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Inmate being held as suspect in Dahmer killing NATIONAL (▼I m i >i v# n . WU (AP) — Jnf fray Dnhntor wtt attacked and k i I loci will In <.leaning n prison bathroom Won day m a gruesome end for the for mer chocolnlo fidory worker who strangled and disniomliared 17 boy* and men and ate some of them Another inmate was Iming held in Dahmor's slaving and in the severe beating of another prison er at Columbia Corns lional Insti tutlon Authorities wouldn't identify the suspei t. who was serving a life sentence for mur der. or offer a motive All thn<e men were working cm a (leaning detail in the ns metion area of the maximiiin-sei.urttv prison when the attai k occurred A bloody broom handle was found at the scene, but Cornu • lions S<‘> rotary Mil haul Sullivan said he didn't know if il was the murder weapon "One could surmise a numlier of things Their head* could have been smashed against a wall,1' Sullivan said "There was a great deal of blood In the area of the attai k." Corrections Department spokesman Joe S< islowii / said The 34 year-old Dahmer had extensive head injuries and died at a hospital about an hour after he was found. Dahmer. who had l*s-n impris oned since his crimes t ante to light in JlJOi, had been attm ked once before In July, an inmate tried to cut his throat during a c hapel service, hut the razor blade attai bed to a plastic han dle fell apart before it could hurt Dahmer At the time. Sullivan said that it appeared to have been ait iso lated ini ident and that Dahmer. who was serving H» life sen Dahmer crimes reveal horrific nature of solitary man MH.WAtJKEE (AP) — Friends were hard to come by for the solitary Jeffrey Dahmer So when he invited attractive young men fie met at shopping mails and gov fairs home for drink*, he wonted them to stay. Forever. Kven if he could keep only part* of them When police finally hurst into Da tuner's apartment on July 22. 1MI. they found tor so* soaking in acid, severed head* in the refrigerator and freezer, skull* in boxes. a hand and n genital organ in a HO-rjuart ket tle pot. and photo* of victim* in various stages of dismemberment. Two human hearts and a bicep mu.v ie Dabtner said be planned to eat were in the freezer A sit kcnlng stench permeated the whole scene "1 should have stayed w ith God." Dah mer told a judge at his sentencing in Fete riiarv 10<J2. ’’I tried ami 1 failed, and cre ated a holocaust." As gruesome as the discovery was. it merely swung wide a door into a secret, murderous life 1 Filmier had been living for 13 years, during which he < burned 1? vic tims Die notion was stunned by the deprav ity of the murders, the dismemberments, the lannibahsm in Dahmer's neighborhood, that shock was tempered with rage He killed hi* four final victims only after a close call with poin t* in May. when two officers returned to his custody a 14 year-old l.aotian hoy found staggering naked in the street Dahmer told police the boy was his homo sexual lover and had drunkeniy wandered out of hi* apartment After hi* arrest two month* later, he admitted killing 14 year old Konerak Sinthasomphone moment* after police left Officer* had dismissed witness' concerns that the boy vrai really in trouble and had joked about the incident over their radio* In the prior, largely minority neighborhood, the /uiion* confirmed suspicions that polk* wen* indifferent to the disappearances of young gays and minorities Neigh lairs it! !hi* iow nil onie apartmant building just northwest of downtown had long suspected something was seriously aims* in Apartment 213 For months they had heard sawing, scuffling and screaming coming from the apartment For a year they had complained among themselves about the smell No one called police, they said, because people in the neighborhood believe i< is bet ter to mind your own business But Glenda Cleveland did rail police after her daughter and mer e told her of the naked boy. She repeatedly asked an officer if he was certain Sinthasomphone was an adult "As positive as I ran be," the officer said Police recordings also reveal that one offi cer laughed as he reported finishing his investigation "Intoxicated Asian, naked male." the offi < <*r said "Was returned to his sober boyfriend,** "My partner is going to gel deloused at the station,’’ he said with more laughter l la Inner was arrested two months later when a handcuffed man managed to escape the apartment and flag down police. The officer* who handled the Smthasomphone investigation were fired but won reinstate ment after a two-year court battle. Although Dahrner often targeted gays and minorities, he said race and sexual orien tation had nothing to do with his preference for victims "Mv only objective was to find the host looking guy that I could. I went to bath houses. 