Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Serial Murder Victim Found... Alive (25 yrs later)

BEAVERTON, Ore. (CBS) — Another man who had been believed to be a victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy has been found alive, announced Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart on Wednesday.

Theodore "Ted" Szal had been missing since 1977, but was found alive and living in Beaverton, Ore., Dart said in a news release.

Szal, 59, left the Chicago area and the state of Illinois in March 1977 when he was 24, Dart said.

Szal's sister, Marcia Carlson, contacted the sheriff's office on Oct. 18, after Dart said he was working to identify the remaining unidentified Gacy victims. On Nov. 4, Carlson told a sheriff's detective that when her brother disappeared, he was living with his wife in Glen Ellyn and was going through a divorce.

Szal was never reported missing, because he had previously stopped talking to his family and turned up again, Dart said.
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