Editing Jeffrey Dahmer (section)

====1991 murders====
In February 1991, Dahmer observed a 17-year-old named Curtis Straughter standing at a bus stop near [[Marquette University]]. According to Dahmer, he lured Straughter into his apartment with an offer of money for posing for nude photos,{{sfn|Norris|1992|pp=220–221}} with the added incentive of sexual intercourse. Dahmer drugged Straughter, cuffed his hands behind his back, then strangled him to death with a leather strap. He then dismembered Straughter, retaining his skull, hands, and genitals and photographing each stage of the dismemberment process.{{sfn|Gadd|Jefferson|2007|p=92}}

Less than two months later, on April 7, Dahmer encountered a 19-year-old named Errol Lindsey<ref name="Bardsley-10"/>{{sfn|Dahmer|1994|p=211}} walking to get a key cut. Dahmer lured Lindsey to his apartment where he drugged him, then drilled a hole in his skull through which he injected [[hydrochloric acid]] with a [[Basting (cooking)|baster]].{{sfn|Purcell|Arrigo|2006|p=81}} According to Dahmer, Lindsey awoke after this experiment (which Dahmer had conceived in the hope of inducing a permanent, unresistant, submissive state), saying: "I have a headache. What time is it?"{{sfn|Aggrawal|2016|p=128}}<ref name="Response">{{cite journal |journal=Killers |title=Dahmer: How He was Killed |issue=6 |page=40}}</ref> In response to this, Dahmer again drugged Lindsey, then strangled him. He decapitated Lindsey and retained his skull.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=158}} He then flayed Lindsey's body, placing the skin in a solution of cold water and salt for several weeks in the hope of permanently retaining it. Reluctantly, he disposed of Lindsey's skin when he noted it had become too frayed and brittle.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=158}}

By 1991, fellow residents of the Oxford Apartments had repeatedly complained to the building's manager, Sopa Princewill, of the foul smells emanating from Apartment 213, in addition to the sounds of falling objects and the occasional sound of a chainsaw.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Alex|last=Prud'Homme|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,973550-1,00.html|title=The Little Flat of Horrors|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|publisher=[[Meredith Corporation]]|date=August 5, 1991|access-date=August 19, 2012|archive-date=September 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926005156/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,973550-1,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Princewill contacted Dahmer in response to these complaints on several occasions, although he initially excused the odors emanating from his apartment as being caused by his freezer breaking, causing the contents to become "spoiled". On later occasions, he informed Princewill that the reason for the resurgence of the odor was that several of his tropical fish had recently died, and that he would take care of the matter.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=162}}

On May 24, 1991, Dahmer encountered 31-year-old aspiring model Tony Hughes at a nightclub. He was lured to Dahmer's apartment with an offer of money to pose for photographs.{{refn|group=n|According to a friend of Hughes named Michael Ross, Hughes had known Dahmer "for a long time" prior to his murder. Ross further expounded: "Tony and Jeff had had [sexual] relations. Tony told me so."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lambe |first=Stacy |date=October 11, 2022 |title=Mother of Jeffrey Dahmer Victim Tony Hughes Speaks Out Against Netflix Limited Series |url=https://www.cbs8.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/mother-of-jeffrey-dahmer-victim-tony-hughes-speaks-out-against-netflix-limited-series/603-c5e7f26a-39e7-4fc1-99e9-b413229fb50c |access-date=November 8, 2022 |work=[[CBS]] |language=en-US |archive-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107081300/https://www.cbs8.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/mother-of-jeffrey-dahmer-victim-tony-hughes-speaks-out-against-netflix-limited-series/603-c5e7f26a-39e7-4fc1-99e9-b413229fb50c |url-status=live }}</ref>}} Hughes was drugged into unconsciousness before Dahmer injected hydrochloric acid into his skull in an effort to disable his [[Volition (psychology)|will]] and render him submissive, although on this occasion, the drilling and injection proved fatal.<ref name=FBIReportPart6>{{cite web|url=https://vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-lionel-dahmer/jeffrey-lionel-dahmer-part-06-of-19|title=Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts: Subject: Jeffrey Dahmer (Part 6 of 19)|publisher=[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]|url-status=live|date=August 12, 1991|access-date=October 6, 2022|archive-date=October 5, 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005012159/https://vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-lionel-dahmer/jeffrey-lionel-dahmer-part-06-of-19}}</ref>
[[File:Konerak Sinthasomphone.jpg|120px|thumb|right|Konerak Sinthasomphone]]

