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Gacy was going to the station, then changed his mind. ft i I John Gacy: under sentence of death. I 4, "If 'I It tit It I -iV-'v' til continued from page 21 drove west on Summerdale starting toward Des Plaines. The lieutenant was casting about in his mind for the next step. As Kozenczak's squad car reached the Kennedy Expressway at Cumberland Avenue, about 90 seconds from Gacy's house, a voice came over his two-way radio: "We lost him!" It was Olson and Sommerschield reporting that Gacy had escaped their surveillance.

The youth who had arrived in the van was Mike Rossi, 20, an employe of Gacy's. After the police were gone, Rossi got into the van and drove it from the front driveway to the rear of the house. Then the van went in reverse, slowly, toward the street. Olson and Sommerschield watched, but did not know what was happening. "What they didn't see until the last second was these feet on the other side of the van," Kozenczak recalled.

Gacy was walking to his car, using the van to shield him from the cops at the end of the block. Suddenly Gacy jumped into his car and roared off "driving like a maniac" west on Summerdale Avenue, which comes to a fork only a block away. Sommerschield and Olson could not catch up. The dejected group met back at the station at 9:30 p.m., then separated. Kozenczak sat around to see if perchance Gacy would show up.

At 11, there was a phone call: "Lieutenant, this is John Gacy. You still want to talk to me?" "Yeah," Kozenczak responded. "How long do you think it will take you to get here?" "A half-hour." Kozenczak waited in vain until 1 a.m., then went home. Police later learned that after the phone call, Gacy had gone to his attic, taken the Piest boy's body, and placed it in the trunk of his car. He drove to the Des Plaines River at Int.

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