Jeff’s [Dahmer] parents’ marriage was unstable. When Jeff was nine he started to display strange behaviour … He had been abandoned. Killer Kids s3e10: I’m So Lonesome I Could Kill & Bicycle Thief, LMN 2014
As the hitchhiker [Steven Hicks] prepared to leave Jeff couldn’t bear the thought of being alone any longer … ‘and cuts up the body into small pieces’ … ibid.
The troubled youth had grown up to become one of the most notorious serial killers in the world. ibid.
In 1992 America’s most notorious serial killer was brought to justice. His crimes unimaginable. Undetected for years. Dahmer on Dahmer: A Serial Killer Speaks I, Quest Red 2018
For years a serial killer had been preying on the city of Milwaukee. Finally, in the summer of 1991 it all comes to an end when a frightened man in handcuffs approaches police. He leads them to the home of Jeffrey Dahmer. The victim count: 17. The details are shocking. ibid.
‘It was a normal childhood in a good home.’ ibid. Dahmer
His mother Joyce struggled with mental illness and took 27 pills a day when she was pregnant with Jeffrey. ibid.
His attraction to men is what both motivated and repulsed him. ibid.
Directionless he continues to drink heavily. ibid.
‘I wanted to keep them with me … I was saving body parts.’ ibid. Dahmer
‘I’ve often wondered why I haven’t had more dreams or nightmares about what I’ve done.’ ibid.
He told me his motivating force was to have sex with a partner who wouldn’t leave him. But more than that, he wanted to be the aggressor but he didn’t want to be touched. Dahmer on Dahmer: A Serial Killer Speaks II
22-year-old Ernest Miller is a dance student he meets outside a book store. Dahmer murders the talented dancer and stuffs his entire skeleton in the file of a filing cabinet in his apartment. And his heart and biceps in his freezer. ibid.
‘I tried to keep the person alive by inducing a zombie-like state.’ ibid. Dahmer
‘The best route was to help the police identify all the victims and just make a complete confession.’ ibid.
… Shower while there were two dead bodies in the bathtub, and he was sane. He drilled holes in the heads of living people to make them his unresisting companions, and he was sane. He ate a bicep which he fried in a skillet, tenderised and sprinkled with sauce, and he was sane. For hours he lay with corpses, hugging them, cherishing them, and he was sane. He kept eleven assorted heads and skulls, and two complete skeletons, for eventual use in a home-made temple, and he was sane. Brian Masters, The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer
The name Jeffrey Dahmer entered the lexicon of American serial killers in the summer of 1991. His reign of terror ended on 22nd July when a young man who’d been lured inside Dahmer’s apartment survived. Serial Killers s1e2: Dahmer, Channel 5 1999
In the refrigerator a human head. Nearby in a freezer three more heads and a decapitated body. Down the hall in a closet the police find two skulls. There is also a large pot containing hands and male genitals. And most horrifying of all, police discover this 57-gallon industrial drum: in it are three bodies decomposing in acid. ibid.
He confesses in minute detail to a total of 17 murders dating back 13 years to 1978 … Necrophilia, cannibalism, dismemberment and murder. ibid.
‘It’s been a nightmare for a long time, even before I was caught.’ Jeffrey Dahmer: Killer Cannibal I, 1991 interview, Channel 4 2019
‘What turned him on was having sex with a dead body.’ ibid. dude
Everyone wants to know – who is Jeffrey Dahmer? And what drove him to murder, necrophilia and cannibalism? ibid.
Dahmer returns to his fantasies of turning living men into nearly dead men. ibid.
To make his perfect zombie, he’s tried mannequins, dead corpses and drugging unsuspecting victims. Jeffrey Dahmer: Killer Cannibal II
Dahmer’s family is increasingly alarmed at his strange behaviour … Dahmer moves into his own flat … Dahmer is as lonely as ever. ibid.
Oxford Apartments 213 will become infamous as a chamber of horrors. ibid.
‘I trained myself to view people as objects of potential pleasure.’ Jeffrey Dahmer: Killer Cannibal III
A benign teenager has transformed into a horrifying violent serial killer. He’s drugging young men, murdering them and keeping their bodies as trophies. ibid.
In the neighbourhood there are more rumours, more flyers, and more fear. But Dahmer just can’t stop. ibid.
‘Nothing else gave me pleasure towards the end. Nothing.’ Jeffrey Dahmer: Killer Cannibal IV
He’s a serial killer. On the edge and out of control … The bodies are piling up in his house of horrors. ibid.
He claims he just wanted to be with someone good looking. ibid.
Jeffrey Dahmer, Milwaukee’s cannibal serial killer, was there when Adam Wash was taken from the Sear’s store in Hollywood, Florida, 40 years ago. True Crime Recaps: Did Jeffrey Dahmer Kill Adam Walsh? Youtube 37.43, 2021
Two weeks after he disappeared, two fishermen found Adam’s severed head. ibid.
We all know Jeffrey Dahmer as the infamous Milwaukee Cannibal but what do we know about the man who took out one of America’s most depraved killers? True Crime Recaps: Who Killed Jeffrey Dahmer? Youtube 9.01, 2022
Christopher Scarver, otherwise known as the man who killed Jeffrey Dahmer. In 1994 Chris and Jeff were each only about three years into life sentences. ibid.
DALE, SIMON murder: Killer Trials TV -
68-year-old Simon Dale lives alone in a country mansion … On September 11th 1987 he is murdered. Killer Trials s1e12: Murder in the Mansion, CI 2012
It doesn’t take long for the investigation to point directly at Simon’s ex-wife: Susan Wilberforce. ibid.
Not guilty. ibid.