Victim of US serial killer John Wayne Gacy identified

John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted of killing 33 young men and boys in the Chicago area in the 1970s and executed in 1994 (AP)

A man who moved to Chicago from North Carolina was one of the victims of John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted of killing 33 young men and boys in the 1970s, US authorities said.

Francis Wayne Alexander would have been 21 or 22 years old when Gacy killed him sometime between early 1976 and early 1977, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said at a news conference in announcing the identification of Mr Alexander’s remains.