[69], Shortly before losing his job, Dahmer was arrested for indecent exposure. He decapitated Lindsey and retained his skull; he then flayed Lindsey's body, placing the skin in a solution of cold water and salt for several weeks in the hope of permanently retaining it. It was my way of remembering their appearance, their physical beauty. [113] Dahmer dissolved the remainder of Smith's skeleton—excluding the skull—in a container filled with acid. [20][21] His fascination with dead animals might have begun when, at the age of four, he saw his father removing animal bones from beneath the family home. He did not divulge his sexual orientation to his parents, although in his early teens, he did engage in a brief relationship with another youth, although the pair never had intercourse. [163] Edwards had decided he was going to either jump from a window or run through the unlocked front door upon the next available opportunity. [220], Upon sentencing, Dahmer was transferred to the Columbia Correctional Institution. [200] Another prosecution expert to testify, Dr. Fred Fosdel, testified to his belief that Dahmer was without mental disease or defect at the time he committed the murders. [218] In a court hearing lasting just 45 minutes,[219] Dahmer again pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced to a 16th term of life imprisonment on May 1, 1992. In December 1981, Dahmer's father and stepmother sent him to live with his grandmother in West Allis. Jesse Anderson and Jeffrey Dahmer are dead. Most of the victims had been rendered unconscious prior to their murder, although some had died as a result of having acid or boiling water injected into their brain. [24], In 1968, the family moved to Bath Township, Ohio. Five days later, on July 5, Dahmer lured 23-year-old Jeremiah Weinberger from a Chicago bar to his apartment on the promise of spending the weekend with him. "[240] The response of the families of Dahmer's victims was mixed, although it appears most were pleased with his death. [213] Referring to his crimes in a 1994 interview with Stone Phillips on Dateline NBC, Dahmer had stated: "If a person doesn't think that there is a God to be accountable to, then what's the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges? "[179] He readily admitted to having murdered 16 young men in Wisconsin since 1987, with one further victim—Steven Hicks—killed in Ohio back in 1978. His overall GPA was 0.45/4.0. "[159], A more detailed search of the apartment, conducted by the Criminal Investigation Bureau, revealed a total of four severed heads in Dahmer's kitchen. On this occasion, however, Dahmer himself accidentally consumed the drink laden with sedatives intended for consumption by his guest. Balcerzak first gained national attention in 1991, when he was fired for having handed over an injured child to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, despite bystanders' protests. Lindsey was heterosexual. "Before the police arrived, Dahmer appeared and tried to reassert physical control over Sinthasomphone. [205] Dietz diagnosed Dahmer with substance use disorder, paraphilia, and schizotypal personality disorder. [236], Joyce Flint died of cancer in November 2000. [40] Dahmer's parents' divorce was finalized on July 24, 1978. He killed those men because he wanted to kill the source of his homosexual attraction to them. Nor is the fact that Milwaukee had two officers as incompetent as John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish, the two cops who inexplicably returned Dahmer's victim to his clutches. Less than three months after the murder of Smith, Dahmer encountered a 22-year-old Chicago native named Ernest Miller on the corner of North 27th Street. [242] Scarver further alleged he had been revolted by Dahmer's crimes and that Dahmer had been openly unrepentant; that Dahmer taunted prison employees and fellow inmates by shaping his prison food into imitations of severed limbs, complete with ketchup to simulate blood spattering; and that prison staff, knowing of Scarver's hatred for Dahmer, had deliberately left the two men unsupervised so that he could kill him. McCann further argued that by pleading guilty but insane to the charges, Dahmer was seeking to escape responsibility for his crimes. [236][n 4], Upon learning of his death, Dahmer's mother Joyce responded angrily to the media: "Now is everybody happy? [66], On March 24, 1981, Dahmer was sent to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, for debriefing and provided with a plane ticket to travel anywhere in the country. Accompanying him were two fellow inmates: Jesse Anderson and Christopher Scarver.

