Editing Jeffrey Dahmer (section)

==Late 20s and early 30s: subsequent murders==
===Ambassador Hotel===
On November 20, 1987, Dahmer, at the time still residing with his grandmother, encountered a 25-year-old man from [[Ontonagon, Michigan]], named Steven Tuomi at a bar and persuaded him to return to the Ambassador Hotel in Milwaukee, where Dahmer had rented a room for the evening. According to Dahmer, he had no intention of killing Tuomi, but intended to simply drug him and lie beside him as he explored his body. The following morning, Dahmer awoke to find Tuomi lying beneath him on the bed, his chest "crushed in" and "black and blue" with bruises. Blood was seeping from the corner of his mouth, and Dahmer's fists and one forearm were extensively bruised. Dahmer later said he had no memory of having killed Tuomi,<ref name="Bardsley-7"/>{{sfn|Norris|1992|pp=137, 141}} and that he "could not believe this had happened".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.news9live.com/knowledge/jeffrey-dahmer-know-about-life-and-crimes-of-the-american-serial-killer-whose-gruesome-crimes-have-created-worldwide-sensation-201753|title=Jeffrey Dahmer: Know About Life and Crimes of the American Serial Killer Whose Gruesome Crimes have Created Worldwide Sensation|publisher=News9Live|date=October 13, 2022|access-date=October 22, 2022|archive-date=October 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022202646/https://www.news9live.com/knowledge/jeffrey-dahmer-know-about-life-and-crimes-of-the-american-serial-killer-whose-gruesome-crimes-have-created-worldwide-sensation-201753|url-status=live}}</ref>

Dahmer purchased a large suitcase, in which he transported Tuomi's body to his grandmother's residence. One week later,{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=110}} he severed the head, arms, and legs,{{sfn|Norris|1992|p=137}} then filleted the bones from the body before cutting the flesh into pieces small enough to handle. Dahmer placed the flesh inside plastic garbage bags.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=110}} He wrapped the bones inside a sheet and pounded them into splinters with a sledgehammer. The dismemberment process took Dahmer approximately two hours. He disposed of all of Tuomi's remains, excluding the head,{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=111}} in the trash.{{sfn|Norris|1992|p=142}}

For two weeks following Tuomi's killing, Dahmer retained Tuomi's head wrapped in a blanket. After two weeks, Dahmer boiled the head in a mixture of Soilax<ref>{{cite web|last=Hayden|first=Aly|url=https://www.oxygen.com/blogs/jeffrey-dahmer-crime-scene-photos|title=Jeffrey Dahmer Crime Scene Photographs|website=oxygen.com|date=November 9, 2017|access-date=October 18, 2022|archive-date=October 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017172919/https://www.oxygen.com/blogs/jeffrey-dahmer-crime-scene-photos|url-status=live}}</ref> (an [[alkalinity|alkali]]-based industrial detergent) and bleach in an effort to retain the skull, which he then used as stimulus for masturbation. Eventually, the skull became too brittle by this bleaching process, so Dahmer pulverized and disposed of it.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=111}}

===Intermediate murders===
According to Dahmer, Tuomi's murder was a pivotal incident after which he did not try to control his compulsions.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mendoza |first=Madalyn |title=A Year After His First Murder, Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer Moved to San Antonio for Military Training |date=July 28, 2017 |url=https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/murder-Jeffrey-Dahmer-moved-to-San-Antonio-11510841.php |newspaper=[[San Antonio Express-News]] |access-date=December 7, 2022 |archive-date=December 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207191334/https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/murder-Jeffrey-Dahmer-moved-to-San-Antonio-11510841.php |url-status=live }}</ref> He began to actively seek victims, most of whom he encountered in or around gay bars and would typically lure them to his grandmother's home. He would drug his victim with [[triazolam]] or [[temazepam]] before or shortly after engaging in sexual activity with them. Once his victim was unconscious, he strangled them to death.{{sfn|Roy|2002|p=103}}<ref>{{Cite news|last=Worthington|first=Rogers|title=Dahmer's Grisly Motivation is Debated|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-01-31-9201100008-story.html|date=January 31, 1992|access-date=June 18, 2021|newspaper=[[The Chicago Tribune]]|archive-date=May 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518060911/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-01-31-9201100008-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Two months after the Tuomi killing, Dahmer encountered a 14-year-old [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] prostitute, James Doxtator.{{sfn|Wilson|Wilson|2006|pp=109–110}} Dahmer lured him to his grandmother's residence with an offer of $50 to pose for nude pictures. They engaged in sexual activity before Dahmer drugged Doxtator and strangled him on the floor of the cellar.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=119}} Dahmer left the body in the cellar for one week before dismembering it in much the same manner as he had with Tuomi. He placed all of Doxtator's remains (excluding the skull) in the trash. The skull was boiled and cleansed in bleach before Dahmer found that it, too, had been rendered brittle by the process. He pulverized the skull two weeks later.{{sfn|Norris|1992|p=151}}

