Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts Subject: Jeffrey Dahmer File Number:_7-MW-26057 Sub A-2 Federal Bureau of InvestigationFO-360 (Rev. 58-81) eo (Mount Cipping in Space Betow) (cicate page, name of newspaper cy ond sate) PGHLE9 ,SECT-A MILWAUKEE JOURNAL MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN we Dahmer flat re in loate: 8/1/91 [Edtion: LATEST Police were in Dahmer flat tte: Sources say 3 officers took boy into apartment in May, saw photos Character: KIDNAPPING |cussncaton:7-MW-26057 Sub A Submiing Once: MILWAUKEE indexing: Sources say 3 officers took boy into | ByDAVDE. UMHOEFER (91901, The Mivwaukos Jounal “4 Tiree ficers who Eeffrey j LL. Dahmer’s involvement with a nude. look. inside the all | Heyearcld boy. actually took the boy back to ‘May 27, | Dahmer’s apartment, where they saw photos of | 11 thaicey |. some of Dahmer's previous victims even as the | bady of his most recent victim lay inthe adjoining The “semaine nse | eam, sources told The Jounal Thursday. ms apartment in May, saw photos on May’ 27 investigated boy, Konierak Si officers left his a 17 victim Konerak, were fou ‘has told Police that he killed the inthasomphone, a8 soon as the apartment. the sources said. == ‘ean that ofcer got a leged serial kile’s apartment on ecks before police found the remains of inthe nit, at 924 N. 25th St. Five of the ‘to Dahmer died ater May 27, 11 of the. victims,” including ind in the apartment July 22, ELM HOS] Sb4 fh Tilia TB AUS 13 eae | ji<_ Dahmer hi first-degree + eSare expected. ties, leading 10 a growing seftes’of marches and id more charg- rallies. They say it is evidence that some Milwau- kee police officers, do not take the complaints of rs ce information raises the gravest ques- blacks and homoseauals seriously tions to-date about the actions of the three oficers. The three were suspended with pay Fri day by Police Chief Philip Arcola while their actions involving Konerak were investigated. ‘The May incident has already galvanized mem- bers ofthe city's black and homosexual communi. Please see Police page 9 sa ‘The new information-came. from two soirces familar with details ofthe ongoing intemal Police Department investigation. ‘Their informa ‘came from emerging’ details of the police probe i information Police/Officers reportedly took boy - into Dahmer’s apartment From page and. from details of Dahmer's ions to police. “Police Chief Philip Arreola ‘would not comment on the allega. | Hons Thursday moming, said Capt, Dean Collins. Collins said Arreola planned to issue a statement, but that state. ment would not come before The Journal's deadiines Thursday. Collins refused to say whether "the three suspended officers had beer: charged, or whether officers from Intemal Affairs had been able toreach the three. # Milwaukee Police Association President Bradley DeBraska said late Wednesday: “I put in calls 10 all three of the suspended officers. Internal Afairs is out there trying to serve the guys with some’ eaves lopes. When I hear from the off cers, TM] know what was inside” Efforts. by Journal reporters. to each the thee officers were unsue cess Sources are speculating thatthe” ‘ information being -leaked to the ‘media is part of a lange strategy to defuse union outrage by informing the rank and file of the serious nature of the allegations against the tee officers, and to prevent any criticism of the swift action Arreola took Friday when he suspended the officers The information the highly Placed sources ilated said that: Dahmer has told police the officers took Konerak fo’ Dae mers apartment. One source said officers literally caried the boy int to the apartment. Earlier accounts have said-the officers released the boy to Dahmer as they talked on the street ouside the apartment uilding M While in the apartment, the officers saw, strewed on the floor, togaphs of some of Dahiner ictims, both before and after they died. Tnchuded in the photos were ‘Suggestive photos of Konerak that Dahmer had taken. @ Dahmer has told police that he killed the boy immediately after the officers left the apartment. I Dahmer also told police that hile the officers were in the apart ‘ment, the body of one of his