MILWAUKEE -- Recordings released Thursday of phone calls to police and radio traffic May 27 show officers thought a Laotian boy was the adult lover of Jeffrey Dahmer, in whose apartment the boy's remains later were found.
The tape shows the initial call to report a naked and beaten youth was made to 911 at 2 a.m.
Sandra Smith and Nicole Childress, both 18, earlier said they had seen the boy, Konerak Sinthasomphone, staggering naked outside Dahmer's apartment building, bleeding from his buttocks area. Childress said she called 911.
The tape shows:
Operator: 'Milwaukee Emergency Operator 71.'
Caller: OK. Hi, I'm at 25th and State, and there's this young man. He is buck naked. He has been beaten up. He's very bruised up. He can't stand. He's (unintelligible) fall down. He is buck naked. He has no clothes on. He is really hurt.'
The operator transferred the caller to the fire department, which dispatched an ambulance, and the operator dispatched a patrol car.
At 2:07 a.m., the recording shows another operator relayed information to police from a caller who had reported a man dragging a naked male who looked like he had been beaten.
At 2:24 a.m., police squad 36 reports it is finished at the scene.
On the tape, an officer says: 'The intoxicated Asian naked male was returned to his sober boyfriend and we're 10-8' as someone chuckles in the background.
The squad was assigned another battery complaint, to which an officer responded: '10-4. Be a minute. My partner's going to get deloused at the station.'
The term 'getting deloused' is police slang for contact with unsavory people. The officers involved were not identified.
At 2:31 a.m., the tape shows a woman calling to try to follow up on the incident and being told it was a squabble between two homosexuals. Glenda Cleveland, the mother of Sandra Smith, said earlier she was the woman who tried to find out what had happened.
The tape shows she was transferred three times before being connected with an officer who had responded to the call.NEWLN: From the tape:
Woman caller: 'There was a squad car No. 68 that was flagged down earlier this evening, about 15 minutes ago.'
Officer: 'That was me.'
Woman: 'What happened? I mean my daughter and my niece witnessed what was going on. Was anything done about the situation? Do you need the names or information or anything from them?'
Officer: 'No, not at all.'
Woman: 'You don't?'
Officer: 'No, it was an intoxicated boyfriend of another boyfriend.'
Woman: 'Well how old was this child?'
Officer: 'It wasn't a child. It was an adult.'
Woman: 'Are you sure?'
Officer: 'Yep.'
Woman: 'Are you positive? Because this child doesn't even speak English. My daughter had, you know, dealt with him before, seen him on the street, you know, catching earthworms.'
Officer: 'Yeah, no, no, he's -- it's all taken care of, ma'am.'
Woman: 'Are you sure?'
Officer: 'Ma'am, I can't make it any more clear. It's all taken care of. He's with his boyfriend in his boyfriend's apartment, where he's got his belongings also. I mean, that's where it's released.'
Woman: 'But I mean isn't this, I mean what if he's a child and not an adult. I mean are you positive this is an adult?'
Officer: 'Ma'am, like I explained to you, it's all taken care of. It's as positive as I can be. I can't do anything about somebody's sexual preferences in life.'
Woman: 'Well no, I'm not saying anything about that, but it appeared to be a child. This is my concern.'
Officer: 'No, he's not.'
Woman: 'He's not a child?'
Officer: 'No, he's not. OK? It's a boyfriend-boyfriend thing and he's got belongings at the house where he came from. He's got pictures of himself and his boyfriend, and so forth.'
Woman: 'Oh, I see.'
Officer: 'OK?'
Woman: 'OK, I'm just, you know, it appears to have been a child, that was my concern.
Officer: 'I understand. No, he's not.'
Woman: 'Oh, OK. Thank you.'