On March 24, 1988, Dahmer met a 22-year-old [[bisexual]] man, Richard Guerrero, outside a gay bar called the Phoenix.{{sfn|Norris|1992|p=151}} Dahmer lured Guerrero to his grandmother's residence, offering him $50 to spend the night with him.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=121}} He drugged Guerrero with sleeping pills, strangled him with a leather strap, and performed oral sex on the corpse.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=121}} Dahmer dismembered Guerrero's body within 24 hours, again disposing of the remains in the trash and retaining the skull before pulverizing it several months later.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=129}}

On April 2,{{sfn|Masters|1993|pp=121-23}} Dahmer lured Ronald Flowers Jr. to his house; however, after giving Flowers a drugged coffee, both he and Flowers heard Dahmer's grandmother call, "Is that you, Jeff?"{{sfn|Norris|1992|p=166}} Although Dahmer replied in a manner that led his grandmother to believe he was alone, she observed that he was not alone. Because of this, Dahmer was unable to kill Flowers. After Flowers became unconscious, Dahmer took him to the County General Hospital.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19920208&id=4OgzAAAAIBAJ&pg=3993,4435325 |title=Teen Describes Escape from Dahmer |work=[[Lodi News-Sentinel]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=February 8, 1992 |access-date=December 5, 2013 |archive-date=January 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122015032/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19920208&id=4OgzAAAAIBAJ&pg=3993%2C4435325 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=McCann |first=Sarah |date=September 29, 2022 |title=Ronald Flowers: What Happened to Jeffrey Dahmer Survivor and Where is He Now? |url=https://www.nationalworld.com/news/crime/ronald-flowers-who-is-jeffrey-dahmer-survivor-what-he-said-about-serial-killer-where-is-he-now-3860812 |access-date=October 14, 2022 |website=National World |archive-date=October 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014012442/https://www.nationalworld.com/news/crime/ronald-flowers-who-is-jeffrey-dahmer-survivor-what-he-said-about-serial-killer-where-is-he-now-3860812 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In September 1988, Dahmer's grandmother asked him to move out, largely because of his drinking, his habit of bringing young men to her house late at night, and the foul smells emanating from the basement and the garage. Dahmer found a one-bedroom apartment at 808 North 24th Street{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=125}} and moved into the residence on September 25.{{sfn|Dahmer|1994|p=132}} Two days later, he was arrested for drugging and sexually fondling a 13-year-old boy whom he had lured to his home on the pretext of posing nude for photographs.{{sfn|Dahmer|1994|pp=133–135}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.courttv.com/title/42-wi-v-dahmer-lt-donald-yockey-lt-scott-shaefer-officer-gary-temp|title=WI v. Dahmer (1992): Lt. Donald Yockey; Lt. Scott Shaefer & Officer Gary Temp|website=[[Court TV]]|date=January 1, 2021|access-date=October 10, 2021|archive-date=October 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010011224/https://www.courttv.com/title/42-wi-v-dahmer-lt-donald-yockey-lt-scott-shaefer-officer-gary-temp|url-status=live}}</ref>

Dahmer's father hired attorney Gerald Boyle to defend his son. At Boyle's request, Dahmer underwent a series of [[psychological evaluation]]s prior to his court hearings. The evaluations found that Dahmer harbored deep feelings of [[Social alienation|alienation]]. A second evaluation two months later revealed Dahmer to be an [[Impulse (psychology)|impulsive]] individual, suspicious of others, and dismayed by his lack of accomplishments in life. His probation officer also referenced a 1987 diagnosis of Dahmer suffering from a [[schizoid personality disorder]] for presentation to the court.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=131}}

On January 30, 1989, Dahmer pleaded guilty to the charges of second-degree [[sexual assault]] and of enticing a child for immoral purposes.{{sfn|Norris|1992|p=171}} Sentencing was suspended until May.{{sfn|Dvorchak|Holewa|1992|p=63}} On March 20, Dahmer commenced a ten-day Easter absence from work, during which he moved back into his grandmother's home.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=134}}

