When Michael Smith saw the photo on TV, he immediately recognized him, he said. While the police department says it has neither been able to identify the black man in the photo, nor who took it, Smith and his brother, Michael Smith - Spann’s father - say they are in no doubt it depicts Spann. ![]() Now, the whole world has seen the infamous Polaroid photo of former officers Tim McDermott and Jerome Finnigan standing over a prone black male as if he were a hunting trophy.įirst published last month in the Sun-Times, the picture, which is 12 to 15 years old, cost McDermott his job and further disgraced Finnigan, already in prison for leading a crew of dirty cops who kidnapped drug dealers and plotted the murder of a fellow cop. “They said I was crazy - I thought the pictures would never come out.” a nightmare.For more than a decade, Robert Smith talked about the night Chicago Police smashed their way into his home and arrested his teenage nephew, then forced him to pose in a series of degrading, racially charged photos.īut when he told friends and neighbors the wild story of how he was watching inside a West Side police station as his nephew, Michael Spann, was forced to wear deer antlers with his tongue hanging out while a pair of white, rifle- toting cops stood over him, “Nobody believed me,” Smith said Thursday. for years now, obviously my mind has been filled with gruesome, horrible thoughts and ideas. ‘It’s been a nightmare for a long time, even before I was caught. Jeffrey Dahmer told the police, "It’s just a nightmare, let’s put it that way,’ he said. Looking through the polaroids, police were shocked to see photos of severed heads, dismembered limbs, and decomposing torsos. Under the killer's bed laid a blood-stained knife, the chest drawer open contained photos of naked men. 1 of the 72 photos found in Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment.ĭahmer told the officers that the handcuff key was in his bedroom, which gave one officer a bad feeling, so he followed behind. Is this man alive or dead? 1 of the 72 polaroids found in Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment. Jeffrey Dahmer's 72 polaroids 1 of the 72 polaroids found in Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment. There were also homosexual porn VHS tapes laying about containing Cocktales, Chippendale's Tall Dark and Handsome, Rock Hard, Hard Men 2, Hard Men 3, Peep Show, and Tropical Heat Wave. The 31-year-old bachelor was religious, or at least curious, because of the many audio tapes found lying around the room such as the King James Version, Numerology, the Devine Triangle, a book about learning Latin, and a tape on the Genesis Flood. Notice the naked men on the wall, exotic fish tank, and security cameras on the walls. There was nothing seedy or squalid about the room rather did it appear surprisingly neat and tidy for the neighbourhood. The two cops confronted the 31-year-old Dahmer at his apartment at 924 North 25th Street, Number 213.įrom Brian Masters's book, The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer, The living room was small but pleasantly furnished, with a large comfortable arm-chair, a healthy pot-plant on a tall pedestal, an oriental rug, blue curtains at the window, some fine pictures on the wall, and one framed picture of a naked male model. Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment 213 has since been torn down. In a controversial decision, the two police officers that spotted Tracy Edwards took the victim back to Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment to retrieve the handcuff key. The freak was Jeffrey Dahmer, and Tracy Edwards nearly became his 18th victim. Edwards told the cops that he had to "use karate" to fend off the "freak" that had tried to kill him. The man, soon identified as Tracy Edwards, a 32-year-old black man from Tupelo Mississippi, had handcuffs dangling from his left wrist. A handcuffed Tracy Edwards used karate to flee Jeffrey Dahmer. On July 22, 1991, police officers Rolf Mueller and Robert Rauth spot a young black male running frantically by the corner of Kilbourn Avenue and North 25th street at approximately 11:30pm. The photos contain the severed and dismembered bodies taken in various poses and stages of death. ![]() Police discover 72 Poloroid photos taken by Jeffrey Dahmer displaying several of his victims after raiding his Milwaukee apartment on July 22, 1991.
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