Oliver Lacy was a 23-year-old Black man who left Chicago for Milwaukee to be near his fiancée and their two-year-old son, Emmanuel. He was last seen by a friend on July 12, 1991, at the Grand Avenue shopping center in Milwaukee; the criminal complaint later placed his killing on or about July 15.

Prosecutors say Jeffrey Dahmer lured Lacy to his apartment with an offer of money to pose for photographs, drugged him, strangled him after Lacy became incapacitated, then sexually assaulted and dismembered his body. Investigators recovered photographs, Lacy’s wallet and human remains; his mother identified him from those items. Dahmer was arrested on July 22, 1991, pleaded guilty but insane to 15 Wisconsin murders on January 13, 1992, was found legally sane by a jury on February 15, 1992, and was sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms on February 17, 1992.

Lacy’s family later pursued civil claims related to the police encounter with Dahmer before the final string of killings. Did anyone who knew Oliver in Milwaukee or Chicago remember his plans or the people he associated with after his move?