Lost and Found: The Disappearance of Roger Aguirre

The Fall Line: True Crime

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

22-year-old Roger Aguirre disappeared on November 20, 1975, in Chicago, Illinois. He was one of many young men and boys who went missing in the city in the ‘70s—and like them, he received no attention from the media. Roger’s sister, who’d spent years searching for him after they were separated as children, was sure he wouldn’t simply leave. When his family discovered Roger had potentially crossed paths with John Wayne Gacy, they went to Cook County authorities about the remaining unidentified victims, and whether Roger could be a match. It was supposed to be one possible avenue in the search—but instead, created a new mystery.

Season 20 covers cold cases in Georgia, Illinois, and Montana, and the efforts of victims’ families to reconnect with law enforcement and gain media attention for their loved ones.

David Nelson’s book BOYS ENTER THE HOUSE:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/boys-enter-the-house-david-nelson/1138867411

Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

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0:00.0	This is the first episode in a two-part series, and the second case in our season covering cases in Georgia, Illinois, and Montana.
0:09.5	This series discusses historic homophobia, violence, exhumation, crime scenes, murder, and the crimes of John Wayne Gacy.
0:18.4	Listener discretion is advised.
0:28.2	Music of John Wayne Gacy. Listener discretion is advised. This is the fall line.
0:32.1	Thursday, November 20, 1975. It was a cool, dry day in Chicago, and just a week before Thanksgiving,
0:40.4	when the streets would be crowded with parade floats and revelers.
0:44.2	22-year-old Roger Dale Aguirre, he hadn't spent many holidays in Illinois. Though he was
0:49.6	born in the city, his mother hadn't stayed there long. Roger was surrendered to the custody of his father,
0:55.6	and taken to Texas to be raised by a paternal aunt. His mother had other children, his half-siblings,
1:01.6	who lived in Alabama. They never got to meet their new baby brother. Not then. But then in
1:07.5	1972 or in 1973, his older sister Carol, she can't quite remember the year.
1:14.6	Roger took a Greyhound bus from San Antonio to Chicago.
1:18.5	After years of trying, Carol had finally tracked him down.
1:22.7	Carol explained that, quote,
1:24.0	Back then, the Chicago Sun Times and the Chicago Tribune newspapers had this
1:29.4	series where you could write in and ask them for help like in finding people. I always wanted
1:34.6	to look for my brother, but I had no idea how to go about it. And then it was either 1972 or
1:40.5	1973. I believe it was 73. I got the idea to write and to tell them my story about Roger.
1:47.9	They got in touch with him somehow and forwarded, I think, my letter to him.
1:52.7	So Roger had come to live with her.
1:55.8	Their mother and grandmother were also in Chicago by then.
1:59.1	But Roger, he was there to be with Carol and to finally live in a
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