Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 - November 28, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender. Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occuring between 1987 and 1991. His murders involved rape, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism.
Dahmer's early childhood was by all accounts normal, but he grew increasingly withdrawn and uncommunicative between the age of 10 and 15, showing little interest in any hobbies or social interactions. Dahmer began drinking in his teens and was an alcoholic by the time of his high school graduation.
Jeffrey Dahmer committed his first murder in the summer of 1978, at age of 18. Dahmer were left behind by his family members. That June, Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks and offered to drink beer with him back at his father's house, planning to eventually have sex with him. When Hicks tried to leave, Dahmer bludgeoned Hicks to death with a 10 lb dumbell, striking the back of his head, later saying he had committed the crime because "the guy wanted to leave and he didn't want him to". Dahmer buried the body in the backyard.
Nine years passed before he killed again, in September 1987, Dahmer picked up 26-year-old Steven Tuomi at a bar and killed him on impulse, he later said he had no memory of committing the crime. After the Tuomi murder, Dahmer continued to kill sporadically: two more murders in 1988, and another in early 1989, usually picking up his victims in gay bars and having sex with them before killing them. He kept the skull of one of his victims, Anthony Sears, until he was caught.
In 1982, Dahmer moved in with his grandmother in West Allis, where he lived for six years. During this time, his behavior grew increasingly strange. His grandmother once found a fully dressed male mannequin in his closet.
In summer 1988, Dahmer's grandmother asked him to move out because of his late nights, his strange behavior, and the foul smell from the basement. On September 26, 1988, one day after moving into his apartment, he was arrested for drugging and sexually fondling a 13-year-old boy in Milwaukee named Somsack Sinthasomphone. Dahmer picked up the pace of his killing: four more murders before the end of 1990, two more in February and April 1991, and another in May 1991.
In the early morning hours of May 27, 1991, 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone (by coincidence, the younger brother of the boy whom Dahmer had molested) was discovered on the street, wandering naked, heavily under the influence of drugs and bleeding from his rectum. Dahmer told police that Sinthasimphone was his 19-year-old boyfriend, and that they had an argument while drinking. Dahmer killed and dismembered Sinthasomphone, keeping his skull as a souvenir.
By summer 1991, Dahmer was murdering approximately one person each week. Dahmer got the idea that he could turn his victims into Zombies - completely submissive, eternally youthful sexual partners - and attempted to do so by drilling holes into their skulls and injecting hydrochloric acid or boiling water into the frontal lobe area of their brains with a large syringe, while the victim was usually still alive.
He was sentenced to five years probation and one year in a work release camp. He was required to register as a sex offender. Dahmer was paroled from the work release camp two months early, and he soon moved into a new apartment. Shortly thereafter, he began a string of murders that ended with his arrest in 1991. On November 28, 1994, he was beaten to death by an inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution, where he had been incarcerated.
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