On the afternoon of May 26, 1991, Dahmer encountered a 14-year-old [[Lao people|Lao]] teenager, Konerak Sinthasomphone, on Wisconsin Avenue. Unknown to Dahmer, Sinthasomphone was the younger brother of the boy he had [[child molestation|molested]] in 1988.<ref name="seattletimes 911 Tapes">{{cite news |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19910802&slug=1297813 |title=Could Police Have Saved Young Victim? 911 Tapes Show Officers Were In Dahmer's Place, Left Teen To Fate |first=Rogers |last=Worthington |work=The Seattle Times |date=August 2, 1991 |access-date=January 21, 2021 |archive-date=January 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128124519/https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19910802&slug=1297813 |url-status=live}}</ref> Dahmer offered Sinthasomphone money to accompany him to his apartment to pose for Polaroid pictures. According to Dahmer, Sinthasomphone was initially reluctant to the proposal, before changing his mind and accompanying him to his apartment, where he posed for two pictures in his underwear before Dahmer drugged him into unconsciousness and performed oral sex on him.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=176}} Before Sinthasomphone fell unconscious, Dahmer led the boy into his bedroom, where the body of Tony Hughes, whom Dahmer had killed three days earlier, lay naked on the floor.{{sfn|Norris|1992|p=235}} According to Dahmer, he "believed [that Sinthasomphone] saw this body" yet did not react to seeing the bloated corpse—likely because of the effects of the sleeping pills he had ingested.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=177}}

On this occasion, Dahmer drilled a single narrow hole into the [[Crown (anatomy)|crown]] of Sinthasomphone's skull, through which he injected hydrochloric acid into the [[frontal lobe]].{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=176}} Dahmer then drank several beers while lying alongside Sinthasomphone before briefly falling asleep, then leaving his apartment to drink at a bar and purchase more alcohol.{{sfn|Dvorchak|Holewa|1992|p=75-76}}

In the early morning hours of May 27, Dahmer returned toward his apartment to discover Sinthasomphone sitting naked on the corner of 25th and State, talking in [[Lao Language|Lao]], with three distressed young women standing near him.<ref>{{cite news |last=Imrie |first=Robert |title=Family's Two Encounters With Dahmer End in Grief |url=https://apnews.com/article/cf8be6b534d97ca9b62e10dd72141b15 |publisher=Associated Press |date=July 27, 1991 |access-date=January 22, 2021 |archive-date=February 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204201612/https://apnews.com/article/cf8be6b534d97ca9b62e10dd72141b15 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Stephenson |first=Crocker |title=2 Women Say Police Failed to Aid 14-year-old |url=https://www.marquette.edu/cgi-bin/cuap/db.cgi?uid=default&ID=1112&view=Search&mh=1 |work=Milwaukee Sentinel |date=July 26, 1991 |access-date=September 22, 2022 |archive-date=April 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423141808/https://www.marquette.edu/cgi-bin/cuap/db.cgi?uid=default&ID=1112&view=Search&mh=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> Dahmer approached the women and told them that Sinthasomphone (whom he referred to by the [[pseudonym|alias]] John Hmong)<ref>{{cite news |last=Worthington |first=Rogers |title=After Dahmer: Police Try To Learn |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-12-13-9204230642-story.html |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |location=Chicago |date=December 13, 1992 |access-date=January 22, 2021 |archive-date=April 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417193528/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-12-13-9204230642-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Dahmer Incident Report Reveals Contradictions |url=https://journaltimes.com/news/national/dahmer-incident-report-reveals-contradictions/article_0a234184-65a7-5a63-89d6-4d7caedbf1a5.html |work=Journal Times |date=August 31, 1991 |access-date=April 4, 2020 |archive-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201015091228/https://journaltimes.com/news/national/dahmer-incident-report-reveals-contradictions/article_0a234184-65a7-5a63-89d6-4d7caedbf1a5.html |url-status=live}}</ref> was his friend, and attempted to lead him to his apartment by the arm. The three women dissuaded Dahmer, explaining they had phoned [[9-1-1]].{{sfn|Davis|1991|p=7}}

Upon the arrival of two Milwaukee police officers, [[John Balcerzak]] and Joseph Gabrish,<ref>{{cite news |first=Edward |last=Walsh |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/08/30/officers-in-dahmer-case-are-cleared/df515671-4147-48cb-b4d4-d82f6dfbeca3 |title=Officers in Dahmer Case Are Cleared |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=August 30, 1991 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124000108/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/08/30/officers-in-dahmer-case-are-cleared/df515671-4147-48cb-b4d4-d82f6dfbeca3 |url-status=live}}</ref> Dahmer's demeanor relaxed: he told the officers that Sinthasomphone was his 19-year-old boyfriend, that he had drunk too much following a quarrel,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/26/us/officer-defends-giving-boy-back-to-dahmer.html |title=Officer Defends Giving Boy Back to Dahmer |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 26, 1991 |access-date=December 14, 2017 |archive-date=December 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215111023/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/26/us/officer-defends-giving-boy-back-to-dahmer.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and that he frequently behaved in this manner when [[alcohol intoxication|intoxicated]]. Dahmer added his lover had consumed [[Jack Daniel's]] whiskey that evening.