Two months after his conviction and two months prior to his sentencing, Dahmer murdered his fifth victim, a 24-year-old mixed-race aspiring model, Anthony Sears, whom he met at a gay bar on March 25, 1989. According to Dahmer, on this particular occasion he was not looking to commit a crime; however, shortly before closing time that evening, Sears "just started talking to me". Dahmer lured Sears to his grandmother's home, where the pair engaged in oral sex before Dahmer drugged and strangled Sears.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=136}}

The following morning, Dahmer placed the corpse in his grandmother's bathtub, where he decapitated the body before attempting to [[flaying|flay]] the corpse.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=136}} He stripped the flesh from the body and pulverized the bones, which he disposed of in the trash. According to Dahmer, he found Sears "exceptionally attractive", and Sears was the first victim from whom he permanently retained any body parts: he preserved Sears' head and genitalia in [[acetone]]<ref name="Bardsley-8"/> and stored them in a wooden box, which he later placed in his work locker.{{refn|group=n|On one occasion, Dahmer's father observed this box at Dahmer's grandmother's house. When he asked Dahmer to open the box, Dahmer became defensive and angry, claiming the box contained pornographic magazines and stating: "Can't I have just one square foot of privacy?" He then promised to open the box the following day, indicating to his father the box contained pornography. His father acceded to his request.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/84549229|title=Dahmer's Dad Subtly Lets Loose Rage in Book|work=The San Bernardino County Sun|date=April 17, 1994|access-date=July 4, 2021|archive-date=July 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185721/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/84549229|url-status=live}}</ref>}} When he moved to a new address the following year, he took the remains there.{{sfn|Norris|1992|p=197}}

On May 23, 1989,{{sfn|Dvorchak|Holewa|1992|p=63}} Dahmer was sentenced to five years' probation and one year in the House of Correction, with [[work release]] permitted so he could keep his job. He was also required to [[Sex offender registries in the United States|register as a sex offender]].{{sfn|Dahmer|1994|p=138}} Two months before his scheduled release, Dahmer was paroled from this regimen.<ref>{{cite news|title=So Many Dead, So Few Answers|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97112936/the-akron-beacon-journal|work=[[Akron Beacon Journal]]|date=August 11, 1991|access-date=October 22, 2022|archive-date=October 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022024848/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97112936/the-akron-beacon-journal/|url-status=live}}</ref> His five years' probation imposed in 1989 began at this point.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=138}} Dahmer temporarily moved back to his grandmother's home in West Allis.{{sfn|Dahmer|1994|pp=143–144}}

===Oxford Apartments===

====1990 murders====
On May 14, 1990, Dahmer moved out of his grandmother's house and into 924 North 25th Street, Apartment 213, taking Sears' [[mummified]] head and genitals with him.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=139}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2022/09/23/whats-real-fiction-monster-jeffrey-dahmer-story-netflix/8083469001|title=What's Real and What's Fiction in Netflix's Jeffrey Dahmer Series, 'Monster'|last=Radcliffe|first=J.R.|newspaper=[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]|url-status=live|date=September 23, 2022|access-date=October 6, 2022|archive-date=September 23, 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923122409/https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2022/09/23/whats-real-fiction-monster-jeffrey-dahmer-story-netflix/8083469001/}}</ref>{{refn|group=n|Shortly after moving into 924 North 25th Street, Dahmer purchased granite spray-paint from an art store. Having removed all flesh from Sears' head, he used this substance to spray-paint the skull and Sears' genitals. Dahmer also retained Sears' scalp.{{sfn|Masters|1993|pp=139–140}}}} Although located in a high-crime area, Dahmer's new apartment was close to his workplace, was furnished, and at $300 per month inclusive of all bills excluding electricity, was economical.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=139}} Within one week of his moving to this address, Dahmer killed his sixth victim, Raymond Smith. Smith was a 32-year-old prostitute whom Dahmer lured to his apartment with the promise of $50 for sex.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=141}} Inside the apartment, he gave Smith a drink laced with seven sleeping pills, then [[Strangling#Manual strangulation|manually strangled]] him.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=142}}

