The last known records of Alexander’s life were traffic tickets he received, the last of which came in January 1976. Born in North Carolina, he moved to New York, where he was married, and then on to Chicago in 1975, where he soon divorced. Jason Moran shared what they knew about Alexander. In 2017, it identified a second set as those of 16-year-old Jimmy Haakenson, who disappeared after he phoned his mother in Minnesota and told her that he was in Chicago.ĭart and Lt.
Within weeks, the sheriff’s office announced that it had identified one set of remains as those of William Bundy, a 19-year-old construction worker. But Dart’s office exhumed the eight sets of remains in 2011 and called on anyone who had a male relative disappear in the Chicago area in the 1970s, when Gacy was trolling for victims, to submit DNA. Three other victims were found buried on Gacy’s property and another four people whom Gacy admitted killing were found in waterways south of Chicago.Įight victims, including Alexander, were buried before police could determine who they were. … We can now lay to rest what happened and move forward by honoring Wayne.”Īlexander’s remains were among 26 sets that police found in the crawl space under Gacy’s home just outside the city. Our hearts are heavy, and our sympathies go out to the other victims’ families. “He was killed at the hands of a vile and evil man. “It is hard, even 45 years later, to know the fate of our beloved Wayne,” Sanders wrote in a statement released by Dart’s office. Though Dart said Alexander’s mother and other relatives didn’t want to speak publicly about his identification as a Gacy victim, Alexander’s sister, Carolyn Sanders, made clear that the family never stopped thinking of what might have become of him. “They just loved him, but they thought that he wanted nothing more to do with them, so that’s why there was never a missing person’s report,” Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said at a news conference Monday announcing the latest victim identification. They were told that DNA tests on the remains of one of the half-dozen unidentified victims of the notorious serial killer were Alexander’s. Then came news this month that for more than 40 years, the man they knew as Wayne was known as Victim #5 in the city where he had gone to start a new life.
The way they saw it, Alexander had cut off communication with them because he wanted to be left alone. When the discovery of more than two dozen bodies stashed under John Wayne Gacy’s house near Chicago was making headlines all over the world in the late 1970s, Francis Wayne Alexander’s family in North Carolina didn’t think much of it.
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