Konerak Sinthasompone
February 20th, 2008
This was a cheerful and cute looking Laotian guy that was murdered by the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in a gruesome manner. From the New York Times, July 31, 1991.
In a white, neatly kept bungalow on this city’s north side, the Sinthasomphone family grieves quietly for its youngest member. The family who had fled repression in Laos more than a decade ago is trying to make sense of the death of 14-year-old Konerak, said family members, whose dismembered body was among the 11 found by the police last week in the apartment of Jeffrey L. Dahmer.
I clearly remember how sickening and horrifying it was, this case. I was watching it on TV night after night. How could this guy murder someone innocent like that? A case where gay, Asian and crime came together in a very perverse way.
on February 20th, 2008 at 1:10 am
[...] On Yellow Fever there is a post about the horrific murder of a cute and cheerful Lation boy named Konerak. It took place all the way back in 1991, and the whole story is an amalgam of gay, Asian and horrible murder. The worst part is that the Milwaukee police sent Konerak back into the house of his murderer when he tried to flee. [...]