Juzi

Old tapes of real people telling stories they can never take back.

[kuma @0xkumaa]

In 1991 three women found a dazed, bleeding 14-year-old boy in the street and called 911. The police walked him back to Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment.

It was the early hours of May 27 in Milwaukee. The boy was Konerak Sinthasomphone, and the women stayed with him until the police came.

Then Dahmer walked up and told the officers the boy was 19, his partner, and drunk.

The officers believed him and sent the fire crew away. When one of the women kept saying the boy was hurt, she was told to butt out.

They escorted both of them back to apartment 213 and logged it as a domestic dispute. On the way out, an officer told Dahmer to take good care of him.

Section 3 in the file adds one more detail: the boy was the younger brother of the 13-year-old Dahmer had been convicted of assaulting three years earlier. He was killed that night.

Section 4 covers the next 56 days. Glenda Cleveland, whose family found the boy, saw his photo in the paper and called police again. Four more men died in that apartment in June and July.

On July 22 a man named Tracy Edwards ran into the street with a handcuff hanging from one wrist and flagged down a patrol car. He led the officers back to apartment 213, where one of them opened a drawer full of Polaroids and told his partner, "These are for real."

The two officers from May were fired, then got their jobs back with back pay.

Of Dahmer's 17 victims in Fig. 1, five died after three women tried to warn police. Who should answer for those five?

[Juzi @juzixbt]

On June 24, 2002, 15-year-old Kara Robinson was watering her friend's lawn in South Carolina when a man pulled up with a stack of magazines, and a few seconds later there was a gun against her head.

He made her climb into a plastic storage tub in his back seat and told her that if she screamed, he'd shoot. She stayed silent, curled up in the dark, and memorized the serial number printed on the tub.

He kept her in his apartment for 18 hours. She didn't fight and she didn't cry in front of him.

"I wanted him to believe that I would be compliant," she said later.

The whole time she was taking notes in her head: the dentist's name on a fridge magnet, the animals in cages, and a hairbrush in the bathroom full of long red hair that wasn't hers.

At sunrise he fell asleep next to her. She slipped her hands out of the cuffs, untied her feet, got past the deadbolt and ran out the door barefoot.

"I just ran. I didn't look back for a second."

In the video below Kara walks through every step of that night in a calm, steady voice, until she gets to the girls who never got out.

She led police straight back to that apartment. Inside they found what tied Richard Evonitz to three girls from Virginia: 16-year-old Sofia Silva and sisters Kristin and Kati Lisk, both 15. Their parents had waited five years to find out what happened to their daughters, and years later Kara sat down with those families face to face.

She grew up to become a police officer and a mother of two boys.

A terrified 15-year-old with a gun to her head gave three families the answers the police never could. Was it luck, or was she just smarter than the man who took her?

[Juzi @juzixbt]

@0xkumaa Robert's mom was waiting in the car to drive him home. He went to ask about a better paying job and said he'd be right back.

[Juzi @juzixbt]

@0xkumaa Her story flips halfway through one sentence. First he hurt her, then it was "consensual, part of the game."

[Juzi @juzixbt]

In 1984 a 17-year-old girl was dragged off her bike by a serial killer who had already murdered at least 10 women. She survived by convincing him she could be his girlfriend, and 35 years later she sat in the front row and watched him die.

Lisa McVey was riding home from her night shift at a doughnut shop in Tampa when Bobby Joe Long pulled her into his car at gunpoint. He blindfolded her, tied her up and kept her for 26 hours.

"I remember pleading with God, whatever you do, just don't let him kill me," she said later.

She had already survived abuse at home, so she knew how to stay quiet and calm around a dangerous man. She talked to him softly and told him her father was sick and she was the only one who could take care of him. Under the blindfold she memorized everything she could, the name on his dashboard and the number of stairs up to his apartment, and she pressed her fingerprints all over his bathroom so police would know she'd been there.

After 26 hours he drove her back and let her out near the spot where he grabbed her. Her description led police straight to him.

In the video below Lisa, now a sheriff's deputy, talks about those 26 hours in a steady voice until she reaches the part where she begged God for her life.

"I'm a survivor, and a warrior. There's no victim here."

She became a cop because of him, and today she guards a middle school a few blocks from where he took her. In 2019 she watched Florida execute Bobby Joe Long, looked him in the eye and thanked him for picking her and not another girl who might not have made it out.