vie. tims was in the bedroom and was “smeling like hell” ft was appar ently the body of Tony: Hughes, who was fast seen May 24" and ‘whose remains were found in Dahe ‘mer's apartment, ‘The officers originally had been called to the street outside Dah: ‘mers apartment by two neighbor. hhood women who said they had seen the boy — naked and, by heir account, bleeding from the but. tocks — fleeing from Dahmer. ‘The witnessés have told report- 5 thatthe officers dismissed their oncems, apparently satisfied that the incident was a’ spat’ between homosexual lovers. Officers: have Said that Kanerak told them he was 19.: They. teBK no further action afler, Dahmer told them the boy ‘was & house guest who was drunk. Inside the apartment, the soure- 68 said, the officers saw instantde- veloped photographs of the boy — Partially clothed, according 10 one Source — that were apparently take en by Dahmer.The officers saw the photo- ‘gzaphs, both sources said. Neither ‘any specific information about what action, if any, the officers ‘took upon seeing the photos, ‘Both sources said that Dahmer had admitted to police that the ‘body of one of his earlier victims was in the bedroom adjoining the main living area, where the photo- ‘graphs were found. Sandra Smith, one of the neigh- bors who saw Konerak fleeing Dahmer’ apartment and called po- tice, said in an interview Wednes- day: “Nobody who would have seen that boy would have said he was OK. He had been running ‘around naked and he couldn't real ly talk, All he could do was mum- No." ‘Smith said. she also observed ‘iat the boy had blood running ddgwn the back of his thigh, ‘EMoreover, Smith added that she and her cousin had tried 10 con- vince police that the boy was not an adult. Smith said the officers ‘would not listen, “That's a little boy,’ I told ‘them, I know alittle boy when I see ‘one, They told me they had ‘been investigating these things for seven years and didn’t need nobody butt- ingin. “4 swear to God he was just a. litde boy. 1 didn't have no doubts about it But there wasn't nobody listening to me.” Many officers said they felt be- trayed that the suspended officers hnad never had a good chance to tell «their side of the story. There was ‘never a counterpunch to the volu- rminous reports of the incident in the media. “There was too much pressure 1 do something,” one veteran off- cer said. “They needed a scape- a “The three officers have contend ‘ed in their reports of the incident that Fire Department paramedics arrived first and wrapped the boy ina blanket. The officers said they surmised that when the paramedics efi, the boy did not need treat- ment. "The officers also noted that the boy gave a fase, ame and a birth date that would have made him 19. Fire Chief August G. Erdmann has said police officers were at the scene when paramedics arrived. ‘One officer who this week heard tapes of the officers! radio trans: _issions said the officers sounded like they were joking around light- heartedly, “the kind of stuff t you'd hear in any office. The offi {ers may have been doing it to Telieve stress. You know, going out ‘on one assignment after another int a dangerous area of town, Where else are they going to relieve stress ‘out there? It just sounded like silli= ness. ‘According to Police Department procedure, officers formally Charged by'the department with a violation of its rules have seven days, excluding weekends and hoti- days, to provide their side of the story 10 the chief, That story can include any additional witnesses not already interviewed. Journal reporters Anne Bothwel, Tim in Joe Garofll Davie! P. Hanley Srvand Tom Vanden Brook contributed to history.~REDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FOIA DELETED PAGE INFORMATION SHEET —— Paes) withheld eatirely at this location in the file. One or more of the following statemeats, where indicated, ‘explain this deletion. J Deletions were made pursuant 10 the exemptions indicted below with no sepregable material available for lease t0 you. ‘Section $52. 5S2a. 