In 2010, three years after the Reader had been sold by its original owners, two years after the next owner had declared bankruptcy, and one year since the paper had fallen into the hands of a hedge fund, our excellent editor, Alison True, was fired.
Dorsch told a persuasive story, True says, but what grabbed them was “not that there’s necessarily human remains at that northwest side corner, but that the police didn’t want anyone to think there were—that they knew about the possibility, and were actively suppressing this information.”
This was more than just sloppy or lazy police work, True says: “We’ve come to believe that it was a deliberate effort to distort the truth.” Why? Maybe, initially, because Gacy was a precinct captain with political ties; maybe, later, because numerous careers had been built on the resolution of his case; or, maybe because of a connection to a notorious sex trafficking ring operating in Chicago at the time of the Gacy killings.