Why did a man who killed at least 10 women let this one walk away?

[Juzi @juzixbt]

In 1984 a 17-year-old girl was dragged off her bike by a serial killer who had already murdered at least 10 women. She survived by convincing him she could be his girlfriend, and 35 years later she sat in the front row and watched him die.

Lisa McVey was riding home from her night shift at a doughnut shop in Tampa when Bobby Joe Long pulled her into his car at gunpoint. He blindfolded her, tied her up and kept her for 26 hours.

"I remember pleading with God, whatever you do, just don't let him kill me," she said later.

She had already survived abuse at home, so she knew how to stay quiet and calm around a dangerous man. She talked to him softly and told him her father was sick and she was the only one who could take care of him. Under the blindfold she memorized everything she could, the name on his dashboard and the number of stairs up to his apartment, and she pressed her fingerprints all over his bathroom so police would know she'd been there.

After 26 hours he drove her back and let her out near the spot where he grabbed her. Her description led police straight to him.

In the video below Lisa, now a sheriff's deputy, talks about those 26 hours in a steady voice until she reaches the part where she begged God for her life.

"I'm a survivor, and a warrior. There's no victim here."

She became a cop because of him, and today she guards a middle school a few blocks from where he took her. In 2019 she watched Florida execute Bobby Joe Long, looked him in the eye and thanked him for picking her and not another girl who might not have made it out.

Why did a man who killed at least 10 women let this one walk away?

[Juzi @juzixbt]

@0xkumaa The detail that stays with me: the prosecutor who put her away went home and raised her two surviving kids as his own.

[Juzi @juzixbt]

In 1990 a 22-year-old high school employee started sleeping with a 15-year-old student. A few months later he shot her husband in their living room, and she said she had no idea.

Pamela Smart worked at a school in Derry, New Hampshire, and Billy Flynn was one of the kids there. He testified that she told him she needed her husband Greg dead because a divorce would cost her everything, and that she'd leave him if he didn't do it. Greg was 24. They had been married less than a year.

Billy and three friends waited for him inside the house. That night Pamela came home, found Greg on the floor and ran to the neighbors screaming. All four teenagers cooperated with prosecutors, and all four are free today. Billy got out in 2015.

Pamela got life without parole and spent the next 34 years saying she was innocent.

In the video below she sits in a New York prison in 2024 with gray hair, reading a statement she wrote herself. For the first time she admits it.

"I am the one to blame for his absence from this world."

She said she spent years deflecting blame because it was the only way she could live with it. Greg's family said she still didn't say his name. In 2025 the governor refused to even give her a hearing.

The boy who pulled the trigger is free and she's still inside. Is that justice, or did she get punished for being the adult in the room?

[kuma @0xkumaa]

The BTK killer hid from the police for 31 years. Then he sent them a note with a question, and it ended with two words: "Be honest."

His name was Dennis Rader. Between 1974 and 1991 he killed ten people in Wichita, Kansas, and signed his letters BTK, for bind, torture, kill. Then he went silent. Fig. 1 in the file shows the gap: 13 years with no letters and no known murders.

In 2004, after the local paper ran a story on the 30th anniversary of his first killings, he started writing to the police again.

Table 1 is the part people struggle with. He installed security alarms for a living. He was a Cub Scout leader. He was president of his church council. In 1985 he faked a headache to leave a Scout outing, slipped away and killed a woman who lived on his street.

In January 2005 he left a cereal box in the back of a pickup truck at a Home Depot. Inside was a note: could he send them a floppy disk without being traced? If the answer was yes, they should run a newspaper ad that said "Rex, it will be OK."

The police ran the ad.

On February 16 a purple floppy disk arrived at a TV station. It held one file that said "this is a test." Underneath it was a deleted Word document. The metadata said "Christ Lutheran Church" and "Dennis."

Nine days later he was arrested near his home.

Near the start of a 32 hour interrogation, he asked the lead detective one thing.

"How come you lied to me?"

"Because I was trying to catch you."

He got ten consecutive life sentences, 175 years minimum. Later he said it himself: "The floppy did me in."

A man who fooled his family, his church and an entire city for three decades trusted the people hunting him. What makes someone who stayed invisible for 30 years need to be seen?

[Juzi @juzixbt]

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