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| Full Name: | Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Caucasian |
| Birth: | May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States |
| Death: | November 28, 1994 in Portage, Wisconsin, United States - Age 34 |
| Cause of Death: | Murdered by an inmate in prison (beating) |
| Nicknames: | Milwaukee Cannibal / Milwaukee Monster |
| Murder Toll: | 17 murdered victims |
| Murder Time Frame: | 1978-1991 / Age 18 at first murder, 31 at last murder |
| Murder Locations: | United States - Bath, Ohio / Milwaukee, Wisconsin / West Allis, Wisconsin |
| Preferred Prey: | Young, homosexual males |
| Modus Operandi: | Drugging, strangulation, bludgeoning, necrophilia, dismemberment, cannibalism |
| Victim Disposal: | Dismemberment, placed some in chemical barrels filled with acid, buried some remains, kept some remains |
| Signature: | --- |
| Trophies: | Skeletons, skulls, torsos, heads, scalps, hands, genitals, internal organs, skin, photographs |
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 Steven Hicks Male - Age 18 Death: June 1978 |
 Steven Tuomi Male - Age 24 Death: September 1987 |
 James Doxtator Male - Age 14 Death: January 1988 |
 Richard Guerrero Male - Age 23 Death: March 1988 |
 Anthony Sears Male - Age 24 Death: Feb/Mar 1989 |
 Edward Smith Male - Age 28 Death: June 1990 |
 Raymond Smith Male - Age 33 Death: July 1990 |
 Ernest Miller Male - Age 22 Death: September 1990 |
 David Thomas Male - Age 23 Death: September 1990 |
 Curtis Straughter Male - Age 19 Death: February 1991 |
 Errol Lindsey Male - Age 19 Death: April 1991 |
 Anthony Hughes Male - Age 31 Death: May 1991 |
 Konerak Sinthasomphone Male - Age 14 Death: May 1991 |
 Matthew Turner Male - Age 20 Death: June 1991 |
 Jeremiah Weinberger Male - Age 23 Death: July 1991 |
 Oliver Lacy Male - Age 23 Death: July 1991 |
 Joseph Bradehoft Male - Age 25 Death: July 1991 |
"When I was a little kid, I was just like anybody else."
"I think in some way I wanted it to end, even if it meant my own destruction."
"I decided I wasn't ever going to get married because I never wanted to go through anything like that."
"Obviously my desires were beastly."
"I trained myself to view people as objects of potential pleasure instead of people."
"I carried it too far, that's for sure."
"Please tell the world I am sorry for what I have done."
"If I was killed in prison, that would be a blessing right now."
"I made my fantasy life more powerful than my real one."
"I really screwed up this time."
"It's just a nightmare, let's put it that way. It's been a nightmare for a long time, even before I was caught. For years now, obviously my mind has been filled with gruesome, horrible thoughts and ideas... a nightmare."
"I don't even know if I have the capacity for normal emotions or not because I haven't cried for a long time. You just stifle them for so long that maybe you lose them, partially at least. I don't know."
"I couldn't find any meaning in my life when I was out there. I'm sure as hell not going to find it in here. This is the grand finale of a life poorly spent and the end result is just overwhelmingly depressing. It's just a sick, pathetic, wretched, miserable life story, that's all it is. How it can help anyone, I've no idea."
"To relieve the minds of the parents... I mean, it's a small, very small thing, but I don't know what else I could do. At least I can do that... because I created this horror and it only makes sense that I do everything to put an end to it, a complete end to it."
"I don't know why it started. I don't have any definite answers on that myself. If I knew the true, real reasons why all this started, before it ever did, I wouldn't probably have done any of it."
"At about eleven o'clock at night, when everyone was gone and the store was locked up from the outside, I went out and undressed the mannequin and I had a big sleeping bag cover. I put it in that, zipped it up and carried it out of the store, which was a pretty dangerous thing to do. I never thought of them maybe having security cameras or being locked in the store, but I walked out with it and took it back home. I ended up getting a taxi and brought it back and kept it with me a couple of weeks. I just went through various sexual fantasies with it, pretending it was a real person, pretending that I was having sex with it, masturbating, and undressing it."
"One thing I know for sure. It was a definite compulsion because I couldn't quit. I tried, but after the Ambassador, I couldn't quit. It would be nice if someone could give the answer on a silver platter as to why I did all this and what caused it, because I can't come up with an answer."
"Am I just an extremely evil person or is it some kind of satanic influence, or what? I have no idea. I have no idea at all. Do you? Is it possible to be influenced by spirit beings? I know that sounds like an easy way to cop out and say that I couldn't help myself, but from all that the Bible says, there are forces that have a direct or indirect influence on people's behavior. The Bible calls him Satan. I suppose it's possible because it sure seems like some of the thoughts aren't my own, they just come blasting into my head� These thoughts are very powerful, very destructive, and they do not leave. They're not the kind of thoughts that you can just shake your head and they're gone. They do not leave."
