What happened to the police officers who returned Dahmer's victim

Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story describes the shocking murder spree of the “Milwaukee Cannibal,” but cops in Monster could have prevented the death of one of Dahmer's youngest victims, Konerak Sinthasomphone. Created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is a sweeping account of the life of an infamous serial killer. The Netflix miniseries stars Evan Peters (American horror) as Jeffrey Dahmer and Niecy Nash as Glenda Cleveland, Dahmer's suspicious neighbor who calls the police when Sinthasomphone escapes from Dahmer's apartment naked, bruised and drugged. The tragic death of Sinthasomphone is told in the second episode Monster.

Jeffrey Dahmer lured a 14-year-old boy to his apartment by offering him money to pose for nude photos. There, Dahmer drugged and beat Sinthasomphone, then took photos of his unconscious body. Sinthasomphone escaped and was found outside by Glenda Cleveland, who called the police. What's disturbing is that the police left the Sinthasomphone with Dahmer, who killed the boy shortly thereafter. In fact, an incident similar to this occurred Monsterportrait. Monsters Episode 2 ends with a phone call between the police and Cleveland, who are shocked that they didn't help Dahmer's future victim.

Why Milwaukee Police Returned the Konerak Sinthasomphone to Jeffrey Dahmer

Officers physically carried the Sinthasomphone inside

Though Monster omits certain details of Dahmerathe's life image of policemen in Monster who could have prevented Konerak Sinthasomphone's death was largely accurate. The incident occurred in 1991 and involved three officers: John Balcerzak, Richard Porubcan and Joseph Gabrish. Here Monster The true story of the cops is similar to the series: On May 27, 1991, Sandra Smith and Nicole Childress found a Konerak Sinthasomphone outside Dahmer's apartment and immediately called the police, believing that the boy was no more than 11 or 12 years old.

When police officers arrived, Dahmer returned and was holding Sinthasomphone, which police said was not suspicious because Sinthasomphone did not try to get away. Officers questioned Dahmer, who responded politely to everything, including providing Officer John Balcerzak with his personal information. Dahmer convinced officers that Sinthasomphone was his 19-year-old house guest, John Mung, who had had too much to drink, as told in Monsterthe true picture of the crime of the event. Balcerzak repeated his questions, checking whether Dahmer was telling the truth, and each time his answers were the same.

At the same time, Officer Joseph Gabrish questioned Sinthasomphone, who was unable to respond. Shortly thereafter, Officer Richard Porubcan arrived on scene to provide support to police officers Monster and in real life. After the interview, the three officers took the Sinthasomphone back to Dahmer's apartment, and Gabrish and Porubcan physically took the Sinthasomphone inside.

At Dahmer's apartment, officers say they found no signs of assault and saw near-nude photos of Sinthasomphone lying nearby, leading them to believe the couple was in a consensual relationship. Believing everything to be true, the officers left Sinthasomphone with Dahmer, and the 14-year-old was murdered 30 minutes later.

Why Monster Police Officers Were Reinstated After the Dahmer Incident

The report said they did everything they could

When Dahmer was arrested in July 1991, he admitted strangling the Sinthasomphone moments after police officers in Monster left. Jeffrey Dahmer also admitted that if officers had searched his apartment, they would have found the body of another victim in his bedroom. This was discovered by the investigation into the Jeffrey Dahmer murders officers have not officially confirmed Dahmer's identitywhich would indicate he was a registered sex offender after molesting Sinthasomphone's older brother in 1988.

After Dahmer's arrest, a video of Gabrish and Balcerzak making homophobic jokes about the “lovers'” reunion was released to the public and was met with heavy criticism. Both officers were fired and Porubcan was briefly suspended. As for what happened to the policemen in… Dahmerboth Gabrish and Balcerzak were reinstated several years later and given back pay, maintaining their claim that they had done the best they could with the information they had.

