1 00:00:02,929 --> 00:00:04,072 The crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer 2 00:00:04,072 --> 00:00:08,084 made the world cringe. 3 00:00:08,084 --> 00:00:12,076 Seventeen murders 4 00:00:12,076 --> 00:00:16,023 Cannibalism 5 00:00:16,023 --> 00:00:18,013 Sex with the dead. 6 00:00:18,013 --> 00:00:21,007 A man who made is Milwaukee apartment 7 00:00:21,007 --> 00:00:24,064 into a violent and neurotic death chamber. 8 00:00:24,064 --> 00:00:26,005 "One thing led to another 9 00:00:26,005 --> 00:00:29,016 it took more and more deviant type 10 00:00:29,016 --> 00:00:30,085 of behaviors to satisfy 11 00:00:30,085 --> 00:00:35,096 My urges." 12 00:00:35,096 --> 00:00:37,073 Dahmer even tried to create living 13 00:00:37,073 --> 00:00:43,041 sex zombies by injecting acid into their brains. 14 00:00:43,041 --> 00:00:45,088 Jeffrey Dahmer it seemed, was a close to 15 00:00:45,088 --> 00:00:48,095 raw evil as the world had ever known. 16 00:00:48,095 --> 00:00:51,076 "Jeffrey thought he was the devil, 17 00:00:51,076 --> 00:00:52,969 Jeffrey thought he was so evil 18 00:00:52,969 --> 00:01:01,014 that he was equal to the devil." 19 00:01:01,014 --> 00:01:06,097 (music) 20 00:01:06,097 --> 00:01:09,045 The first child of Joyce and Lionel Dahmer 21 00:01:09,045 --> 00:01:11,029 was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin 22 00:01:11,029 --> 00:01:15,009 on May 21st, 1960, just before their first 23 00:01:15,009 --> 00:01:17,007 anniversary. His name was Jeffrey. 24 00:01:17,007 --> 00:01:20,007 "It was a very happy when Jeff 25 00:01:20,007 --> 00:01:22,007 was first born and for a couple of 26 00:01:22,007 --> 00:01:26,084 months it was like everything was brand new 27 00:01:26,084 --> 00:01:32,009 and very, very um enjoyable and happy. 28 00:01:32,009 --> 00:01:33,659 Looking forward to the future." 29 00:01:33,659 --> 00:01:36,089 While Jeff's father pursued his chemistry degree, 30 00:01:36,089 --> 00:01:39,053 Jeff grew into a bright and loving child. 31 00:01:39,053 --> 00:01:41,035 "He was very exuberant, he liked to wrestle. 32 00:01:41,035 --> 00:01:46,439 He liked to run around and ham it up for the camera. 33 00:01:46,439 --> 00:01:49,088 And he liked to play with kids, 34 00:01:49,088 --> 00:01:52,063 liked to get together with them. 35 00:01:52,063 --> 00:01:53,095 He was very outgoing." 36 00:01:53,095 --> 00:01:57,000 Jeff was also a very curious child. 37 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,013 "He seemed to want to play with things 38 00:01:59,013 --> 00:02:01,799 and feel things and get to know their 39 00:02:01,799 --> 00:02:05,078 texture and he seemed to be very in tuned 40 00:02:05,078 --> 00:02:07,064 with what's around him. He just wanted 41 00:02:07,064 --> 00:02:09,289 to know what was going on." 42 00:02:09,289 --> 00:02:11,065 He had a fascination with animals 43 00:02:11,065 --> 00:02:14,169 as a youngster. Once, 4 year old 44 00:02:14,169 --> 00:02:16,159 Jeff watched his father collect the bones 45 00:02:16,159 --> 00:02:18,087 of small animals that had died under the house. 46 00:02:18,087 --> 00:02:21,709 "I had brought them out, put them in a metal 47 00:02:21,709 --> 00:02:24,629 pail just to collect them all in one place, 48 00:02:24,629 --> 00:02:26,073 and they had dropped in with sort of clanky 49 00:02:26,073 --> 00:02:29,379 noise and Jeff seemed sort of interested 50 00:02:29,379 --> 00:02:32,109 in that noise and he took a whole and let 51 00:02:32,109 --> 00:02:33,559 them drop too. 52 00:02:33,559 --> 00:02:36,129 You know, in retrospect, everything 53 00:02:36,129 --> 00:02:38,019 looks grim and dark and sinister, 54 00:02:38,019 --> 00:02:40,029 like you know could that be the start of 55 00:02:40,029 --> 00:02:42,809 something evil. Well, I have to admit, 56 00:02:42,809 --> 00:02:50,769 it's simply just the curiosity of a child." 57 00:02:50,769 --> 00:02:53,018 Lionel finished his schooling with a PhD 58 00:02:53,018 --> 00:02:56,037 in chemistry. The family moved to Ohio, 59 00:02:56,037 --> 00:02:58,639 relocating 3 times before settling down 60 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,959 on a nearly 2 acre wooden lot in the town 61 00:03:01,959 --> 00:03:05,209 of Bath, an hours drive south of Cleveland. 62 00:03:05,209 --> 00:03:07,939 It was then that Lionel began to notice 63 00:03:07,939 --> 00:03:10,051 the previously gregarious Jeff 64 00:03:10,051 --> 00:03:13,029 had become shy and withdrawn. 65 00:03:13,029 --> 00:03:15,949 "He did seem to be awkward socially 66 00:03:15,949 --> 00:03:19,065 and just didn't feel comfortable." 67 00:03:19,065 --> 00:03:22,009 To take his mind off of the move, 68 00:03:22,009 --> 00:03:26,279 7 year Jeff was given a dog, Frisky, 69 00:03:26,279 --> 00:03:27,029 who he loved dearly. 70 00:03:27,029 --> 00:03:30,919 "With the people he new, or his new pet, 71 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,409 um the next door neighbor boy, he was very relaxed 72 00:03:34,409 --> 00:03:37,029 but there was this shyness and feeling of 73 00:03:37,029 --> 00:03:41,549 inferiority that we were concerned about at that time." 74 00:03:41,549 --> 00:03:43,409 What the Dahmer's thought their son needed 75 00:03:43,409 --> 00:03:45,629 was to feel more involved, so they let 76 00:03:45,629 --> 00:03:48,809 Jeff choose the name of their second son, 77 00:03:48,809 --> 00:03:53,479 Jeff named his brother David. 78 00:03:53,479 --> 00:03:55,309 Lionel also encouraged his son to 79 00:03:55,309 --> 00:03:57,719 participate in activities that would include 80 00:03:57,719 --> 00:03:59,459 contact with other kids. 81 00:03:59,459 --> 00:04:01,809 "What we were trying to do was involve 82 00:04:01,809 --> 00:04:04,579 Jeff in those activities with the thought 83 00:04:04,579 --> 00:04:08,599 that involvement would lead to human involvement, 84 00:04:08,599 --> 00:04:10,959 forced almost, interaction." 85 00:04:10,959 --> 00:04:13,469 And on the weekends, father and son planted 86 00:04:13,469 --> 00:04:16,109 gardens and raised sheep for competitions 87 00:04:16,109 --> 00:04:17,799 at 4H fairs. 88 00:04:17,799 --> 00:04:20,031 To commemorate their gardening days, 89 00:04:20,031 --> 00:04:22,659 young Jeff gave his father a handmade card 90 00:04:22,659 --> 00:04:23,078 with a poem. 91 00:04:23,078 --> 00:04:25,419 "There's a picture of me eating 92 00:04:25,419 --> 00:04:27,008 an ear of corn on the front, and Jeff 93 00:04:27,008 --> 00:04:30,028 says 'the squash and the pumpkins 94 00:04:30,028 --> 00:04:33,034 can never compare to the dad that has curly 95 00:04:33,034 --> 00:04:36,000 hair.' and it says 'this poem is from Jeff 96 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,084 and I love you to death.'" 97 00:04:38,084 --> 00:04:41,379 When Jeff was 10, his mother was hospitalized 98 00:04:41,379 --> 00:04:43,036 and treated for anxiety. 99 00:04:43,036 --> 00:04:47,087 From their, his parents marriage began to fail. 100 00:04:47,087 --> 00:04:49,059 Jeff's fascination with nature and 101 00:04:49,059 --> 00:04:52,053 small animals continued into his teenage years 102 00:04:52,053 --> 00:04:54,053 where he became curious about what they 103 00:04:54,053 --> 00:04:56,043 looked like on the inside. 104 00:04:56,043 --> 00:05:00,189 For specimens, he collected road kill, 105 00:05:00,189 --> 00:05:02,004 riding around the country roads in Bath 106 00:05:02,004 --> 00:05:04,729 carrying garbage bags, Jeff searched 107 00:05:04,729 --> 00:05:07,046 for carcasses. Jeff brought road kill 108 00:05:07,046 --> 00:05:10,018 he found into the backyard of the house, 109 00:05:10,018 --> 00:05:12,065 and there in the secrecy of the woods, 110 00:05:12,065 --> 00:05:14,009 he dissected the animals. 111 00:05:14,009 --> 00:05:17,229 "I really have become convinced 112 00:05:17,229 --> 00:05:20,319 that was the starting point of this downward 113 00:05:20,319 --> 00:05:25,052 spiral of his. And it was associated 114 00:05:25,052 --> 00:05:28,419 with just puberty, and when you have 115 00:05:28,419 --> 00:05:31,025 hormones kicking into this, this 116 00:05:31,025 --> 00:05:33,949 terrible mixture, what he's doing, 117 00:05:33,949 --> 00:05:36,689 he's investigating insides of animals, 118 00:05:36,689 --> 00:05:42,449 and his sexuality was developing at the same time." 119 00:05:42,449 --> 00:05:44,002 Teenage Jeff was discovering that he 120 00:05:44,002 --> 00:05:46,083 felt sexually attracted only to men, 121 00:05:46,083 --> 00:05:49,024 but the thoughts with sex with men 122 00:05:49,024 --> 00:05:51,729 became interlocked with fantasies of killing 123 00:05:51,729 --> 00:05:53,969 another men and dismemberment. 