The one Asian kid he killed and ate almost got away. He got out of Dahmer's apartment, naked, and got the attention of the police.
Dahmer told them they were gay lovers having a spat and the cops bought it and told Dahmer to take his drunken lover home. Which he did. That's some alert policemen on the case right there.
I bet they felt like crap when everything he had been doing came out.
Ya really think so? I liked Poppy Z. Brite's supposition that he slipped the cops a 50 as he told them that the kid was his boyfriend...