Konerak sinthasomphone biography

Estate of Sinthasomphone v. City of Milwaukee, 838 F. Supp. 1320 (E.D. Wis. 1993)

838 F. Supp. 1320 (1993)

The ESTATE OF Konerak SINTHASOMPHONE, by its special administrator, Anoukone SINTHASOMPHONE; Sounthone Sinthasomphone; and Somdy Sinthasomphone, Plaintiffs,
v.
The CITY OF MILWAUKEE, a municipal corporation; Joseph Gabrish; John A. Balcerzak; and Richard Porubcan, Defendants.

Civ. A. No. 91-C-1121.

United States District Court, E.D. Wisconsin.

November 23, 1993.

*1321 Robert Slattery, Slattery & Hausman, Ltd., and Curry First, Hall, First & Patterson, S.C., Milwaukee, WI, for plaintiffs.

Robert Johnson, Cook & Franke, S.C., D. Michael Guerin, Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown, Rudolph M. Konrad, Deputy City Atty., Milwaukee, WI, for defendants.

 
ORDER

TERENCE T. EVANS, Chief Judge.

I open this decision by repeating what I said in a decision issued in this case (and three other consolidated cases) a year and a half ago, on March 5, 1992, 785 F. Supp. 1343. In that decision, I wrote:

 
"I'm on 25th and State, and there is this young man

Jeffrey Dahmer

American serial killer (1960–1994)

"Dahmer" redirects here. For other uses, see Dahmer (disambiguation).

Jeffrey Dahmer

1991 mugshot of Dahmer

Born

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer


(1960-05-21)May 21, 1960

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.

DiedNovember 28, 1994(1994-11-28) (aged 34)

Portage, Wisconsin, U.S.

Other names
  • The Milwaukee Cannibal
  • The Milwaukee Monster
Conviction(s)
Criminal penaltyLife imprisonment without the possibility of parole (x16; total of 941 years imprisonment)
Victims17

Span of crimes

1978–1991
CountryUnited States
State(s)

Date apprehended

July 22, 1991
Imprisoned atColumbia Correctional Institution, Portage, Wisconsin

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (; May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.[4] Many of his later murders involved necrophilia,cannibalism, and the permanen

John Balcerzak

Former police officer (born 1957)

John Balcerzak

Born1957 (age 67–68)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPolice officer
Years active1980–1991, 1994–2017
Known forKonerak Sinthasomphone incident
In office
c. 2006 – December 31, 2009
Preceded byBradley DeBraska

John A. Balcerzak (born 1957) is an American former police officer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Balcerzak and Joseph T. Gabrish gained national attention in 1993, when they were suspended with pay and later fired for having handed over an injured 14-year-old boy to serial killerJeffrey Dahmer despite bystanders' protests,[1] as well as for the homophobic remarks made by the officers during the incident.

The officers appealed their termination and were subsequently reinstated with back pay of $55,000 each by Judge Robert J. Parins.[2] Balcerzak served as president of the Milwaukee Police Association (the police union for Milwaukee officers) from 2005 to 2009. Balcerzak retired from the Milwaukee Polic

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