124 00:05:53,969 --> 00:05:57,409 The fantasies excited him, but were unspeakable. 125 00:05:57,409 --> 00:06:02,879 "I think it was around age 14 or 15 126 00:06:02,879 --> 00:06:06,949 I started to have obsessive thoughts 127 00:06:06,949 --> 00:06:15,037 of violence, intermingled with sex 128 00:06:15,037 --> 00:06:17,539 and it just got worse and worse, 129 00:06:17,539 --> 00:06:20,129 I didn't know how to tell anyone about it, 130 00:06:20,129 --> 00:06:23,011 so I didn't, I just kept it all inside." 131 00:06:23,011 --> 00:06:25,669 The fantasies included lying next to 132 00:06:25,669 --> 00:06:28,689 an unconscious man, for the first time, 133 00:06:28,689 --> 00:06:30,449 Jeff's fantasies crossed the line 134 00:06:30,449 --> 00:06:32,077 from his mind into action. 135 00:06:32,077 --> 00:06:34,229 He devised a plan, 136 00:06:34,229 --> 00:06:37,199 he would knock out a local jogger with a bat 137 00:06:37,199 --> 00:06:39,419 and lie next to him. 138 00:06:39,419 --> 00:06:41,889 On the day he opted to wait for his victim, 139 00:06:41,889 --> 00:06:44,199 the jogger didn't run by, 140 00:06:44,199 --> 00:06:48,439 he never attempted the clubbing a second time. 141 00:06:48,439 --> 00:06:49,059 As he entered high school, 142 00:06:49,059 --> 00:06:53,027 his sexual fantasies traumatized him. 143 00:06:53,027 --> 00:06:56,099 He began drinking. On the way to classes 144 00:06:56,099 --> 00:06:57,969 in the morning, he would fill a cup 145 00:06:57,969 --> 00:07:00,008 with hard liquor at a friend's house. 146 00:07:00,008 --> 00:07:01,099 "And I remember sitting next to him in 147 00:07:01,099 --> 00:07:06,189 um, first period, I believe history class, 148 00:07:06,189 --> 00:07:10,749 and he had a Styrofoam cup of scotch I believe. 149 00:07:10,749 --> 00:07:13,219 I remember saying, 'Jeff what is that?' and he 150 00:07:13,219 --> 00:07:16,059 threw his head back and he said, 'It's my medicine." 151 00:07:16,059 --> 00:07:21,008 But clearly, he was getting drunk at 8 o'clock 152 00:07:21,008 --> 00:07:22,889 in the morning." 153 00:07:22,889 --> 00:07:25,029 At home, Jeff was watching his parents 154 00:07:25,029 --> 00:07:27,081 marriage dissolve. When their bickering 155 00:07:27,081 --> 00:07:30,849 escalated to open fighting, he retreated 156 00:07:30,849 --> 00:07:33,065 to the forested backyard, slapping tree trunk 157 00:07:33,065 --> 00:07:34,529 with sticks. 158 00:07:34,529 --> 00:07:36,779 "I would leave the house, run out 159 00:07:36,779 --> 00:07:41,139 in the woods and sulk, wondering 160 00:07:41,139 --> 00:07:44,008 why they had to have such a rough relationship." 161 00:07:44,008 --> 00:07:47,389 He remained aloof with few interests and 162 00:07:47,389 --> 00:07:49,002 no close friendships. 163 00:07:49,002 --> 00:07:51,689 But he still seemed to have a sense of humor. 164 00:07:51,689 --> 00:07:53,169 On the high school tennis team, 165 00:07:53,169 --> 00:07:55,659 Jeff spent most of his time goofing around 166 00:07:55,659 --> 00:07:58,749 rather than playing a serious game. 167 00:07:58,749 --> 00:08:00,629 But more often than not, the jokes where 168 00:08:00,629 --> 00:08:04,061 at Jeff's expense. He gained a reputation 169 00:08:04,061 --> 00:08:07,499 as the class clown, acting out in a 170 00:08:07,499 --> 00:08:11,139 bizarre or unexpected manner became known 171 00:08:11,139 --> 00:08:11,909 as "doing a Dahmer." 172 00:08:11,909 --> 00:08:13,499 "All of a sudden you would be walking down 173 00:08:13,499 --> 00:08:15,046 the hall, and you would hear someone 174 00:08:15,046 --> 00:08:16,008 yelling or and hollering and running 175 00:08:16,008 --> 00:08:19,009 through the hallway and it's Jeff Dahmer 176 00:08:19,009 --> 00:08:20,169 in the middle of the day, 177 00:08:20,169 --> 00:08:22,071 running, flapping his arms, yelling 178 00:08:22,071 --> 00:08:25,729 'Hurrican drill, hurricane drill, everybody hide.' 179 00:08:25,729 --> 00:08:28,189 At one point, Jeff collected money from 180 00:08:28,189 --> 00:08:31,034 classmates in exchange for a show at the mall. 181 00:08:31,034 --> 00:08:33,002 "And a woman is handing out samples of 182 00:08:33,002 --> 00:08:36,169 sunflower seeds, and Jeff is taking one 183 00:08:36,169 --> 00:08:37,076 and then another and then another, 184 00:08:37,076 --> 00:08:40,019 being very polite as he always was, 185 00:08:40,019 --> 00:08:42,949 and then just spits them out all over the place, 186 00:08:42,949 --> 00:08:46,094 and starts yelling at the top of his lungs 187 00:08:46,094 --> 00:08:48,036 'I'm allergic, I'm alleric!' and runs away." 188 00:08:48,036 --> 00:08:51,097 During his junior high, Jeff went along 189 00:08:51,097 --> 00:08:55,003 on a school sponsored trip to Washington D.C. 190 00:08:55,003 --> 00:08:59,035 "And Jeff said, 'I have an idea, let's go 191 00:08:59,035 --> 00:09:02,061 see the Vice President.' And we all sort 192 00:09:02,061 --> 00:09:05,026 of laughed and said sure, the Vice President." 193 00:09:05,026 --> 00:09:07,649 Jeff went to a payphone, when he returned, 194 00:09:07,649 --> 00:09:09,032 he announced that they would be seen in the 195 00:09:09,032 --> 00:09:13,024 office of Vice President Walter Mondale in 2 hours. 196 00:09:13,024 --> 00:09:15,006 "He has explained that we were high school 197 00:09:15,006 --> 00:09:18,082 students from Ohio, working on our school newspaper, 198 00:09:18,082 --> 00:09:20,082 and we were in town for a week and could 199 00:09:20,082 --> 00:09:23,076 we come and talk to someone in the Vice President's office." 200 00:09:23,076 --> 00:09:26,038 His slick talking worked. Dahmer had 201 00:09:26,038 --> 00:09:28,099 gotten his classmates inside the executive 202 00:09:28,099 --> 00:09:32,055 office building to meet with Mondale. 203 00:09:32,055 --> 00:09:34,036 In the classroom, Jeff was something 204 00:09:34,036 --> 00:09:35,076 of a model student. 205 00:09:35,076 --> 00:09:39,019 "Very polite to adults, dressed very nice, 206 00:09:39,019 --> 00:09:42,005 very respectful to teachers, um 207 00:09:42,005 --> 00:09:43,044 did his work, he could be an "A" student 208 00:09:43,044 --> 00:09:46,038 if he wanted to. Other times he would fail the 209 00:09:46,038 --> 00:09:48,038 class because he had no interest. 210 00:09:48,038 --> 00:09:52,329 He could be very polite with very good manners, 211 00:09:52,329 --> 00:09:57,013 'Yes sir, no sir' when he spoke with teachers." 212 00:09:57,013 --> 00:09:59,024 He was perfecting his ability to fool 213 00:09:59,024 --> 00:10:02,019 authority figures, but as time went on, 214 00:10:02,019 --> 00:10:04,579 Jeff became less interested with his 215 00:10:04,579 --> 00:10:06,011 performance at school. 216 00:10:06,011 --> 00:10:08,085 "No one really knew what was going on in his mind, 217 00:10:08,085 --> 00:10:10,589 he didn't really open up to anybody 218 00:10:10,589 --> 00:10:13,047 he didn't have any close friends, 219 00:10:13,047 --> 00:10:18,011 and he had really slipped away from his 220 00:10:18,011 --> 00:10:22,089 social life. The older we got in high school." 221 00:10:22,089 --> 00:10:24,082 At the school near Bath, Ohio, Jeff 222 00:10:24,082 --> 00:10:27,000 remained an alcoholic outcast, 223 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,009 his behavior was the subject of mockery 224 00:10:29,009 --> 00:10:30,038 from other students. 225 00:10:30,038 --> 00:10:32,036 "I don't think he connected, you know 226 00:10:32,036 --> 00:10:34,339 he didn't engage with people. 227 00:10:34,339 --> 00:10:37,589 So if you don't engage with people, 228 00:10:37,589 --> 00:10:41,049 you um, you know, give and take of conversation 229 00:10:41,049 --> 00:10:47,029 and feelings, you end up internalizing a lot 230 00:10:47,029 --> 00:10:53,022 you fantasize a lot and then the next step 231 00:10:53,022 --> 00:10:56,459 is to think that some of those fantasies are real." 232 00:10:56,459 --> 00:10:59,041 A step Jeff was ready to make, 233 00:10:59,041 --> 00:11:03,089 he would kill his first victim just after 234 00:11:03,089 --> 00:11:07,003 high school graduation. 