Guess who just retired? The cop who brought one of Jeffrey Dahmer's teen victims back to him

That must have eaten him up for years.

The cop, I mean.

The transcript of communication between the cops and the women who called the police is haunting, and it also comes back to black people not being listened to by authorities. The women insisted that the kid was a child, but they were casually brushed off in a way that is horrifying since the kid could have been saved. The cop seemed to suggest some along the lines of "this is just how these fags are - drugged up and decadent."

The lack of accountability is so far overdue. This is just once glimpse of how the police have failed to protect people, primarily because their words and lives don't seem to matter.

I bet that asshole never gave it another moments thought that he basically killed that kid. And now he gets to retire with a nice fat pension .

All I can add to this is that, at that time, the Milwaukee cops were undergoing intense 'sensitivity training' because of their treatment of minorities, including homosexuals. I don't know about the cop in question but his decision could have been made on either level: He was being sensitive to Dahmer's claim that the boy was his lover OR he was being a cruel prick to the woman who was trying to save the kid.

Either way, I wonder what he thought about his decision later in his life...

I remember the report that they laughed at this being a queer domestic, in spite of the poor boy crying, naked and bleeding

And I’m sure the police union fought tooth and nail for this idiot to keep his job.

I wish I hadn’t read this. That’s enough internet for me today. See you all tomorrow!

He retired in 2017.

Anyone know how many more victims after Konerak Sinthasomphone?

Fire him on what grounds? Not having ESP?

R10

Not checking the boy's ID in spite of the 2 girls who called the police insisting he was a kid?

Not checking Dahmer's ID which would have shown he was a convicted molester (of the victim's brother no less)

Not investigating the unmistakable stench of rotting bodies they admit to smelling when returning the boy to the apartment (a rotting corpse was in the bedroom)

Not investigating why the boy was so out of it, bleeding, naked and in distress

Making vicious gay jokes (recorded) afterwards

By failure of action they helped Dahmer stay free to kill again

That poor kid. That’s all I got to say. To be so close to surviving, only to be delivered back into Hell by police officers.

R10 Don’t be such a stupid cunt

"Cleveland described countless times how she called the police that fateful night, how she finally reached an officer connected with the incident, and how she asked him repeatedly if the male with Dahmer was a child in peril. She called back a few days later after seeing Konerak's photo in a newspaper article about his disappearance. No one got back to her. She tried again. Same result. She even tried calling the FBI, but got nowhere. Five of Dahmer's 17 murders, including Konerak, came after Cleveland tried to alert police."

"Konerak Sinthasomphone, 14. The younger brother of the boy Dahmer had assaulted in 1988. Sinthasomphone was drugged and had hydrochloric acid injected into his brain before Dahmer left the youth unattended as he left the apartment to purchase beer. When he returned, he discovered Sinthasomphone naked and disoriented in the street, with three distressed young women attempting to assist him. When police arrived, Dahmer persuaded them he and Sinthasomphone were lovers and that the youth was simply intoxicated. When police left Sinthasomphone with Dahmer in his apartment, Dahmer again injected hydrochloric acid into Sinthasomphone's brain, and this proved fatal. His head was retained in the freezer and his body dismembered."

[quote]Anyone know how many more victims after Konerak Sinthasomphone?

What the hell kind of name is that to have?!!

R5 Konerak wasn't crying or hysterical. He was doped and stumbling. He had barely made it out of Dahmer's apartment when Dahmer caught up with him in the street and convinced the police that he and Konerak had an argument and Konerak was distraught. This doesn't make any excuse for what the cop did, I'm just correcting your take on the circumstances. If the child had been crying and hysterical, there would have been nothing the cop (or the police union) could have done to save the cop's job, particularly because there was a witness.

Like being doped and stumbling is any better? And he did not look 18.

Thank you R18

Dahmer murdered two more victims after this child.

R6, yep. He was fired, challenged his termination, then reinstated. And his fellow "good cops" subsequently elected him president of their police association.

Even if he hadn't been terminated, what kind of sociopath would insist on keeping his job after that massive a failure? Any decent person would have to step away to deal with the guilt and find a way to atone. Can you imagine a firefighter locking someone into a burning building, then insisting that he should get to keep being a firefighter because what he did wasn't so bad?

^ Amen

R20 he killed 4 more times afterwards

R16, Vietnamese.

No, Thai.

I believe Konerak Sinthasomphone was a 14-year old Laotian.

It all reeks of Homophobia.

Yeah, I believe he and another officer laughed about sending the boy back as it was just one of those "weird gay lover quarrels" or something along those lines (what he said was probably way worse but you get the picture).

There were 4 things going on (and people can get mad, I don't care):

1. Police saw this as a gay thing, i.e., who gives a fuck.

2. Jeffrey Dahmer was Caucasian.

3. Konerak Sinthasomphone was brown, somehow didn't matter to police that he was 14.

4. Reporters were black (people concerned enough to contact police).

Why did he go to Dahmer's house in the first place? Most fourteen-year-old would have enough common sense not to go alone to the house of an adult stranger who offers to pay them to pose for nude photos.

