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Glenda Cleveland tried to stop Jeffrey Dahmer. What happened to her and the cops who ignored her
Netflix’s newest true crime series, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, is a dramatization of the life and crimes of one of America’s most notorious serial killers. From 1978 to 1991, Dahmer murdered 17 young boys and men before being arrested in 1992. The drama follows Dahmer, his victims and their families as well as the many preventable failures of the American justice system in stopping his crimes.
This is not the first adaptation or portrayal of Dahmer on-screen and this recent Netflix drama has received significant backlash for the production’s failure to approach still-living individuals affected by Dahmer’s crimes, among other issues. Family members of one of Dahmer’s victims have spoken out on social media about Netflix not consulting with them about the show, and about the drama’s depiction of events re-traumatizing them.
One of the lesser-known figures brought back to the spotlight is Glenda Cleveland, Dahmer’s neighbor whose persistent efforts to stop him were reportedly ignored by police. Played by Niecy Nash in the Netflix adaptation, Cleveland was pivotal to the Dahmer case, however, there’s actually very little information regarding her story.
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Who is Glenda Cleveland?
Cleveland was one of nine children, according to USA Today, and was raised on a farm by “parents who stressed the importance of telling the truth and stepping up when someone needs help.”
She worked in a data entry position in the city of Milwaukee while living with her 17-year-old daughter, Sandra Smith, according to USA Today.
Cleveland was not Dahmer’s next-door neighbor at the Oxford apartments. She lived in an adjacent building and in reality, Dahmer’s actual neighbor was another Black woman named Pamela Bass. After Dahmer was arrested she lived in the 25th Street apartment alone until 2009 before moving to an apartment less than a mile away, according to USA Today.
Bass was the one Dahmer would offer sandwiches, she told interviewers in The Jeffrey Dahmer Files. In the show, however, it seems Bass was partially erased, and elements of her personality were apparently written into Cleveland’s character.
Cops ignored Glenda Cleveland, others in community
According to a 2020 interview with Cleveland’s niece Nicole Childress, in May of 1991 Childress and Smith, Cleveland’s daughter, stumbled upon a dazed and confused 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone trying to escape Dahmer’s apartment building.
Despite being heavily drugged and injured, Sinthasomphone was able to regain consciousness and wander onto the street for help.
When police arrived on the scene, they chalked up the incident to a lovers’ spat, despite pleas from the women to help Sinthasomphone. The police and Dahmer walked Sinthasomphone back to Dahmer’s apartment, where he was murdered shortly afterward.
“We tried to give the policemen our names, but he just told us to butt out,” Smith told the Associated Press at the time of Dahmer’s arrest. “I couldn’t understand why he didn’t want our names. I said, ‘What are you going to do about this? This is a boy.'”
Unlike in the Netflix adaption, Cleveland was not present when her daughter and niece found Sinthasomphone but, she made repeated attempts at calling the police only to be rebuffed. In a now infamous phone conversation, Cleveland can be heard inquiring to a police officer about investigating Dahmer.
Cleveland: “Yeah, uh, what happened? I mean my daughter and my niece witnessed what was going on. Was anything done about the situation? Do you need their names or information or anything from them?”
Officer: “No, not at all.”
Cleveland: “You don’t?”
Officer: “Nope. It was an intoxicated boyfriend of another boyfriend.”
Cleveland: “Well, how old was this child?”
Officer: “It wasn’t a child. It was an adult.”
Cleveland: “Are you sure?”
Officer: “Yup.”
According to USA Today, after she discovered missing person signs for Konerak Sinthasomphone, Cleveland repeatedly called the police — even the FBI — but no one ever took her call. Dahmer killed five more victims after Cleveland attempted to alert the authorities.
Had police followed up on Cleveland’s suspicions, they would’ve found that Dahmer had been convicted of molesting Konerak Sinthasomphone’s older brother, Anouke, some years earlier.
What happened to the cops who ignored Glenda Cleveland?
The officers that responded to Childress’ 9-1-1 call were John Balcerzak, Joseph Gabrish, and Richard Porubcan. After being convinced by Dahmer that he and Sinthasomphone were just having a domestic dispute, the three officers escorted the two back to Dahmer’s apartment. According to reports at the time, Gabrish noted a foul odor coming from the apartment but thought it was just a bowel movement.
