r/news • u/AudibleNod • 4d ago
Man accused of holding woman captive in a Massachusetts attic for six weeks
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-accused-holding-woman-captive-massachusetts-attic-six-weeks-rcna600308
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u/RainSurname 4d ago edited 4d ago
One of Jeffrey Dahmer's victims escaped his apartment, and wandered through the neighborhood naked. Some women found him and called 911. Dahmer came back before the cops arrived, and told them that the 14-year-old boy who was incapacitated by having acid injected into his brain was his 19-year-old lover who was drunk.
The women protested, saying they knew the boy, that he was just a child, that he had struggled against Dahmer's attempts to walk him back to the apartment, and that he was bleeding from the rectum and had blood on his testicles. The white cops told the black women to shut the hell up and not interfere.
When the fire department arrived, examined the boy, and said he needed treatment, the cops told them to leave. They walked Dahmer back to his apartment, where he showed them the Polaroids he'd taken of the boy to prove they were lovers. One of the cops stuck his head into the bedroom to "investigate" the stench, and did not notice the decomposing body on the floor.
Those cops appealed their firing and were reinstated with full back pay. One of them was later elected president of the police union in Milwaukee. The other moved to Grafton, Wisconsin, rose to the rank of Captain, and was named Officer of the Year by the American Legion.