Gregory O’Meara, "Dahmer" and Marquette’s Show Trial Problem
Because nothing says “Jesuit integrity” like courtroom cosplay.
Law schools are supposed to be temples of justice. They wrap themselves in Latin mottos about truth, pump out sermons about ethics, and crank out armies of would-be Clarence Darrows to keep the machinery of due process humming.
That’s the brochure version, anyway.
The reality? Marquette University Law School – Jesuit, pious, and forever lecturing about morality – still struts out Gregory O’Meara as a credential. His faculty bio still brags about his role in the “Jeffrey Dahmer” case, a proceeding that wasn’t a trial in any recognizable sense. It was a puppet show: a prewritten horror script, acted out in courtroom drag, with “evidence” and “defense” treated like unwelcome extras who wandered onto the set.
And here’s the kicker: Marquette knows how bad this looks. They’ve already scrubbed O’Meara’s Leadership/alumni bio to erase “Jeffrey Dahmer” from the record, but left it on the Law School site, where they still wave it like a badge of honor. Which leaves a question dangling in the incense-thick air: why is a Jesuit law school celebrating a man whose big achievement was starring in legal theater?
Proud of “Dahmer”… Unless You’re Writing a Check
Brag in class, scrub for cash.
Marquette, like any university, wears two faces. There’s the faculty side, which still puffs out its chest about Gregory O’Meara’s role in the “Dahmer” prosecution. His Law School faculty bio still plants that flag proudly, as if helping stage a civic pageant masquerading as a trial were some kind of academic honor.
Then there’s the alumni side, the slicker, donor-facing wing of the university. That’s where things get more interesting. O’Meara’s Leadership bio…the one meant for alumni, trustees, and the people who write checks…once bragged about his role in “Dahmer” too. But somewhere along the way, poof, “Jeffrey Dahmer” disappeared. Scrubbed out like an embarrassing yearbook photo.
So what’s going on here? On the faculty page, they’re still bragging about their prosecutor from Jeff Dahmer’s “trial.” But in alumni-land, where reputations are currency and every sentence is vetted for PR fallout, they’ve decided Jeff is now a little too radioactive to mention.
It’s almost like they knew the fabricated story designed to help out the Archdiocese of Milwaukee wouldn’t hold much longer, so they quietly cut bait before the whole thing stank up the alumni wing.
If you want to examine the Dahmer case directly, start with the records:
→ Was Konerak Sinthasomphone Even Real?
→ Richard Guerrero Died in 1960
→ Who Was “Eddie Smith” in the Dahmer Case?
→ Is This Man Curtis Straughter?
Dinner Theater With a Gavel
No defense, no evidence, no problem
If you go beyond the lurid headlines and actually sit through the CourtTV footage, Jeff Dahmer’s trial reveals itself for what it was: dinner theater with a gavel.
Gerald Boyle, the man supposedly fighting for Jeff’s life, came off less like counsel for the defense and more like the prosecution’s warm-up act. Instead of challenging the unsigned, unrecorded “confession” containing another man’s Social Security Number, he moved to admit it and then never said a word about the oddity.
Gerald Boyle, lawyer for the Archdiocese, wasn’t defending a client, he was defending the script.
And presiding over it all: a judge, a prosecution team, and a defense marching in eerie lockstep. Not adversaries in a courtroom but actors in a morality play, each one hitting their cues on time.
Ctrl+Alt+Dahmer
Delete the name, keep the checks flowing.
If Gregory O’Meara’s role in “Dahmer” is such a proud achievement – a legal feather in Marquette’s cap – why erase it from the alumni-facing pages? Why trumpet it in one corner of the website, while quietly airbrushing it out of the place most likely to be read by donors and alumni?
Because scrubbing is never random. Institutions don’t wake up one morning and delete their history for fun. They scrub when something becomes a liability. They scrub when a story stops playing like a triumph and starts looking like a stain.
And alumni relations? That’s the part of a university most obsessed with optics. Alumni pages are carefully curated for one purpose: keeping the checks coming. Every word is designed to reassure wealthy graduates that the school they’re writing five-figure donations to is on the side of honor, integrity, and prestige.
If Reverend O’Meara’s “Dahmer” credential was truly unimpeachable, it would still be front and center. Instead, Marquette quietly clipped it out of the alumni pages while leaving it on the faculty bio – a PR shuffle that translates to: market it to the kids, memory-hole it for the check writers.
Heads They Lose, Tails They Lose
Leave “Dahmer” up, you’re complicit. Take “Dahmer” down, you’re guilty.
Marquette painted itself into a corner – and the paint’s still wet.
If they keep the “Dahmer” reference in O’Meara’s law school bio, they’re proudly hitching their credibility to a show trial. That means a Jesuit law school – supposedly dedicated to justice – is bragging about producing a lawyer whose crowning achievement was helping turn an American courtroom into a stage set.
But if they scrub it from the law school bio, they look guilty. They’ve already airbrushed the alumni bio, hoping nobody would notice. If the law school site suddenly scrubs “Dahmer” too, it’s another admission that the association is radioactive. It’s an institution trying to memory-hole its own history.
Either way, Marquette loses. Keep it, and they’re complicit in fake news. Erase it, and they’re exposed as managers of a cover-up. The harder they scrub, the darker the stain gets. And let’s not forget what that stain really is: a fake news story that didn’t just pad reputations…it destroyed a young man’s life.