The Dahmer Tapes

The Milwaukee Police Department released the transcript of a 911 call today of an alleged incident involving what appeared to be an incoherent and beat up child two officers unknowingly brought back to a serial killer the boy was trying to get away from.

The child in question, Konerak Sinthasomphone, a 14-year-old Laotian who was later found to be one of the 17 victims Jeffrey L. Dahmer, 31, confessed to murdering, was a victim some witnesses say should have been saved by the officers. Police have found 11 bodies so far. The unidentified officers were suspended a week ago with pay.

The transcript released today was a call from Milwaukee resident, Glenda Cleveland, 37, on May 27.

Initially, Cleveland called police to report a beaten up, naked young man at the corner of 25th and State. The officer calling back to the dispatcher reported, "Intoxicated Asian, naked male. Was returned to his sober boyfriend."

Cleveland later called back the Milwaukee Emergency concerned that information had not been taken by the officers for what she described as a "male child being raped and molested by an adult," that was witnessed by her daughter and a niece. "Their names or nothing was taken down and I wonder if this situation was being handled," she said to the dispatcher.

Milwaukee police car number 68, the squad Cleveland had first spoken to about this incident, told her they didn't need her information. That the young male (Sinthasomphone) was just an "intoxicated boyfriend of another boyfriend."

Cleveland asked if the officer was positive and that she thought this person was a child because her daughter had dealt with the boy before and knew that he didn't speak any English. The officer said that it been taken care of and that the boy in question was not a child.