Dugan's motives were self-serving and had nothing to do with the truth. Cruz was acquitted at his third trial in 1995, after which the State's Attorney also dismissed charges against Hernandez because of discrediting of evidence and testimony that were the basis of his conviction in a third trial. In 1996, seven DuPage County law enforcement officials: three prosecutors and four sheriff's deputies, were tried but acquitted of conspiring to frame Cruz and Hernandez. Advances in DNA profiling allowed prosecutors to re-open the Nicarico case against Dugan, as his DNA was found to match that in forensic DNA in semen at the scene. Still in prison, Dugan was indicted in 2005 for the Nicarico murder. In 2009, Dugan pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced by a jury to death. Following Illinois's passage in 2011 of a law to abolish the death penalty in the state, Dugan's sentence was commuted to life in prison. He is serving his sentence at the Stateville Correctional Center. Possible encounter with John Wayne Gacy In 2008, the Daily Herald reported that Dugan had claimed, since the 1980s, that in 1972, he had been molested as a juvenile by serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Dugan reportedly encountered a man at a Lisle grocery store who offered him a job. Dugan got in the man's car, and the man took him to a secluded area. There he forced Dugan to model bikini brief underwear and perform oral sex on him. The man gave Dugan $20 and returned him to the grocery store where he had picked up the youth. Dugan claimed that after seeing Gacy's face following Gacy's 1978 arrest, he realized that Gacy was the same man from the grocery store. Gacy prosecutor Terry Sullivan publicly doubted the story. He noted that Dugan did not report the events at the time. He also said that Dugan's account did not match Gacy's typical methods nor was Lisle known as one of Gacy's hunting grounds. However, prosecutor Sullivan said that Dugan did fit the profile of Gacy's victims. See also List of United States death row inmates List of serial killers in the United States References 1956 births 1983 murders in the United States 1984 murders in the United States 1985 murders in the United States 20th-century American criminals American male criminals American murderers of children American people convicted of murder American people convicted of theft