Jeffrey Dahmer witness saw ‘streak of evil’ while trying to rescue naked victim from notorious cannibal killer
A WITNESS to notorious cannibal serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s vile actions claims she saw a “streak of evil” in him while she tried to rescue one of his naked victims.
Cola Styles was 17 years old when she said she saw a naked and injured boy outside her family’s apartment in , in 1991.
The boy was Konerak Sinthasomphone, a 14-year-old refugee boy who fled Lao for the .
Styles : “I could tell [Konerak] was injured.”
“At first I thought it was a . It was clear that he needed help. He couldn’t stand and was very lethargic,” she said.
“There were cuts and scrapes all over his body. Then I saw a thin stream of blood running down his thighs.”
Styles said that when the boy saw her, “it was like a prayer had been answered. He looked at me as if I knew him. He came and reached out to me like a child and fell. I held on to him on the ground.”
Per Fox News, Styles has been reluctant to speak of her experience with Dahmer’s victim, but is now coming forward in a new documentary on the Investigation Discovery true-crime network as part of the show ID Presents: Nine at 9.
Styles said she tried talking to the boy, but he “couldn’t respond,” but “had a look in his eyes like he was thankful.”
“I kept wiping his head because he was sweating so much. I didn’t know if it was from drugs or what exactly. But I kept saying it was all going to be OK.
"I don’t know what came over me, but nothing held me back in caressing and comforting him at that moment."
Styles said when she and her cousin called the police, a man approached them saying it wasn’t necessary, claiming Konerak was a houseguest named Jim who was drunk.
“When I told him we dialed 911, he joked that Jim had wandered off from being drunk,” she said.
“But then the name kept changing from Jim. And when he saw I wasn’t buying it, I did see a streak of evil in him.”
“And then he was handling the boy in a rough way, trying to take him away. There was a lot of yanking and twisting his arm, just being really aggressive.”
Styles claimed she struggled with Dahmer, who was trying to take the young boy away from her.
“I just couldn’t understand why he was giving me such a hard time knowing help was on the way,” she told Fox News. “I just didn’t have a good feeling.”
“And at that point, he was telling me to mind my business. He kept saying, ‘This has nothing to do with you. This is my friend.’ And when I kept asking for his friend’s name, the answer would change.”
When police arrived at the scene, Dahmer told them Konerak was 19 years old “and a lover who had too much to drink.”
But Konerak was just 14 years old at the time, and according to news reports, police believed Dahmer.
, police said they were investigating two witness’s claims that officers let the boy and Dahmer go and told them the incident was no more than a fight between lovers.
Police Chief Philip Arreola said at the time that he suspended three officers without pay pending an internal investigation.
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Dahmer died in 1994 when he was beaten to death by a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Wisconsin.
He confessed to 17 murders and was convicted in 1989 of second-degree sexual assault of Konerak’s brother, then 13.