home at the moment because there was a recent death in the family and he had to attend to some phone calls. Gacy showed up at the police station hours later and gave his statement to police. Gacy said he knew nothing about the boy's disappearance and left the station after further questioning.

Lt. Kozenczak decided to run a background check on Gacy the next day and was surprised to find that Gacy had served time for committing sodomy on a teenager years earlier. Soon after Lt. Kozenczaks discovery, he obtained a search warrant for Gacys house. It was there that he believed they would find Robert Piest. On December 13, 1978, police entered John Wayne Gacy, Jr.s house on Summerdale Avenue. Gacy was not at his home duringits side. Within the trunk of the car were pieces of hair that were later matched to Rob Piests hair.

Further into the investigation, police entered the crawl space located beneath Gacys home. The first thing that struck investigators was a rancid odor that they believed to be sewage. The earth in the crawl space was sprinkled with lime but seemed to have been untouched. Police found nothing else during their first search and eventually returned back to headquarters to run tests on some of the evidence and research the case more. Gacy was called into the police department and told of the articles that they had confiscated. Gacy was enraged and immediately contacted his lawyer. When Gacy was presented with a Miranda waiver stating his rights and asked