"After the fear and terror of what I'd done had left, which took about a month or two, I started it all over again. From then on it was a craving, a hunger... I don't know how to describe it, a compulsion, and I just kept doing it, doing it and doing it, whenever the opportunity presented itself."
"I knew my grandma would be waking up and I still wanted him to stay with me so I strangled him. I brought him up to the bedroom and pretended he was still alive."
"It was nice, with African cichlids and tiger barbs in it and live plants, it was a beautifully kept fish tank, very clean. I used to like to just sit there and watch them swim around, basically. I used to enjoy the planning and the set-up, the filtration, read about how to keep the nitrate and ammonia down to safe levels and just the whole spectrum of fish-keeping interested me. I once saw some puffer fish in the store. It's a round fish, and the only ones I ever saw with both eyes in front, like a person's eyes, and they would come right up to the front of the glass and their eyes would be crystal blue, like a person's, real cute. It's a fun hobby. I really enjoyed that fish tank. It's something I really miss."
"I didn't want to keep killing people and have nothing left except the skull. This is going to sound bad, but... should I say it? I took the drill while he was asleep..."
"Yes, I do have remorse, but I'm not even sure myself whether it is as profound as it should be. I've always wondered myself why I don't feel more remorse."
"If I'd been thinking rationally I would have stopped. I wasn't thinking rationally because it just increased and increased. It was almost like I wanted to get to a point where it was out of my control and there was no return. I mean, I was very careful for years and years, you know. Very careful, very careful about making sure that nothing incriminating remained, but these last few months, they just went nuts... It just seemed like it went into a frenzy this last month. Everything really came crashing down. The whole thing started falling down around my head. That was the last week I was going to be in that apartment building. I was going to have to move out and find somewhere to put all my possessions. Should I get a chest and put what I wanted to keep in that, and get rid of the rest? Or should I put an end to this, try to stop this and find a better direction for my life? That's what was going through my mind that last week."
"Something stronger than my conscious will made it happen. I think some higher power got good and fed-up with my activity and decided to put an end to it. I don't really think there were any coincidences. The way it ended and whether the close calls were warning to me or what, I don't know. If they were, I sure didn't heed them. If I hadn't been caught or lost my job, I'd still be doing it, I'm quite sure of that. I went on doing it and doing it and doing it, in spite of my anxiety and the lack of lasting satisfaction. How arrogant and stupid of me to think that I could do something like this and just go about my life normally as if nothing ever happened. They say you reap what you sow, well, it's true, you do, eventually. I've always wondered, from the time that I committed that first horrid mistake, sin, with Hicks, whether this was sort of predestined and there was no way I could have changed it. I wonder just how much predestination controls a person's life and just how much control they have over themselves."
"I was completely swept along with my own compulsion. I don't know how else to put it. It didn't satisfy me completely so maybe I was thinking another one will. Maybe this one will, and the numbers started growing and growing and just got out of control, as you can see."
"It's just like a big chunk of me has been ripped out and I'm not quite whole. I don't think I'm over dramatizing it, and I'm certainly deserving of it, but the way I feel now, it's just like you're talking to someone who is terminally ill and facing death. Death would be preferable to what I am facing. I just feel like imploding upon myself, you know? I just want to go somewhere and disappear."
"When you've done the types of things I've done, it's easier not to reflect on yourself. When I start thinking about how it's affecting the families of the people, and my family and everything, it doesn't do me any good. It just gets me very upset."
"I still have guilt. I will probably never get rid of that, but yes, I'm free of the compulsion and the driving need to do it. I don't think I'm capable of creating anything. I think the only thing I'm capable of is destroying. I'm sick and tired of being destructive. What worth is life if you can't be helpful to someone?"
"I should have gone to college and gone into real estate and got myself an aquarium, that's what I should have done."
"Your Honor, it is over now. This has never been a case of trying to get free. I didn't ever want freedom. Frankly, I wanted death for myself. This has been a case to tell the world that I did not for reasons of hate, I hated no-one. I knew I was sick, evil or both. Now I believe I was sick. The doctors told me about my sickness and how much harm I have caused. I did my best to make amends after my arrest, but no matter what I did I could not undo the terrible harm i have caused. Thank you, your Honor now I am ready for your sentence, which I know will be the maximum, I ask for no consideration."
"I would cook it, and look at the pictures and masturbate." - Referring to parts of a corpse.
"...like arrows, shooting through my mind from out of the blue." - About his fantasies.
"Yep, she's lived in that house a long time." - When asked if he loved his grandmother.
