Jeffrey Dahmer

"The Milwaukee Cannibal" Jeffrey Dahmer- was a convicted American serial killer and sex offender who committed the murder and dismemberment of 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Many of his later murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism, and the permanent preservation of body parts—typically all or part of the skeleton. On July 22, 1991, Dahmer approached three men with an offer of $100 to accompany him to his apartment to pose for nude photographs, drink beer and simply keep him company. One of the trio, 32-year-old Tracy Edwards, agreed to accompany him to his apartment. Upon entering Dahmer's apartment, Edwards noted a foul odor and several boxes of hydrochloric acid on the floor, which Dahmer claimed to use for cleaning bricks. After some minor conversation, Edwards responded to Dahmer's request to turn his head and view his tropical fish, whereupon Dahmer placed a handcuff upon his wrist. When Edwards asked, "What's happening?" Dahmer unsuccessfully attempted to cuff his wrists together, then told Edwards to accompany him to the bedroom to pose for nude pictures. While inside the bedroom, Edwards noted nude male posters on the wall and that a videotape of The Exorcist III was playing. He also noted a blue 57-gallon drum in the corner, from which a strong odor emanated.

When Edwards next stated he needed to use the bathroom, he asked if they could sit with a beer in the living room, where there was air conditioning. Dahmer consented, and the pair walked to the living room when Edwards exited the bathroom. Inside the living room, Edwards waited until he observed Dahmer have a momentary lapse of concentration before requesting to use the bathroom again. When Edwards rose from the couch, he noted Dahmer was not holding the handcuffs, whereupon Edwards punched him in the face, knocking Dahmer off balance, and ran out the front door. When the officers and Edwards arrived at Apartment 213, Dahmer invited the trio inside and acknowledged he had placed the handcuffs upon Edwards, although he offered no explanation as to why he had done so. At this point, Edwards divulged to the officers that Dahmer had also brandished a large knife upon him and that this had happened in the bedroom. Dahmer made no comment to this revelation, indicating to one of the officers, Mueller, that the key to the handcuffs was in his bedside dresser. As Mueller entered the bedroom, Dahmer attempted to pass Mueller to retrieve the key himself, whereupon the second officer present, Rauth, informed him to "back off".

When Dahmer saw that Mueller was holding several of his Polaroids, he fought with the officers in an effort to resist arrest. The officers quickly overpowered him, cuffed his hands behind his back, and called a second squad car for backup. At this point, Mueller opened the refrigerator to reveal the freshly severed head of a Black male on the bottom shelf. As Dahmer lay pinned on the floor beneath Rauth, he turned his head towards the officers and muttered the words: "For what I did I should be dead." On February 15, the court reconvened to hear the verdict: Dahmer was ruled to be sane and not suffering from a mental disorder at the time of each of the 15 murders for which he was tried, although in each count, two of the twelve jurors signified their dissent. Formal sentencing was postponed until February 17. On this date, Dahmer's attorney announced his client wished to address the court. Dahmer then approached a lectern and read from a statement prepared by himself and his defense as he faced the judge.

In this statement, Dahmer emphasized that he had never desired freedom following his arrest, and that he "frankly" wished for his own death. He further stressed that none of his murders had been motivated by hatred, that he understood that nothing he either said or did could "undo the terrible harm" he had caused to the families of his victims and the city of Milwaukee, and that he and his doctors believed his criminal behavior had been motivated by mental disorders. Dahmer added that this medical knowledge had given him "some peace", and that although he understood that society would never forgive him, he hoped God would.

Dahmer closed his statement with the following: "I know my time in prison will be terrible, but I deserve whatever I get because of what I have done. Thank you, your honor, and I am prepared for your sentence, which I know will be the maximum. I ask for no consideration." Three months after his conviction in Milwaukee, Dahmer was extradited to Ohio to be tried for the murder of his first victim, Steven Hicks. In a court hearing lasting just 45 minutes, Dahmer again pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced to a 16th term of life imprisonment on May 1, 1992.

Jeffrey Dahmer mug shots- Between the years of 1978 and 1991, Dahmer murdered 17 males in truly horrific fashion. Rape, dismemberment, necrophilia, and cannibalism were all parts of his modus operandi.

His drinking continued throughout high school but did not stop him from graduating in 1978. It was just three weeks later that the 18-year-old committed his first murder. Due to his parents’ unfolding divorce that summer, Jeffrey was left in the family home alone. He seized the opportunity to act on the dark thoughts that had been growing in his mind. He picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks and offered to take him back to his father’s house to drink beer. But when Hicks decided to leave, Dahmer hit him in the back of the head with a 10 lb. dumbbell. Dahmer then dissected, dissolved, pulverized, and scattered the now imperceptible remains throughout his back yard, and later admitted to killing him simply because he wanted Hicks to stay. Nine years would pass before he killed again.

