Jeffrey Dahmer, the Milwaukee cannibal

When Jeffrey Dahmer was stopped for the first time at a police checkpoint, they did not imagine that behind that attractive, educated demeanor and with a certain personal charm, a dangerous serial killer was hiding. Plus a cannibal.

That day, in the trunk of his car he was carrying remains of one of his victims. The mistake was letting him go, only imposing a fine for speeding.. This negligence would cost the lives of 16 other men. It was the beginning of an unparalleled necrophilic orgy.

Childhood and adolescence

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960, in Milwaukee, into a middle-class family. As he would declare on numerous occasions, In his childhood there were no unusual events that justified what he would become.. There was no mistreatment, nor sexual abuse, as in other cases, for example, that of Ed Kemper.

Jeffrey was always a shy and lonely boy., who had a hard time relating to other children. He loved animals, but as time went by he would become fond of dissecting dead animals “to see what they were like inside.”

Abnormal recurring fantasies

In Bath (Ohio), the town in which he spent his adolescence, homosexuality was taboo. At this time, Jeffrey began to become aware of his sexual inclination towards men, but the problem was that among her fantasies, the men were immobile, unconscious, etc. Besides, had established an association between violence and sexwhich would mark their future behavior and actions.

Jeffrey was aware that these types of thoughts were not normal, so started drinking large amounts of alcohol, which caused his expulsion from the university and the army (he had enlisted at the direction of his father). His impulses were too strong, so neither alcohol nor the mannequins, which he kept in the closet to simulate inert people, were able to appease them.

Little by little his great fantasy matured in which he had a submissive lover. Aware that he could not achieve this consensually, and expanding his fantasy, he set out to capture a man to take to his house, drug him, kill him, have sexual relations with the corpse (necrophilia) and eat parts of it.

A cannibal is on the loose

So he did. Proof of this are the photographs that the police found in his apartment about different phases of the process of dismembering corpses that he carried out. For this reason he would be called, in the future, the “cannibal or butcher of Milwaukee.”

He committed his first murder when he was 18 years old., when he was left alone in the family home for weeks. She picked up Steven Hicks on a highway and took him home. There they drank and used substances, but when Steven wanted to leave the house, Jeffrey stopped him by hitting him with a weight bar. The next day, she dismembered his body and disposed of it.

Eight years later, He would commit his second murder in a hotel room. He had met Steven Toumi at a local bar, and after slipping sleeping pills into his drink to knock him unconscious, Jeffrey came across Steven’s body the next morning. In this case, he always claimed not to remember what had happened that night. He then boned the corpse and kept the skull as a souvenir.

The following would be: two in 1988, one in 1989, four in 1990 and eight in 1991, until he was arrested. He used to save objects and body parts of his victims, to masturbate while remembering the murders. In several interviews granted, he confessed that he ate parts of the bodies of his victims “so that they became part of him.”

They could have caught him more than once

There were several occasions in which he had contact with the police, but it was never a cause for suspicion. On one occasion, after drugging and sexually abusing one of his victims, Konerak Sinthasomphone, a 14-year-old Laotian, decided to go to a bar for drinks.

While Jeffrey was at the bar, Konerak, still dazed, regained consciousness and managed to leave the apartment. The cannibal had made a trepanation, a hole in his head with a drill and had poured acid directly into his brain (among the fantasies he was incorporating was that of recovering those victims alive to keep them by his side as zombies) .

When Jeffrey was about to return to his apartment, he found the boy naked and sitting on the sidewalk, barely able to pronounce words. He was surrounded by police officers amazed at the situation before them. Jeffrey approached and managed to convince the agents that she was his mistress and he was drunk. They believed him, and not only that, they also helped him take him back to his apartment.

Perhaps if they had paid more attention to the stench in the apartment (which was recorded in the subsequent inspection report), or had entered the apartment, they could have seen that there was already a body in the bedroom. In the end, Konerak was at the mercy of his executioner, who strangled him minutes later.

A hunted cannibal

The victims who escaped Jeffrey’s clutches after suffering sexual abuse were not one or two, there were several. When the victims came to report what had happened, the police were not interested. In this way, Jeffrey showed a certain condescension to the escapes of his prey, since they did not cause him many problems.

But in July 1991, Tracy Edwards, who had been handcuffed by Jeffrey, managed to escape from his apartment and flag down a nearby police cruiser. When they proceeded to search the apartment, they did not know the magnitude of the discovery.

They discovered photographs of eviscerations and human remains of eleven people. Jeffrey hid heads in the refrigerator, organs in the freezer, skulls in the closets, blood on the walls and a drum of 215 books with acid and three decomposing human torsos.

After this discovery, an enormous upheaval took place in American society. The most disturbing thing was that All of these murders had taken place in the most absolute anonymity and popular indifference.since no one had missed his victims, which further complicated Jeffrey’s possible relationship with such crimes.

Condemnation and death

Jeffrey pleaded guilty of the seventeen murders, the evidence against him was indefensible. The question that was raised the most during the trial was whether Jeffrey suffered from some type of mental disorder or not. The defense did not have it easy, since Jeffrey had given sufficient evidence of knowing perfectly what he was doing, as well as the legal or moral implications of his actions.

By ten votes to two, In 1992 it was found guilty without insanity and sentenced to 937 years in prison. She gave several interviews of great forensic value.

Robert Ressler, who once coined the term serial killer, collects in his book inside the monster an extensive interview with Jeffrey as a result of a defense request for him to testify during the trial. Ressler argued that a person with such impulses should not go to prison, but to a psychiatric hospital.

Finally, on November 28, 1994, Christopher Scarver murdered him. According to Biography, Dahmer was assigned to perform his day-to-day duties alongside Scarver and Jesse Anderson. When the officers left them alone, Scraver killed them with a metal gym bar.

In an interview with the New York Post, Scarver explained that he ended Dahmer’s life not only because of his crimes, but also because He made limbs out of food to make fun of the other inmates.. Furthermore: «he crossed the line with some people: prisoners, prison staff. “Some people who are in prison are sorry, but he was not one of them,” he said.

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