Murder of Timothy McCoy

Timothy Jack McCoy (May 14, 1955 – January 3, 1972) was an American murder victim from Omaha, Nebraska. He is the first known victim of serial killer and sex offender John Wayne Gacy, who raped, tortured and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township, near Chicago, Illinois, between 1972 and 1978.

McCoy encountered Gacy at Chicago's Greyhound bus terminal in the early hours of January 3, 1972, while he waited for a connecting bus to his father's home in Nebraska due the following noon; he was lured to Gacy's home and subsequently stabbed to death. His body was later buried in the crawl space beneath the property, and was only recovered following Gacy's December 1978 arrest, although his body remained unidentified until May 1986.

Following his 1986 identification, McCoy's remains were returned to his family; his body was interred alongside his father within Westlawn-Hillcrest Funeral Home and Memorial Park in his home state of Nebraska.

Prior to his identification, McCoy was informally known as the Greyhound Bus Boy and officially as both Body 9 and Case #1279 Dec. 78. His informal moniker was a reference to the Chicago Greyhound bus terminal where he first encountered Gacy and how his murderer largely chose to refer to him; his formal monikers refer to his sequential recovery order from beneath Gacy's crawl space and his assigned medical examiner reference number. Provided by Wikipedia