Suspect in kid’s slay Dahmer ‘wannabe’
Santos said the post — which was already deleted — was very long and showed the same thing that his supposed ‘idol’ has done during his criminal rampage
A startling development was unearthed by the Las Piñas Police on the case of the 4-year-old boy who was found dead inside a washing machine in Las Piñas City on Sunday as authorities said that the suspect was seemingly emulating an American serial killer.
In an exclusive interview with Daily Tribune’s online morning program Gising Na!, Las Piñas police chief Col. Jaime Santos disclosed that the suspect — a 15-year-old male who was the child’s uncle — was idolizing Jeffrey Dahmer, a serial killer who killed 17 children from 1978 to 1991.
Santos said that the post the suspect wrote on social media — which was already deleted — showed the same thing that his supposed “idol” has done during his criminal rampage.
“There is a Facebook post which we retrieved as it was screenshot by his relatives and the pattern is there with the same words of Jeffrey Dahmer,” Santos said.
Historical records showed that Dahmer — also known as the Milwaukee cannibal or the Milwaukee monster — was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed 17 children during his time before he was arrested on 22 July 1991.
He was beaten to death by a fellow inmate on 28 November 1994 inside the Columbia Correctional Institution, Portage, Wisconsin, United States of America.
Santos revealed that some excerpts of the suspect’s post were similar to that of Dahmer’s earlier statements after his arrest.
The Las Piñas Police chief also revealed that in Dahmer’s fashion, the teener supposedly took 28 photographs of the victim when he was laughing, crying and when he was put inside the washing machine when he was already lifeless.
The suspect also allegedly sent the photographs to 28 kids in a group chat.
The evidence was submitted to the prosecutors’ office to augment the case against the suspect.
To recall, the child was reported missing on 26 May and his remains was discovered at around 7 a.m. on Sunday inside the house of the suspect in Kalamansi Street, Barangay CAA, Las Piñas City.
Santos said the suspect’s mother reported the discovery of the kid’s decomposing body inside the washing machine.
The police chief added that the suspect was already brought to the fiscal’s office for inquest proceedings and after that he was brought to Bahay Pag-asa in the city for interview subject to evaluation and recommendation of psychiatrist to determine if the minor suspect acted with discernment or he knew what he was doing.
“In discernment, it means the suspect knew what he was doing that what he had done was wrong and if that will be determined, criminal proceedings will commence immediately upon the age of majority and that is 18,” Santos said.
He added that the suspect will be transferred from Bahay Pag-asa to the jail facility of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology.