December 11, 1978, was the day of John Gacy’s final death. The young boy’s name is Robert Piest from Des Plaines, Illinois, whose body was found in the Des Plaines River at the age of fifteen (Fritsch 157). Piest ended his shift at his local pharmacy at roughly nine o’clock at night. He told his mother, who was picking him up, that he was visiting a man about a construction job. He told her that he was paying $5 an hour. Compared to his other job, that was nearly twice the amount. As his mother kept…
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