After his drinking continued to cause problems, his father sent him to live with his grandmother in West Allis, Wisconsin. By 1985 he was frequenting gay bathhouses, where he would drug men and rape them as they lay unconscious. Although he was arrested twice for incidents of indecent exposure in 1982 and 1986, he only faced probation and was not charged for the rapes.

A picture of Jeffrey passed out on his bunker, he served as a combat medic in Germany from 1979 to 1981.However, he never kicked the habit and was discharged that spring, moving back home to Ohio.

Steven Tuomi was his second victim, killed in September of 1987. Dahmer picked him up from a bar and took him back to a hotel room, where he woke up the next morning to Tuomi’s beaten dead body. He later stated that he had no memory of actually murdering Tuomi, implying that he had committed the crime on some sort of blacked out impulse. The killings occurred sporadically after Tuomi, with two victims in 1988, one in 1989, and four in 1990. He continued to lure unsuspecting men from bars or solicited prostitutes, whom he then drugged, raped, and strangled. At this point though, Dahmer also began carrying out particularly disturbing acts with their corpses, continuing to use the bodies for intercourse, taking photographs of the dismemberment process, preserving with scientific precision his victims’ skulls and genitals for display, and even retaining parts for consumption.

Konerak Sinthasomphone, 14.

Dahmer began killing around one person each week by the summer of 1991. He became infatuated with the idea that he could turn his victims into “zombies” to act as youthful and submissive sexual partners. He used many different techniques, such as drilling holes into their skull and injecting hydrochloric acid or boiling water into their brains. Soon, neighbors began to complain about strange noises and awful smells coming from Dahmer’s apartment. On one occasion, a lobotomized victim left unattended even made it out onto the street to ask several bystanders for help. When Dahmer returned, however, he successfully convinced the police that the irrational young man was simply his extremely intoxicated boyfriend.

Dahmer was indicted on 15 murder charges and the trial began on January 30, 1992. Even though the evidence against him was overwhelming, Dahmer pled insanity as his defense due to the nature of his incredibly disturbing and uncontrollable impulses. Following two weeks of trial, the court declared him sane and guilty on 15 counts of murder. He was sentenced to 15 life terms, for a total of 957 years in prison. In May of the same year, he entered a guilty plea for the murder of his first victim, Stephen Hicks, and received an additional life sentence.

Dahmer served his time at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin. During his time in prison, Dahmer expressed remorse for his actions and wished for his own death. He also read the Bible and declared himself a born-again Christian, ready for his final judgment. He was attacked twice by fellow inmates, with the first attempt to slice his neck open leaving him with only superficial wounds. However, he was attacked a second time on November 28, 1994, by an inmate as they cleaned one of the prison showers. Dahmer was found still alive, but died on the way to the hospital from severe head trauma.

Two cleaned skulls, one with four drilled holes, found in Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment.

Dahmer reluctantly admitted that he had attempted to create “zombie sex-slaves” by drilling the skulls and injecting acids and other materials.

Below the skulls is a briefcase containing Polaroid pictures of Dahmer's victims.

On the night of Jeffrey Dahmer’s arrest, investigators discovered two entire skeletons, a pair of severed hands, two severed and preserved penises, a mummified scalp and, in the 57-gallon drum, three further dismembered torsos dissolving in the acid solution.

The next and final time police arrived at Dahmer’s apartment, they wore protective gear and oxygen masks as they entered his apartment. Inside, they found the remains of 11 victims at Dahmer’s Milwaukee apartment, off of 213 Twenty-fifth Street.

Body parts found included several boxes of bones, a man’s genitals, lungs and intestines in a freezer, five skulls and skeletons, and a human heart that Dahmer admitted he planned to eat.

Milwaukee policemen carry away the dismembered rests of the victims of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in this undated filer.Milwaukee police load a refrigerator into a truck as they clean out an apartment in Milwaukee after discovering body parts in the apartment July 24, 1991. Several body parts were stored inside the refrigerator.

Also, a total of 74 Polaroid pictures detailing the dismemberment of Dahmer’s victims were found.

At a casual glance, Dahmer’s $300-a-month, one-bedroom furnished apartment looked ordinary – a beige couch and chair, fish tank, Oriental rug. By 1991, fellow residents of the Oxford Apartments had repeatedly complained to the manager, Sopa Princewill, of the foul smells emanating from Apartment 213. On the night of Jeffrey Dahmer’s arrest, investigators discovered two entire skeletons, a pair of severed hands, two severed and preserved penises, a mummified scalp and, in the 57-gallon drum, three further dismembered torsos dissolving in the acid solution.

His red flags has always been in his life. In May 1978, Dahmer graduated from high school. A few weeks before his graduation, one of his teachers observed Dahmer sitting close to the school parking lot, drinking several cans of beer.