235 00:11:07,003 --> 00:11:10,399 For Jeffrey Dahmer, the summer of 1978 236 00:11:10,399 --> 00:11:13,098 started with high school graduation. 237 00:11:13,098 --> 00:11:18,036 It would be down hill from there. 238 00:11:18,036 --> 00:11:20,959 His parents, after years of open and bitter 239 00:11:20,959 --> 00:11:22,709 fighting, divorced. 240 00:11:22,709 --> 00:11:25,004 Jeffrey's father, Lionel, moved out of the family's house 241 00:11:25,004 --> 00:11:28,041 in Bath and into this nearby motel 242 00:11:28,041 --> 00:11:30,006 unbeknownst to Lionel, Jeff's mother 243 00:11:30,006 --> 00:11:34,023 took younger brother David and moved to Wisconsin. 244 00:11:34,023 --> 00:11:40,003 Jeffrey found himself home lone. 245 00:11:40,003 --> 00:11:43,003 Jeffrey was 18, and like most teens his age, 246 00:11:43,003 --> 00:11:45,067 he had active sexual fantasies. 247 00:11:45,067 --> 00:11:47,709 But Jeffrey's deviated from the norm 248 00:11:47,709 --> 00:11:50,008 to include thoughts of killing his lover. 249 00:11:50,008 --> 00:11:53,048 Now the isolation of the empty family home 250 00:11:53,048 --> 00:11:59,022 gave him the opportunity to act out those fantasies. 251 00:11:59,022 --> 00:12:01,139 Just weeks after graduation, 252 00:12:01,139 --> 00:12:03,069 Jeffrey picked up a hitch hiker along the road. 253 00:12:03,069 --> 00:12:06,209 It was 18 year old Steven Hicks. 254 00:12:06,209 --> 00:12:09,022 "I wish I had just kept going, but I didn't. 255 00:12:09,022 --> 00:12:14,091 I turned around, picked up him, and 256 00:12:14,091 --> 00:12:17,074 that's when, that's when the nightmare 257 00:12:17,074 --> 00:12:20,329 became a reality." 258 00:12:20,329 --> 00:12:22,037 Jeffrey invited Hicks back to the house 259 00:12:22,037 --> 00:12:24,041 they drank beers, and spent a couple of hours 260 00:12:24,041 --> 00:12:26,042 just hanging out. 261 00:12:26,042 --> 00:12:29,005 Then Hicks said he had to go, but Jeffrey 262 00:12:29,005 --> 00:12:32,042 didn't want to be alone. 263 00:12:32,042 --> 00:12:33,098 He attacked Hicks, knocking him out 264 00:12:33,098 --> 00:12:39,061 with a barbell, and then he strangled him. 265 00:12:39,061 --> 00:12:41,959 Dahmer had fulfilled his fantasy, 266 00:12:41,959 --> 00:12:43,085 but he was lucid enough to know he 267 00:12:43,085 --> 00:12:46,005 had committed a murder. He quickly began 268 00:12:46,005 --> 00:12:47,449 to hide the evidence. 269 00:12:47,449 --> 00:12:49,639 He dismembered Hicks' body with a knife, 270 00:12:49,639 --> 00:12:51,829 a skill he had practiced as a younger teen 271 00:12:51,829 --> 00:12:52,091 with roadkill. 272 00:12:52,091 --> 00:12:55,001 He put the pieces into trash bags, 273 00:12:55,001 --> 00:12:59,199 and loaded them into his car in the middle of the night. 274 00:12:59,199 --> 00:13:00,699 He was heading for a dump site 275 00:13:00,699 --> 00:13:02,036 when he was pulled over by the police 276 00:13:02,036 --> 00:13:05,012 for drifting over the center line. 277 00:13:05,012 --> 00:13:07,016 The officer asked Jeff what was in the bags 278 00:13:07,016 --> 00:13:09,389 and why was he out so late. 279 00:13:09,389 --> 00:13:11,006 Jeff was trapped for the first time, 280 00:13:11,006 --> 00:13:13,061 but he was ready with a lie. 281 00:13:13,061 --> 00:13:16,000 He cooly told the cops that he was troubled 282 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,008 by his parents' divorce and couldn't sleep. 283 00:13:18,008 --> 00:13:20,339 So he thought a trip to the dump would 284 00:13:20,339 --> 00:13:22,073 take his mind off of things. 285 00:13:22,073 --> 00:13:26,001 The police let him go with a ticket. 286 00:13:26,001 --> 00:13:28,047 Jeffrey turned home, racked with guilt 287 00:13:28,047 --> 00:13:31,259 over the murder. He stashed the bones 288 00:13:31,259 --> 00:13:34,089 of Steven Hicks under the house for 2 weeks. 289 00:13:34,089 --> 00:13:37,005 Then he smashed them to bits with a sledge hammer. 290 00:13:37,005 --> 00:13:40,097 Behind the house, Jeff spun in a circle, 291 00:13:40,097 --> 00:13:45,079 tossing the fragments among the leaves and brush. 292 00:13:45,079 --> 00:13:48,069 In August, Jeffrey's father stopped by the house. 293 00:13:48,069 --> 00:13:52,056 "I said, 'where is your mother? Where's 294 00:13:52,056 --> 00:13:55,019 Dave?' and he said 'they're gone.' 295 00:13:55,019 --> 00:13:59,009 I said, 'what do you mean?' 'They're gone 296 00:13:59,009 --> 00:14:00,009 they left.' 297 00:14:00,009 --> 00:14:02,069 Jeff's father moved back into the house 298 00:14:02,069 --> 00:14:04,779 he encouraged Jeff to find a job. 299 00:14:04,779 --> 00:14:06,098 But Jeff wasn't interested. 300 00:14:06,098 --> 00:14:08,094 He spent his days drinking, 301 00:14:08,094 --> 00:14:10,079 even getting himself arrested for 302 00:14:10,079 --> 00:14:12,042 public intoxication. 303 00:14:12,042 --> 00:14:15,061 Lionel took his son to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings 304 00:14:15,061 --> 00:14:17,509 and psychological counseling sessions. 305 00:14:17,509 --> 00:14:19,889 They had little impact. 306 00:14:19,889 --> 00:14:22,459 Nothing could erase the violence and terror 307 00:14:22,459 --> 00:14:25,629 his first murder had imprinted on his mind. 308 00:14:25,629 --> 00:14:29,579 Only the alcohol seemed to provide relief. 309 00:14:29,579 --> 00:14:30,098 By the end of the summer, 310 00:14:30,098 --> 00:14:32,269 Jeff was still jobless, 311 00:14:32,269 --> 00:14:34,023 so Lionel suggested an alternative 312 00:14:34,023 --> 00:14:35,019 college. 313 00:14:35,019 --> 00:14:38,259 He enrolled Jeff at Ohio State. 314 00:14:38,259 --> 00:14:41,035 But Jeff spent the first quarter in 315 00:14:41,035 --> 00:14:43,829 a drunken state, selling his blood 316 00:14:43,829 --> 00:14:46,209 to plasma centers and spending the money 317 00:14:46,209 --> 00:14:47,839 on beer. 318 00:14:47,839 --> 00:14:50,519 Predictably, Dahmer flunked out and 319 00:14:50,519 --> 00:14:51,069 returned home 320 00:14:51,069 --> 00:14:53,639 "I said, Jeff the doors are closing 321 00:14:53,639 --> 00:14:59,044 um, I think perhaps the armed services 322 00:14:59,044 --> 00:15:04,043 might be something that you need." 323 00:15:04,043 --> 00:15:06,269 Like all the other choices that had been 324 00:15:06,269 --> 00:15:09,149 made for him, Jeff passively went along 325 00:15:09,149 --> 00:15:10,081 with his enlistment. 326 00:15:10,081 --> 00:15:12,389 After his basic training was complete, 327 00:15:12,389 --> 00:15:15,017 he left for an army hospital in San Antonio 328 00:15:15,017 --> 00:15:17,041 Texas, where he was given specialized 329 00:15:17,041 --> 00:15:19,092 instruction as a field medic. 330 00:15:19,092 --> 00:15:22,379 There, Dahmer learned more about 331 00:15:22,379 --> 00:15:23,079 human anatomy. 332 00:15:23,079 --> 00:15:25,093 For one of the first times in his life, 333 00:15:25,093 --> 00:15:28,035 he was excited about what he was doing, 334 00:15:28,035 --> 00:15:31,519 responding to instruction and discipline. 335 00:15:31,519 --> 00:15:32,097 After 6 months in the Army, 336 00:15:32,097 --> 00:15:36,024 his sluggish body had become lean and strong. 337 00:15:36,024 --> 00:15:38,066 Normally shy and reclusive, 338 00:15:38,066 --> 00:15:41,379 Jeff became outgoing, even smiling. 339 00:15:41,379 --> 00:15:44,199 But the mood swing was temporary. 340 00:15:44,199 --> 00:15:46,017 The Army sent him for a tour of duty 341 00:15:46,017 --> 00:15:48,689 in Germany, and there once again, 342 00:15:48,689 --> 00:15:50,879 Jeff emptied bottle after bottle. 343 00:15:50,879 --> 00:15:54,009 His superiors noticed and gave Dahmer 344 00:15:54,009 --> 00:15:57,209 an early discharge. 345 00:15:57,209 --> 00:15:59,019 He went directly to Miami Beach 346 00:15:59,019 --> 00:16:01,149 without contacting his family. 347 00:16:01,149 --> 00:16:02,889 He worked at a sandwich shop and lived 348 00:16:02,889 --> 00:16:04,079 out of a motel. 349 00:16:04,079 --> 00:16:07,005 When his booze bills exceeded the room cost 350 00:16:07,005 --> 00:16:09,899 Jeff took to sleeping on the beach. 