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'How do you guys get a search warrant in a missing person continued from page 24 Kozenczak met with Assistant State's Atty. Terry Sullivan, who was in charge of the Des Plaines branch of the state's attorney's office, in a room at the City Hall, next door to the police station. Sullivan did a lot of thinking about it and speculated whether the judge would approve it. Then he decided to make the attempt. Judge Marvin Peters in a courtroom on another floor of City Hall sat down and looked at the request and decided to sign it.

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Not valid in combination with any other offer. Gacy's house at 8213 W. Summerdale Av. at the time of his arrest. It was later razed to facilitate the search for victims' bodies.

In the brutal and hectic atmosphere of a criminal court in a major city for instance Chicago's Criminal Courts Building where well-documented charges of murder, rape, robbery, abduction are the minute-by-minute fare. such a request for a search warrant might have failed to impress a heavily burdened judge. It might never have been approved. Kozenczak alluded to this possibility in recounting what a Chicago police officer said to him much later, in awe: "How do you guys get a search warrant in a missing person case?" But peaceful Des Plaines was not Chicago. The enigmatic John Gacy had decided, meanwhile, to cooperate a little with the police since he had disposed of Piest's body.

He had walked into the police station just as Kozenczak was leaving to meet with Sullivan. Kozenczak placed Gacy in a room with Pickell. But after giving Pickell a brief statement, Gacy wanted to leave. Pickell phoned City Hall. Sullivan said, "Keep him there." Gacy phoned his lawyer, who turned around and phoned the police demanding Gacy be charged or released.

Instead, Kozenczak went back to the station and asked Gacy for the keys to his house, showing Gacy the search warrant. Gacy surrendered his keys after a protest. Kozenczak had already sent Olson and Sommerschield ahead. The two officers were told to prevent anyone from entering Gacy's house. Kozenczak and four other officers met a Cook County sheriff's evidence technician outside Gacy's home by prearrangement because the house is in an unincorporated area.

Looking for evidence of the Piest boy or a suggestion of what had happened to him, the policemen took dozens of items from the home, including a small library of pornographic magazines, a Maine West High School ring (later linked to another of Gacy's victims), packets of marijuana, pills, and a set of Chicago Tribune Magazine 26.