Jeffrey Dahmer

    Jeffrey Dahmer, an American serial killer and sex offender, was born on May 21, 1960. Between 1978 and 1991, Dahmer murdered 17 men in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in particularly horrific ways.

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   Rape, dismemberment, necrophilia, and cannibalism were some of his methods of operation. Homosexual men and teenagers make up the majority of his victims, and most of them are people of colour.

    June 1978, as his parents' divorce proceeded, Jeffrey was left alone in the home. He took the chance to put the sinister ideas that had been developing in his head into action. He picked up Steven Hicks, a hitchhiker, and drove him to his parent's house. Then, after getting Hicks intoxicated, Dahmer killed him by hitting him in the head and strangling him with a barbell as he tried to leave. Dahmer eventually admitted to killing Hicks only because he wanted Hicks to stay after dissecting, dissolving, pulverizing, and scattering the now indiscernible remains over his backyard. It would be nine years before he killed again.

    Dahmer enrolled in college, but his alcoholism caused him to drop early. His father moved him to live with his grandmother in West Allis, Wisconsin after his drinking led to his release from the army. By 1985, he was a regular at gay bathhouses, where he would take drugs to knock men out so he could rape them while they were unconscious. Despite having been detained twice for indecent exposure in 1982 and 1986, he was simply given probation and not charged with the rapes.

    His second victim, Steven Tuomi, was murdered in September 1987. He was picked up by Dahmer from a pub, driven back to a motel, and found there the next morning was Tuomi's battered corpse. Later, he claimed that he didn't remember killing Tuomi, suggesting that he had done it on the spur of the moment while unconscious. After Tuomi, the killings continued infrequently, with seven victims from 1988 to 1990. He kept luring unwary men from bars or asking for prostitutes, who he would then drug, rape, and strangle. However, at this point, Dahmer also started doing particularly gruesome acts with their corpses, continuing to use them for sex, documenting the process with photographs, meticulously preserving the skulls and genitalia of his victims for exhibition, and even keeping parts for consumption.

    As he progressed, he established rituals, experimenting with chemical methods of disposal and frequently eating the flesh of his victims. Additionally, Dahmer tried crude lobotomies by drilling muriatic acid injections into the victims' skulls while they were still alive. In the two years that followed, Dahmer's victim count quickly increased from four to seventeen.

    On July 22, 1991, two Milwaukee police officers found Tracy Edwards, a 32-year-old African American man wandering the streets with handcuffs hanging from his wrist, and were then taken to Dahmer. They made the decision to look into the man's accusations that he had been drugged and restrained by a "strange fellow." When they got to Dahmer's residence, he politely volunteered to grab the handcuffs' keys. The knife that Dahmer allegedly threatened Edwards with was apparently in the bedroom. Polaroid pictures of severed bodies were lying around as the officer entered to verify the story. This was enough evidence to place Dahmer under arrest.

    Following a thorough search of the house, they discovered more human remains inside the refrigerator, three more decapitated heads scattered around the flat, several pictures of the victims and more. Seven skulls in total, together with a human heart in the freezer, were discovered in his flat. In his closet, an altar was also built using candles and human skulls. Dahmer confessed and started telling the authorities the graphic details of his killings after being taken into custody.

    In January 1992, Dahmer's trial got underway. Dahmer initially entered a not-guilty plea to all charges despite having admitted to the murders while being questioned by police. In the end, he decided to plead guilty due to insanity. The horrifying details of his actions were subsequently used in his defence as evidence that only a madman could have committed such heinous deeds. The prosecution's claim that Dahmer was fully aware of the evilness of his deeds yet nevertheless decided to carry them out was accepted by the jury. After deliberating for about 10 hours, they came back on February 15, 1992, and found him guilty but sane on all charges. He was given a 15-life sentence, with the option of an additional 16-life sentence added in May. In 1994, he was murdered by a fellow inmate, Christopher Scarver.

Written by David

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