Chicago psychologist Willa Wertheimer spent two-thirds of her life wondering what happened to her kid brother, who disappeared in 1978 or 1979. On Wednesday, she stood alongside Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart and a childhood picture of her half-brother, Andy Drath, to announce the mystery had finally been solved. The teenager had been shot to death in San Francisco in 1979. But the "John Doe" remains were unidentified until this month, when San Francisco police matched the body with Drath's DNA -- a chance test result that came from a renewed push to identify Cook County victims of the prolific serial killer John Wayne Gacy. It turned out Drath wasn't killed by Gacy, who was active...
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