1 Gacy Victim Said Ex-Eaststater

by Maryville (AP)

The body of one of the 33 victims Chicago construction contractor John Wayne Gacy Jr. is alleged to have killed has been identified as a man who formerly lived in Blount County. Mrs. W. H. Boling of Rockford said yesterday that Des Plaines, Illinois police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the body as her grandson, Tommy J. Boling Jr. Mrs. Boling said her grandson was 20 when he disappeared November 18, 1977, while living in Chicago. She said police found his body last December 21 in Des Plaines while investigating the Gacy case but had not identified it until Tuesday. Boling’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tommy J. Boling, moved to Chicago several years ago but Tommy Jr. continued to spend most of his summers and holidays with his grandparents and other relatives in Blount County, his grandmother said. Another grandmother, Mrs. F.P. Hatcher, lives at nearby Louisville, Tennesse in Blount County.