We can't trust Sheriff Tom Dart or the Cook County Sheriff Police.. They LOST the body of our son! They had the body and then LOST IT! We want nothing to do with them!
CHICAGO – For more than 30 years, Sherry Marino faithfully placed flowers and candles at the grave that bore the name of her 14-year-old son, Michael, identified as one of the victims of notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
But each time she stood at the grave site, she felt a nagging suspicion that she had buried some other mother's son. "It was just a feeling you get when you're a mother. I'd put my hand on the grave and I'd feel cold. I didn't feel it was Michael in there," Marino says.
Last fall, Marino obtained a court order to exhume Michael's body and put her doubts to scientific scrutiny. Preliminary DNA tests show her mother's instincts were correct: The remains in the casket weren't Michael's.
"I always knew it. I said to everyone, you're going to see that I'm right," she said recently in her first newspaper interview since the DNA results became available.
Those results pose one more challenge for authorities, who are still trying to identify some of Gacy's victims nearly two decades after his execution in 1994. Known as the "Killer Clown" because he often portrayed a clown at charity events, Gacy was convicted of killing 33 young men or boys in the 1970s.
So if he wasn't one of Gacy's victims, what happened to Michael, a talented drummer who loved Led Zeppelin and dreamed of becoming a professional musician? He disappeared in 1976 and would have been 51 today.
"I'm saying my son is still somewhere out there," Marino says.
Marino was skeptical from the start when authorities took 15 months to identify Michael as Victim No. 14, even though Marino provided her son's dental records shortly after Gacy was arrested. The remains were pulled from a crawl space in Gacy's home in the Chicago suburb of Norwood Park Township. DNA testing did not exist at the time, and identifications were made largely through dental records and X-rays.
Some of the clothing on the body didn't match what Marino remembered her son wearing on the day he went missing. An entry in the autopsy report also noted that Michael's collarbone had healed from a previous injury. Marino said her son had never suffered a broken collarbone.
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Last fall, Marino obtained a court order to exhume Michael's body and put her doubts to scientific scrutiny. Preliminary DNA tests show her mother's instincts were correct: The remains in the casket weren't Michael's.
"I always knew it. I said to everyone, you're going to see that I'm right," she said recently in her first newspaper interview since the DNA results became available.
Those results pose one more challenge for authorities, who are still trying to identify some of Gacy's victims nearly two decades after his execution in 1994. Known as the "Killer Clown" because he often portrayed a clown at charity events, Gacy was convicted of killing 33 young men or boys in the 1970s.
So if he wasn't one of Gacy's victims, what happened to Michael, a talented drummer who loved Led Zeppelin and dreamed of becoming a professional musician? He disappeared in 1976 and would have been 51 today.
"I'm saying my son is still somewhere out there," Marino says.
Marino was skeptical from the start when authorities took 15 months to identify Michael as Victim No. 14, even though Marino provided her son's dental records shortly after Gacy was arrested. The remains were pulled from a crawl space in Gacy's home in the Chicago suburb of Norwood Park Township. DNA testing did not exist at the time, and identifications were made largely through dental records and X-rays.
Some of the clothing on the body didn't match what Marino remembered her son wearing on the day he went missing. An entry in the autopsy report also noted that Michael's collarbone had healed from a previous injury. Marino said her son had never suffered a broken collarbone.
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