Something's pretty disturbing about him - his timid demeanor especially. Could be that he acted as a vessel for something pretty sinister.
Was the majority of his victims really black?
http://murderpedia.org/male.D/d/dahmer-jeffrey-victims.htmYes, many of them were. Part of that (I believe) was the area he lived in - basically the hood. His grandmother's house was in a lower middle class, white, blue collar area (see victim locations). Two of his victims were children. The Konerak Sinthasomphone story was especially disturbing (not that the others weren't) and could've been prevented if it weren't for asshole cops. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/08/01/Tape-Police-thought-boy-was-Dahmers-adult-lover/4451681019200/MILWAUKEE -- Recordings released Thursday of phone calls to police and radio traffic May 27 show officers thought a Laotian boy was the adult lover of Jeffrey Dahmer, in whose apartment the boy's remains later were found.
The tape shows the initial call to report a naked and beaten youth was made to 911 at 2 a.m.
Sandra Smith and Nicole Childress, both 18, earlier said they had seen the boy, Konerak Sinthasomphone, staggering naked outside Dahmer's apartment building, bleeding from his buttocks area. Childress said she called 911.
The tape shows:
Operator: 'Milwaukee Emergency Operator 71.'
Caller: OK. Hi, I'm at 25th and State, and there's this young man. He is buck naked. He has been beaten up. He's very bruised up. He can't stand. He's (unintelligible) fall down. He is buck naked. He has no clothes on. He is really hurt.'
The operator transferred the caller to the fire department, which dispatched an ambulance, and the operator dispatched a patrol car.
At 2:07 a.m., the recording shows another operator relayed information to police from a caller who had reported a man dragging a naked male who looked like he had been beaten.
At 2:24 a.m., police squad 36 reports it is finished at the scene.
On the tape, an officer says: 'The intoxicated Asian naked male was returned to his sober boyfriend and we're 10-8' as someone chuckles in the background.
The squad was assigned another battery complaint, to which an officer responded: '10-4. Be a minute. My partner's going to get deloused at the station.'
The term 'getting deloused' is police slang for contact with unsavory people. The officers involved were not identified.
At 2:31 a.m., the tape shows a woman calling to try to follow up on the incident and being told it was a squabble between two homosexuals. Glenda Cleveland, the mother of Sandra Smith, said earlier she was the woman who tried to find out what had happened.
The tape shows she was transferred three times before being connected with an officer who had responded to the call.NEWLN: From the tape:
Woman caller: 'There was a squad car No. 68 that was flagged down earlier this evening, about 15 minutes ago.'
Officer: 'That was me.'
Woman: 'What happened? I mean my daughter and my niece witnessed what was going on. Was anything done about the situation? Do you need the names or information or anything from them?'
Officer: 'No, not at all.'
Woman: 'You don't?'
Officer: 'No, it was an intoxicated boyfriend of another boyfriend.'
Woman: 'Well how old was this child?'
Officer: 'It wasn't a child. It was an adult.'
Woman: 'Are you sure?'
Officer: 'Yep.'
Woman: 'Are you positive? Because this child doesn't even speak English. My daughter had, you know, dealt with him before, seen him on the street, you know, catching earthworms.'
Officer: 'Yeah, no, no, he's -- it's all taken care of, ma'am.'
Woman: 'Are you sure?'
Officer: 'Ma'am, I can't make it any more clear. It's all taken care of. He's with his boyfriend in his boyfriend's apartment, where he's got his belongings also. I mean, that's where it's released.'
Woman: 'But I mean isn't this, I mean what if he's a child and not an adult. I mean are you positive this is an adult?'
Officer: 'Ma'am, like I explained to you, it's all taken care of. It's as positive as I can be. I can't do anything about somebody's sexual preferences in life.'
Woman: 'Well no, I'm not saying anything about that, but it appeared to be a child. This is my concern.'
Officer: 'No, he's not.'
Woman: 'He's not a child?'
Officer: 'No, he's not. OK? It's a boyfriend-boyfriend thing and he's got belongings at the house where he came from. He's got pictures of himself and his boyfriend, and so forth.'
Woman: 'Oh, I see.'
Officer: 'OK?'
Woman: 'OK, I'm just, you know, it appears to have been a child, that was my concern.
Officer: 'I understand. No, he's not.'
Woman: 'Oh, OK. Thank you.'
Dahmer got the kid into his apartment, drugged him, had intercourse with him, drilled a hole in his head, injected acid, then left to go get himself some beer. Somehow the kid woke up and was able to make it out of the building into the street where the police found him wandering around dazed and nude. To them he was just a drunk homosexual. They went back to the apartment, noticed nothing out of the ordinary, and left Konerak with Dahmer.http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/26/us/officer-defends-giving-boy-back-to-dahmer.html Officer Defends Giving Boy Back to Dahmer
Published: August 26, 1991
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 25— A police officer suspended for returning a 14-year-old Laotian boy to Jeffrey L. Dahmer, who has since admitted killing 17 people, said he had agonized over how he might have prevented the boy's death.
"God as my witness, I just didn't dump a little boy in the hands of a murderer. That's not what happened," the officer, Joseph T. Gabrish, told The Milwaukee Journal in a story published today.
On May 27, neighbors called the police to report seeing a naked and bleeding boy run from Mr. Dahmer's apartment building. After interviewing Mr. Dahmer, Officer Gabrish and two fellow officers accepted his explanation that the youth was an adult and his lover and that the boy was drunk. The officers went with Mr. Dahmer and the boy to Mr. Dahmer's apartment. The other officers were also suspended. Incident Led to Protests
After Mr. Dahmer was arrested in July, he told the police that he strangled the boy, Konerak Sinthasomphone, soon after the officers left. He also said the body of another victim was in a bedroom during the officers' visit.
The police say Mr. Dahmer killed four more times after the brush with the officers. News of the encounter with the Laotian boy led to protests by people who said the police had missed a chance to stop Mr. Dahmer. Others accused the officers of racism and homophobia.
Mr. Dahmer was arrested after a man in handcuffs fled his apartment and alerted police. Officers later found parts of 11 men in the apartment.
Mr. Dahmer told the police he had lured the men to his apartment with the promise of sex, and then killed them. He is charged with 15 killings and has confessed to killing two other men since 1978.
Officer Gabrish, 28 years old, a patrolman for seven years, said he and the other officers believed there was a caring relationship between Mr. Dahmer and the Laotian boy and saw no reason to intervene.
"We're trained to be observant and spot things," he said. "There was just nothing that stood out, or we would have seen it. I've been doing this for a while, and usually if something stands out, you'll spot it. There just wasn't anything there."
There was no reference in the Journal article to anything the officers saw or to the smell that Mr. Dahmer has said filled the apartment because of the body in the bedroom. Officer Gabrish spoke to the newspaper with the understanding that the interview would not focus on the incident, already the subject of inquiries by the State Attorney General and the Milwaukee Police Department.
Two lawyers for the police union accompanied Officer Gabrish for the interview.
Mr. Dahmer's neighbors have maintained that the Laotian boy was not removed by the officers because Mr. Dahmer was white and the witnesses were black. The officers are white.
Officer Gabrish said he had worked in Milwaukee's inner city for most of his career, sometimes with black officers, and was shocked that he and the other officers were accused of racism and homophobia.
"I've seen some flashes on the news, people walking with signs and saying, 'These officers are racist,' " he said. "I wonder where the thousands and thousands of people from the black community are that I've helped."