Jeffrey Dahmer and his father, Lionel Dahmer on a live television broadcast talking about his murders (MSNBC).

On February 15, the court reconvened to hear the verdict: Dahmer was ruled to be sane and not suffering from a mental disorder at the time of each of the 15 murders for which he was tried, although in each count, two of the twelve jurors signified their dissent. Formal sentencing was postponed until February 17. On this date, Dahmer's attorney announced his client wished to address the court. Dahmer then approached a lectern and read from a statement prepared by himself and his defense as he faced the judge.

The Shrine of Jeffery Dahmer. The alter that Dahmer had fantasised over building. He would sit in the chair wielding awesome power, if built.

Dahmer was beaten to death by a fellow inmate, Christopher Scarver, on November 28, 1994. Both men were housed at the Columbia Correctional Facility in Wisconsin. Wisconsin was the first to abolish the death penalty in 1853 hence, despite his abhorrent crimes, Dahmer didn’t receive the death penalty (though he wished for his death. More on that later). Scarver, who was himself serving a 25-year-sentence for an armed robbery-turned-murder, arrived at the prison at around the same time as Dahmer in 1992. The serial killer’s safety was a major concern for prison staff. The New York Times reported at the time that Dahmer had spent his first year in prison under protective isolation. As the state’s most notorious murderers, authorities believed killing him might earn a convict an “honored place in the prison world.” Later authorities deemed it safe for him to be integrated into the population of 622 inmates. In July 1992, an attempt on Dahmer’s life was made. An inmate took a homemade plastic knife and unsuccessfully tried to slash Dahmer’s throat. No one was hurt and prison staff believed it would be an isolated incident.

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VICTIMS

Name: Steven Hicks, 19. Location: Bath Township. June 1978. Method: He got him drunk then hit with a dumb-bell and finally strangled. Disposal: After killing Steven he dismembered the body with a carving knife. He later pulverised the bones with a sledge hammer and scattered the bones around the property. The flesh was put into bags and buried in a crawlspace under the house. It wasn't until 3yrs later that police and forensics found the remains.

Name: Steven Tuomi, 24. Location: Ambassador Hotel. November 21, 1987. Method: Got victim drunk then smashed his chest in and attempted to rip out his heart. Disposal: In a panic he rushed out to the nearest store and bought a large trunk where he placed the dismembered carcass. He then took the body back to his grandmother's house and put it in the basement where he could continue to cut it up. After doing so he put the remains into a plastic bag and threw it out with the garbage. No remains were ever found of Steven Tuomi.

Name: James "Jamie" Doxtator, 14. Location: Dahmer's grandmother's house. West Allis, South of Milwaukee. January 16, 1988. Method: The victim was drugged then strangled. His flesh was removed from the bones with acid and the bones were once again pulverised. Disposal: Same as Steven Hicks.

Name: Richard Guerrero, 23. Location: Dahmer's grandmother's house. March 24, 1988. Method: After having oral sex with the victim he gave Richard a drink laced with sleeping pills, he then strangled him. Disposal: Dahmer dismembered the corpse and disposed of the remains in the garbage.

Name: Anthony Lee Sears, 26. Location: Grandmothers house. March 25, 1989. Method: Strangled him before dismembering the corpse. He cut off his head and genitals to keep as trophies, he then painted the skull rey. Disposal: As previous victim.

Name: Raymond Lamont Smith, 33. Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th street. May 20, 1990. Method: Strangled the victim then engaged in oral sex with the cadaver. He then dismembered the body and removed the head, the skull was then painted grey and placed in his fridge. Disposal: The bones were left in a tank of acid until all the bones were de-fleshed. he then placed the bones around his apartment as ornaments.

Name: Edward W. Smith, 27. Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th street. June 14, 1990 Method: He was enticed into Dahmer's lair where he was drugged, strangled then dismembered. Disposal: The remains were placed in the acid to dissolve.

Name: Ernest Miller, 22. Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th street. Method: Ernest Miller was lured into Dahmer's apartment by the temptation of earning $50 to pose nude for the camera. He was then drugged then had his throat cut. Disposal: Dahmer removed the flesh with acid, bleached the skeleton and kept it in his wardrobe, he also kept the victims biceps and placed them in a freezer for later consumption.

Name: David Thomas, 23. Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th street. September 24, 1990. Method: Dahmer gave him a 'laced' drink containing sleeping pills. Disposal: As previous.

Name: Curtis Straughter, 19. Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th street. February 18, 1991. Method: Drugged then strangled. Disposal: His cadaver was dismembered and the bones crushed, the skull was kept and the rest was dumped into the garbage.

Name: Errol Lindsey, 19. Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th street. April 7, 1991. Method: Errol was tempted into Dahmer's lair by being offered money to pose naked. He was then strangled. Disposal: Dahmer had oral sex with the corpse before dismembering it. He kept the skull as a trophy.

