Hi all,
I am new here and I happened upon a sad case of a Chicago mom who's son, named Michael Marino, went missing in 1976 w/his friend Kenneth Parker. Bodies recovered at the home of JW Gacy would be linked to the two via X-rays and dental records.
The case has haunted me strangely. I feel such a sense of unusual empathy for this mom as a mom myself. Probably bc of the way the system really failed missing children back in the day & still does in many instances today.
The article showed a picture of her son, & evidently went into detail about the circumstances of how he went missing, and how facts concerning how his remains we're recovered led to doubts about them belonging to her son.
Ultimately, Marino's mother got a court order to exhume the body to which she paid for the remains to be DNA tested, & lo and behold, they were not a match with her DNA. Parker's body was also exhumed but I don't think his family agreed to a test.
Clearly, this poor lady is holding out false hope and can't accept her son is gone, but I can't fault her, and to be fair the DNA was not a match.
She doesn't trust the Sheriff's Dept. to conduct a their own DNA test through a lab in N. TX, can't say I blame her, if they gave her the wrong body and the initial discrepancies surrounding the remains didn't line up with hers. IE clothing didn't match, molars didn't line up.
Sheriff Tom Dart appears complacent if she won't agree to a test through their department.
What gives here? Is this just a grieving mother? To be fair, even if he wasn't a Gacy victim, he's clearly dead & she may never find his remains. But at the very least, the misidentified remains need to be entered into a missing persons database as well as her DNA.
I do know Gacy likely had accomplices & possibly other hiding places.
Thoughts, comments...???
