Random Terrifying Tale Of The Boy The Police Delivered Back To Jeffrey Dahmer's Doorstep (12 items)

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  (#2) Dahmer Had Molested Sinthasomphone's Older Brother

  Dahmer had already familiarized himself with the Sinthasomphone family by the time he kidnapped Konerak. In 1988, Dahmer approached Keison, Konerak's older brother, and tricked the boy into coming back to his apartment. He drugged and molested the boy, then 13; he let the boy escape and actually served time for the crime. At this point, he set his eyes on the younger brother, Konerak, who was by then 14 years old. 

  Konerak and his family never knew about Dahmer's early release, and Konerak failed to recognize the strange man who approached him. Dahmer asked the boy to come back to his apartment to take some lewd Polaroid pictures, to which the boy reluctantly agreed. At first, Dahmer did exactly as he'd said he would do, and snapped a few photos of the youth in his underwear. However, this was only stage one of his horrible plan, which he quickly put into action.
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  (#6) Officers Ignored Witness Claims That The Boy Was In Danger

  The officers who responded to the scene, John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish, seemingly botched the situation in multiple ways. They failed to check Dahmer's criminal history, where they would have seen he was listed as a child molester just recently out of jail. They did not inspect Sinthasomphone thoroughly for damage, or get a medical examination for him. And most of all, they ignored the two women who had, until then, managed to protect the boy from harm.

  When the girls insisted Sinthasomphone was in danger, the police ignored them. They said it was a domestic dispute, and that they should leave it alone. Even when the girls claimed to have seen Sinthasomphone around the neighborhood, a teenage boy who had been missing for a full day, they did not listen. Many now claim racism possibly played a factor in the cops' refusal to listen to the witnesses, who happened to be black.
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  (#7) Officers Helped Dahmer Take His Victim Back To The Apartment

  The police made up their minds for Sinthasomphone to be returned to Dahmer's apartment, but he didn't seem to want to go. Rather than take this as a sign that something was wrong, the police decided to help forcefully take the boy back inside. Even though he was only capable of muttering incoherently, Sinthasomphone tried to protest.

  Unfortunately, the police officers decided this mumbling was just Laotian, and paid it no mind. Even as he struggled, the two witnesses looked on in horror. As then 17-year-old Childress recalls, "He was struggling; he was reaching out to me for help." 
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  (#1) Jeffrey Dahmer Had Already Killed Multiple People Earlier That Year

  While he was active, Dahmer murdered at least 17 people, possibly many more than that. In particular, he would target males in their teens and early 20s, most of whom were minorities and gay. He picked them up at bars or just in the neighborhood, luring them back to his apartment with promises of sex, promiscuous photo shoots, and drugs. Upon arriving at his house, Dahmer would incapacitate, rape, kill, and dismember his victims. The youngest of his victims, whom he did not kill, was only 13 years old. Though jailed for assaulting the youngest victim in 1990, Dahmer was back on the streets in 1991, and he was soon back to his old ways.

  In fact, in 1991, Dahmer already murdered at least three people before he targeted Konerak Sinthasomphone. During this time, the body of another victim, Tony Hughes, was still in his apartment. 
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  (#12) Both Officers Were Eventually Reinstated And Had Successful Careers

  The punishment of the officers didn't last long, and the charges against them only remained internal. Both officers appealed their termination, and in 1994, both officers were reinstated. In 2005, the Milwaukee Police Association voted Balcerzak to be their president. He held this post until 2009, despite an attempt to recall him in 2006. He retired on his own terms in 2017. 

  Joseph Gabrish became the captain of police in Grafton, Wisconsin. He has since said that he made a mistake, but that nothing seemed to be wrong at the time. He has also denied that race had anything to do with his decision not to investigate further.

  Dahmer himself was killed in prison by a fellow inmate in 1994.
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  (#4) Sinthasomphone Managed To Escape And Asked For Help

  When Dahmer returned from the bar, he found quite the predicament waiting in front of his apartment. Sinthasomphone made it outside, where locals Sandra Smith and Nicole Childress came across him. The teen girls understood something here was horribly wrong. The boy, though fluent in English, could only speak in broken Laotian in his dazed state, but his obvious distress caused the girls to call the police.

  When Dahmer approached the trio, he tried to convince them that Sinthasomphone (whom he called by a different name) was his lover and under his care, and tried to physically take the boy inside. The girls stopped Dahmer, saying the police were on their way. Dahmer, sensing that protesting now could go horribly awry, agreed to wait for them, but maintained that Sinthasomphone was with him by choice. 

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