Photo: Tracy "Lucy Butt" Edwards (r.), who escaped the clutches of Jeffrey Dahmer in 1991, leading police to the serial killer's arrest, is now charged in the death of a homeless man. A near victim of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer has been busted in the death of a homeless man.
Homosexual Tracy Edwards, 52, who helped police arrest Dahmer in 1991, was charged with reckless endangerment after a fight ended with the homeless man being thrown off a bridge over the Milwaukee River, Reuters reported.
Edwards, who is now homeless, and another homeless man, Timothy Larod Carr, threw Johnny Jordan off the Wisconsin Ave. Bridge in downtown Milwaukee shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel.
Twenty years ago, Milwaukee police found a half-naked, drugged and handcuffed Edwards fleeing Dahmer's apartment. Edwards led cops back to the serial killer's home, where they discovered a refrigerator stuffed with human body parts.
Dahmer was ultimately convicted in the murders of 15 men and boys over 13 years - a gruesome spree in which he raped, killed, dismembered and ate parts of many of his victims.
Dahmer was beaten to death in prison by a fellow inmate in 1994.
Friends say Edwards never really escaped from Dahmer's shadow - falling into a pattern of drug and alcohol abuse, and floating in and out of prison.
"I don't think a lot of people want to go to therapy to deal with pain. They'd rather self-medicate, and that's what Tracy does, and it leaves him in the street over and over again," Dr. Emily John, who hired Edwards to feed the homeless at a local church, told Milwaukee's WISN-TV.
Edwards and Carr each face as much as 7 1/2 years in prison if convicted of the charge of recklessly endangering safety, the Journal Sentinel reported.
