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MILWAUKEE MURDERS Wisconsin State Journal, Sunday, July 28, 1991 7J I Straughter Hughes Bradeboft Lindsey Miller Victims: Missing, slam identified. 8A 't iTi rj C-t I vi Q) 'i Errol Lindsev Police also' identified Lindsey, 19, through dental records on Friday. Lindsey war last seen April 7 by his mother, Mildred Lindsey. T.indsev's brother. Michael Eck-s wood, said Friday, "I'm bitter, Fie' Turner on June 30 after the Gay Pride Parade in Chicago.

He said they met at a bus station and he offered Turner money to pose nude and watch videos Dahmer had in his Milwaukee apartment. Dahmer told police the pair went to Milwaukee on the bus, then took a cab to bis apartment. He told police he gave Turner a sleeping potion and Turner passed out. He said he used a strap to strangle Turner and then dismembered the body. He told police he put the body parts in a 57-gallon barrel and put Turner's head in his freezer.

angry and I'm scarred for life. HSiIIai on Grace said she was surprised her half-brother was among the bodies found because she had heard that he had been shot last year. She said Beeks had been in jail during 1990, but she didn't know for what crime. Elaine Beeks, 31, another half-sister, said much of Beeks' family, including a 10-year-old daughter, lived in Rockford. Curtis Straughter Dental records helped police identify Straughter, 18, on Friday.

Straughter lived in Milwaukee with his grandmother, Catherine Straughter. Catherine Straughter said she last saw her grandson Feb. 18. apartment nude and bleeding from his buttocks. Dahmer reportedly told officers the boy was 19 and his homosexual lover.

He said the boy had too much to drink and the two had been arguing. Ricky Beeks Beeks, 33, of Rockford, 111., was identified late Thursday through dental records. He also went by the name Raymond Lamont Smith. Beeks' half-sister, Donita Grace, 36, said Friday it wasn't unusual for Beeks to leave for long periods of time without contacting the family. She said Beeks was last seen May 1990 when he came to Milwaukee to visit family.

ture, urging anyone with information to call a toll-free number. Tim Gideon, Weinberger's roommate for five years, described his friend as a meticulous art lover who "always dressed nice and always worried about what he wore and how he looked." His father, David, said Friday his son was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. "My son was hypnotized by a cobra," Weinberger said. "Unfortunately, he was bit." Others said Weinberger was a regular in Chicago's gay night scene. Dahmer told police he met Weinberger at a gay bar in Chicago in early July and offered him money to pose for photos and watch videos.

He said Weinberger stayed with of Milwaukee was identified Friday. Police said he was black and was reported missing last year. Anthony Sears 26, of Milwaukee, was identified, early Saturday. No other informa-i tion was immediately available. Shelf St Uining furniture lid.

MILWAUKEE (AP) Here are detailed profiles from published reports of the 11 men identified by police as Jeffrey Dahmer's victims: Anthony Hughes Hughes, 31, of Madison was reported missing May 24 after leaving Club 219, a gay bar on Milwaukee's South Side, with an unidentified man. Hughes, who was deaf, had been in Milwaukee visiting his mother Shirley Hughes. But police said Hughes never showed up at his mother's home. He called his family to say he was with "a friend," according to a Madison police report. Shirley Hughes said her son had known Dahmer for almost two years.

She said Hughes returned to Milwaukee May 24, the day he disappeared. She said he had lived in Milwaukee until August 1990. Shirley Hughes said after hearing Dahmer's name and description when the story began to unfold Tuesday, she said: "I knew deep inside my heart that he would be one of those bodies found." Joseph Bradehoft Police identified Bradehoft, 25, originally of St. Paul, through fingerprints and a photo found in Dahmer's apartment. He lived in Greenville, 111., for a short time in 1989, said Greenville Police Chief John King, and had recently moved to Milwaukee.

Bradehoft was living in a Milwaukee apartment rented in the name of his brother, Donald Bradehoft, police said. Donald Bradehoft said he last saw his brother July 16. He said Bradehoft had lived in Minnesota most recently and was in Milwaukee looking for a job. Bradehoft had a wife, Shari, and children ages 7, 3, and 2, police said. Oliver Lacy Lacy, 23, moved to Milwaukee from Chicago four months ago to be with his 2-year-old son.

He was last seen July 12. Lacy's family said he disappeared after he went to a downtown Milwaukee mall for ice cream after work earlier this month. His mother, Catherine, said she found it hard to believe her son could have been lured to Dahmer's apartment. Lacy, who worked at Pioneer Commercial Cleaning was engaged to marry. He was a track star during his high school years in Oak Park, 111.

Lacy was the first to be identified and Dahmer's most recent victim, police said. Lacy was identified through fingerprints and a photo found in Dahmer's apartment. SAVE 50 AND MOR nT WJ1Q FTTPMTTTTDT7 THTMA TIT Tl? IMC sl Ul 1 JLl AjAV A If AU J1V111 UXVJ-J VJlllilil OUR STOREWIDE JULY SALE AND CLEARANCE! YOUR -r CHOICE him for two days. He said the first day they had sex and the second day Weinberger wanted to leave. Dahmer told police he objected and gave Weinberger a drugged drink.

