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Milwaukee Murderer WEDNESDAY, July 31, 1991 LeaderTetegram 9A Investigators follow map, find body parts Hair Cuts ONLY RON'S HAIR said. Authorities hope to extract genetic material from the fragments to determine whether it is similar to the genetic makeup of blood from Hicks parents. Investigators also will compare it to locks of Hicks' hair that his parents saved. Such "genetic fingerprinting" involves examining human tissue to determine a genetic code that is unique to every person, like reburied Hicks remains several times, eventually removing the flesh, smashing the bones with a hammer and scattering them in a ravine. "To our knowledge, the killing took place in a room upstairs and he then dismembered the body in the crawl space." said Cox.

"He said he literally threw the fragments in a 360-degree arc and the bones we found were in areas consistent with that." Cox said a handprint and bloody residue were found on a concrete wall in the crawl space. "We may very- well be able to put together who those bones belong to," he those of a hitchhiker Dahmer claims was his first victim. Milwaukee police said Dahmer has confessed to killing and mutilating 16 men in the Milwaukee area and one in Bath. Parts of 1 1 bodies were found in his Milwaukee apartment. Dahmer told Milwaukee police his first victim was hitchhiker Steven Mark Hicks, 18, of Coventry Township, an Akron suburb.

A Dahmer said he gave Hicks a ride in 1978, brought him home, strangled him. cut up the body and buried it in a crawl space under the house. He said he dug up and BATH, Ohio (AP) Investigators returned to the boyhood home of Jeffrey Dahmer today to look for more human remains that may link him to a hitchhiker who Dahmer says was the First of his 17 dismemberment-slaying victims. Using a map drawn by Dahmer, investigators found more than 50 pieces of bones Tuesday near the home in this Akron suburb. Most were human remains, including some that appeared to be skull fragments, said Coroner William A.

Cox. Investigators will run genetic tests to learn if the bone fragments found Tuesday on the rocky, ivy-covered hillside on 1 .7 acres are GALON Queens Plaza 2816 London Road 835-0455 Walk-ins Welcome Tests will take uo to six weeks. Cox said, I Meanwhile, police said they are investigating Dahmer in the 1986 mutilation slaying of a man in Columbus. Alcohol a problem, ex-rbommate says Afo) KahV7ll 11 Thomas Guerrero Sinthasomphone Lacy 91V? fBLJ I.lJ vy I Capshaw said Dahmer's drinking led to bizarre behavior, including attacks on fellow soldiers that he couldn't remember the next day. Dahmer would drink until he blacked out, Capshaw said.

"When 1 saw him that way for the first time. I ran from him." Capshaw said. "I knew for a fact he was gonna hurt me if he ever got ahold of me. He'd run after you like a wild man, like a crazy nut." Capshaw said he Anally avoided being alone with Dahmer but was drawn to him because he seemed intelligent and was an avid reader. "He was a real nice guy when he was sober," Capshaw said.

"When he drank he made a 180-degree turn." Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Sentinel reported today that Dahmer was sexually abused when he was 8 years old and that he often talked about being gay. Dahmer. 31. was convicted in 1988 of 'molesting a 13-year-old boy. He has a record of alcohol problems and indecent exposure.

By The Associated Press Alcohol transformed Jeffrey Dahmer's behavior from quiet and caring to aggressive and bizarre. Dahmer's former bunkmate said in a copyright story in the Arkansas Gazette. Billy Capshaw. 28, of Hot Springs. told the Gazette that he slept in the bunk above Dahmer's while the two were Army medics serving in Baumholder, Germany, in 1981.

"You'd never think this guy would harm anything," Capshaw said. "You have to have known him. He was like a doctor you'd go to see who comforts you and smiles a lot." Capshaw is in the Garland County jail, serving a six-month sentence on a misdemeanor charge of negligent homicide. His sentence began in May. Dahmer, when he was sober, would talk about making his father proud of his military service after failing at college, Capshaw said.

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Also included is the last time they were reported seen or when Dahmer told police he met or killed them. Two victims haven't been identified. Ricky Beeks, 33, Rockford, last seen May 1990. Joseph Bradehoft, 25, Milwaukee, met Dahmer July 19. Richard Guerrero, 25, Milwaukee, disappeared in 1988.

-oin4a Steven Mark Hicks, 18, Coventry Township, Ohio, killed June 18, 1978. Anthony Hughes, 31, Madison, reported missing May 24. Oliver Lacy, 23, Milwaukee, last seen July 12. Errol Lindsey, 19, Milwaukee, last seen April 7. Ernest Miller, 22, Chicago, last seen Sept.

2, 1990. Anthony Sears, 26, Milwaukee, last seen March 25, 1989. Konerak Sinthasomphone, 14, Milwaukee, last seen May 27. Edward W. Smith, 28, Milwaukee, reported missing June 1990.

Curtis Straughter, 18, Milwaukee, last seen Feb. 18. David C. Thomas, 23, Milwaukee, reported missing Sept. 24, 1990.

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you'll be next." Dahmer admitted killing 17 males. Some of the victims were homosexuals lured by offers of, money to pose for pictures. who told his family and probation officer he is homosexual, drank at gay bars. "He would always leave alone. He didn't mingle.

Ninety percent of the time he didn't talk to anyone. Most of his contacts came outside the bar," said a worker at Club 219 who refused to give his name. Dahmer told police that one of the II mutilated bodies found in his apartment was that of a deaf and mute man he met at Club 219. Because of the slayings and the backlash, turnout is lower at the gay. bars south, of downtown, homosexuals said.

The industrial area-, once called the "gay ghetto," is becoming more upscale. The slayings were revealed at a time when homosexuals face fears about AIDS and bitter struggles for equal rights. Wisconsin was the first state to pass a ban on discrimination against homosexuals in housing, credit and employment. "The gay community is going back into its closet. They don't feel safe anymore," said Larry Taylor of the local gay group Black and White Men Together.

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