Later that night when Cleveland called, it was Balcerzak who responded. Balcerzak repeatedly rebuffed Cleveland’s concerns and assured her that Sinthasomphone was a legal adult and that the incident was a lovers’ spat.
After public outcry following Dahmer’s arrest, two of the officers, Balcerzak and Gabrish, were fired, according to a report from the Washington Post at the time. Porubcan was dismissed and put on probation due to “his relative inexperience and because he was less culpable in handling the incident,” the Post reported. Further, the report says that Balcerzak and Gabrish were let go due to “acts of omission” that included failure to take the names of witnesses and failing to take an obviously incapacitated Sinthasomphone into protective custody.
In 1995, The city of Milwaukee agreed to pay a settlement of $850,000 to the family of Sinthasomphone, according to the Spokesman-Review.
However, a year prior, the two officers that were fired appealed against their termination and were reinstated. According to Decider, both men were awarded back pay of $55,000 each and in 2005 Balcerzak was elected as president of the Milwaukee Police Association. Gabrish is retired after having spent a couple of years as the interim police chief of the Grafton Police Department in Wisconsin.
What was the rest of Glenda Cleveland’s life like?
Following Dahmer’s arrest five months after Cleveland contacted the police, she was given formal honors by the Common Council and the County Board and celebrated by local women’s groups and even…the Milwaukee Police Department.
The Reverend Jesse Jackson came to visit and speak with her, telling the reporters at the time, “Police chose the word of a killer over an innocent woman.“
In spite of the attention, Cleveland just wanted to “get back to normal.” It was a statement she had repeated to many of the reporters that showed up at her door asking about Dahmer. She returned to her data entry position until her retirement and helped Smith take care of her nine children.
According to her obituary, Cleveland passed away on December 24, 2010, at the age of 56. Medical examiners ruled it a natural death caused by heart disease and high blood pressure.
Glenda Cleveland’s legacy is still evident.
“If anything, I would want people to know that Glenda Cleveland was special. That was a special woman,” Niecy Nash told Netflix in an interview. “To continue on and on and on in an effort to get someone to do something, she deserved way more than a little cheesy plaque in the bottom of a social hall somewhere…And I would want people to know that we all know or have been or will be a Glenda Cleveland in this life. That’s for sure.”
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What happened in the Rita Isbell court video?
RITA Isbell is the sister of Errol Lindsey, who was murdered by the infamous serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer.
A new Jeffrey Dahmer documentary is bringing Isbell’s brother’s case back into the forefront after 30 years.
Rita Isbell screamed at Jeffrey Dahmer during the 1992 trial[/caption]
Who is Rita Isbell?
Rita Isbell has spent the last 30 years coming to terms with her brother’s death, but a new documentary is bringing back painful memories.
Her brother, Errol Lindsey, was lured into Jeffrey Dahmer’s home where he was drugged, killed, and dismembered.
Isbell sat in court in 1991, listening to Dahmer claim insanity, while his lawyers stated he was “out of control” at the time of the murders.
Dahmer was declared sane and competent to stand trial and admitted to killing a total of 17 boys and men spanning across ten years.
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Dahmer was sentenced to 15 consecutive lifetimes in prison in 1992 and was sent to a high-security Wisconsin prison.
It was while he was there that Dahmer was killed by a fellow inmate while cleaning the toilets near the gym.
Dahmer was older than all of his victims when he was killed – all of whom ranged from 14 to 33 years old.
Isbell told the Orlando Sentinel that in the two years after Dahmer was sent to prison, she had received phone calls from men who said they were inmates and offered her their condolences before promising that Dahmer would be “taken care of.”
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The last call Isbell received came six months before Dahmer’s death. She told the outlet that the caller said: “You don’t know me.
“I’m up here with Jeffrey Dahmer. Don’t worry. We’ll take care of it.”
What happened in the Rita Isbell court video?
Isbell watched as the family members of Dahmer’s victims walked up to the stand to confront him.
She described them as all with tears in their eyes down and their heads down, but she refused to do that.
As she approached the stand, she lunged for Dahmer, yelling that he’ll see ″what out of control is.”
Her voice began steadily as she said she “never wants to see her mother go through this again,” but as she talked, her voice rose to a yell.
“I hate you Jeffrey!” Isbell shouted in the courtroom as Sheriff’s deputies grabbed her and dragged her out of the courtroom.
