Friday, November 30, 2018

Who is the Killer?: The Milwaukee Cannibal Pt.4

Curtis Durrell Straughter AKA Demetra
He was born on April 6, 1973 to Dorothy.
Curtis was young and full of energy, the world was his oyster.He lived with his grandmother Catherine.
Curtis had recently lost a job as a nursing assistant and hoped to become a model and earn a University degree.
It was February 18th,1991 and he was 17 years old and standing at a bus stop near Marquette University.

A man approached Straughter  and asked if he would like some money in exchanged for posing for photos and intercourse.
They went back to the man's place and the man drugged and strangled Straughter with a leather strap.
Then he was dismembered.
The man retained the youth's skull, hands, and genitals and photographing each stage of the dismemberment process.


Errol Lindsey

He was born March 3rd, 1972 in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
He played the drums and sang in the church choir. 
Errol was outgoing and friendly.
He was nicknamed by some as “Cool Breeze”. 
He was also a fan of rap music, and lifted weights.It was March 7th, 1991 was 18 years old.
He walking to get a key cut, when he met a man outside a book store.
Errol was lured back to the man's apartment where the man drugged him, drilled a hole in his skull and poured hydrochloric acid into it. 
Errol awoke after this experiment, saying:
 "I have a headache. 
What time is it?"
The man drugged him again, then strangled him. 
He decapitated Errol and retained his skull, flayed the body, placing the skin in a solution of cold water and salt for several weeks. 
The guy disposed of Lindsey's skin when he noted it had become too frayed and brittle.

Anthony Hughes
He was born on August 26th, 1959.
Tony contracted pneumonia as a baby which caused him to lose his hearing, that didn't stop him from enjoying life.
He was always smiling, always cheerful.
Tony was very close with his family.
He recently moved to Madison, Wisconsin with a group of friends after being “shaken” by the murder of his next door neighbor.
He was mute so he communicated by writing and also lip reading.
Tony graduated from the Delavan School For the Deaf.
On May 24th, 1991, he was 31 years old Tony met the man at a Milwaukee bar, and had known him for a while. 
The man passed him a written invitation to come back to his apartment with him in exchange for fifty dollars.
Tony wrote back, 
“Sure.” 
Tony was passed a drink laced with prescribed Halcion.
When he was unconscious, the man took a drill and bored a small hole in his skull and injected acid into his cranial cavity and Tony never woke up.

He strangled and died sometime shortly after and lay on the floor for three days.


Konerak Sinthasomphone
He was born December 2nd 1976.
He enjoyed playing soccer, swimming and talking on the phone with his friends. 
Konerak liked to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Tom and Jerry and would draw pictures of the characters. 
He was excited about learning to drive in the coming years and was passionate about sports cars. 
Konerak tried to find humour in every situation. 
He was very close to his family.
The family who had fled repression in Laos when he was four.
Konerak's dad had built a canoe and sent his entire family across the river late one night, with the youngest children drugged with sleeping pills so they would not cry and attract the notice of soldiers near the river.
A few days later, Konerak's father swam the river himself, and was reunited with the rest of his family in a refugee camp where they lived for a year. 
At the camp, the family made contact with representatives of American-based refugee relocation programs and, with the help of a relocation program supported by Catholic archdiocese in Milwaukee, the family moved to the city in 1980.
On May 26, 1991, in the afternoon, he was 14-year-old and on Wisconsin Avenue, when he was approached by a man.
Konerak was offer of money to accompany him to his apartment to pose for Polaroid pictures. 
He was initially reluctant to the proposal, before changing his mind and accompanying the man to his apartment, where the youth posed for two pictures in his underwear.
Then the man drugged him into unconsciousness and performed oral sex on him. 
The man drilled a single hole into Konerak's skull, through which he injected hydrochloric acid into the frontal lobe.
Before Konerak fell unconscious, the man led him into the bedroom, where the nude body Tony Hughes, lay naked on the floor.
Konerak soon became unconscious, whereupon the man drank several beers while lying alongside Konerak before leaving his apartment to drink at a bar, then purchase more alcohol.
Early in the morning on May 27, the man returned toward his apartment to discover Konerak sitting naked on the corner of 25th and State, talking in Laotian.
Three distressed young women were standing near him.
The man approached the ladies and explained to the women that Konerak was his friend, and attempted to lead him to his apartment by the arm. 
The three women explained that they had phoned 911.
Two officers named John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish arrived. The man informed the officers that Konerak was his 19-year-old boyfriend, that he had drunk too much following a quarrel.
The man then said that Konerak frequently behaved in this manner when intoxicated. 
One of the woman attempted to indicate to one of the officers that Konerak was bleeding from his buttocks and that he had seemingly struggled against the man's attempts to walk him to his apartment.
The officer harshly informed her to 
"butt out,
shut the hell up"
and to not interfere, adding the incident was "domestic."
Against the protests of the three women, the officers covered Konerak with a towel and walked him to the man's apartment.
The man showed the officers the two semi-nude Polaroid pictures he had taken of the youth the previous evening. 
The officer peeked his head around the bedroom but really didn't take a good look.
The officers then left, with a departing remark that the man "take good care" of Konerak.
Upon the departure of the two police officers from his apartment, the man again injected hydrochloric acid into Konerak's brain.
This injection proved fatal.
The following day, May 28, the man dismembered the bodies of Konerak and Hughes. 
He retained both victims' skulls.