351 00:16:09,899 --> 00:16:12,089 "He was terrified one night 352 00:16:12,089 --> 00:16:15,519 when a rat, big huge rat, came crawling over him 353 00:16:15,519 --> 00:16:19,319 and he called us, he said he needs some money 354 00:16:19,319 --> 00:16:21,439 I said we won't send you money but 355 00:16:21,439 --> 00:16:22,073 we will send you a ticket. 356 00:16:22,073 --> 00:16:24,329 You can come home. 357 00:16:24,329 --> 00:16:27,012 So I met him at the airport, 358 00:16:27,012 --> 00:16:29,016 Cleveland Hopkins Airport and 359 00:16:29,016 --> 00:16:32,022 he had a smile on his face, 360 00:16:32,022 --> 00:16:35,074 but as I got closer, it wasn't a smile 361 00:16:35,074 --> 00:16:39,129 of happiness, it was a smile of 362 00:16:39,129 --> 00:16:39,029 inebriation. " 363 00:16:39,029 --> 00:16:41,689 Lionel tried for a year to help his 364 00:16:41,689 --> 00:16:44,035 alcoholic son, to no avail, 365 00:16:44,035 --> 00:16:46,009 Jeff was sent to stay with his father's 366 00:16:46,009 --> 00:16:48,011 mother near Milwaukee. 367 00:16:48,011 --> 00:16:50,085 There, he seemed to find some stability 368 00:16:50,085 --> 00:16:53,399 at last, making a concentrated effort to 369 00:16:53,399 --> 00:16:56,629 turn his life around. He stopped drinking, 370 00:16:56,629 --> 00:16:58,649 went to church with his grandmother, 371 00:16:58,649 --> 00:17:00,319 and he fought what he believed were 372 00:17:00,319 --> 00:17:02,709 immoral homosexual urges 373 00:17:02,709 --> 00:17:04,089 which eventually led to his inescapable 374 00:17:04,089 --> 00:17:07,027 fantasies about murder. 375 00:17:07,027 --> 00:17:09,088 Dahmer even found jobs, first at a blood bank 376 00:17:09,088 --> 00:17:11,092 and then working nights as a chocolate mixer 377 00:17:11,092 --> 00:17:14,013 in a candy factory. 378 00:17:14,013 --> 00:17:16,006 But the lifestyle of church going and right 379 00:17:16,006 --> 00:17:18,045 living as he called it 380 00:17:18,045 --> 00:17:22,002 didn't last. After 3 quiet years in his 381 00:17:22,002 --> 00:17:24,037 grandmothers home, Jeff came face to face 382 00:17:24,037 --> 00:17:25,098 with his fears. 383 00:17:25,098 --> 00:17:28,054 At the library, a man handed him a note 384 00:17:28,054 --> 00:17:30,095 offering sexual favors. 385 00:17:30,095 --> 00:17:32,064 Dahmer declined, but later would say 386 00:17:32,064 --> 00:17:34,033 the note was a turning point. 387 00:17:34,033 --> 00:17:37,000 He awakened sexual desires deep inside him 388 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,043 specifically, he wanted the submissive 389 00:17:39,043 --> 00:17:41,002 company of another male, 390 00:17:41,002 --> 00:17:43,081 he wanted someone to fulfill his sexual needs 391 00:17:43,081 --> 00:17:45,027 but he didn't want to be burdened 392 00:17:45,027 --> 00:17:49,069 by anyone else's needs. 393 00:17:49,069 --> 00:17:51,006 Jeffrey started with a perfectly 394 00:17:51,006 --> 00:17:52,064 submissive partner. 395 00:17:52,064 --> 00:17:54,088 He stole a store window mannequin. 396 00:17:54,088 --> 00:17:57,022 He kept the plastic man in his closet 397 00:17:57,022 --> 00:17:59,047 bringing it out to masterbate to until 398 00:17:59,047 --> 00:18:02,001 his grandmother found it and insisted 399 00:18:02,001 --> 00:18:03,004 he get rid of it. 400 00:18:03,004 --> 00:18:04,048 On his free nights 401 00:18:04,048 --> 00:18:07,013 Jeffrey began exploring gay life in 402 00:18:07,013 --> 00:18:09,002 Milwaukee, browsing through porn shops 403 00:18:09,002 --> 00:18:10,083 and going to bath houses. 404 00:18:10,083 --> 00:18:12,078 The bath clubs catered mostly to men 405 00:18:12,078 --> 00:18:14,088 seeking anonymous sex. 406 00:18:14,088 --> 00:18:17,037 To make his partners there submissive 407 00:18:17,037 --> 00:18:19,005 Jeffrey gave them drinks laced with 408 00:18:19,005 --> 00:18:22,017 sleeping pills. 409 00:18:22,017 --> 00:18:23,052 When they fell unconscious, 410 00:18:23,052 --> 00:18:25,017 he would lie down next to them, 411 00:18:25,017 --> 00:18:27,056 listening to the sounds of their bodies. 412 00:18:27,056 --> 00:18:30,001 Their heartbeats, their stomachs, 413 00:18:30,001 --> 00:18:32,041 but the druging experiments, when one man 414 00:18:32,041 --> 00:18:35,012 over dosed and spent a week in a hospital. 415 00:18:35,012 --> 00:18:39,045 Jeff was asked never to return to the club. 416 00:18:39,045 --> 00:18:41,099 But he then discovered the gay bars and 417 00:18:41,099 --> 00:18:43,083 discos of Milwaukee. 418 00:18:43,083 --> 00:18:45,058 These would become the killer's favorite 419 00:18:45,058 --> 00:18:51,056 hunting grounds. 420 00:18:51,056 --> 00:18:53,037 By his late 20's, Jeffrey Dahmer 421 00:18:53,037 --> 00:18:54,008 was settled in Milwaukee, 422 00:18:54,008 --> 00:18:56,047 living at his grandmother's and 423 00:18:56,047 --> 00:18:58,099 prowling the cities gay scene. 424 00:18:58,099 --> 00:19:01,038 No one suspected that this reclusive loner 425 00:19:01,038 --> 00:19:03,091 with boyish good looks was on his way to 426 00:19:03,091 --> 00:19:07,015 becoming a psychopathic serial killer. 427 00:19:07,015 --> 00:19:11,049 "He did take pleasure in the fact 428 00:19:11,049 --> 00:19:13,092 that he was in control of his own 429 00:19:13,092 --> 00:19:15,043 little world. That nobody knew what 430 00:19:15,043 --> 00:19:18,059 was going on, that he was the master of it." 431 00:19:18,059 --> 00:19:20,066 "Dahmer could fit in any group 432 00:19:20,066 --> 00:19:22,059 and you wouldn't say oh he must be crazy 433 00:19:22,059 --> 00:19:24,047 or he must be a killer. That's why 434 00:19:24,047 --> 00:19:25,062 he was so successful. 435 00:19:25,062 --> 00:19:27,093 He wasn't a repulsive individual." 436 00:19:27,093 --> 00:19:30,045 Certainly not in Milwaukee's gay clubs. 437 00:19:30,045 --> 00:19:32,028 "We have it on good facts 438 00:19:32,028 --> 00:19:34,074 that he was considered somewhat of a honey 439 00:19:34,074 --> 00:19:35,087 in the gay community. 440 00:19:35,087 --> 00:19:38,082 That people found him attractive. 441 00:19:38,082 --> 00:19:39,089 Several people told us that he was 442 00:19:39,089 --> 00:19:41,074 the kind of guy you wanted to take care of 443 00:19:41,074 --> 00:19:42,094 you wanted to baby him." 444 00:19:42,094 --> 00:19:45,019 But Dahmer had very specific requirements 445 00:19:45,019 --> 00:19:45,088 for his men. 446 00:19:45,088 --> 00:19:49,051 "He chose a body style. He liked long 447 00:19:49,051 --> 00:19:54,076 lean smooth muscular body styles and it didn't 448 00:19:54,076 --> 00:19:56,099 matter if they were black, white, yellow 449 00:19:56,099 --> 00:20:00,085 or brown, if he found them attractive, 450 00:20:00,085 --> 00:20:02,049 he would try to get them." 451 00:20:02,049 --> 00:20:06,002 In November 1987, Dahmer met 25 year old 452 00:20:06,002 --> 00:20:10,021 Steve Toomey at a downtown club called 219 453 00:20:10,021 --> 00:20:11,095 after a few drinks they left the bar 454 00:20:11,095 --> 00:20:15,001 for a night at the nearby Embassador Hotel. 455 00:20:15,001 --> 00:20:17,057 Dahmer used an old trick to get Toomey 456 00:20:17,057 --> 00:20:19,079 into the submissive state he craved. 457 00:20:19,079 --> 00:20:23,000 "I put some sleeping pills in his drink 458 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,005 to render him unconscious and um 459 00:20:24,005 --> 00:20:31,014 was just going to spend the night with him 460 00:20:31,014 --> 00:20:33,019 when I woke up in the morning, my 461 00:20:33,019 --> 00:20:35,063 fore arms were bruised 462 00:20:35,063 --> 00:20:38,049 and his chest was bruised and blood 463 00:20:38,049 --> 00:20:40,041 was coming out of his mouth, 464 00:20:40,041 --> 00:20:43,037 he was hanging over the side of the bed 465 00:20:43,037 --> 00:20:46,041 and um, I have no memory of beating him to death. 466 00:20:46,041 --> 00:20:48,008 But I must of." 467 00:20:48,008 --> 00:20:49,085 But Dahmer didn't panic. 468 00:20:49,085 --> 00:20:53,000 He went out and bought the biggest suitcase he could find. 469 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,052 At the hotel, he crammed Toomey's body 470 00:20:55,052 --> 00:20:58,048 into the case, dragged it into a taxi, 471 00:20:58,048 --> 00:21:00,067 went back to his grandmother's house 472 00:21:00,067 --> 00:21:02,082 and dismembered Toomey in the basement. 473 00:21:02,082 --> 00:21:06,017 "That's when the obsession went into full swing." 