Milwaukee Murders: Did They All Have to Die?

Chagrined Milwaukeeans learn how the police let a serial killer slip through their hands to kill again

How can it have happened? Police officers are alerted that a dazed, naked Asian boy is staggering on a Milwaukee street. Jeffrey Dahmer, 31, convinces them that 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone is his homosexual lover. Dahmer happens to be a convicted child molester, but the police do not check him out. Instead of rescuing the young Laotian immigrant from Dahmer, who has since confessed to murdering and mutilating 17 men over the past 13 years, the cops seem to laugh off the incident as a gay love spat. They deliver the 14-year- old to Dahmer's apartment. And as soon as they leave,...

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