Matt Turner aka Donald Montrell
He was born on July 3rd, 1971 in Flint, Michigan.
Matt was bright, articulate and had a warm and bubbly soul.
He had run away from home and was living in a halfway house. Turner sang in his church’s choir. 
He worked at a Pizzeria and also lip-synced at a bar, under the performer name of Donald Montrell.
Matt loved to dress up and have his picture taken.
It was June 30th, 1991 and he 20 years old.
He was at a bus stop, traveling to Chicago when a man approached him.
The man asked Matt if he would travel to Milwaukee for a professional photo shoot and he accepted.
At the man's apartment, the man drugged, strangled and dismembered Matt.
Then the man placed his head and internal organs in separate plastic bags in the freezer. 

Jeremiah Weinberger
He was born September, 29th, 1968.
He had a large group of friends.

Jeremiah worked in customer service.
He was an amateur artist and kept his things exceptionally organized. 
He was also concerned with dressing well and always looking his best.
Jeremiah was known to be always happy and loved to socialise with new people. 
He met a man at a Chicago bar.
The man wanted to spend the weekend together.
The man and Jeremiah got a bus back to Milwaukee. 
The man and Jeremiah spent a few days together until Weinberger said it was time to leave.
The man persuaded him to stay for one final drink. 
The drink was laced with drugs and drilled a hole into his skull.
The man then injected boiling water into the brain. 
Jeremiah woke up, whereupon the man drugged him one more time and injected more boiling water.
He then fell into a coma, which lasted for two days. 
After which Jeremiah passed away.


Oliver Lacy

He was born June 3rd, 1968.

In High School he was a champion athlete and one of the top runners in Illinois.
He moved from Chicago to Milwaukee to be with his girlfriend, whom he planned to marry, and very young son. 
Oliver worked as a custodian working in downtown Milwaukee for Pioneer Commercial Cleaning Inc.
He was a body building enthusiast.
On July 15th, 1991, he was 21 years old and at the corner of 27th and Kilbourn.
Oliver was approached by a man offering money for posing nude for photographs.
Oliver then accompanied him to his apartment, where the pair engaged in tentative sexual activity before the man drugged Oliver. After unsuccessfully attempting to render Oliver unconscious with chloroform, he phoned his workplace to request a day's absence. After strangling Oliver, the man had sex with the corpse before dismembering him. 
He placed Oliver's head and heart in the refrigerator and his skeleton in the freezer.


Joseph Arthur Bradehoft

He was born on January 24th, 1967 in Minnesota.
Joseph enjoyed sports and fishing.

He was a father of three children.
Joseph was originally from Illinois, but he came to Milwaukee to visit his brother and to seek work to support his family. He was married, but had separated from his wife, and had three children.
It was July 19th, 1991 and he was 25 years old and he was at a bus stop with a six pack under his arm.

Lured to the man's apartment for $50, Joseph was drugged and strangled as so many had been before him. 
His body was left on man’s bed, covered with a sheet, for two full days. 
When the man finally removed the sheet, he found Joseph’s head infested with maggots.
Finally he decapitated the body, cleaned the head and placed it in his freezer. 
He then acidified the torso in a 57 gallon blue tub, along with those of two prior victims.

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