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| John Wayne Gacy |
She thought her brother had been dead for thirty years: Tim Lovell and Theresa Hasselberg mentioned her brother Harold Wayne Lovell among the unidentified victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who killed between 1972 und1978 total of 33 young men and boys. But now-dead brother, the sisters found the back by accident.
Harold Wayne Lovell had left his family and hometown of Chicago in 1977 as a young man because he did not understand his mother and stepfather. Looking at this very time, Gacy's victims in the area around the city: he offered them work and lured her into his house. The suspect was apparently close, the outliers had fallen victim to the dreaded serial killer.
Lovell, however, was long since ended up in Florida, where he pursued over the years, various jobs as a laborer. A few times he had problems with the police, mostly for minor drug offenses.
Gacy was finally arrested in 1978, confessed to 33 murders and was executed 1994th However, eight of his victims could not be identified until today. Recently, police found Cook County in Chicago, new pieces of evidence with DNA traces of the victims and relatives of potential victims called on to provide DNA reference material for comparison are available.
Lovell's siblings, who now live in Alabama, had just that before, when she happened to be a police photo of her missing brother found on the Internet. The photo was taken in Florida. Lovell lived there under his middle name, his siblings could reach him by phone. She bought him a bus ticket to Alabama - and the family was reunited after 34 years.
Wayne Lovell described the meeting with his siblings as "great". He said: "I come from nothing and now suddenly have everything I still have to pinch her arm.."
