Steven Walter Tuomi, 24, vanished from Milwaukee in 1987 after last being seen on September 15, according to missing-person records. His family reported him missing after losing contact; he had come from Ontonagon, Michigan, and was working at a restaurant in Milwaukee.

Jeffrey Dahmer later identified Tuomi as one of his victims. In Dahmer’s confession and testimony, he described meeting Tuomi in Milwaukee in November 1987, drinking with him in a hotel room at the Ambassador Hotel, and awakening to find Tuomi dead with extensive bruising. Dahmer said he transported the body to his grandmother’s West Allis home, concealed and dismembered the remains, and disposed of them so thoroughly no remains were recovered. Investigators regarded Tuomi as a probable victim, but prosecutors declined to charge Dahmer specifically in Tuomi’s death because no body or physical evidence could be found.

The mismatch between the documented September 15 last-seen date and Dahmer’s November account is a key unresolved detail in the timeline. Did anyone in Milwaukee remember seeing Tuomi after mid-September?