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However, police union attorney — Laurie Eggert, who represents at least one of ‘the officers, said [mast of the allegations stem from scripts of transmi liars net a re ee = Sa ee eee efor ngd su atcer e's mown that Konerak was a the boy as an “in- nave eT Zeal, she said. naked male” and 52LA: Separate ‘allegation’ accuses saying his partne Fthe.officers of failing to investi- would “get d ‘gate properly, including a failure Ioused at the st ftotalk to witnesses and failure to | tion” before head- see identification, Eggert said. ing for. their next _ . “Thé violations Sof the”tlepartment’s Rules -and under Rule Arreola’ suspended the ‘tticbrs with pay. iast Friday” after it Was revesied they let the naked, = ae rsa | ZZoplankod.by elght high-ranking FSieeaing and. apparently’ intoxi- filembers of ES the ‘department's ‘Geated doy, Konerak “Siathasom- ‘sgomnmand staff, Afreola said at plone, go back to Dahmer's ZnEWs, conferenée at, the Police Pariiedt carly May esee ‘xtmidistration Bullding that the 5 y's dismembered body and the Gipaiter was discussed with the Dut, that It, was gmains of 10 men were found in sale ere er's apartment after a man Zescaped from. the N. 25th St. ilding last week and told offi: teers Dahmer had tried to kill him. 2. The ‘officers, whose names ‘e2h, Working days to respond to jo eah | ‘ “Blegulations. ‘The rule hae10 | Bape ue att | “it was’ not” within’ the + etimina orsdition” ‘Sotho @epiraments investigation ‘had, concluded that “base law ‘$galocement practas were 20t wed, he al. ist “The tact that the victim ws * \— 1e charges. oe ros. + ht Farreola sald he’ would decide vol ysand wom tye 7/7 e-AUOIT: HO 46 Lalit the atfeers respond what eee ae a a Rue Se vale ce. Tr = qh Hf Be would ake Asked later er Dalimer lent an urgency’. ce. WA, Me— id the officers could be fired, gn jininod fe : Stave not beet! released, have sev-This: story was written by Sentinel staff weiter Jan Usbelhert from re- Ports by Gretchen Schuldt, Joo Man- fing and Cary Spivak. se will conser whether or but Arreola sid the probe thus not there il bea formal re far has concluded that “Police — sponse,” Murray said. “The chief Department naividanls who teas mide his dedion, He, Pow ‘sponded failed to conduct a basic, __tlus Pllate, will pass this cup to Proper: police investigation imo. the mayor's Pre and Pace Cons ete alah dct toalaies therefore, as\a result of this. ;Mayor (John O.) Norquist.” Iavenipatin Soeacetee gytne’ He sald the move takes the cal Atfatrs Division, charges political heat off the mayor and have been proffered against the the chief “by saying, ‘It aln’t us. Individuals involved,”: Arreola «It's those three guys.” Sis oven, Arrois ewer ight. These officers fin a me cee forthe a iets the Clty of Miwackeeen, Sasha they, were, cuppa fo sual. tot its citizens,” Ar what people see on television and fens aid. “There fama way wo, (hal Dems se. Gan change what has occarrea” Fed he paper, appears these ‘Arreola said he saw the incl “The chief is desperately trying dent,as a challenge to “rebulld to save his own political career,” Eenfidence and to Sigg the gap, ‘> Murray sls if there is any, between ourselves. Fire and Police Commission and the community.” 4s, Chairman M, Nicol Padway dis- The news conference was | counted Murray's alegetions of broadens ve over the polce re am Arteoledspired neh mod + aa nd said the shit wasting ‘iiezoad J, Morey, atomey tin Me thor tot the Miswaukee Pole Aare =o ; fon said the fire officers wil |, dclned so comment spel fight Arreol's administrative Sl, te charges saying the charges. we . aule on the allegations if the offi- Murtay ‘Said Arreola offered cers appeal any disciplinary or- sapaing patodes and tse 6 sho attudee"and was maling | Padway sald the officers woud Eepegoas of the offers fo 4° have lO ays fo spped ay cack pecan angry commonly." "| plinry order they ecelve _ He did nothing to bring peace . Regarding the tapes, Padway to the community,” Murray sald. id_not think ‘it fair to . care: Hie eteanee He's feeding a judge the Police Department on a lynch mob mentality.” 