The three women were exasperated, and when one of the trio attempted to indicate to one of the officers—both of whom had observed no injuries beyond a scrape to Sinthasomphone's knee and believed him to be intoxicated<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/13/us/officers-tell-jury-of-letting-dahmer-keep-boy.html|title=Officers Tell Jury of Letting Dahmer Keep Boy|work=The New York Times|date=February 13, 1992|access-date=October 2, 2021|archive-date=October 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211002001030/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/13/us/officers-tell-jury-of-letting-dahmer-keep-boy.html|url-status=live}}</ref>—that Sinthasomphone had blood upon his testicles, was bleeding from his rectum and that he had seemingly struggled against Dahmer's attempts to walk him to his apartment prior to their arrival,{{refn|group=n|The witnesses' observations regarding blood upon Sinthasomphone's testicles and rectum were not [[Corroborating evidence|corroborated]] by either the Milwaukee police officers or members of the [[Milwaukee Fire Department]] who also arrived at the scene.<ref name="nytimes Queried Suspect"/>{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=178}}<ref name="CourtTVCJC"/>}} the officer harshly informed her to "butt out",<ref name="nytimes Queried Suspect">{{cite news |first=James |last=Barron |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/27/us/milwaukee-police-once-queried-suspect.html |title=Milwaukee Police Once Queried Suspect |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 27, 1991 |access-date=December 5, 2013 |archive-date=September 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926015603/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/27/us/milwaukee-police-once-queried-suspect.html |url-status=live}}</ref> "shut the hell up" and to not interfere.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=179}}

Shortly after the arrival of the [[Milwaukee]] police officers, three members of the [[Milwaukee Fire Department]] arrived at the scene. These individuals also examined Sinthasomphone for injuries and provided a yellow blanket for the police officers to cover Sinthasomphone. One of the three believed Sinthasomphone needed treatment, but the police officers directed the fire department personnel to leave.<ref name="judge decision"/><ref name="CourtTVCJC">{{cite web|url=https://www.courttv.com/title/46-wi-v-dahmer-officer-joseph-gabrish-lt-kenneth-meuler|title=WI v. Dahmer (1992): Officer Joseph Gabrish & Lt. Kenneth Meuler|publisher=courttv.com|date=January 1, 2021|access-date=October 2, 2021|archive-date=October 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211002001030/https://www.courttv.com/title/46-wi-v-dahmer-officer-joseph-gabrish-lt-kenneth-meuler|url-status=live}}</ref> Shortly thereafter, officer Richard Porubcan arrived at the scene.{{refn|group=n|The family of Sinthasomphone would later sue the City of Milwaukee and the three police officers, alleging violations of the [[Equal Protection Clause]] of the [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourteenth Amendment]]. These charges were summarily dismissed.<ref name="judge decision">{{cite court|litigants=Estate of Sinthasomphone v. City of Milwaukee|vol=838|reporter=Federal Supplement|opinion=1320|pinpoint=1324|url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/838/1320/2255276|court=E.D. Wis.|date=November 23, 1993|access-date=October 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004164647/https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/838/1320/2255276/|url-status=live}}</ref>}} He and Gabrish—followed by Balcerzak—escorted Dahmer and Sinthasomphone to Dahmer's apartment as Dahmer repeatedly commented on the general crime in the neighborhood and of his appreciation of the police.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/article/0ba6b2561e42e490b10d65dab53f370e|title=Judge Dismisses Key Claim in Lawsuit By Dahmer Victim's Family|date=November 25, 1993|publisher=Associated Press|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=January 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123234251/https://apnews.com/article/0ba6b2561e42e490b10d65dab53f370e|url-status=live}}</ref>