474 00:21:06,017 --> 00:21:08,095 "He decided after the second death 475 00:21:08,095 --> 00:21:10,053 he would no longer attempt to control 476 00:21:10,053 --> 00:21:12,075 his desires, that he would give full 477 00:21:12,075 --> 00:21:15,067 reign to them, yield entirely to them 478 00:21:15,067 --> 00:21:18,065 and after that his life became the 479 00:21:18,065 --> 00:21:21,094 pursuit of unmitigated sexual pleasure." 480 00:21:21,094 --> 00:21:24,003 Dahmer now decided to pursue his fantasies 481 00:21:24,003 --> 00:21:27,037 of ultimate control. It was no longer enough 482 00:21:27,037 --> 00:21:30,032 for his partners submissive just a night. 483 00:21:30,032 --> 00:21:32,048 He wanted to keep them that way forever. 484 00:21:32,048 --> 00:21:34,069 So with the intent to murder and then 485 00:21:34,069 --> 00:21:36,069 butcher the men he picked up, 486 00:21:36,069 --> 00:21:38,086 Dahmer returned to the clubs. 487 00:21:38,086 --> 00:21:41,002 At a bus stop outside 219, 488 00:21:41,002 --> 00:21:44,064 he met 14 year old James Docksdater. 489 00:21:44,064 --> 00:21:46,087 Dahmer offered him $50 to spend the night 490 00:21:46,087 --> 00:21:48,087 with him. They took the bus back to 491 00:21:48,087 --> 00:21:50,096 Dahmer's grandmothers while she 492 00:21:50,096 --> 00:21:53,082 slept, Jeff and Docksdater had oral sex 493 00:21:53,082 --> 00:21:57,026 then Dahmer drugged and strangled him 494 00:21:57,026 --> 00:21:59,009 his preferred method of killing. 495 00:21:59,009 --> 00:22:01,087 "He stated that in no way did he want to 496 00:22:01,087 --> 00:22:04,009 hurt anybody, as funny as it sounds, 497 00:22:04,009 --> 00:22:07,049 that is the reason why he killed everyone 498 00:22:07,049 --> 00:22:09,058 by strangling them, because not only did 499 00:22:09,058 --> 00:22:12,093 he get the power and the thill of 500 00:22:12,093 --> 00:22:14,033 committing the murder, but it was 501 00:22:14,033 --> 00:22:16,057 also the most humane way." 502 00:22:16,057 --> 00:22:18,097 With Docksdater, Dahmer further explored 503 00:22:18,097 --> 00:22:20,044 his dark fantasies. 504 00:22:20,044 --> 00:22:22,002 He hid the body in the basement for 505 00:22:22,002 --> 00:22:24,099 a week and continued to have sex with it. 506 00:22:24,099 --> 00:22:28,004 "Most serial killers are sexual deviants 507 00:22:28,004 --> 00:22:32,049 who are social and psychological 508 00:22:32,049 --> 00:22:36,096 sociopaths and sexual sexiopaths 509 00:22:36,096 --> 00:22:40,054 who kill people for their own sexual gratification. 510 00:22:40,054 --> 00:22:43,042 Dahmer was different than that. 511 00:22:43,042 --> 00:22:45,002 He was a true necrophiliac 512 00:22:45,002 --> 00:22:48,098 he was trying to have sex with an 513 00:22:48,098 --> 00:22:51,028 unconscious or dead person." 514 00:22:51,028 --> 00:22:54,065 Once Docksdater started to decay, 515 00:22:54,065 --> 00:22:57,048 Dahmer dismembered him near a floor drain 516 00:22:57,048 --> 00:22:59,079 just as he had with Toomey. 517 00:22:59,079 --> 00:23:01,059 Dahmer was now drinking heavily 518 00:23:01,059 --> 00:23:03,021 again, especially on the nights he 519 00:23:03,021 --> 00:23:04,034 planned to murder. 520 00:23:04,034 --> 00:23:07,047 By the time he killed he would be stoned drunk. 521 00:23:07,047 --> 00:23:09,099 "He drank because his conscious was 522 00:23:09,099 --> 00:23:12,029 so strong. This isn't a man that 523 00:23:12,029 --> 00:23:13,098 didn't know the difference of right 524 00:23:13,098 --> 00:23:15,016 from wrong." 525 00:23:15,016 --> 00:23:17,017 Two months after killing Docksdater 526 00:23:17,017 --> 00:23:20,022 Dahmer picked up 21 year old Richard Guierro 527 00:23:20,022 --> 00:23:21,009 from a Milwaukee bar, 528 00:23:21,009 --> 00:23:24,012 again offering him money to spend the night. 529 00:23:24,012 --> 00:23:26,002 In a familiar pattern, 530 00:23:26,002 --> 00:23:29,003 Dahmer drugged and strangled him. 531 00:23:29,003 --> 00:23:30,062 He spent a few hours with the corpse 532 00:23:30,062 --> 00:23:32,043 before dismembering it. 533 00:23:32,043 --> 00:23:33,074 He then placed the body parts 534 00:23:33,074 --> 00:23:35,048 into trash bags for the city 535 00:23:35,048 --> 00:23:40,013 garbage collection the next day. 536 00:23:40,013 --> 00:23:42,018 In the summer of 1988, 537 00:23:42,018 --> 00:23:44,039 Jeff's grandmother had asked him to move out. 538 00:23:44,039 --> 00:23:45,093 She had been troubled by Jeff's 539 00:23:45,093 --> 00:23:48,005 late hours, the mannequin in his bedroom, 540 00:23:48,005 --> 00:23:51,014 and now unidentified foul smells 541 00:23:51,014 --> 00:23:52,093 from the basement. 542 00:23:52,093 --> 00:23:55,098 He took an apartment on Milwaukee's 543 00:23:55,098 --> 00:23:57,051 west side, and immediately 544 00:23:57,051 --> 00:24:00,022 accelerated his downward spiral 545 00:24:00,022 --> 00:24:02,013 when he approached a 13 year old 546 00:24:02,013 --> 00:24:03,008 boy on the street and lured him 547 00:24:03,008 --> 00:24:05,049 into the apartment. 548 00:24:05,049 --> 00:24:08,009 Inside, Dahmer scared the boy by 549 00:24:08,009 --> 00:24:11,002 fondling him and the youngster ran 550 00:24:11,002 --> 00:24:15,005 from the apartment. 551 00:24:15,005 --> 00:24:17,061 Dahmer was convicted on 2nd degree 552 00:24:17,061 --> 00:24:19,027 sexual assault charges only. 553 00:24:19,027 --> 00:24:21,002 The murders were still his secret. 554 00:24:21,002 --> 00:24:23,027 He was sentenced to 1 year in a work 555 00:24:23,027 --> 00:24:24,096 release program, which required 556 00:24:24,096 --> 00:24:26,063 to spend his nights in a prison 557 00:24:26,063 --> 00:24:28,009 dormitory while he continued working 558 00:24:28,009 --> 00:24:32,059 at the chocolate factory. 559 00:24:32,059 --> 00:24:34,042 In the 10 days before he began 560 00:24:34,042 --> 00:24:36,039 his sentence, Dahmer struck again. 561 00:24:36,039 --> 00:24:39,024 He met 26 year old, Anthony Sears 562 00:24:39,024 --> 00:24:42,091 at the gay club "La Cashe" and killed him. 563 00:24:42,091 --> 00:24:45,034 He mummified Sear's head and genitals 564 00:24:45,034 --> 00:24:46,079 and kept them inside his locker 565 00:24:46,079 --> 00:24:49,017 at the chocolate factory. 566 00:24:49,017 --> 00:24:51,095 Towards the end of the work release term, 567 00:24:51,095 --> 00:24:53,098 Jeff's father wrote to the judge 568 00:24:53,098 --> 00:24:55,072 and urged him to put Jeff in an 569 00:24:55,072 --> 00:24:58,048 alcoholic treatment program writing, 570 00:24:58,048 --> 00:25:00,084 I have tremendous reservations regarding 571 00:25:00,084 --> 00:25:04,029 Jeff's chances when he hits the streets. 572 00:25:04,029 --> 00:25:06,015 No program was ordered. 573 00:25:06,015 --> 00:25:09,068 Jeff was release 2 months early. 574 00:25:09,068 --> 00:25:11,073 He moved into another low income 575 00:25:11,073 --> 00:25:14,027 neighborhood in Milwaukee. 576 00:25:14,027 --> 00:25:16,091 The rent at the Oxford Apartments was cheap 577 00:25:16,091 --> 00:25:20,018 and the location was close to the gay clubs. 578 00:25:20,018 --> 00:25:22,082 On his own again, he was free to feed 579 00:25:22,082 --> 00:25:25,005 his relentless sexual urges. 580 00:25:25,005 --> 00:25:27,061 Within 3 weeks of his release, 581 00:25:27,061 --> 00:25:30,093 Dahmer began a 1 year killing frenzy. 582 00:25:30,093 --> 00:25:33,046 He would leave 13 more families 583 00:25:33,046 --> 00:25:35,049 most of them African American, 584 00:25:35,049 --> 00:25:36,069 searching for loved ones 585 00:25:36,069 --> 00:25:38,095 who had simply, disappeared. 586 00:25:38,095 --> 00:25:41,018 The police too searched in vain. 587 00:25:41,018 --> 00:25:44,014 "Once Jeff started on his killing spree, 588 00:25:44,014 --> 00:25:45,096 all his financial resources, 589 00:25:45,096 --> 00:25:48,006 all of his time, money, effort, 590 00:25:48,006 --> 00:25:51,037 desires, emotions, thoughts, went into 591 00:25:51,037 --> 00:25:53,089 his secret world of killing people and 592 00:25:53,089 --> 00:25:55,045 keeping them with him. 593 00:25:55,045 --> 00:25:57,034 Many times he talked about trying to 594 00:25:57,034 --> 00:25:59,022 fight it, even after he killed a 595 00:25:59,022 --> 00:26:00,065 couple people saying how he wasn't 596 00:26:00,065 --> 00:26:01,078 going to do it again, 597 00:26:01,078 --> 00:26:03,043 but within a month he would be out 598 00:26:03,043 --> 00:26:05,077 at the bars stalking." 