Dahmer told police he then strangled him, took photos, dismembered the body, and took more photos. He told police he put Weinberger's head in the freezer and the body in the barrel. Police said Weinberger was identified through dental records. Matt Turner Turner, who used the name Donald Montrell, was living in Chicago where he hoped to become a model. The 20-year-old Flint, native was identified by his fingerprints and from photographs found at the grisly scene.

Turner's mother, Rosa Fletcher of Flint, told WDIV-TV that she last heard from her son the day before he is believed to have met Jeffrey Dahmer at a gay rally in Chicago. Turner's stepfather, Wardell Fletcher of Flint, said Turner never picked up money the family had wired to him through Western 1 I I I ii Dahmer told police he gave Lacy 66" Oak Canted Front China Mirrored back, lights, I 54" Oak Shaker Style China Lots of drawers storage space Choice of Finish (After Sale 2000 drawer door, storage Your Choice of Finish (After Sale 1 2400 a drugged drink, strangled him and then had sex with the corpse. Dahmer told police be dismembered Lacy's body and kept his heart in the freezer "to eat later." Police found Lacy's body in the freezer. K. Sinthasomphone Konerak Sinthasomphone's anguished family suspected he was among the victims.

The 14-year-old Laotian boy was reported missing May 26 when he left for a downtown park to play soccer with a friend. Dahmer was convicted in 1989 of sexually assaulting the boy's older brother, who was 13 in 1988. He lured the older brother to his apartment by offering him $50 to pose for photos, court records show. Police found a photograph of Konerak in Dahmer's apartment. It showed the brother handcuffed, with hands over his head.

Three Milwaukee police officers were suspended with pay Friday after the investigation revealed that officers released Konerak into Dahmer's custody after a neighbor reported seeing the boy running down the alley along Dahmer's Dahmer told police he met Bradehoft at a bus stop near Marquette University July 19. He said he offered him money to pose for photos and the two had sex at Dahmer's apartment before Dahmer gave him a sleeping potion and strangled him. He said he dismembered the body, put the head in the freezer and the rest of the body in a barrel Jeremy Weinberger Friends of Weinberger, 23, of Chicago ran notices of his disappearance last week in Windy City Times and Gay Chicago, two weekly publications catering to Chicago's gay community. He was last seen July 6 leaving Carol's Speakeasy, a Chicago gay bar, with an unidentified man. His friends posted fliers with his pic Union.

"You always thought about something happening to other people's kids, but you never think about it until it happens to your own child, your only child," Rose Fletcher said. Turner ran away from his Flint home last year and ended up at a halfway house on Chicago's North Side, Debbie Hinde, executive director of the Teen Living Program, said. She said Turner was at the home two months before leaving around Christmas. "He was basically a good kid," Hinde said. "He was bright and articulate.

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"I feel him here." A television crew member rushed by, yelling to the driver of a mobile news van across the street "I've got 10 minutes of tape for noon. Get the mast op." The driver dutifully started the truck and raised the antenna that reporters use to transmit footage to the station. Another reporter collared Eckwood. After a few seconds of on-camera interviewing, the reporter asked. "Don't yon have anything new to say?" A block away, young men ignored the media cirrus.

They were looking to get paid. Tbe neighborhood plasma center bad just opened for business. "A lot of people are saying the devil is ia Milwao-kee," said Carl Jones. 21. a neighborhood resident waiting outside.

"Lots of bad things have been happening bere lately." That remark set off a young man wearing a shirt emblazoned with the name of Eary-E. the leader of the rap group A. Tbe man. Larry Younker, said two of bis relatives Tracy Piiunaa and Jeffrey Younker had bee killed ia separate shootings Last year. Where were toe cops then? Where were tbe reporters? be wanted to know.

Younker got more anrry as be talked. "Right now. with all tbe publicity, they're gonna write a book, make some nones. Lie they do wita everybody like this. lie's gonna be a hero, man.

"Let a black person kill one person and they go to jail," he added. "This white guy killed 17 people and got away with it" In Milwaukee, one of America's most segregated cities, all crimes have racial overtones. Dahmer is white, most of his victims were black. "If it had been white boys gone missing, they'd have called out the militia," said Urana Thomas, who Lives one floor above Dahmer's apartment Later, Thomas reconsidered: "Jeff Dahmer was just a crazy man. Instead of focusing on race, people ought to focus on people" A radio blared in a car passing near Dahmer's apartment building.

Tbe voice of Gene Mueller, who hosts tbe Milwaukee area's top-rated morning radio shows with partner Bob Reitman, bad a suggestion for sensitive Listeners Friday: "You might want to turn off your radios for a while." He was about to start reading the news. Errol Lindsey's name was announced as tbe latest victim to be identified. Lindsey disappeared April 7 after a visit to tbe Grand Avenue Mall, a downtown shopping center. Eckwood already knew the news. He paced some more.

"It bugs you. People are making silly jokes about this. Around bere, you bear people laughing. Thai's not the type of thing I want to bear. I cast watch TV any-more.

"After my brother was gone a week, we knew be was dead. My family has to pull together. If we fall apart. (Dahmer) wins. That would make him happy, to see us faO apart If my family falls down.

I'm going to pull them back up." Tbea Eckwood walked away, rounding the corner, beading borne. Around the corner and dowa the street, police have temporarily closed dowa the State Street Beer and Liquor store. Tbe place was a center for neighborhood trouble, according to a siga posted there. People Littered and loitered around the building. Traditional TVVCR STAND VmiC wt mn6 ph-wood trm-uom i in 10-S Son.

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