She continued to yell obscenities, calling Dahmer “Satan.”
After leaving the courtroom, AP News reported Isbell said of those who spoke before her: ″They all had to just sit there and hold it in.″
″What he saw out of me … is what Errol would have done. The only difference is, Errol would have leaped over that table.″
The video of the altercation has been viewed 83.6k times on YouTube and is being recreated in the new Jeffrey Dahmer documentary which aired on Netflix on September 21, 2022.
The documentary titled Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has brought back the harsh realities of the trial and captures the pain and anguish in Isbell’s voice during the 1992 trial.
Isbell is played by DaShawn Barnes who recreates that moment with precise accuracy.
Although Isbell has not personally commented on the documentary, one of her family members took to Twitter to express their anger at the Jeffrey Dahmer documentary.
“I’m not telling anyone what to watch, I know true crime media is huge rn, but if you’re actually curious about the victims, my family (the Isbell’s) are pissed about this show,” the family member wrote.
He said the series is “retraumatizing over and over again” and said: “recreating my cousin having an emotional breakdown in court in the face of the man who tortured and murdered her brother is WILD.”
He said he refuses to watch the show, adding: “My family is not happy. RIP to my cousin Errol Lindsey and all the other victims.”
Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 15 men and young boys in ten years[/caption]
Who was Rita Isbell’s brother Errol Lindsey?
Errol Lindsey was only 14 years old when, at a mall in Wisconsin, he met Jeffrey Dahmer.
Dahmer lured Lindsey to his home under the pretense of paying him a large sum of money in exchange for nude photos.
Once Lindsey was in his grasp, Dahmer drugged him and when Lindsey fell unconscious, he drilled a hole in the top of his skull and poured hydrochloric acid into it.
By doing this, Dahmer intended to induce a permanent and unresistant state, but Lindsey started to wake up.
During the trial, Dahmer said he then drugged Lindsey a second time, strangled him, and dismembered the body.
When he was sentenced for murder, necrophilia, and dismemberment, Dahmer read a statement where he accepted responsibility for the murders.
“I take the blame for what I did,” he told the jury and told Milwaukee County Judge Laurence Gram that he didn’t want any leniency when he received his sentence.
He told Gram that when he pleaded insanity, he didn’t want freedom, but instead claimed he wanted to understand why he had committed the atrocities.
“I wanted to find out just what it was that caused me to be so bad and evil,” he said. “The doctors have told me about my sickness and now I have some peace.”
He continued: “I feel so bad for what I did to those poor families, and I understand their rightful hate.
“I have seen their tears and if I could give my life right now to bring their loved ones back, I would do it.”
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“I hope God has forgiven me. I know society will never be able to forgive me. I know the families of the victims will never be able to forgive me for what I have done.”
When Dahmer was killed in prison in 1994, Isbell told The New York Times: “I wouldn’t say I wanted it to happen like this. But Jeffrey tore my family up.”
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‘What Happened with CentOS Will Not Happen with Rocky Linux’
Development of Rocky Linux began shortly after, in late 2020, Red Hat terminated development of CentOS, a community-based Linux distribution derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that had been in existence since 2004. It is named after Jason Dale “Rocky” McGaugh, a talented programmer involved in CentOS development, who passed away in December 2004 at the age of only 30. Asked what McGaugh might have thought of the OS being named after him, Kurtzer told IT World Canada, “to be honest, he was a shy guy. I don’t know if he would have liked the attention, but at the same token, he was a huge advocate of open source and a big fan of open source.
“Personally, I don’t think he would have liked what happened with CentOS.”
Kurtzer added that “what we are doing with Rocky Linux is really where he would have liked to see the project and open source going. When we named it Rocky Linux, it was a hat tip to him for everything he has done, not only in open source and high-performance computing (HPC), but also with the CentOS project.
“One of the last e-mails that he wrote to the e-mail list was that he was 99 per cent done development of CentOS. It was pretty much ready to go when he passed, but he never saw it released.”
The key for an open-source initiative to grow and flourish, said Kurtzer, lies with registering it as a non-profit organization, which was the case with The cAos Foundation. He has done the same with Rocky Linux.
It’s official name is the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, “backed by an advisory board of trusted individuals and team leads from the Rocky Linux community.”
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