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Seventeen Victims and the Warnings Everyone Ignored
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A naked, drugged fourteen-year-old stood bleeding in a Milwaukee hallway — and police handed him back to Jeffrey Dahmer. This chapter traces every warning that was heard, dismissed, and buried before Tracy Edwards finally ran.
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Two Milwaukee police officers stood in the hallway of an apartment building on North Twenty-Fifth Street in May of nineteen ninety-one. In front of them was a fourteen-year-old boy.
By May of nineteen ninety-one, Jeffrey Dahmer had already been killing for thirteen years. His first murder was in nineteen seventy-eight.
Glodean Cleveland lived below Dahmer's apartment. She complained repeatedly.
In May of nineteen ninety-one, a fourteen-year-old boy named Konerak Sinthasomphone managed to get out of Dahmer's apartment. What had already been done to him by that point was horrific.
The two responding officers later described what they saw as a domestic dispute between gay men. One officer reportedly joked about it on the radio as they left.
This wasn't the only time he deployed that defense. The fish smell.
In July of nineteen ninety-one, Tracy Edwards managed to get out. He was still wearing a handcuff on his wrist when he flagged down police on the street.
Dahmer went to trial in January of nineteen ninety-two. He did not contest the murders.
Dahmer didn't serve long. On November twenty-eighth, nineteen ninety-four, he was beaten to death at Columbia Correctional by a fellow inmate named Christopher Scarver.
The Dahmer case is often reduced to its most extreme details. The drilling.
The Sinthasomphone family lost two members to Jeffrey Dahmer. One survived.
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