Inside the Mind of Jeffrey Dahmer: The Cannibal Killer

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Most of Dahmer's 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. As he had no memory of the killing of his second victim, Steven Tuomi, he was unsure whether he was unconscious when beaten to death, although he did concede it was possible that his viewing the exposed chest of Tuomi while in a drunken stupor may have led him to unsuccessfully attempt to tear Tuomi's heart from his chest. [239] Almost all the murders Dahmer committed after moving into the Oxford Apartments had involved a ritual of posing the victims' bodies in suggestive positions—typically with the chest thrust outwards—prior to dismemberment. [240] Dahmer Pleads Guilty to 16th Murder". St. Petersburg Times. May 2, 1992. Archived from the original on January 22, 2021 . Retrieved December 5, 2013– via Google News. On June 30, Dahmer traveled to Chicago, where he encountered a 20-year-old named Matt Turner at a bus station. [203] Turner accepted Dahmer's offer to travel to Milwaukee for a professional photo shoot. At the apartment, Dahmer drugged, strangled and dismembered Turner and placed his head and internal organs in separate plastic bags in the freezer. [204] Turner was not reported missing. 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. He drugged Weinberger and twice injected boiling water through his skull, sending him into a coma from which he died two days later. [204] [n 16]

Owing to Dahmer's alcohol abuse, his performance deteriorated and, in March 1981, he was deemed unsuitable for military service and was later discharged from the Army. [89] He received an honorable discharge, as his superiors did not believe that any problems Dahmer had in the Army would be applicable to civilian life. [90] Upon the departure of the three officers from his apartment, Dahmer again injected hydrochloric acid into Sinthasomphone's brain. This second injection proved fatal. The following day, May 28, Dahmer took a day's leave from work to devote himself to the dismemberment of the bodies of Sinthasomphone and Hughes. He retained both victims' skulls. [202] Worthington, Rogers (December 13, 1992). "After Dahmer: Police Try To Learn". Chicago Tribune. Chicago. Archived from the original on April 17, 2021 . Retrieved January 22, 2021. Jeffrey Dahmer: Know About Life and Crimes of the American Serial Killer Whose Gruesome Crimes have Created Worldwide Sensation". News9Live. October 13, 2022 . Retrieved October 22, 2022.On November 28, 1994, Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver, a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin. I am in the outlier camp because I enjoyed (if that is the right word) this book. Yes, the prologue is a bit much it will rub many readers the wrong way. I wonder if some stopped reading there. I could see how one might want to put the book down at that point. I read on an I found the book to be interesting. At 11:30p.m. on July 22, Edwards flagged down two Milwaukee police officers, Robert Rauth and Rolf Mueller, at the corner of North 25th Street. The officers noted Edwards had a handcuff attached to his wrist, [222] [223] whereupon he explained to the officers that a "freak" had placed the handcuffs upon him and asked if the police could remove them. When the officers' handcuff keys failed to fit the brand of handcuffs, Edwards agreed to accompany the officers to the apartment where, Edwards stated, he had spent the previous five hours before escaping. [222]

Bogira, Steve (August 27, 1992). "The Inner Life of a Psycho Killer". Chicago Reader. Archived from the original on October 24, 2013 . Retrieved December 5, 2013. The Netflix dark tourism documentary series Dark Tourist has broadcast an episode which features Dahmer's crimes. This 40-minute documentary was first broadcast on July 20, 2018. [371] He Killed Them So They Wouldn't Leave' ". Quad City Times. August 11, 1991. Archived from the original on November 5, 2021 . Retrieved November 5, 2021. Jeffrey Dahmer's Killer Gets 2 Life Sentences". Daily News. Vol.24, no.70. Kingsport, Tennessee: Sand Imrie, Robert (August 2, 1991). "Officers Were in Dahmer's Apartment". The Times-News. Burlington, North Carolina: New Media Investment Group. Associated Press. Archived from the original on January 20, 2021 . Retrieved December 5, 2013.Dahmer's murders were committed at a time of heightened racial tension in Milwaukee. A professor of community studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Walter Farrell, later stated race relations in the city had been "in a state of disrepair for nearly a decade" at the time of Dahmer's arrest. [n 19] In an August 1991 interview given to the Christian Science Monitor, Farrell stated that news of the murders, as well as the conduct of Milwaukee police officers John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish with regards to victim Konerak Sinthasomphone, exacerbated and highlighted racial tensions within the city. [320] Worthington, Rogers (February 1, 1992). "Dahmer Escapee Tells of Close Call". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois: Tronc. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020 . Retrieved January 20, 2021. The second and final witness to appear for the prosecution, forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz, began his testimony on February 12. Dietz testified that he did not believe Dahmer had any form of mental disease or defect at the time that he committed the crimes, stating that "Dahmer went to great lengths to be alone with his victim and to have no witnesses." [267] He explained that there was ample evidence that Dahmer prepared in advance for each murder, therefore, his crimes were not impulsive. [268] [269] Although Dietz did concede any acquisition of a paraphilia was not a matter of personal choice, [267] he stated his belief that Dahmer's habit of becoming intoxicated prior to committing each of the murders was significant; "If he had an impulse to kill or a compulsion to kill", Dietz testified, "he wouldn't have to drink alcohol to overcome it. He only has to drink alcohol to overcome it because he is inhibited against killing." [270] Dahmer was not charged with the attempted murder of Edwards, [237] nor with the murder of Tuomi. [251] He was not charged with Tuomi's murder because the Milwaukee County District Attorney only brought charges where murder could be proven beyond a reasonable doubt [252] and Dahmer had no memory of actually committing this particular murder, for which no physical evidence of the crime existed. [252] At a scheduled preliminary hearing on January 13, 1992, [253] Dahmer pleaded guilty but insane to 15 counts of murder. [254] Trial

