Dahmer Tapes

Lucina Mendez
November 30, 2009
Dahmer Tapes
(Ex.2 Ch.16)



At 2:00 am on May 27 Glenda Cleveland called 911. Her daughter and niece had found a battered and naked teenage boy standing on 25thand State. Police arrived on the scene, only to return the injured 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone -who had been drugged and was incoherent-to the man he had been trying to escape, Jeffery Dahmer.
Konerak Sinthasomphone was found naked and bruised in the middle of the street, when Glenda Cleveland’s daughter and niece discovered him. Cleveland informed the 911 dispatcher that the youth needed help, and was transferred to the fire department, who reported the call to a street officer.
When police arrived on the scene they took no information from the girls. Cleveland thought further information must be needed. Cleveland was eventually transferred to one of the officers who had arrived at the scene.
Cleveland believed the youth had been molested and raped. She was informed by the officer that that the boy was actually a nineteen-year-old drunk man who was having a fight with his boyfriend. Cleveland asked the officer if he was sure that Sinthasomphone was an adult, and was assured repeatedly by the officer that he was.
The officer explained to Cleveland, “Like I’ve explained to you. It is all taken care of.” And was told that officers found Sinthasomphone’s belonging in Dahmer’s apartment. The officers left the boy at the apartment, and Dahmer then killed him.
The Milwaukee police released a copy of the transcript of the 911 call yesterday. The officers who arrived on the scene were suspended as of a week ago, but their names have not been released.