"He just wants to make people feel as guilty and lousy as possible. The guy is such a prick." - His statement prior to the Geraldo Rivera Talk Show broadcast concerning his crimes.
"I wish I hadn't done it." - About victim Steven Hicks.
"I'd rather be talking about anything else in the world right now." - About victim Steven Hicks.
"That night in Ohio, that one impulsive night... nothing's been normal since then. It taints your whole life. After it happened I thought that I'd just try to live as normally as possible and bury it, but things like that don't stay buried. I didn't think it would, but it does, it taints your whole life." - About victim Steven Hicks.
"I was in college that day, thinking about Hicks. I was drinking and in a weepy sort of mood, and I cried about that." - About victim Steven Hicks.
"I had no intention of doing it in the first place." - About victim Steven Tuomi.
"I felt in complete shock. I just couldn't believe it happened again after all those years when I'd done nothing like this. I don't know what was going through my mind. I have no memory of it. I tried to dredge it up, but I have no memory whatsoever." - About victim Steven Tuomi.
"I took the knife and the scalp part off and peeled the flesh off the bone and kept the skull and the scalp. If I could have kept him longer, all of him, I would have." - About victim Anthony Sears.
"I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex for each one, put in the upper portion of the body and boiled that for about two hours and then the lower portion for another two hours. The Soilex removes all the flesh, turns it into a jelly-like like substance and it just rinses off. Then I laid the clean bones in a light bleach solution, left them there for a day and spread them out on either newspaper or cloth and let them dry for about a week in the bedroom." - About victim Ernest Miller.
"He was exceptionally affectionate. He was nice to be with." - About victim Jeremiah Weinberger.
 Dark Journey, Deep Grace Jeffrey Dahmer's Story of Faith Authors: Roy Ratcliff / Lindy Adams Pub. Year: 2006 |
 Dahmer's Not Dead Authors: Edward Lee / Elizabeth Steffen Pub. Year: 1999 |
 Of Men and Monsters Jeffrey Dahmer and the Construction of the Serial Killer Author: Richard Tithecott Pub. Year: 1999 |
 A Father's Story Author: Lionel Dahmer Pub. Year: 1995 |
 The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer Author: Brian Masters Pub. Year: 1993 |
 Jeffrey Dahmer Author: Dr. Joel Norris Pub. Year: 1992 |
 The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough Author: Anne E. Schwartz Pub. Year: 1992 |
 The Milwaukee Murders Nightmare in Apartment 213 Author: Don Davis Pub. Year: 1992 |
 Jeffery Dahmer An Unauthorized Biography of a Serial Killer Author: Hart D. Fisher Pub. Year: 1992 |
Incident, Homicide The Story of the Milwaukee Flesh-Eater Authors: Dennis Murphy / Patrick Kennedy Pub. Year: 1992 |
 The Jeffrey Dahmer Story An American Nightmare Author: Don Davis Pub. Year: 1991 |
 Massacre in Milwaukee Authors: Richard W. Jaeger / M. William Balousek Pub. Year: 1991 |
 Milwaukee Massacre Authors: Robert J. Dvorchak / Lisa Holewa Pub. Year: 1991 |
 Step Into My Parlor Author: Ed Baumann Pub. Year: 1991 |
 A&E - American Justice Dahmer: Mystery of a Serial Killer Genre: Documentary Release Year: 2000 |
 A&E - Biography Jeffrey Dahmer: The Monster Within Genre: Documentary Release Year: 2000 |
 A&E - Serial Killers Profiling the Criminal Mind Volume 2: Jeffrey Dahmer Genre: Documentary Release Year: 1999 |
 Court TV - Mugshots Jeffrey Dahmer Genre: Documentary Release Year: Unknown |
Court TV Wisconsin vs. Dahmer Beyond Evil: The Life and Crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer Genre: Documentary Release Year: Unknown |
 The History Channel 20th Century w/ Mike Wallace Born to Kill: Jeffrey Dahmer & Ted Bundy Genre: Documentary Release Year: 1998 |
The History Channel Great Crimes & Trials Heidnick and Dahmer Killers for Company Genre: Documentary Release Year: Unknown |
 NBC News Presents Inside Evil Serial Killers Jeffrey Dahmer & Son of Sam Genre: Documentary Release Year: 2006 |
 The Trial of Jeffrey Dahmer Genre: Documentary Release Year: 1996 |
 Raising Jeffrey Dahmer Genre: Movie Director: Rich Ambler Release Year: 2006 |
 Dahmer Genre: Movie Director: David Jacobson Release Year: 2002 |
 Jeffrey Dahmer The Secret Life Genre: Movie Director: David R. Bowen Release Year: 1993 |
