DID JOHN WAYNE GACY MURDER CANADIANS?

KILLER CLOWN

CANADIAN VICTIMS?

SERIAL KILLER clown John Wayne Gacy who murdered at least 33 teenage boys in America is now being eyed by Canadian investigators.
The Ontario Provincial Police are dusting off their case files to see if any of the eight unidentified bodies found in the crawlspace of his Chicago home are from their country.
It's believed Gacy may have regularly crossed the border during his prime killing years between 1972 and 1978.

He later became known as the "Killer Clown" due to his charitable services at fundraising events, parades and children's parties where he would dress as "Pogo the Clown", a character he devised himself.
OPP detectives will be now look at cases that fit Gacy’s profile, including the type of young men he targeted, from across a wide span of years.
While there are reports at least one Canadian family has contacted American officials to ask about a possible connection to a lost loved one, police have not given any details.
Sgt. Pierre Chamberland told the Toronto Sun they are waiting for U.S. officials — specifically the Cook County Sheriff’s Office that is spearheading the effort to identify the mystery eight — to contact them with more specific information.
He said: “We do have several unresolved cases."

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NASCAR'S KEVIN CONWAY PUTS MELISSA LECH ON CAR

CONWAY

LECH

NASCAR start Kevin Conway is highlighting the tragic case of a gorgeous young student who was tragically mown down in a hit-and-run three years ago.
Melissa Lech was just 20-years-old when she was struck on her walk home from a White Sox ballgame, in Chicago, IL.
And Conway is hoping that by putting a large photo of her on the back of his car, along with police contact information when he races in NASCAR Nationwide Series at Chicagoland Speedway, that it will trigger someone's memory.

He said: "It's about giving to the community and finding ways to utilize the platform of NASCAR. We wanted to remember Melissa and honor her and hopefully bring some new awareness to the case."  
The 33-year-old added that he is hopeful the resulting attention may provide new clues, witnesses and identification of the hit-and-run driver.
Maria Lech and her daughter Michelle thanked him for his effort.
Michelle Lech said: "I think it's wonderful that they're helping families. It's just giving us hope that we'll have an answer. I think it was an answer from God that this happened."
Anyone with information can contact Ross at 815-724-3045 or anonymously at a Crimestoppers hotline at 800-323-6734.

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GUILTY PLEA IN 1976 DARLENE STACK SEX SLAY

THE SUSPECTED killer in the notorious 1976 murder of Darlene Stack is set to plead guilty, his lawyer revealed. Michael Whitney will receive a life sentence for the killing. Whitney was charged in early August after cops revealed DNA at the scene linked Whitney to the crime. Whitney and Stack lived in the same boarding house in suburban Chicago. Stack, 28, was found raped and murdered (she had been stabbed to death) and although Whitney was eyed at the time, the case went nowhere and gathered dust. Whitney is already serving a 60-year sentence for another 1982 murder. He was going to be paroled next year. Not now. He is back in court Sept. 8. FOR A BACKGROUNDER, CHECK OUT OUR LINK

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MICHAEL WHITNEY ADMITS DARLENE SACK '76 SEX SLAY

A CONVICTED  killer told a Chicago judge he plans to plead guilty to the long unsolved 1976 sex slaying of Darlene Sack, 28. Michael Whitney, now 58, told the judge: "I am going to plead guilty" adding he "didn't want" a public defender. Darlene Sack, a medical technician, was found stabbed 33 times in the boarding house where she lived. She had been raped. Whitney had long been eyed as the killer but there wasn't enough to put him away--except his own conscience. He is currently in prison for a 1982 homicide. But DNA testing is like an unwelcome blast from the past for a killer and that scientific noose slowly tightened around Whitney's
neck. He had also lived at the boarding house.

 Semen from Sack's bed was the magic bullet. In 1976, his terrified girlfriend gave him an alibi.
But the damning DNA evidence convinced her to change her tale.
She had seen and heard everything. The rape. The murder. The bloody knife being disposed.
Stack had been engaged to Dwight Omi, who died in 2004 at just 56. His brothers said he never got over her death. Omi never married and did not leave behind any children, according to Paul and Dan Omi.
Paul Omi said:  "It think it had quite an impact on my brother, he tried to get past it but a certain joy seemed to have left his life." KILLER CONFESSES TO '76 MURDER

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DNA CRACKS DEAF DAWN NILES' 30-YEAR-OLD MURDER

30-YEARS AGO

ALBERT TODAY

A 30-YEAR-OLD Chicago cold case has finally been cracked thanks to new DNA evidence.
Dawn Niles was last seen alive in March 1981, when she left the Windy City's Hinsdale South High School with her boyfriend Gary Albert.
Five days later a fisherman found the 15-year-old's body buried in a nearby forest.
She had been repeatedly stabbed and an autopsy later revealed that she had been three months pregnant at the time of her death. 

Now, 30 years later, Albert, 48, stands accused of her murder after modern techniques linked his DNA to her body The Chicago Tribune reports.
Prosecutor's believe that Niles and Albert who belonged to the high school's drama club for the deaf and the local chapter of the Junior Illinois Association for the Deaf had fought about her pregnancy.  
Friends told them that Albert didn't want to take responsibility for the child and suggested she tell her parents that she had either been raped or impregnated by someone else, according to court filings.
A defense lawyer for Albert, who had pled not guilty called those statements improper hearsay and argued against them, claiming they "infuse undue prejudice," records show.
In pretrial motions they said that it can't be proved that Albert was aware of the pregnancy and that he had no motive to commit such a crime.
The trial which is set to start this summer is expected to present a number of logistical issues for both prosecutors and defense because the defendant and some of the witnesses are hearing-impaired.
A recent pretrial hearing raised the possibility of using as many as three sign language interpreters at the same time.
Albert is currently free on $1 million bail.

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MOST WANTED JOSE RODRIGUEZ SOUGHT IN COLD CASE

"ARMED AND DANGEROUS"

BY the time he was finished, one victim was bound and a second was found shot to death after a fight broke out at a late night party at his home.
But then prime suspect Jose S. Rodriguez vanished after the 2004 killings, which shocked Chicago's, Cicero neighborhood and he hasn't been seen in the seven years since.
Now FBI officer's believe their man, who they consider to be "armed and dangerous" may be comfortable enough to return to the Windy City and they're urging anyone who sees him to turn him. 
The 48-year-old is accused of fatally shooting Gabriella Rodriguez, who he did not know and was not related to, despite having the same last name on November 6, 2004 after a fight broke out.
When the dust settled, FBI's Mike Kosanovich says "One victim was bound and gagged and the second victim, Gabriella Rodriguez, was found shot to death."
He added that the reason for the shooting is unclear.
The search for Rodriguez initially focused on his home country Mexico because cops learned he returned with his wife and children about a month before the murder.
If you have any information about this case, call the Chicago FBI Bureau at (312) 421-6700

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