arkansas. Pelkey had been born in 1963 in Colorado. Genealogy research by Parabon Nanolabs and ABI indicated that the victim might be a woman named Robin Pelkey. Utilizing several close matches, a family tree for the victim was constructed. In August 2021, a new DNA profile for the victim was generated and uploaded into a public access genealogy database. Octo(Anchorage, AK) вЂ“ The Alaska Bureau of Investigation (ABI) Cold Case Investigation Unit (CCIU) recently launched another attempt to identify the remains of one of serial killer Robert HansonвЂ™s victims, the young woman that has been identified as Horseshoe Harriet for 37 years. Serial killer Robert Hansen victim Robin Pelkey.

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