Their reinstatement was met with criticism, with many feeling that they did not conduct a thorough investigation because Sinthasomphone was not white and was apparently in a homosexual relationship with Dahmer. Balcerzak became president of the Milwaukee Police Association and two officers retired in late 2010, despite their involvement in the death of Konerak Sinthasomphone.

Why Monster's portrayal of police and law caused controversy

The police felt they had been unfairly portrayed

Not everyone was happy with the policemen's intervention Monster have been presented. The prosecutor who obtained the conviction against Dahmer, former Milwaukee District Attorney Michael McCann, said he didn't believe the policemen Monster he left the boy to die because of the color of his skin. McCann, who admitted he hasn't watched the show, said he knows it would likely portray prosecutors and law enforcement as racist and homophobic (via Herald of Boston).

The former prosecutor said he believed police would have reacted “quickly” if they had known they had a serial killer among them. Netflix argued that police officers in Monster they were guilty.

“(The program) exposes these senseless crimes centered around neglected victims and their communities affected by the systemic racism and institutional failures of policing that allowed one of America's most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous rampage in plain sight for over a decade.”

This also led Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story become one of the most controversial Netflix premieres in recent years. The streaming giant was not a success, however, as the series was one of the most-watched true crime biopics on Netflix at the time of its release. Much of the controversy centered on how the show emphasized the systematic nature of racism that allowed Dahmer to continue killing because most of his victims were people of color. The victims' families also said the series reminded them of their trauma and condemned the retelling of the serial killer's story.

One of the most controversial scenes was the showing of actors playing family members of the victims during reenactments of court hearings. One case showed that Rita Isbell had a breakdown while giving evidence. However, Netflix or Ryan Murphy never reached out to her to ask how she might feel about her portrayal on the show (DaShawn Barnes played Isbell).

The real Isbell stated that it “disturbed her,” and her cousin Eric Perry wrote next Twitter that the show recreated his cousin's breakdown for entertainment purposes. For his part, actor Evan Peters explained what was going on Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story was to show Dahmer's lasting influence on the survivors.

How officers were portrayed in other Dahmer adaptations

There have been five major adaptations of Dahmer

There have been several adaptations of Jeffrey Dahmer, both on television and in films few would go so far as to blame police officers for leaving a child to die at Dahmer's hands, as Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story he did. The first adaptation appeared in 1993 The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer. Starring Carl Crew as Dahmer, the film mainly showed the entire situation that led to Dahmer's arrest, but it was a rather low-budget film that focused on the gruesome murders more than anything else.

Next was the 2002 version Dahmerstarring Jeremy Renner as Jeffrey Dahmer and Bruce Davison as his father, Lionel. This movie is about Dahmner and his relationship with his dad, which has almost nothing to do with him being caught by the police. However, it downplayed the police's misinterpretation of the Sinthasomphone incident. IN DahmerDion Basco was 25 years old at the time and played the 14-year-old victim, which led police to believe he was an adult.

Raising Jeffrey Dahmer it's more of a low-budget horror film, but it received poor reviews from critics and audiences and remains mostly forgotten. Independent film from 2017 My friend Dahmer was better received, but focused on Dahmer's high school years and his first murder, so it never went into detail about the police and their botched failure to save Sinthasomphon. In fact, the only two films that focused on police inaction were: Dahmer AND Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Storyonly with Monster describing your mistakes in detail.

Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is another limited series of crime biopics created by Ian Brennan and Ryan Murphy, with Evan Peters in the title role. The series tells the story of Jeffrey Dahmer from the perspective of the surviving victims, while examining the police failures that allowed Dahmer to continue a three-decade killing spree that resulted in the murder of at least seventeen young men. Additionally, the series explores the earlier years of Dahmer's life, including the difficult divorce between his parents, his murderous beginnings in high school, and his death in prison.

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Evan Peters Niecy Nash, Molly Ringwald, Richard Jenkins, Michael Learned

Release date

September 21, 2022

Seasons

1

Showrunner

Ian Brennan