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...Sinthasomphone case and filing administrative charges against them, public indignation rose as new details came to light. According to local news accounts, two black women called the cops in the early-morning hours of May 27 and reported that they found the youth, naked and bleeding, being chased by Dahmer. Laurie Eggert, a police- union lawyer, said the three officers who responded found the boy highly intoxicated and attributed the bleeding to a scrape on the leg. Dahmer convinced the officers that the boy was his 19-year-old lover and that they had quarreled. When the officers returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milwaukee Murders: Did They All Have to Die? | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

According to the Milwaukee Journal, they should have. The paper said Dahmer told investigators that when the officers brought the boy back, photographs of victims were strewn about the apartment and the body of one victim was in the bedroom, "smelling like hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milwaukee Murders: Did They All Have to Die? | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

Milwaukee blacks are incensed because the cops believed Dahmer, who is white, instead of the black women. "This is a very racist city," said community activist Queen Hyler. "You have a white guy killing people weekly, with bodies stacking up in a building occupied mostly by blacks, but the cops are too busy riding shotgun on the black community to pay any attention." Black and gay leaders have called for an independent investigation of the department, claiming that it is still philosophically under the sway of Harold Breier, who retired as police chief in 1984 after a rigid 20-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milwaukee Murders: Did They All Have to Die? | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

...investigation continued, a profile of Dahmer emerged that seems to suggest he fits classic patterns of a serial killer. Says Robert Ressler, a former FBI agent and a pre-eminent expert on mass murderers: "Dahmer falls into the subcategory of the sadistic, sexually oriented serial killer who is inevitably a white male loner and usually intelligent." This type of killer, says Ressler, generally comes from a broken home, has had poor parenting and/ or was abused early in his life, usually doesn't marry, is often an alcoholic or drug addict and can be suicidal. Dahmer -- who according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milwaukee Murders: Did They All Have to Die? | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

Last week police searched the grounds of the former Dahmer house in Bath, Ohio, for the remains of Steven Hicks, who may have been the murderer's first victim. In 1978 Hicks, 18, was hitchhiking when Dahmer, also 18 at the time, took him home, killed him with a barbell and smashed his bones with a hammer. So far, about 100 bone and three tooth fragments have been recovered from the grounds. Investigators plan to test them against a lock of hair and dental records that Hicks' parents provided in the hope of proving a match. In a statement issued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milwaukee Murders: Did They All Have to Die? | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

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