The following day, Dahmer purchased a [[Polaroid Corporation|Polaroid]] camera, with which he took several pictures of Smith's body in suggestive positions before dismembering him in the bathroom. He boiled the legs, arms, and pelvis in a steel kettle with Soilax, which allowed him to rinse the bones in his sink.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=142}} Dahmer dissolved the remainder of Smith's skeleton—excluding the skull—in a container filled with acid. He later spray-painted Smith's skull, which he placed alongside the skull of Sears upon a black towel inside a filing cabinet.{{sfn|Dvorchak|Holewa|1992|p=174}}

Approximately one week after the murder of Smith, on or about May 27, Dahmer lured another young man to his apartment. On this occasion, Dahmer accidentally consumed the drink laden with sedatives intended for his guest. When he awoke the following day, he discovered the man had stolen several items of clothing, $300 and a watch.{{sfn|Masters|1993|pp=142–143}} Dahmer never reported this incident to the police, although on May 29, he divulged to his probation officer that he had been robbed.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=143}}

In June 1990, Dahmer lured a 27-year-old acquaintance, Edward Smith, to his apartment, where he drugged and strangled him. On this occasion, rather than immediately acidifying the skeleton or repeating previous processes of bleaching, which had rendered previous victims' skulls brittle, Dahmer placed Smith's skeleton in his freezer for several months in the hope it would not retain moisture. Freezing the skeleton did not remove moisture, and the skeleton of this victim was acidified several months later. Dahmer accidentally destroyed the skull when he placed it in the oven to dry—a process that caused the skull to explode. Dahmer later informed police he had felt "rotten" about Smith's murder, as he had been unable to retain any parts of his body.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=146}}

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Less than three months after the murder of Edward Smith, Dahmer encountered a 22-year-old Chicago native named Ernest Miller outside a bookstore on the corner of North 27th Street. Miller agreed to accompany Dahmer to his apartment for $50 and further agreed to allow him to listen to his heart and stomach. When Dahmer attempted to perform oral sex upon Miller, he was informed, "That'll cost you extra", whereupon Dahmer gave Miller a drink laced with two sleeping pills.{{sfn|Masters|1993|pp=153–154}}

On this occasion, Dahmer had only two sleeping pills to give his victim. Therefore, he killed Miller by slashing his [[External carotid artery|carotid artery]] with the same knife he used to dissect his victims' bodies. Miller bled to death within minutes.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=154}} Dahmer then posed the nude body for various suggestive Polaroid photographs before placing it in his bathtub for dismemberment. Dahmer repeatedly kissed and talked to the severed head while he dismembered the remainder of the body.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=154}}

Dahmer wrapped Miller's heart, liver, biceps, and portions of flesh from the legs in plastic bags and placed them in the freezer for later consumption.{{sfn|Norris|1992|p=214}} He boiled the remaining flesh and organs into a "jelly-like substance" using Soilax, which enabled him to rinse the flesh off the skeleton, which he intended to retain. To preserve the skeleton, Dahmer placed the bones in a light bleach solution for 24 hours before allowing them to dry upon a cloth for one week. The severed head was initially placed in the refrigerator before being stripped of flesh, then painted and coated with enamel.{{sfn|Masters|1993|pp=154–155}}

Three weeks after the murder of Miller, on September 24, Dahmer encountered a 22-year-old father of two named David Thomas at the [[Shops of Grand Avenue|Grand Avenue Mall]].{{sfn|Norris|1992|p=217}} He persuaded him to return to his apartment for a few drinks, with additional money on offer if he would pose for photographs. In his statement to police after his arrest, Dahmer said that, after giving Thomas a drink laden with sedatives, he did not feel attracted to him, but was afraid to allow him to awaken, fearing that he would be angry over having been drugged. Therefore, he strangled him and dismembered the body—intentionally retaining no body parts whatsoever. He photographed the dismemberment process and retained these photographs, which later aided in Thomas's identification.{{sfn|Norris|1992|p=217}}

Following the murder of Thomas, Dahmer did not kill anyone for almost five months, although on a minimum of five occasions between October 1990 and February 1991, he unsuccessfully attempted to lure men to his apartment.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=153}} He regularly complained of feelings of both anxiety and depression to his probation officer throughout 1990, with frequent references to his sexuality, his solitary lifestyle, financial difficulties, and—shortly before [[Thanksgiving (United States)|Thanksgiving]]—his apprehension regarding meeting and facing his father and younger brother.{{sfn|Schwartz|1992|p=83}} On several occasions, Dahmer also referred to harboring [[suicidal thought]]s.{{sfn|Norris|1992|pp=209–211}}

====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}}