The biographical film Dahmer was released in 2002. It stars Jeremy Renner in the title role and co-stars Bruce Davison as Dahmer's father, Lionel. [354] July 15: Oliver Joseph Lacy, 24. A bodybuilding enthusiast whom Dahmer enticed to his apartment on the promise of money for posing for photographs. Lacy was drugged and strangled with a leather strap before being decapitated, with his head and heart being placed in the refrigerator. [350] His skeleton was retained to adorn one side of the private shrine of skulls and skeletons Dahmer was in the process of creating when arrested one week later. Shortly after the arrival of the Milwaukee police officers, three members of the Milwaukee Fire Department arrived at the scene. These individuals also examined Sinthasomphone for injuries and provided a yellow blanket for the police officers to cover Sinthasomphone. One of the three believed Sinthasomphone needed treatment, but the police officers directed the fire department personnel to leave. [194] [192] Shortly thereafter, officer Richard Porubcan arrived at the scene. [n 13] He and Gabrish—followed by Balcerzak—escorted Dahmer and Sinthasomphone to Dahmer's apartment as Dahmer repeatedly commented on the general crime in the neighborhood and of his appreciation of the police. [195]

In 2019, University of Chicago neuroscientists scanned the brains of 800 violent criminals to answer one pivotal question — is a killer’s brain different from other brains? Worthington, Rogers (February 9, 1992). "Psychiatrist: Dahmer in Control". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved October 23, 2022. Worthington, Rogers (February 10, 1992). "Dahmer Case Comes Down to Will Vs. Impulse". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on November 26, 2021 . Retrieved January 22, 2021.

For two weeks following Tuomi's killing, Dahmer retained Tuomi's head wrapped in a blanket. After two weeks, Dahmer boiled the head in a mixture of Soilax [123] (an alkali-based industrial detergent) and bleach in an effort to retain the skull, which he then used as stimulus for masturbation. Eventually, the skull became too brittle by this bleaching process, so Dahmer pulverized and disposed of it. [121] Intermediate murders Dahmer readily admitted to engaging in necrophilia with several of his victims' bodies, including performing sexual acts with their viscera [240] as he dismembered their bodies in his bathtub. Having noted that much of the blood pooled inside his victims' chest after death, Dahmer first removed their internal organs, then suspended the torso so the blood drained into his bathtub, before dicing any organs he did not wish to retain and paring the flesh from the body. [241] The bones he wished to dispose of were pulverized or acidified, with Soilax and bleach solutions used to aid in the preservation of the skeletons and skulls he wished to keep. [153] Dahmer confessed to having consumed the hearts, liver, biceps, and portions of thigh [242] of three victims he had killed at the Oxford Apartments (Raymond Smith, Ernest Miller and Oliver Lacy), and to have retained the flesh and organs of other victims for intended consumption. [243] Typically, Dahmer would tenderize the body parts he intended to consume prior to preparing meals flavored with various condiments. [235] [244] [n 17] Dahmer Incident Report Reveals Contradictions". Journal Times. August 31, 1991. Archived from the original on October 15, 2020 . Retrieved April 4, 2020. The Investigation Discovery channel has also broadcast a documentary focusing upon Dahmer within its documentary series, Most Evil. This documentary features excerpts of Dahmer's 1994 Dateline NBC interview with Stone Phillips and was first broadcast in August 2006. [368]

Wisconsin Inmate Held in Slaying of Dahmer". Deseret News. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Publishing Company. Associated Press. November 29, 1994. Archived from the original on October 1, 2019 . Retrieved July 4, 2014. Shortly after his bathhouse memberships were revoked, [110] Dahmer read a report in a newspaper regarding the upcoming funeral of an 18-year-old male. He conceived the idea of stealing the freshly interred corpse and taking it home. [111] According to Dahmer, he attempted to dig up the coffin from the ground, but found the soil too hard and abandoned the plan. [112] Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. A 10-part biographical crime drama series that was commissioned by Netflix and released on September 21, 2022. Evan Peters portrayed Dahmer. [373] [374] Jeffrey Dahmer's Biography: A Child Grows Up to Become a Killer". The Bradenton Herald. August 25, 1991. Archived from the original on May 30, 2022 . Retrieved May 30, 2022.