In a west suburban cemetery, the remains of Timothy Jack McCoy lie beneath a simple gravestone marked "We Remembered."
Later this week, the remains of McCoy, a victim of mass murderer John Wayne Gacy, will be going home to Glenwood, Iowa.
McCoy, a teenager who apparently met Gacy after his bus stopped in Chicago, was identified recently by WLS-Channel 7 reporter Russ Ewing and Cook County officials through dental charts.
Since McCoy's parents have little money, the cost is being picked up by a funeral director and an airline, said Thomas Moriarty, executive director of the Funeral Directors Services Organization of Greater Chicago.
McCoy, believed to be 17 to 19 years old, apparently was visiting friends in Michigan in 1972 and was en route back to Iowa when he met Gacy, Moriarty said.
McCoy was believed to have been murdered New Year's Day, 1973.
Originally published in the Chicago Sun-Times
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