Search for bodies resumes today under Illinois house

DES PLAINES, III. (AP). The prolonged, painstaking search for skeletons beneath the suburban home of a sex offender continues today after a two-day break for Christmas with officials saying some bodies are so badly decomposed they may never be identified. 、

Five bodies have been found at the home of construction contractor John Wayne Gacy Jr., and authorities say they expect to find more.

The search promises to be a long one.

"It might take another three weeks," Cook County's medical examiner, Dr. Robert Stein, said.

Gacy, an admitted homosexual who often dressed up as a clown to entertain children at parties, is being held without bond on one count of murder in the death of a teen-age boy.