On May 27, 1991, Sandra Smith, Tina Spivey and Nicole Childress called 911 when they saw Konerak Sinthasomphone, 14, stumble out of Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment in Milwaukee. Sinthasomphone was nude, incoherent, and bleeding. Two officers, John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish, responded to “Man down … badly beaten … wearing no clothes”.
When officers arrived, the women who placed the call tried to explain the situation. Dahmer emerged from his apartment and gave his own explanation. He claimed Sinthasomphone was his young lover and he ran out of the apartment after a drunken fight. When the women and Sinthasomphone tried to protest returning to Dahmer, they were ignored. Police escorted Dahmer and Sinthasomphone back to Dahmer’s apartment. Dahmer showed police nearly nude photos he had taken of Sinthasomphone to “prove” their relationship. Police accepted the “proof”, ignored the smell of a body decomposing in the next room and left. Dahmer later killed Sinthasomphone.
The officers never asked for anyone’s ID. They made no medical assessment of Sinthasomphone. They ignored Dahmer’s “admission” that he gave alcohol to a minor. They ignored the boy’s and the witnesses’ pleas for help. Tapes were later released which showed the officers making homophobic statements about the situation.
Before Sinthasomphone’s escape, he had been drugged, lobotomized, and sexually assaulted. Dahmer had also sexually assaulted his brother a few years prior. If officers had run a background check on Dahmer’s ID, they would have discovered his status as a sexual predator.
Both officers were fired after an internal investigation. Balcerzak appealed his firing and was reinstated. He went on to become president of the Milwaukee Police Association
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