From an old article published in the Chicago Tribune. Not complete, updated info.
Chicago - Could Jeffrey L. Dahmer, the 31-year-old suspect in the grisly Milwaukee murders, be responsible for other victims as well? Or might the former Ohio resident know something about the killings?
Kenosha County, Wis., is one Midwestern jurisdiction where police are asking such questions. They have begun comparing data obtained by Milwaukee detectives in the Dahmer case with details of an unsolved sex-murder case.
So is the state of Ohio. There, a dozen unsolved strangulations of young men have baffled investigators since 1985.
In Racine, a judge halted a dismemberment-slaying trial Thursday after defense attorneys asked for an investigation of possible links between the case, which involved the 1990 slaying of 24-year-old James Madden, and the discovery of body parts in Dahmer`s apartment.
And the German newspaper Bild reported Thursday that the prosecutor in the town of Bad Kreuznach is investigating whether Dahmer was involved in five mutilation slayings of women near a U.S. air base where he was stationed from 1979 to 1981.
The Dahmer case is also of interest to those investigating the murder of 16-year-old Eric Hansen of St. Francis, Wis., whose slashed and decapitated remains were found in October 1983 outside Racine. The youngster`s head and portions of his hands never were found. He was last seen alive in Chicago`s Uptown neighborhood.
No one was ever charged in that crime, although police said it resembled the work of Larry Eyler.
To a Midwest task force of law officers, the Hansen case is among 24 murders of young males, most of them committed in Illinois and Indiana from 1982 to 1984, in which Eyler is a suspect.
Eyler has publicly confessed to one of them, been convicted of another and has sent word of his involvement in others while trying to negotiate his way out of a death sentence in Illinois.
Naperville attorney Kathleen Zellner, Eyler`s lawyer, said she isn`t aware of any connection between her client and Dahmer.
Police said one similarity between Eyler`s case and Dahmer`s is that both men sought out potential victims in gay bars in Chicago, then engaged in sex, bondage or both with them before killing them.
Eyler, 38, is on Death Row at Pontiac Correctional Center for the 1984 kidnap-murder of Daniel Bridges, 15, whose dismembered body was found in a North Side garbage dumpster.
Eyler has testified that he and others in a circle of bondage sex enthusiasts killed several young men from 1982 to 1984. They released others after abusing them and taking their photographs, Eyler has said.
Eyler`s word is considered suspect, but Milwaukee police have been in contact with Indiana authorities in recent days in an effort to determine whether Eyler and Dahmer might have known each other, Indiana police sources said. Chicago Tribune
