Comments by "Glamdolly" (@glamdolly30) on "WI v. Jeffrey Dahmer (1992): Victim Tracy Edwards Testifies" video.

By 2011, this poor man's life had totally spiralled out of control, thanks to the trauma of his encounter with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. He clearly needed help with his mental health that was not forthcoming. I believe there are signs of his mental fragility on the stand. A homeless drug addict, in 2012 Tracy Edwards was sentenced to 18 months in jail for his part in the death of another homeless man, who fell from a bridge and died. His current whereabouts in 2022 are unknown. He remains a hero, as the survivor who ultimately stopped Dahmer's killing spree. Make no mistake, many men are only alive today, thanks to the quick-thinking and courage of Tracy Edwards. NB It's been posted in response to my post, that Edwards was indicted by grand jury for a sexual assault against a 14 year old girl. If that's true, my sympathy for him is GONE. Thanks too for pointing out my drag/drug typo, now corrected!
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@DavidBarnwell876tkdja There is no excuse for sexually assaulting a 14 year old child, so if this survivor of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer subsequently did that (as one post in this thread claims), I no longer have any sympathy for him. Being a victim of violent/sexual crime does not give you a free pass to become a perpetrator of violent/sexual crime against others!
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@matthewmatthew9485 What's 'normal'? Normal is 100% subjective, and dependant on your life and your situation at the time. Instead of attacking Edwards for unwittingly going home with a serial killer on the promise of money, maybe you should count yourself lucky you've never been so desperate that such risks would be 'normal' for you, as they sadly were for him at that time in his life. And let's not forget, statistically the chances of encountering a serial killer in your lifetime, not least Jeffry Dahmer one of the 20th Century's most prolific and notorious, are akin to winning millions on the lottery. Tracy Edwards was incredibly unlucky to find himself at the mercy of that evil bastard - and even luckier to escape with his life.
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@BasixAnxiety You're not the only one to split hairs and say Tracy Edwards wasn't Dahmer's only survivor. My point is he was the only victim to escape and raise the alarm, bringing to an end the murder spree of one of the 20th century's most prolific serial killers. For that reason Edwards has a unique role in the infamous story of Jeffrey Dahmer.
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@daniellenichols9757 But unlike Tracy Edwards they didn't stop Jeffrey Dahmer's murder career. That's what makes Edwards' story uniquely important.
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@shamrockshow8490 Why so much debate about whether victim Tracy Edwards was gay or not? Who give a F? Makes no damn difference to anything - fact is he unwittingly went home with a serial killer on the promise of cash for a photo session. The critical point is he was broke!
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@kaaay0313 If this man committed a heinous sexual assault on a teenage girl, my sympathy for him is gone regardless of when he did it. The timing of that crime is irrelevant. I do not believe his encounter with Dahmer would excuse or explain him raping a child afterwards - and it is an insult to all survivors of violence to suggest it would. There is no excuse for sexual violence - none. If Tracy Edwards went on to sexually assault a child after surviving a serial killer (he was also implicated in the murder of a homeless man), there is a valid argument to say it would have been better if he had not survived. It's not like he used his life to do good things in the world afterwards, and make it a better place, is it? Quite the opposite - he put two people through similar terror that he'd experienced, and unlike him, one of those people was not lucky enough to survive!
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@kaaay0313 Try to feel the same empathy & sympathy for the 14-year-old child brutally sexually assaulted by Tracy Edwards, as you do for him, her attacker!
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@lubkuhu Well he would say that, wouldn't he?!
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@DavidBarnwell876tkdja This is really a pointless discussion because it's entirely hypothetical - there's no way of knowing if Tracy Edwards' predatory sexual assault on a 14 year old girl was connected to his encounter with Jeffrey Dahmer, or entirely unrelated and would have happened anyway. But I would caution against excusing violence, based on victimhood - particularly as in Edwards' case, victimhood as an adult. You're in danger of insulting victims, of crime the vast majority of whom never harm anyone, despite suffering the most appalling, sadistic acts of savagery!
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