1 went to bars, shopping malls." he said in a jatlhouse interview broadcast last March on Dot Hi no NBC "Their sexual preference didn't matter to me." he continued. "Their race didn't mat ter to me The first two young men were white. The third young man was American Indian. The fourth and fifth were Hispan ic So. no. race had nothing to do with it It . was just their looks." lie didn't lure them home specifically to kill them, he said. "The killing wasn't the objective. I just wanted to have the person under my com plete control to do with as I wanted." hating parts of his victims "made me fool like they were a permanent part of me." ho said. "And it gave me a sexual satisfaction to do that." Dahrner pleaded guilty hut insane, but a jury found him sane on all founts. He said he had hoped to loam why he had been "so bed and evil,” 1 didn't ever want freedom. Frankly, 1 wanted death for myself,” Dahrner said. Utnu'v win no! believed to >«* in imminent danger "Oh tnv Cod? Mv *on! How «ould this happen?" Duhmor s mother. Joyce Flint, said when TV's Hard Copy informed her of (its death The other victim in Monde v \ altar k wet Jesse Anderson, who w#j serving a life sentence for slabbing ami bludgeoning his wife to death Anderson's case drew widespread attention in Wis< onsin 1h« nuse of his claim that two him k men atta* ked him and his w ife, txiih white, as they left a restaurant Hahmers body was found in journalism w ruing drama science malh cliff notes schaums studs guides ICSlhooks ivtcreiue science Ik lion ms sicis westerns romance languages novels vlk til’ll.Ilk's Ills!’ ’I V him photographs ait skills alt hisi.n\ ak liitev tuie music ci i ’li liteiat v 11 ilk ism plus' t heal i e pluloM’phs iclieii 'it evlik at ion unihiopoloes mmoi iiv issues v\ at |V.kC i • 'inputei s Kisincss CASH FOR BOOKS momij) friday 9 00 5 00 Saturday 9 00-2 00 two locations QUALITY USED TEXTBOOKS UNIVERSITY OE OREGON LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE LINRELD COLLEGE LAYAWAY NEXT TERMS BOOKS no money dow n brinj> your author, title, and edition find your books - pay by January 7 Smith Family Bookstore textbook and general bookstore (across from Sacred Heart Hospital - near the U of O campus) 768 East 13lh Avenue 345-1651 general b*>oks (across from the post office near the Hilton Hull Center) 525 Willamette Street 343-4717 textbooks may be sold at either store monday-friday 9:00-5:00 Saturday 9:00-2:00 the! stuff's bathroom and show er area next to the basketball court Anderson was found in the prisoners' bathroom across the court and was hospitalized in critical condition w ith head injuries A guard overseeing the three inmates had just left the bas ketball i ourt when the attack occurred. Sullivan said. He did not know the whereabouts of another guard assigned In watch the prisoners "Dahmer had a death w ish, and I know that he didn't have the gumption to do it himself, so I had predicted tiiat the dm would i unit* w hell he would be killed in prison." said Gerald Hoyle. Dahmer's law yer at trial. “He never expressed fear." his stepmother. Shari Ikahmer, told WJW TV in Cleveland. "From the day he w as arrested he felt he deserved anything that he got Dabster's gruesome past i aine to light in July l‘»<n . when a handcuffed man (laired down police and led officers lo Dah tner's reeking ajMirtment Police later lugged oil drums packad with bod\ parts from the one U'droom apartment Within days, the sandy* haired factory worker had con fessed to killing 17 men and boys since 1978 in Milwaukee and Ohio. Dahrner drugged, strangled and dismembered his victims, having sex with one corpse and oatm# parts of others. Ho (lushed brains down the toilet, kept skulls and other parts ns mementos and saved one or two hearts 'to eat later.” Da hitter pleaded guilty by reason of insanity to 15 Wis consin slayings at his 1992 tri al. hut the jury found hint sane on all counts He later pleaded guiln to a killing in Ohio. He wasn't charged in one other Wisconsin slaving because of a lack of evidence. Michael McCann, the dis trict attorney who prosecuted Dahmer, said that he was sad dened and distressed by the slaying and that authorities should have known Dahmer's life was m danger because of the July incident. "That’s not justice This was murder. I'm hoping that who ever did it doesn't emerge as a folk hero." McCann said. For a year, Dahmer was kept in isolation at the prison in Portage, about 40 miles north of Madison; then the staff determined he could mix with other prisoners, Sullivan said The slaving came as rela tives of Dahmer's victims try to auction off his possessions as partial payment for the judg ments they have won against him The contents of his apart ment included a lava lump, a toothbrush, homosexual pornographic items and an H0 quart kettle ■ ET ALS MtrriNCs )«paam« VlttdtRt Of|«Riulioa will mw«M tun;§ht (mm S to ft p m in fcMU i Wn Room A lor more inform*!tan. cell 4N l J07 VtudenU for l.ile will bum «n orgeat rational meeting tonight at ? to f Ml ( j*ntur> Room A Far more information. call fttke MIMU1 A SUM S IhrbuMt Ttte will ureKuit a lec ture mi ■(^MOptwwtr* end I'wU-nnwi u Collaho retor* tree tin || New Music for an Kneeroble lay ‘ today et 4 pm in the Oflmgef Alunuu Umnge For more information, cell 146 MM ■ CORRECTION On Monday. 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