Timothy Jack McCoy was a 16-year-old white male who died on January 3, 1972, in Chicago from multiple stab wounds to the chest. He was identified as the first known victim of John Wayne Gacy. McCoy had been at the Greyhound bus terminal in Chicago waiting for a connecting bus to his father’s home in Nebraska when he met Gacy, who invited him to his residence.

McCoy’s body was buried in the crawl space beneath Gacy’s property and remained there until Gacy’s arrest in December 1978; McCoy’s remains were positively identified and returned to his family in May 1986. Gacy later said they had eaten and drunk together and that a struggle began when McCoy reportedly approached him with a butcher knife; an autopsy confirmed McCoy suffered stab wounds.

Does anyone have memories of McCoy or information about his life before January 1972 that could add to this record?