Siblings
who feared their brother was one of serial killer John Wayne Gacy’s
eight unidentified victims were amazed and overjoyed to learn that he’s
been living in Florida for decades. Tim Lovell and Theresa Hasselberg
hadn’t seen their brother, Harold Wayne Lovell, since he left their
family’s Chicago home in May 1977 in search of construction work. At the
time, Gacy was trolling for young men and boys in the area. A
contractor, Gacy lured many of the 33 young men and boys he killed by
offering them work. Lovell, now 53, was reunited with his family this
week after police finally tracked him down, decades after he failed to
return from a construction job. Lovell says he didn’t know his family
thought he was dead. Lovell left Chicago for Florida because of a
“family situation,” saying he “couldn’t stay around the house any
longer.” Investigators searching Gacy’s home following his 1978 arrest
found most of his victims buried in a basement crawl space, although
detectives said Gacy dumped four victims in a nearby river after he ran
out of room at his house. Gacy confessed to the slayings after his
arrest and was executed in 1994.
