Victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy identified as North Carolina man

A North Carolina man who moved to Chicago was one of the victims of John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted of killing 33 young men and boys in the 1970s, authorities said Monday.

Francis Wayne Alexander would have been 21 or 22 years old when Gacy killed him sometime between early 1976 and early 1977, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said at a news conference announcing the identification of Alexander's remains.

In a statement, Alexander's sister, Carolyn Sanders, thanked the sheriff's office for giving the family some level of "closure."