And one would think a kid whose elder brother had been sexually molested only a few years earlier would be more careful. Was he incredibly naive and stupid or was he already working as a hustler at that age?

I knew about Dahmer because he was a famous "gay killer" but I never heard about this incident with Konerak until I read about in on Crime Library as a teenager. It's always haunted me.

^^^wow, that's fucking victim shaming to the max.

That was for R30

[quote] And one would think a kid whose elder brother had been sexually molested only a few years earlier would be more careful. Was he incredibly naive and stupid or was he already working as a hustler at that age?

I have experience in law enforcement, sex crimes. Plus, just life experience. Once you live in an environment where sexual assaults are taking place, that becomes your "normal." Especially as a child. I'm guessing this boy wanted to get high and Dahmer was like: "Hey little boy, you want some candy?"

Let's insult the victim for being "stupid" instead of insulting the murderer for being evil!

Yes, let's come down hard on a fourteen-year-old immigrant adolescent for being lured, tortured, raped, and murdered. FFS, r30, there is something wrong with you.

r29 has it in a nutshell.

It's outrageous and shameful that this cop was allowed back onto the force, and his subsequent position in the union speaks very clearly to the need for both deep police reform and a limiting of powers of the union. Serve and protect fucking whom?

The fact that he brought that boy back to him has always been mind-boggling to me. He could've prevented a death.

Jesus. I didn't know about the hydrochloric acid in the brain. The whole thing is terrifying, but that is another level.

R18 It is hard to tell with some gaysians though. They are all so slight and short I can see why that dumb cop would not be able to discern a 14 year old from 18- 20 year old like Dahmer told him.

^ Except for the two black women who'd seen him playing in the neighborhood and insisting that he was a child.

It's inexcusable on every level.

R37, we all know the answer to that question, but in case you were seriously wondering, I have a story.

Back in the day when I was still thinking I was a straight, married woman, the police ambushed my husband - Mr. Clean cut All American - because a local business had asked them to 'look into' us after a dispute about payment with a local business. The business had been paid for their services, but not an exorbitant late payment fee after issuing the bill well after service was rendered. My husband knew the consumer laws and challenged it and that's when the trouble started. No laws broken, no confrontation of any sort other than a refusal to pay the late fee, yet the police are called.

The police arrest him on a warrant. An old warrant issued over 20 years before. Turns out they don't go looking for you when warrants are issued and so there it sat - unused and unenforced. Turns out there was a nefarious reason for this.

The warrant had been issued for non-appearance on a charge of disorderly conduct. A fight had occurred in my husband's old home town, outside of a bar, and the attacker had been arrested. The attacker was the son of a local cop. His uncle was a registry cop in the big city nearby. The attacker had the same name as my husband. Solution? Give the arresting authorities the false SSN and address given to him by his registry cop uncle and have the whole thing disappear when the real SSN holder - my husband - never shows up. The attacker walks.

Until 20 years later and some small town merchant uses their white privilege to have local cops 'look into' people exercising their consumer rights. That night was a nightmare. They literally jumped him in the driveway and took him to the hometown, 50 miles away, and locked him up without reading him his rights because he supposedly already knew what he had done. Warrant arrests don't require Miranda rights readings. Thankfully, we had a private investigator find out what happened, but there was NO repercussion for the fraud and damage done. Even the merchant's phone call had been covered up. It wasn't illegal to ask the cops to check us out, but they hid it all the same. All that happened was that the judge dismissed the case under the evidence of the arrest record that clearly demonstrated the two people were not the same. Everything else was just swept under the rug. We were white, but not some rich town merchant. We were renters, interlopers, outsiders and had the temerity to challenge one of their own.

POC, the poor, gay men, anyone they 'don't like' are sacrificed to their 'decency' - so they can preserve their privilege and prevent folks like us from getting a foothold into their oh so nice community and share in their perceived advantages.

They're corrupt and only protect white business, white people they consider worth protecting (not poor) and themselves.

This shit needs to end. This kid didn't need to die. They are trained not to give a fuck about POC and see them as the enemy. As more military types came into the police forces, it got worse. It's not serve and protect....it's search out the enemy and destroy. That's the dirty little secret of our police forces - vets with untreated PTSD, overly reactive and violent, being given preferential hiring.

Before the investigation, he had demonstrators, I think including his wife, supporting him. Lots of people in the newspapers were saying that he looked over 18 and it was just gay sex as usual.

Didn't the cop say something like the victim was "de-Laosed"? It was considered police "dark humor".

No excuse. At least investigate. Take the boy, that the women were adamant was 14. He was bleeding from his butt and head. The cops failed spectacularly that night and his reward was a promotion. Then 4 more died.

jfc r42, that is awful.

By R10's logic, a PO's job doesn't actually entail...investigating a potential crime even with the pleas of TWO witnesses. If they're not actually psychic, then meh, just move on.

Everything about this story is just horrific.

And than you for telling your story r42

🙄 OP. Like anyone would have GUESSED that!!

Stop using idiotic phrases that aren’t necessary.

WTF is R48 and his dumb emoji talking about?

R42, so you understand the anger, particularly in the black community when they're dealing with POs?

Maybe they shared him with a nice bottle of Chianti.