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Jeffrey Dahmer: Police
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Dahmer attended Ohio State University, but dropped out after two terms. Dahmer's father then forced him to enlist in the Army, where he was to serve for a six-year enlistment; he was discharged after two, due to his excessive drinking. When the Army discharged Dahmer in 1981, they provided him with a plane ticket to anywhere in the country. Dahmer told police he couldn't go home to face his father, so he headed to Miami Beach, Florida, because he was "tired of the cold." He spent most of his time there at a hospital but was kicked out shortly after for drinking.[1]
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On July 22, 1991, Dahmer met Tracy Edwards, 32, and they returned to Dahmer's apartment to have a few beers. When Dahmer placed a handcuff on Edwards' left wrist and attacked him with a knife, Edwards managed to escape the apartment and flag down a police car. He led them back to Dahmer's apartment, where they discovered evidence of his crimes when looking for the knife. Soon after, crews in biohazard suits were removing the contents of Dahmer's apartment.
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Dahmer had the “invincible” feeling that most killers get. He thought he couldn’t get caught. Especially seeing as how police and his landlord had almost five instances in which they would have caught him red handed. Because of this though it seems that Dahmer’s excitement for the killing went down and it became routine. Cutting up a body was no longer exciting, just something he had to do with clean-up. Dahmer than became more and more careless, a trend that would eventually lead to his apprehension.
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Dahmer himself indicated in his confession to police and in his statement before Judge Laurence C. Gram Jr.: "I did what I did, but not for reasons of hate. These were not hate crimes." Dahmer seemed particularly concerned that this message be received by the public at large.
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Citizens complained that Dahmer escaped detection because police made investigating disappearances of homosexuals and racial minorities a low priority. The three cops who returned young Sinthasomphone to Dahmer were terminated from the Milwaukee Police Department. After they appealed their termination they were reinstated with back pay. They were honored as "officers of the year" by the police union for a "righteous" battle to reclaim their jobs.
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Walsh and Purtell believe new, never-revealed information in the Walsh case demands a second look at Dahmer. It's information developed by a Florida journalist who took up the Walsh investigation long after police had stopped. And now, 25 years later, the time has come.
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