Police Returned the Boy to Jeffrey Dahmer. Every Warning Was There | The Jeffrey Dahmer Case

At 2 a.m. on May 27, 1991, three young women in Milwaukee found a 14-year-old boy, Konerak Sinthasomphone, naked and hurt on a street corner and called 911. Police came, listened to the man he had escaped from, and walked the boy back to that man's apartment. Two months later, the world learned the man's name: Jeffrey Dahmer. This is the full, factual story, told for the 17 people he killed: the warning signs from Ohio to West Allis, a father's letter to a judge, the probation that never checked on him, the real 911 call and police radio tape, Glenda Cleveland's call, the escape that ended it, the city's reckoning, the trial and what came after. No graphic content. Which moment do you think was the biggest missed chance to stop him? Tell me in the comments. We remember Steven Hicks, Steven Tuomi, James Doxtator, Richard Guerrero, Anthony Sears, Raymond Smith, Edward Smith, Ernest Miller, David Thomas, Curtis Straughter, Errol Lindsey, Tony Hughes, Konerak Sinthasomphone, Matt Turner, Jeremiah Weinberger, Oliver Lacy and Joseph Bradehoft. And Glenda Cleveland, who tried to save Konerak. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:42 A kid from Bath, Ohio 1:29 The first life 1:51 Drifting 2:33 The warnings 3:37 A father's letter 4:22 The Oxford Apartments 5:18 May 27, 1991 6:59 Glenda Cleveland's call 7:53 The man who got away 8:32 A city reckons 9:30 The trial 10:16 Columbia Correctional 10:52 What it changed 11:21 Remember them SOURCES UPI, "Tape: Police thought boy was Dahmer's adult lover" (Aug 1, 1991): https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/08/... Seattle Times / AP, 911 tapes (Aug 2, 1991): https://archive.seattletimes.com/arch... U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, "Police Protection of the African American Community in Milwaukee" (1994): https://www.usccr.gov/files/historica... Washington Post, "Sweeping changes urged in Milwaukee Police Dept." (Oct 16, 1991): https://www.washingtonpost.com/archiv... Los Angeles Times, "Milwaukee Officers Biased, Panel Says" (Oct 16, 1991): https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-x... Balcerzak v. City of Milwaukee, 163 F.3d 993 (7th Cir. 1998): https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/... Washington Post, "Milwaukee to pay $850,000 to family of Dahmer victim" (Apr 26, 1995): https://www.washingtonpost.com/archiv... Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Glenda Cleveland obituary (2011): https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2... TODAY, Lionel Dahmer's letter to Judge Gardner: https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/l... USA Today, what happened after the arrest (2023): https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2... FBI Vault, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer file: https://vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-lionel-... Wikipedia, Jeffrey Dahmer (timeline and victims, citing Masters 1993 and Norris 1992): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey... CREDITS Real audio: Milwaukee Police Department 911 call, police radio and call recordings of May 27, 1991 (released by MPD, Aug 1, 1991). Booking photo: Milwaukee Police Department. Documents: FBI Vault (public domain). Tony Hughes and 1978 Revere High School yearbook photos: public domain. Photos (Wikimedia Commons): Milwaukee skyline, Milwaukee Police administration building, Milwaukee County Courthouse and West Allis City Hall by Michael Barera (CC BY-SA 4.0); North 25th Street by DiscoA340 (CC BY-SA 4.0); Revere High School by SilentMatt (CC BY-SA 4.0); Columbia Correctional Institution by Dual Freq (CC BY-SA 3.0); Marquette University by Ed Bierman (CC BY 2.0); Ambassador Hotel postcard, J. A. Fagan Publishing Co. (public domain). Stock video: Pexels (Pexels License). Maps, graphics, music and narration: Cold Club. #JeffreyDahmer #TrueCrime #ColdClub