Gregory Godzik

Another item recovered was a high school ring, which had belonged to missing 19-year-old John Schick, last seen in January 1977.

Further investigation discovered that two of Gacy's employees had been reported missing, 17-year-old John Butkovich, last seen in July 1975, and Gregory Godzik, also 17 years old, missing since December 1976.

It was an evolution as we went along.

I think it was after that search warrant, we're pretty confident there's at least five or six victims that were associated with Gacy that hadn't been seen.

Francis Wayne Alexander, 21.

Gregory John Godzik, 17.

John Alan Sick, 19.

John Stephen Prestidge, 20.

The rest of the trenches had been opened by the young men on his crew, who thought they were laying drainage pipe for their boss.

One of them was Gregory Godzik, the 17-year-old PDM worker who disappeared in December of 1976.

He'd helped dig the ground he was buried in.

Putting names to the dead became its own long agony.

John's own lawyer would later put it this way: "If you were a young man with a connection to John Gacy, there was a real chance you'd turn up missing." For those who did disappear, John used the same story every time.

Gregory Godzik, a 17-year-old who worked for PDM, vanished in December of 1976.

Afterward, John was driving the young man's car around and telling people the kid had run away.

A month later, in January of 1977, Gacy lured 19-year-old John Szyc to his house under the pretext of buying his Plymouth Satellite, but instead he assaulted him and strangled him to death.