599 00:26:05,077 --> 00:26:08,045 One victim almost got away. 600 00:26:08,045 --> 00:26:10,026 Dahmer had drugged 14 year old 601 00:26:10,026 --> 00:26:12,038 Konerak Sinthasomphone. 602 00:26:12,038 --> 00:26:13,066 The brother of the boy Dahmer 603 00:26:13,066 --> 00:26:16,027 had been jailed for molesting the year before. 604 00:26:16,027 --> 00:26:18,083 As Konerak slept, Dahmer went out 605 00:26:18,083 --> 00:26:21,003 to buy more liquor. But while he was gone, 606 00:26:21,003 --> 00:26:24,001 the teen woke up. He staggered out 607 00:26:24,001 --> 00:26:25,003 to the street naked. 608 00:26:25,003 --> 00:26:45,014 A concerned neighbor called 9-1-1. 609 00:26:45,014 --> 00:26:47,004 Police arrived by this time Dahmer 610 00:26:47,004 --> 00:26:48,086 had returned from his beer run. 611 00:26:48,086 --> 00:26:51,016 As he had with police in Bath Ohio, 612 00:26:51,016 --> 00:26:52,055 after his first killing, 613 00:26:52,055 --> 00:26:55,003 Dahmer smoothly lied. 614 00:26:55,003 --> 00:26:56,053 He told police that Konerak was 615 00:26:56,053 --> 00:26:58,004 his gay lover that simply had 616 00:26:58,004 --> 00:26:59,071 too much to drink. 617 00:26:59,071 --> 00:27:01,097 He brought the cops into his apartments 618 00:27:01,097 --> 00:27:03,082 and showed them polaroids he taken 619 00:27:03,082 --> 00:27:07,000 of the teen. Proof of their relationship. 620 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,013 The police believed the 14 year old 621 00:27:09,013 --> 00:27:11,076 was of legal age and left him behind 622 00:27:11,076 --> 00:27:12,054 with Dahmer. 623 00:27:12,054 --> 00:27:14,024 They wrote the incident off as a 624 00:27:14,024 --> 00:27:15,006 lover's quarrel. 625 00:27:15,006 --> 00:27:17,088 Again, Dahmer had been slippery enough 626 00:27:17,088 --> 00:27:20,002 to keep his killings a secret. 627 00:27:20,002 --> 00:27:21,094 As soon as the cops left, 628 00:27:21,094 --> 00:27:25,059 he murdered the boy. 629 00:27:25,059 --> 00:27:26,069 Inside Dahmer's apartment, 630 00:27:26,069 --> 00:27:28,077 the bodies started to pile up. 631 00:27:28,077 --> 00:27:31,001 So he bought a 50 gallon sized drum 632 00:27:31,001 --> 00:27:31,057 and he filled it up with 633 00:27:31,057 --> 00:27:33,059 a powerful acid to dissolve 634 00:27:33,059 --> 00:27:36,022 the dismembered limbs and torsos. 635 00:27:36,022 --> 00:27:37,042 After weeks in the acid, 636 00:27:37,042 --> 00:27:38,009 the remains of Dahmer's would be 637 00:27:38,009 --> 00:27:40,074 lovers became slug which 638 00:27:40,074 --> 00:27:42,034 he flushed down the toilet or 639 00:27:42,034 --> 00:27:45,022 the bathtub drain. 640 00:27:45,022 --> 00:27:46,073 For others, Jeffrey boiled 641 00:27:46,073 --> 00:27:49,003 the skin off their bones on the stove. 642 00:27:49,003 --> 00:27:50,095 A sweet bitter odor of death 643 00:27:50,095 --> 00:27:53,035 began to infest the building, 644 00:27:53,035 --> 00:27:54,054 and many tenants traced 645 00:27:54,054 --> 00:27:57,011 the smells straight to Dahmer's door. 646 00:27:57,011 --> 00:27:58,048 "It was awfully funny, whatever 647 00:27:58,048 --> 00:28:00,033 Jeff was cookin'. Jeff never bought 648 00:28:00,033 --> 00:28:02,044 no groceries, so what could 649 00:28:02,044 --> 00:28:03,092 have been cookin'? 650 00:28:03,092 --> 00:28:06,087 That smelled like chitlins. 651 00:28:06,087 --> 00:28:11,054 Chitlins have very peculiar nasty odor to them. 652 00:28:11,054 --> 00:28:13,079 You know?" 653 00:28:13,079 --> 00:28:16,012 Dahmer was pathologically lonesome, 654 00:28:16,012 --> 00:28:17,076 not wanting his sexual partners to 655 00:28:17,076 --> 00:28:19,097 leave him even after death. 656 00:28:19,097 --> 00:28:21,058 He took keepsake photos while 657 00:28:21,058 --> 00:28:24,006 removing their flesh and preserved 658 00:28:24,006 --> 00:28:25,041 certain parts. 659 00:28:25,041 --> 00:28:27,093 "And one thing led to another 660 00:28:27,093 --> 00:28:32,058 it took more and more deviant type 661 00:28:32,058 --> 00:28:38,000 behaviors to satisfy my urges." 662 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,004 He devised a plan to build a shrine 663 00:28:40,004 --> 00:28:41,089 out of skeletons and skulls, but 664 00:28:41,089 --> 00:28:43,092 he was still in search for the perfect 665 00:28:43,092 --> 00:28:45,049 partner, one that was completely 666 00:28:45,049 --> 00:28:50,000 submissive but alive and not prone to decay. 667 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,034 On a few still living victims, 668 00:28:52,034 --> 00:28:54,038 Dahmer used a power drill to open small 669 00:28:54,038 --> 00:28:56,099 holes in their skulls, then he 670 00:28:56,099 --> 00:28:58,095 injected acid into their brains. 671 00:28:58,095 --> 00:29:00,046 According to Dahmer, none of his 672 00:29:00,046 --> 00:29:03,025 experimental zombies lived longer than 673 00:29:03,025 --> 00:29:06,029 a day. And in perhaps the ultimate effort 674 00:29:06,029 --> 00:29:08,058 to keep his victims with him, 675 00:29:08,058 --> 00:29:10,025 Dahmer began eating their flesh. 676 00:29:10,025 --> 00:29:12,007 "It made me feel like they were 677 00:29:12,007 --> 00:29:16,082 permanent part of me. 678 00:29:16,082 --> 00:29:19,088 Besides just curiosity of what it would 679 00:29:19,088 --> 00:29:20,093 be like, it made them feel like 680 00:29:20,093 --> 00:29:22,054 they were part of me and it gave me 681 00:29:22,054 --> 00:29:28,054 a sexual satisfaction." 682 00:29:28,054 --> 00:29:31,004 Throughout this year of ruthless killing 683 00:29:31,004 --> 00:29:33,084 Dahmer still appeared outwardly normal. 684 00:29:33,084 --> 00:29:35,087 In this video taken at his grandmother's 685 00:29:35,087 --> 00:29:37,082 house on Thanksgiving, Dahmer 686 00:29:37,082 --> 00:29:39,058 talked calmly with his father. 687 00:29:39,058 --> 00:29:41,013 "Well, you are looking good." 688 00:29:41,013 --> 00:29:41,044 "Thanks" 689 00:29:41,044 --> 00:29:43,067 "Grandma was saying that she thought 690 00:29:43,067 --> 00:29:44,051 that you got quite a bit thinner, 691 00:29:44,051 --> 00:29:45,004 but you look fit, I don't know." 692 00:29:45,004 --> 00:29:45,051 Well, I have been surviving mostly 693 00:29:45,051 --> 00:29:45,089 on McDonald's food, so much 694 00:29:45,089 --> 00:29:47,032 easier to just pop into a restaurant. 695 00:29:47,032 --> 00:29:54,099 Like I said before it gets too expensive, and 696 00:29:54,099 --> 00:30:01,008 I have to start eating at home more." 697 00:30:01,008 --> 00:30:04,064 "It's amazing how he could sit there 698 00:30:04,064 --> 00:30:08,066 and appear like he's clean cut, 699 00:30:08,066 --> 00:30:12,001 nice jacket on, and talking very 700 00:30:12,001 --> 00:30:17,047 hopefully about his job. Intellegent. 701 00:30:17,047 --> 00:30:20,037 It's amazing how much a human being 702 00:30:20,037 --> 00:30:23,031 can hide from another human being." 703 00:30:23,031 --> 00:30:26,004 But careful as he was, Jeffrey Dahmer 704 00:30:26,004 --> 00:30:30,016 was about to run out of good lies. 705 00:30:30,016 --> 00:30:36,025 In July, 1991, the city of Milwaukee 706 00:30:36,025 --> 00:30:38,024 discovered a serial killer. 707 00:30:38,024 --> 00:30:43,073 31 year old Jeffrey Dahmer. 708 00:30:43,073 --> 00:30:45,071 One man, Tracy Edwards, 709 00:30:45,071 --> 00:30:47,005 managed to escape from the horrors 710 00:30:47,005 --> 00:30:49,078 of Dahmer's apartment and flagged down 711 00:30:49,078 --> 00:30:51,082 a passing patrol car. 712 00:30:51,082 --> 00:30:53,079 When the officer's entered the apartment, 713 00:30:53,079 --> 00:30:56,044 they found 83 polaroids of bodies 714 00:30:56,044 --> 00:30:58,065 in various stages of dismemberment. 715 00:30:58,065 --> 00:31:01,056 There were more shocking discoveries in the kitchen. 716 00:31:01,056 --> 00:31:04,002 "There were 4 fully infleshed 717 00:31:04,002 --> 00:31:06,077 skulls still there, sitting 718 00:31:06,077 --> 00:31:07,088 in the refrigerator. 719 00:31:07,088 --> 00:31:10,091 One officer said he opened the ice box 720 00:31:10,091 --> 00:31:13,039 he heard a scream, it was only later that 721 00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:15,039 he realized that it was he himself 722 00:31:15,039 --> 00:31:20,008 that had screamed." 