4 fey mites of gominunletion ’ ji Chieti ae” oct mars re TRC aah TMWBOST Spor, yShe sets type for C.P, Gauger Co. for a living and goes fishing for fun. “Just give me a pole, some water and bait, and Fi fine,” she sald. In @ crime-ridden, sometimes crazy West Side neighborhood that some Milwaukeeans avoid, she lives in a tidy apartment with family portraits on the walls, books on a table, knickknacks on the shelves. and “The Cosby Show" on television, She isn't a churchgoer, but she has her own kind of faith: “No, I'm not a religious person, you know, but I do have knowl. edge,” she said. “And I can tell ou ‘this for sure: I definitely Believe ina superior being ant the old-fashioned morals in the Bible. Yes, Ido.” just don't see any excuse for people not caring for other peo- ple,” Cleveland said. “I don't think there’s any person on this earth that can sit back and say they haven't depended on another “They said that they would have someone come out and talk to me and whatnot, and take the information. And No one ever came.” — GLENDA CLEVELAND: in someway for something or ia som ethng Cleveland has borne more than her share of the madness that ‘oozed out of Dahmer’s apartment, and she was visibly weary Fri: day. But her voice became firm ‘when she was asked if there was anything people should learn from the past week and a half. “To do"whatever you can to prevent something like this ever happening again,” she said,"“no matter how minute or what, To do what you can, “You, know, that may be enough. Just try. Just try. Just try.”F950 (Rev. 5-8.81) 6) (Mount Cipping in Space Below) "Dahmer wanted — parents to get along discontent with family ‘climate’ ‘By JOE MANNING ‘Sentinal start writer “When asked in a 1987 probation Interview ‘what he would change about his childhood if Ke coula, serial killing, suspect Jeffrey. Le ‘Dahmer said he would “change that parents ‘didn’t get along.” * St bave a party down from a “battery,” the dispatcher sald ‘when sending the engine from i's ‘quarters at N. 30th aiid W.:Gale- na Sts. ‘The “emergency ‘medical ser- ~-viee-run”. svas.one. of 18. such missions the engine was sent on that day, according to Fire Chiet August G. Erdmann. The engine ‘was sent on a total of 4,169 runs | in 1990, 2,641 of which were for emergency services. “You're looking at an engine that's out a lot,” Erdmann sald, “Believe me, it’s no fun,” Gros- , Memory fails — firefighter on Dahmer call ‘Missing 3 minutes haunt him ly on the ine 32 arrived. A ‘on the engine ‘male at the scen was naked onthe street and got blanket from the engine for him, Erdmann said, ‘The male, now known to have been Konerak, might have had some bruises on his face, but it ‘was hard to tell, Erdmann sald, ; Because it was dark. Shortly after ‘she wrapped him in the blanket, the firefighter was told by her leutenant on the engine that she and the others were leaving. “A police officer sald it was a false alarm,” Erdmann said, “We're there to treat, patients, then go back in service.” “We don't investigate what the cause of something is. Then engine company lft mo- hents later, and whet happened outside Dahmer's apartment Dullding that night left Grostad's memory. ‘When. police found the dis membered bodies in Dahmer's apartment July 22, Engine 32, again was sent tothe scene. — “{ still didn’t remember it (the ‘May 27 dispatch),” Grostad said. “Nothing clicked. 3 “We've been in so many apart- ‘ments and buildings in that area. Tthink we were in his (Dahmer's) partment bullng once four days iater that Grostad was told he'd been in the neighborhood the night Ko- eral: was belleved to have been ea / 3/92 ester oO nutes haunt him Character: KIDNAPPING |ousskcalon: 7-Mw-26057 Sub A |Submitting Office: MTL WAUKEE. eerereeeeeeeee ee ene indexing “People from the Police De- partment's internal affairs (unit) came to talk to me about it,” he ‘said. “I had to look at my eae setirie peed tha = “4 em I couldn’t remem- ber It and they" questioned me a blanket. pe ad ie abet “They asked me about a boy or propane ‘The female firefighter, who's ‘been“h the job ie manihee ea members what happened but she declined to. discuss it with a re- = “She's a lot newer, so she'd be 9 more likely to remember it,” s Grostad, a firefighter for se Bed ine rar oft secrete : as well as friends, - rd TAMAS] - 54 ST The. Ta, Av newspaper, city and siate) PG#7 , SECT. Iti: Memory fails firefighter lon Dahmer call Missing 3 mi-