Jeffrey Dahmer's last intended victim is charged with killing homeless man by 'throwing him off bridge'



Tracy Edwards escaped from Jeffrey Dahmer in 1991

Shopped killer to police and ended cannibalism spree

But he was arrested for throwing man off bridge in July



Arrested: Tracy Edwards has been charged with killing a man 20 years after he helped police catch serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in Milwaukee

He avoided being murdered by one of America's most notorious serial killers and helped end a spree of sexual assault and cannibalism.

Tracy Edwards, 52, escaped from Jeffrey Dahmer’s house of horrors and shopped him to cops after seeing pictures of mangled bodies and smelling death.



But 20 years after his heroism in 1991, Edwards has been arrested and charged with homicide for allegedly throwing a man off a bridge in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Dahmer raped, killed and dismembered up to 17 boys and men, often having sex with their remains before eating them, and died in prison in 1994.

Edwards, who is homeless, was arrested in July following a fight that led to a man falling into the Milwaukee River in Wisconsin and dying.

He and two other homeless men were involved in an argument, which led to Johnny Jordan, 43, drowning after plunging from a bridge.

The other homeless man lept of the bridge to try and save him. Now Edwards faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted.

Caught: Jeffrey Dahmer was imprisoned after he was convicted of the murder, mutilation and cannibalisation of young men and boys

He could even end up in the same prison where Dahmer was held. He will enter a plea in December and could go on trial next year, reported ABC.

‘It's like Humpty Dumpty,’ Edwards' defence lawyer Paul Ksicinski said of his client’s life, reported ABC.

'It's like Humpty Dumpty. It's like he was never able to put the pieces back together again' Paul Ksicinski, defence lawyer for Tracy Edwards

‘It's like he was never able to put the pieces back together again.’

Twenty years ago, Milwaukee police found Edwards, half naked and partially handcuffed, in the street near Dahmer's apartment.

Edwards said he just escaped after his attacker tried to cuff his wrists and he was forced into the bedroom by Dahmer's large butcher knife.

As Edwards punched his attacker in the face and kicked him before running for the door, he said he noticed a smell coming from a blue barrel.

Police arrested Dahmer that evening after finding body parts in his refrigerator and human remains throughout his apartment.

Victims: Jeffrey Dahmer, one of America's most notorious serial killers, was convicted of the murder of 16 men between 1978 and 1991

Dahmer, who is believed to have raped, killed and dismembered as many as 17 boys and men, was later convicted of 16 murders.

He died in prison after a fellow inmate beat him with a broomstick in 1994.

But Edwards has had several run-ins with the law involving drugs, property damage and theft over the years, according to court records.

'I am hoping in an odd way that this is a good thing for Tracy. Maybe the judge will recognise that he needs some help' Dr Emily John

Friends said Edwards, who never received counselling after his confrontation with Dahmer, had found relief in drugs and alcohol.

Dr Emily John, who worked with Edwards at a homeless project, said earlier this year: '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.

'I am hoping in an odd way that this is a good thing for Tracy,' she told WISN. 'Maybe the judge will recognise that he needs some help.'