11-09-2012, 10:33 AM
Tracy Edwards sentenced to 18 months in prison for homicide
Milwaukee : WI : USA | Jan 23, 2012 at 8:41 PM PST
By wendyzachary
Tracy Edwards, the man who led the Milwaukee police in the arrest of a serial killer and rapist, Jeffery Dahmer, in 1991, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for providing assistance in drowning a man into the river.
Edwards was taken into custody after the incident that took place last July. The other defendant, Timothy Carr, 44, was sentence to 4 years in prison on Friday. The man that drowned was Jimmy Jordans, 43, and he had apparently broken into an argument with the other two as the three of them stood over the Milwaukee river bridge. Besides spending 18 months behind the bar, Edwards will spend two years under strict police supervision after he leaves the prison.
Paul Ksicinski, Edwards’ attorney, said Dahmer’s encounter had a profound effect on his client, who was already struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. Now the death of Jimmy Jordans and the regret Edwards is feeling over is just mounting up his pains.
"He's going to have another ghost to haunt him all his life," Paul Ksicinski told the judge Monday. He said Carr didn’t know how to swim, but still went into the water after Jordan and had to be saved. Whether that was an attempt to save Jordan or to kill himself is not known. But since it cannot be proved if Edwards had helped in lifting Jordon from the bridge, he will be facing reduced first-degree charges for recklessly endangering safety, which he had previously pleaded not guilty of.
Circuit Judge Rebecca Dallet rejected the plea of Edwards’ attorney to give him probation upon lying to the police about the incident. She said the at the age of 52, Edwards should have known what to do under such circumstances and that he deserved at least some prison time for aiding Carr and lying.
Although Edwards was given credit for the time he spent in the prison after his arrest - which total to 191 days -, about the horrific ordeal he went through with Dahmer and the post-traumatic stress he had been experiencing ever since, she said, "In your efforts to drown your sorrows, you have made other people victims."
Edwards apologized and said, "I should have done more that day."
He and Carr must pay a sum of $2,500 combined to compensate Jordan’s family for their loss.
Milwaukee : WI : USA | Jan 23, 2012 at 8:41 PM PST
By wendyzachary
Tracy Edwards, the man who led the Milwaukee police in the arrest of a serial killer and rapist, Jeffery Dahmer, in 1991, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for providing assistance in drowning a man into the river.
Edwards was taken into custody after the incident that took place last July. The other defendant, Timothy Carr, 44, was sentence to 4 years in prison on Friday. The man that drowned was Jimmy Jordans, 43, and he had apparently broken into an argument with the other two as the three of them stood over the Milwaukee river bridge. Besides spending 18 months behind the bar, Edwards will spend two years under strict police supervision after he leaves the prison.
Paul Ksicinski, Edwards’ attorney, said Dahmer’s encounter had a profound effect on his client, who was already struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. Now the death of Jimmy Jordans and the regret Edwards is feeling over is just mounting up his pains.
"He's going to have another ghost to haunt him all his life," Paul Ksicinski told the judge Monday. He said Carr didn’t know how to swim, but still went into the water after Jordan and had to be saved. Whether that was an attempt to save Jordan or to kill himself is not known. But since it cannot be proved if Edwards had helped in lifting Jordon from the bridge, he will be facing reduced first-degree charges for recklessly endangering safety, which he had previously pleaded not guilty of.
Circuit Judge Rebecca Dallet rejected the plea of Edwards’ attorney to give him probation upon lying to the police about the incident. She said the at the age of 52, Edwards should have known what to do under such circumstances and that he deserved at least some prison time for aiding Carr and lying.
Although Edwards was given credit for the time he spent in the prison after his arrest - which total to 191 days -, about the horrific ordeal he went through with Dahmer and the post-traumatic stress he had been experiencing ever since, she said, "In your efforts to drown your sorrows, you have made other people victims."
Edwards apologized and said, "I should have done more that day."
He and Carr must pay a sum of $2,500 combined to compensate Jordan’s family for their loss.