723 00:31:20,008 --> 00:31:22,089 TV news cameras rolled as what 724 00:31:22,089 --> 00:31:25,013 was left of the victims was carried out. 725 00:31:25,013 --> 00:31:27,076 The 57 gallon drum that was filled 726 00:31:27,076 --> 00:31:29,082 with the torsos of 3 men. 727 00:31:29,082 --> 00:31:35,091 A freezer with dismembered limbs 728 00:31:35,091 --> 00:31:37,083 and flesh, metal cooking pots 729 00:31:37,083 --> 00:31:42,035 with mummified hands and genitals. 730 00:31:42,035 --> 00:31:44,006 This time there was no lie 731 00:31:44,006 --> 00:31:46,047 Dahmer could tell to save himself. 732 00:31:46,047 --> 00:31:49,048 "He was walking at a pretty defeated manner 733 00:31:49,048 --> 00:31:50,006 his shoulders were hunched, his head 734 00:31:50,006 --> 00:31:52,087 was down, he was sweating perfusely. 735 00:31:52,087 --> 00:31:57,024 He had a faint, kind of a whining, 736 00:31:57,024 --> 00:31:59,097 like a baby crying noise about him." 737 00:31:59,097 --> 00:32:01,044 At the police station, detectives 738 00:32:01,044 --> 00:32:05,026 began a marathon interview with the 739 00:32:05,026 --> 00:32:05,056 suspected killer. 740 00:32:05,056 --> 00:32:07,014 Dahmer had first blamed the booze 741 00:32:07,014 --> 00:32:09,004 instead of himself, saying he wouldn't 742 00:32:09,004 --> 00:32:12,064 have been caught if he hadn't been so drunk, 743 00:32:12,064 --> 00:32:15,015 but Dahmer was now clearly scared. 744 00:32:15,015 --> 00:32:18,074 "The look of terror and almost hysteria 745 00:32:18,074 --> 00:32:20,083 that he had on his face in the interrogation 746 00:32:20,083 --> 00:32:22,075 room that first night as he was coming off 747 00:32:22,075 --> 00:32:24,098 of the alcohol and he was realizing 748 00:32:24,098 --> 00:32:29,042 that the gig was up, he was caught, 749 00:32:29,042 --> 00:32:31,074 he did cry several times, 750 00:32:31,074 --> 00:32:33,028 he went into a rage, besides 751 00:32:33,028 --> 00:32:35,013 asking to kill himself, 752 00:32:35,013 --> 00:32:37,098 he stood up and pounced around a couple of times." 753 00:32:37,098 --> 00:32:39,035 Once Dahmer sobered up, 754 00:32:39,035 --> 00:32:41,003 no one could guess at the gruesome 755 00:32:41,003 --> 00:32:41,088 details to follow. 756 00:32:41,088 --> 00:32:44,007 "He made this statement when I tell you 757 00:32:44,007 --> 00:32:46,033 what I am going to tell you, you 758 00:32:46,033 --> 00:32:47,075 are going to be famous." 759 00:32:47,075 --> 00:32:50,031 And I tried to say Jeff, there is nothing 760 00:32:50,031 --> 00:32:51,098 you can tell me that is going to 761 00:32:51,098 --> 00:32:56,000 freak me out. And he laughed at that. 762 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:56,068 He said you don't know, you don't 763 00:32:56,068 --> 00:32:59,073 know what I have done." 764 00:32:59,073 --> 00:33:02,004 Dahmer spent the next 6 weeks with the 765 00:33:02,004 --> 00:33:04,099 detectives recounting the murders of 17 men 766 00:33:04,099 --> 00:33:07,045 a 159 paged confession. 767 00:33:07,045 --> 00:33:09,032 It seemed cathartic to Dahmer to 768 00:33:09,032 --> 00:33:12,025 finally get the deeds of the last 13 years 769 00:33:12,025 --> 00:33:17,016 off of his chest. 770 00:33:17,016 --> 00:33:18,093 With the information from his confession 771 00:33:18,093 --> 00:33:20,065 investigators went back to Dahmer's 772 00:33:20,065 --> 00:33:22,088 childhood home in Bath Ohio. 773 00:33:22,088 --> 00:33:24,052 They raked up the shattered bones 774 00:33:24,052 --> 00:33:31,009 of Steven Hicks, Dahmer's first victim. 775 00:33:31,009 --> 00:33:32,091 The Milwaukee county coroner started 776 00:33:32,091 --> 00:33:34,088 matching skulls with torsos and the police 777 00:33:34,088 --> 00:33:38,012 started the sad task of notifying 778 00:33:38,012 --> 00:33:41,024 families. 779 00:33:41,024 --> 00:33:43,009 Dahmer pleaded guilty but insane. 780 00:33:43,009 --> 00:33:46,022 The issue of his sanity would be the sole 781 00:33:46,022 --> 00:33:49,012 question before the jury. 782 00:33:49,012 --> 00:33:52,015 "You know immediately that it's going 783 00:33:52,015 --> 00:33:52,026 to be probably a sanity defense. What 784 00:33:52,026 --> 00:33:53,079 can you argue, you can't claim self defense, 785 00:33:53,079 --> 00:33:54,093 you can't say you don't know how those 786 00:33:54,093 --> 00:33:56,036 bodies got there." 787 00:33:56,036 --> 00:33:58,052 Wisconsin had no death penalty, 788 00:33:58,052 --> 00:34:00,023 so if the jury found him sane, 789 00:34:00,023 --> 00:34:01,072 he would spend the rest of his life 790 00:34:01,072 --> 00:34:04,049 in prison. If they found him insane, 791 00:34:04,049 --> 00:34:07,073 he would be prisoned in a mental facility. 792 00:34:07,073 --> 00:34:10,024 Dahmer himself couldn't understand 793 00:34:10,024 --> 00:34:12,072 why he enjoyed fantasizing about murder. 794 00:34:12,072 --> 00:34:14,419 "Jeffrey thought he was the devil. 795 00:34:14,419 --> 00:34:16,529 Jeffrey thought that he was so evil 796 00:34:16,529 --> 00:34:20,589 that he was equal to the devil 797 00:34:20,589 --> 00:34:22,289 and he knew there was something wrong with 798 00:34:22,289 --> 00:34:23,809 him but he didn't know what it was but 799 00:34:23,809 --> 00:34:27,149 he never categorized himself as being insane." 800 00:34:27,149 --> 00:34:28,073 The man who entered the Milwaukee 801 00:34:28,073 --> 00:34:32,079 County courtroom in January, 1992, 802 00:34:32,079 --> 00:34:34,659 appeared completely normal. Until the words 803 00:34:34,659 --> 00:34:36,899 of his confession were read in court by 804 00:34:36,899 --> 00:34:38,074 Lt. Dennis Murphy. 805 00:34:38,074 --> 00:34:41,859 "He said this was a person he really liked, 806 00:34:41,859 --> 00:34:44,049 he indicated that he had fileted his heart 807 00:34:44,049 --> 00:34:45,669 and kept it in the freezer, and he 808 00:34:45,669 --> 00:34:47,309 also kept his bicep. 809 00:34:47,309 --> 00:34:49,019 He indicated that he had eaten the 810 00:34:49,019 --> 00:34:50,919 thigh muscle of this subject, but it 811 00:34:50,919 --> 00:34:53,539 was so tough he could hardly chew it. 812 00:34:53,539 --> 00:34:55,025 He then purchased a meat tenderizer and 813 00:34:55,025 --> 00:34:57,069 used it on the bicep." 814 00:34:57,069 --> 00:35:00,069 Dahmer's father, Lionel, sat in the courtroom 815 00:35:00,069 --> 00:35:02,096 beside his second wife, Sherry, 816 00:35:02,096 --> 00:35:05,769 stunned by what he heard. 817 00:35:05,769 --> 00:35:07,579 "No one softened the blow for us, 818 00:35:07,579 --> 00:35:10,023 no one told us, no one prepared us 819 00:35:10,023 --> 00:35:12,039 with any of these details. 820 00:35:12,039 --> 00:35:14,095 How could this be, how could I not know 821 00:35:14,095 --> 00:35:15,075 about it?" 822 00:35:15,075 --> 00:35:17,022 Dahmer's crimes seemed to be 823 00:35:17,022 --> 00:35:19,789 devastating proof of insanity. 824 00:35:19,789 --> 00:35:21,509 What else could explain the actions 825 00:35:21,509 --> 00:35:23,589 of a man who had sex with the dead 826 00:35:23,589 --> 00:35:25,043 dismembered their bodies, 827 00:35:25,043 --> 00:35:26,088 preserved their skulls, 828 00:35:26,088 --> 00:35:28,339 and ate their flesh, 829 00:35:28,339 --> 00:35:30,809 all for sexual gratification 830 00:35:30,809 --> 00:35:32,019 But the law has a very strict 831 00:35:32,019 --> 00:35:34,004 interpretation of insanity 832 00:35:34,004 --> 00:35:36,279 and Dahmer's defense team had to prove 833 00:35:36,279 --> 00:35:39,319 2 things, 1, that he indeed suffered from 834 00:35:39,319 --> 00:35:42,000 mental disease, and that it had kept him 835 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,096 from knowing right from wrong. 836 00:35:44,096 --> 00:35:47,039 necrophilia, a compulsion to have sex 837 00:35:47,039 --> 00:35:49,024 with the dead is recognized as a 838 00:35:49,024 --> 00:35:51,088 sexual disorder, but it does not make 839 00:35:51,088 --> 00:35:53,089 one legally insane. 840 00:35:53,089 --> 00:35:58,014 "He argued that the necrophilic drive 841 00:35:58,014 --> 00:36:01,339 was such that he could not control it, but 842 00:36:01,339 --> 00:36:02,096 we don't accept that in the United States 843 00:36:02,096 --> 00:36:04,859 as a defense, no more than we accept a 844 00:36:04,859 --> 00:36:07,089 pediphilic drive of the man who wants 845 00:36:07,089 --> 00:36:08,019 to have sex with children." 