Name: Anthony Hughs, 31. Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th street. May 24, 1991. Method: Tony was a deaf mute but was still tempted into Dahmer's apartment by written request asking him to pose nude.Once inside Dahmer drugged him and then strangled him. Disposal: After killing him he left the body lying around the apartment for a couple of days before the process of dismemberment was engaged. The corpse was left dissolving in acid, his skull was kept.

Name: Konerak Sinthasomphone, 14. Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th street. May 27, 1991. Method: Konerak was drugged and experimented on before he was strangled. The experiments were to drill a hole into the back the cranium and injecting hydrochloric acid into the frontal lobes of the brain, while he was still alive. Such experiments were to create a 'zombie' in order to be in complete control of his victim. Disposal: The body was dismembered and stored in the acid.

Name: Matt Turner, 20. Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th street. June 30, 1991. Method: As with most other victims he was lured into Dahmer's chambers were he was drugged and strangled. Disposal: The body was dismembered and left lying around his apartment.

Name: Jeremiah "Jeremy" Weinberger, 23. Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th street. July 7, 1991. Method: Not much unlike Konerak except he had boiling water injected into his head and left alive in a comerized state for two days. He was later strangled. Disposal: The cadaver was dismembered and stored in acid.

Name: Oliver Lacy, 23. Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th street. July 15, 1991. Method: As with most of his victims he was drugged and strangled. Disposal: During dismemberment Dahmer would sodomize the corpse before being stored. His heart was kept in the fridge.

Name: Joseph Bradehoft, 25. Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th street. July 19, 1991. Method: Joseph was lured into the apartment by being offered money to pose nude. He was then drugged and then strangled. Disposal: The corpse was again dismembered but not completely the head and torso were kept in his apartment.

VICTIMS THAT GOT AWAY

Name: Keison Sinthasomphone, 13: Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th street.

Just 24 hours after moving into his new apartment at North 24th Street, Dahmer was in trouble with police. He had conned a Laotian boy, Keison Sinthasomphone, 13, into coming up to his apartment. Once there Dahmer drugged and molested him, but the boy escaped.

He reported the incident to the police and Dahmer was charged with sexual assault and enticing a child for immoral purposes. He spent one week in jail before getting released on bail. On January 30, 1990 Dahmer was found guilty, but sentencing wouldn’t take place for another four months.

Name: Tracy Edwards, 32. Location: 213 Oxford Apartments, North 25th street. July 22, 1991.

Tracy was tempted into 213' by Dahmer where he was given a 'cocktail' to make him drowsy. Dahmer then tried to make sexual advances towards him, Tracy started to struggle when Dahmer slipped some handcuffs onto his right arm. As Dahmer went for a knife Tracy made a run for the unlocked door, Dahmer tried to haul him back inside when a brawl started and Dahmer was hit hard on side of his head knocking him to the floor. Tracy had escaped and ran into the street where he flagged down a patrol car. The cops were then led into Dahmer's chamber of horrors, what the cops saw would linger in their minds for the rest of their lives.

Photos of various states of dismemberment, a severed head lying on the floor, the fridge had 3 bags containing a heart, flesh and a portion of muscle. A freezer contained 3 heads, a human torso, a bag containing flesh and some internal organs. The cupboard contained various chemicals and 2 bleached skulls. On the floor there was a large kettle holding 2 hands, a penis and testicles. There was 3 more skulls found in a filing cabinet. A wardrobe contained a complete skeleton, dried human scalp and more genitals.In a box there was 2 more skulls, next to the box there was a 260l vat containing acid, police found 3 human torso's in various stages of decomposition.

A.K.A.: "The Milwaukee Cannibal"

Classification: Serial killer

Characteristics: Rape - Dismemberment - Necrophilia - Cannibalism

Number of victims: 17

Date of murder: 1978 - 1991

Date of arrest: July 22, 1991

Date of birth: May 21, 1960

Victims profile: Stephen Hicks, 19 / Steven Tuomi, 26 / James "Jamie" Doxtator, 14 / Richard Guerrero, 25 / Anthony Sears, 26 / Eddie Smith, 36 / Ricky Beeks, 27 / Ernest Miller, 22 / David Thomas, 23 / Curtis Straughter, 19 / Errol Lindsey, 19 / Tony Hughes, 31 / Konerak Sinthasomphone, 14 / Matt Turner, 20 / Jeremiah Weinberger, 23 / Oliver Lacy, 23 / Joseph Bradehoft, 25

Method of murder: Strangulation - Cutting his throat

Location: Ohio/Wisconsin, USAStatus: Pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Sentenced to 15 life terms, totaling 957 years in prison, in Wisconsin on February 15, 1992. Sentenced to life in prison in Ohio in May 1992. Murdered in jail by convicted murderer Christopher Scarver on November 28, 1994

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