The Discovery Channel has broadcast an episode focusing upon Dahmer's crimes. According to Dahmer, he had no intention of murdering Tuomi, but rather intended to drug and rape him as he lay unconscious. The officers later reported having noted a strange scent reminiscent of excrement inside the apartment (this odor emanated from the decomposing body of Hughes). In September 1988, Dahmer's grandmother asked him to move out of her house because of his habit of bringing young men to her house late at night and the foul smells emanating from both the basement and the garage. [86], For a total of two weeks following Tuomi's murder, Dahmer retained the victim's head wrapped in a blanket.

Despite Dahmer's insistence the race of his victims was incidental to him, some theorize the majority of his murders may have held a racial motive. [143][144], On July 22, 1991, Dahmer approached three men with an offer of $100 to accompany him to his apartment to pose for nude photographs,[145] drink beer and simply keep him company. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, was an American serial killer and sex offender, who committed the rape, murder, and dismemberment of 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

According to Dahmer, Sinthasomphone was initially reluctant to the proposal, before changing his mind and accompanying Dahmer to his apartment, where the youth posed for two pictures in his underwear before Dahmer drugged him into unconsciousness and performed oral sex on him. After two weeks, Dahmer boiled the head in a mixture of Soilex (an alkali-based industrial detergent) and bleach in an effort to retain the skull, which he then used as stimulus for masturbation. [113] Dahmer boiled the remaining flesh and organs into a "jelly-like substance" using Soilex, which again enabled him to rinse the flesh off the skeleton, which he intended to retain. When he awoke the following day, he discovered his intended victim had stolen several items of his clothing, $300, and a watch. Following their decision to divorce, Lionel temporarily lived in a nearby motel and Joyce had relocated to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin,[42] with his younger brother David. Present at the vigil were community leaders, gay rights activists, and family members of several of Dahmer's victims.

Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick testified that Dahmer did not suffer from primary necrophilia because he preferred live sexual partners as evidenced by his efforts to create unresistant, submissive sexual partners devoid of rational thought and to whose needs he did not have to cater. [209], The trial lasted two weeks. [226] Scarver further alleged he had been revolted by Dahmer's crimes and that Dahmer had been openly unrepentant for his crimes; that Dahmer taunted prison employees and fellow inmates by shaping his prison food into imitations of severed limbs, complete with ketchup to simulate blood spattering; and that prison staff, knowing of Scarver's hatred for Dahmer, had deliberately left the two men unsupervised so that he could kill him. According to Scarver, Dahmer did not yell or make any noise as he was attacked. He described Dahmer as a calculating and cunning individual, able to differentiate between right and wrong, with the ability to control his actions.

He initially collected large insects, such as dragonflies and butterflies, in jars. The three women dissuaded Dahmer, explaining they had phoned 9-1-1. Miller bled to death within minutes. Scarver alleges that immediately before murdering Dahmer, he had cornered him, presented a newspaper article detailing Dahmer's crimes, and demanded that Dahmer answer whether the account was true. Shortly after Dahmer found this employment, an incident occurred in which he was propositioned by another man while sitting reading in the West Allis Public Library. Inside the living room, Edwards waited until he observed Dahmer have a momentary lapse of concentration before requesting to use the bathroom again. [81], Shortly after his membership of the bathhouses was revoked,[82] Dahmer read a report in a newspaper regarding the upcoming funeral of an 18-year-old male.

In killing them, he killed what he hated in himself."

Two years later, over a family meal of chicken, Dahmer asked his father what would happen if the bones of the chicken were to be placed in a bleach solution. Dahmer made no comment to this revelation; indicating to one of the officers, Rolf Mueller, that the key to the handcuffs was in his bedside dresser in the bedroom. "[168], When Dahmer saw that Mueller was holding several of his Polaroids, he fought with the officers in an effort to resist arrest.