Inside his apartment and in an effort to verify his claim that he and Sinthasomphone were lovers, Dahmer showed the officers the two semi-nude Polaroid pictures he had taken of Sinthasomphone the previous evening. Though Balcerzak said he smelled nothing unusual, Gabrish later stated he noted a strange scent reminiscent of excrement inside the apartment.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/02/11/Officer-says-he-noticed-nothing-unusual-about-Dahmer/6400697784400 |title=Officer Says He Noticed Nothing Unusual About Dahmer |first=Jerry |last=Smith |work=United Press International |date=February 11, 1992 |access-date=January 20, 2021 |archive-date=January 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120100209/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/02/11/Officer-says-he-noticed-nothing-unusual-about-Dahmer/6400697784400 |url-status=live}}</ref> This odor emanated from the [[human decomposition|decomposing]] body of Hughes.<ref>{{cite news |first=Rogers |last=Worthington |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-02-01-9201100268-story.html |title=Dahmer Escapee Tells of Close Call |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |publisher=[[Tronc]] |location=Chicago, Illinois |date=February 1, 1992 |access-date=January 20, 2021 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112022958/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-02-01-9201100268-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Robert|last=Imrie|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xe0eAAAAIBAJ&pg=5153,134140|title=Officers Were in Dahmer's Apartment|agency=Associated Press|work=The Times-News|publisher=[[New Media Investment Group]]|location=Burlington, North Carolina|date=August 2, 1991|access-date=December 5, 2013|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120042351/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xe0eAAAAIBAJ&pg=5153%2C134140|url-status=live}}</ref> Dahmer stated that to investigate this odor, one officer simply "peeked his head around the bedroom, but really didn't take a good look".<ref name="nytimes Queried Suspect"/>{{refn|group=n|Had Balcerzak and Gabrish conducted a [[background check]] pertaining to this incident, the check would have revealed Dahmer was on probation for the September 1988 sexual assault of a thirteen-year-old boy—incidentally Sinthasomphone's older brother.{{sfn|Norris|1992|pp=230–231}}}} The officers then left, with a departing remark that Dahmer "take good care" of Sinthasomphone.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=180}} This incident was listed by the officers as a "[[domestic violence|domestic dispute]]".<ref name="nytimes Queried Suspect"/>{{refn|group=n|Having left Sinthasomphone in the company of Dahmer, the patrol unit which had responded to the women's 911 call then radioed their dispatch unit. Above evident laughter from one or more of his colleagues, one officer informed his dispatch unit: "Intoxicated, Asian, naked male was returned to his sober boyfriend{{nbsp}}...  My partner [is] going to get [[Treatment of human head lice|deloused]] at the station."{{sfn|Norris|1992|p=235}}{{sfn|Dvorchak|Holewa|1992|p=79}}}}

Upon the departure of the three officers from his apartment, Dahmer again injected hydrochloric acid into Sinthasomphone's brain. This second injection proved fatal. The following day, May 28, Dahmer took a day's leave from work to devote himself to the dismemberment of the bodies of Sinthasomphone and Hughes. He retained both victims' skulls.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=182}}

On June 30, Dahmer traveled to Chicago, where he encountered a 20-year-old named Matt Turner at a bus station.{{sfn|Norris|1992|pp=252–253}} Turner accepted Dahmer's offer to travel to Milwaukee for a [[photo shoot|professional photo shoot]]. At the apartment, Dahmer drugged, strangled and dismembered Turner and placed his head and internal organs in separate plastic bags in the freezer.{{sfn|Masters|1993|pp=188–189}} Turner was not reported missing. Five days later, on July 5, Dahmer lured 23-year-old Jeremiah Weinberger from a Chicago bar to his apartment on the promise of spending the weekend with him. He drugged Weinberger and twice injected boiling water through his skull, sending him into a [[coma]] from which he died two days later.{{sfn|Masters|1993|pp=188–189}}{{refn|group=n|Dahmer chose to inject boiling water as opposed to [[hydrochloric acid]] into Weinberger's skull as three previous attempts to render victims unresistant and submissive via acid injections had been unsuccessful.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=189}}}}

On July 15, Dahmer encountered 24-year-old{{sfn|Dvorchak|Holewa|1992|p=181}} Oliver Lacy at the corner of 27th and Kilbourn.{{sfn|Norris|1992|p=254}} Lacy agreed to Dahmer's ruse of posing nude for photographs and accompanied him to his apartment, where the pair engaged in tentative sexual activity before Dahmer drugged Lacy. On this occasion, Dahmer intended to prolong the time he spent with Lacy while alive. After unsuccessfully attempting to render Lacy unconscious with [[chloroform]],{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=190}} he phoned his workplace to request a day's absence; this was granted, although the next day, he was suspended.{{sfn|Dvorchak|Holewa|1992|p=181}}

After strangling Lacy, Dahmer had sex with the corpse before dismembering him.{{sfn|Dvorchak|Holewa|1992|p=181}} He placed Lacy's head and heart in the refrigerator and his skeleton in the freezer.{{sfn|Dvorchak|Holewa|1992|p=181}} Four days later, on July 19, Dahmer received word that he was dismissed.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=184}} Upon receipt of this news, Dahmer lured 25-year-old Joseph Bradehoft to his apartment. Bradehoft was strangled and left lying on Dahmer's bed covered with a sheet for two days. On July 21, Dahmer removed the sheet to find the head covered in maggots. He decapitated the body, cleaned the head and placed it in the refrigerator.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=185}} He later acidified Bradehoft's torso, along with those of two other victims killed within the previous month.{{sfn|Dvorchak|Holewa|1992|p=90}}{{sfn|Norris|1992|p=258}}