How Jeffrey Dahmer Almost Got Away With Murder
2. Police Ignored The Calls Of A Teenager Reporting Him In 1991
In the same year Dahmer was caught, the police missed out on the most opportune moment to capture one of the most notorious executioners in global history - just before he chopped up a 14-year-old boy and preserved his head in his freezer.
After the young boy - mentioned prior - materialised before her, gushing with blood and covered in more cuts and bruises than Victor Zsasz, a young girl distressfully called the police to report an ongoing crime in January 1991, and the person she soon suspected to be guilty of something (Dahmer) promptly arrived on the scene.
Dahmer exclaimed that the boy - whose actual age was 14 - was 19 and named Jim (he was actually called Konerak Sinthasomphone) and just simply drunk (he was unsuspectedly drugged).
Jeffrey changed his story every time the girl questioned the origin of their relationship and the reason he was covered in blood. After the call, officers quickly arrived at Dahmer's flat, had a brisk look and declared it to be a normal environment. But just like a badly written soap opera, the police, in the utmost, callous perversion of justice, physically returned the boy to his soon-to-be murderer.
The police failed to take it even remotely seriously, instantly highlighting their incompetence through their childish mockery over the dispatch call. This proved to be an egregious mistake, as if taken seriously, it would've also prevented four more murders in the state of Wisconsin that year.