Konerak Sinthasomphone.Photo: IMDB
The youngest known victim of notorious serial killerJeffrey Dahmerwas a teenage boy who immigrated to the United States from Laos a decade before his violent death.
According toThe Times,Dahmer was convicted of sexually assaulting Somsack in 1989, after he convinced the then-13-year-old boy to follow him to his apartment to take part in a nude photoshoot in exchange for money.
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Jeffrey Dahmer.EUGENE GARCIA/AFP via Getty
Somsack managed to escape Dahmer that night.
Dahmer was initially sentenced to eight years in prison for the assault, but after writing a judge a letter of regret, he was granted early release one year into his prison sentence, perThe Times.
At the time of Konerak’s murder, Dahmer was still on probation for Somsack’s assault.
On May 27, 1991, Dahmer’s neighborGlenda Cleveland, her daughter Sandra Smith, and her niece, Nicole Childress alerted authorities of a disoriented, bleeding boy, later identified as Konerak, roaming the streets near their home,PEOPLE previously reported.
According tocourt documentsfrom a suit the Sinthasomphone familiy filed against the city of Milwaukee and the two responding police officers, Konerak “was seen wandering dazed and naked on the corner of 25th and State in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.”
Police officers responded. Dahmer arrived shortly after the officers and convinced them that Konerak was his drunk lover.
“Despite the vigorous protestations of several African-Americans on the scene, the officers and Dahmer led Sinthasomphone back to Dahmer’s apartment, where the body of one of Dahmer’s victims lay unnoticed in an adjoining room. Concluding that Dahmer and Sinthasomphone were adult homosexual lovers, the officers ultimately left Sinthasomphone with Dahmer,” the suit states.
“Thirty minutes later, he became Dahmer’s thirteenth victim,” the suit states.
Dahmer was convicted of the murder, rape and dismemberment of at least 17 men and boys in Milwaukee from 1978 to 1991.
source: people.com