846 00:36:08,019 --> 00:36:14,097 "Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, 847 00:36:14,097 --> 00:36:16,279 I understand that you have arrived 848 00:36:16,279 --> 00:36:17,579 at a verdict in this manner....." 849 00:36:17,579 --> 00:36:19,047 In a 10-2 decision, the jury found 850 00:36:19,047 --> 00:36:24,024 Jeffrey Dahmer legally sane. 851 00:36:24,024 --> 00:36:25,088 Some relatives of Dahmer's victims 852 00:36:25,088 --> 00:36:27,869 sat quietly in court, 853 00:36:27,869 --> 00:36:29,049 others cried. 854 00:36:29,049 --> 00:36:31,000 Prior to his sentencing, 855 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,094 they were allowed to express themselves 856 00:36:32,094 --> 00:36:38,002 before the judge. 857 00:36:38,002 --> 00:36:42,098 "Jeffrey I hate you BEEP BEEP, 858 00:36:42,098 --> 00:36:45,009 I hate you. This is out of control. 859 00:36:45,009 --> 00:36:48,045 Don't BEEP with Jeffrey, I'll kill you 860 00:36:48,045 --> 00:36:49,092 BEEP. I HATE YOU!!!" 861 00:36:49,092 --> 00:36:51,069 Once order was restored, 862 00:36:51,069 --> 00:36:54,014 Dahmer spoke publicly for the first time. 863 00:36:54,014 --> 00:36:56,069 "I feel so bad for what I did to those poor 864 00:36:56,069 --> 00:36:58,539 families and I understand their rightful 865 00:36:58,539 --> 00:37:01,004 hate. I have seen their tears and if I 866 00:37:01,004 --> 00:37:02,097 could give my life right now to bring 867 00:37:02,097 --> 00:37:04,809 their loved ones back I would do it. 868 00:37:04,809 --> 00:37:08,018 I am so very sorry." 869 00:37:08,018 --> 00:37:10,329 Many questioned the emotional depth of 870 00:37:10,329 --> 00:37:12,064 Dahmer's apology, whether a man who 871 00:37:12,064 --> 00:37:18,069 killed so routinely, had the conscious 872 00:37:18,069 --> 00:37:18,069 to feel remorse. 873 00:37:18,069 --> 00:37:22,589 The judge sentenced Dahmer to a 937 874 00:37:22,589 --> 00:37:27,099 year prison term, but it 875 00:37:27,099 --> 00:37:33,041 would last only a few tormented years. 876 00:37:33,041 --> 00:37:34,069 Jeffrey Dahmer's final home 877 00:37:34,069 --> 00:37:37,048 was the Columbia Correctional Institution 878 00:37:37,048 --> 00:37:40,019 in Portage, Wisconsin. 879 00:37:40,019 --> 00:37:41,092 His former residence at the Oxford 880 00:37:41,092 --> 00:37:43,097 Apartments in Milwaukee stood as a 881 00:37:43,097 --> 00:37:46,579 painful reminder of the lives that 882 00:37:46,579 --> 00:37:49,019 ended there so in November 1992, 883 00:37:49,019 --> 00:37:52,025 it was demolished. 884 00:37:52,025 --> 00:37:55,049 In his prison cell at the age of 32, 885 00:37:55,049 --> 00:37:57,769 Dahmer's life became a conflicted introspection 886 00:37:57,769 --> 00:37:59,074 trying to sort out the blame for his 887 00:37:59,074 --> 00:38:01,849 killing nature and seeking devine 888 00:38:01,849 --> 00:38:04,119 forgiveness for it. 889 00:38:04,119 --> 00:38:06,279 He had spent time in church as a boy 890 00:38:06,279 --> 00:38:08,067 and with his grandmother as an adult, 891 00:38:08,067 --> 00:38:13,046 but had lost his religion during the murder spree. 892 00:38:13,046 --> 00:38:15,015 Dahmer placed the blame for the murders 893 00:38:15,015 --> 00:38:17,089 on his atheist beliefs and the theory 894 00:38:17,089 --> 00:38:18,098 of evolution. 895 00:38:18,098 --> 00:38:23,023 "He said if it all happens naturalistically 896 00:38:23,023 --> 00:38:25,068 what's the need for a god. Can't I set my 897 00:38:25,068 --> 00:38:31,569 own rules. Who owns me? I own myself." 898 00:38:31,569 --> 00:38:33,859 Yet Jeffrey was still a controdiction 899 00:38:33,859 --> 00:38:36,279 for he was always quite willing to blame 900 00:38:36,279 --> 00:38:39,089 the devil for taking over his soul. 901 00:38:39,089 --> 00:38:40,066 The serial killer wondered now 902 00:38:40,066 --> 00:38:45,002 what would happen to him when he died. 903 00:38:45,002 --> 00:38:48,048 Dahmer decided he wanted to be baptized. 904 00:38:48,048 --> 00:38:50,349 Evangelist Roy Ratcliff was called 905 00:38:50,349 --> 00:38:53,038 by the prison minister to talk with the inmate 906 00:38:53,038 --> 00:38:53,038 in April, 1994. 907 00:38:53,038 --> 00:38:59,022 "He was a very congenial, likeable sort 908 00:38:59,022 --> 00:39:01,009 of person. I always felt I was dealing with 909 00:39:01,009 --> 00:39:03,072 a small boy in a grown up man's body. 910 00:39:03,072 --> 00:39:05,359 He could get real excited and interested 911 00:39:05,359 --> 00:39:08,049 and neat or cool things that a little boy 912 00:39:08,049 --> 00:39:09,069 would get involved in." 913 00:39:09,069 --> 00:39:11,097 One month later, Dahmer was taken to 914 00:39:11,097 --> 00:39:13,549 the prison's medical center where 915 00:39:13,549 --> 00:39:15,096 he was baptized in a whirlpool. 916 00:39:15,096 --> 00:39:20,049 "The way we walked other prisoners with 917 00:39:20,049 --> 00:39:21,088 mops and brooms and various cleaning supplies 918 00:39:21,088 --> 00:39:23,066 and they would look up and the only one 919 00:39:23,066 --> 00:39:25,529 they saw who they recognized was Jeff, 920 00:39:25,529 --> 00:39:27,819 and they would call out in a very friendly 921 00:39:27,819 --> 00:39:30,021 banter "Hey J.D. how's it going?" 922 00:39:30,021 --> 00:39:32,022 He would call back, "I'm going to be 923 00:39:32,022 --> 00:39:33,349 baptized this is great." 924 00:39:33,349 --> 00:39:35,049 Dahmer appeared to be making a remarkable 925 00:39:35,049 --> 00:39:36,809 transformation in prison. 926 00:39:36,809 --> 00:39:39,319 "He would ask questions, 927 00:39:39,319 --> 00:39:41,022 he would say but what about this 928 00:39:41,022 --> 00:39:43,799 what about that, so uncharacteristic 929 00:39:43,799 --> 00:39:46,009 of the earlier years, go back to senior year 930 00:39:46,009 --> 00:39:49,007 in high school, you wouldn't get any of that. 931 00:39:49,007 --> 00:39:53,024 He was so interactive, and so concerned 932 00:39:53,024 --> 00:39:56,074 about our welfare. 933 00:39:56,074 --> 00:40:00,589 He was reaching out, he was rehumanizing." 934 00:40:00,589 --> 00:40:03,519 But those dark haunted fantasies 935 00:40:03,519 --> 00:40:04,073 remained with Dahmer. 936 00:40:04,073 --> 00:40:07,549 "I will probably have live with it for 937 00:40:07,549 --> 00:40:10,049 the rest of my life. I wish it would go away 938 00:40:10,049 --> 00:40:12,095 I wish I there was some way to completely get 939 00:40:12,095 --> 00:40:18,109 rid of the compulsive thoughts, the feelings." 940 00:40:18,109 --> 00:40:20,013 Dahmer got another reminder of his past 941 00:40:20,013 --> 00:40:22,023 when he was visited by Theresa Smith. 942 00:40:22,023 --> 00:40:24,269 Dahmer had killed her brother, Eddie. 943 00:40:24,269 --> 00:40:26,099 "First thing he did when he came in 944 00:40:26,099 --> 00:40:29,029 was apologized for killing my brother. 945 00:40:29,029 --> 00:40:31,002 I asked him why my brother and he 946 00:40:31,002 --> 00:40:36,039 said he had seen the way he had danced 947 00:40:36,039 --> 00:40:37,549 you know and he liked the way he looked 948 00:40:37,549 --> 00:40:41,249 and he said I was just attracted to him. 949 00:40:41,249 --> 00:40:44,092 He said he had strangle him and um, 950 00:40:44,092 --> 00:40:47,999 then he was trying some new experiment or 951 00:40:47,999 --> 00:40:53,021 something with preserving the skull and 952 00:40:53,021 --> 00:40:56,579 the body and whatever and it didn't work. 953 00:40:56,579 --> 00:41:00,018 So he had to destroy him." 954 00:41:00,018 --> 00:41:02,049 Dahmer had spent his entire adult life 955 00:41:02,049 --> 00:41:05,529 as the predator. But now in prison he 956 00:41:05,529 --> 00:41:08,569 became the prey. The notorious serial killer 957 00:41:08,569 --> 00:41:10,519 was a target for other inmates. 958 00:41:10,519 --> 00:41:13,499 In August, 1994, he was attacked in the 959 00:41:13,499 --> 00:41:16,014 prison chapel with a crudely fashioned knife. 960 00:41:16,014 --> 00:41:18,039 He survived. 961 00:41:18,039 --> 00:41:21,369 But on November 29th, 1994, 962 00:41:21,369 --> 00:41:23,029 inmate Christopher Scarver, who called 963 00:41:23,029 --> 00:41:25,067 himself Christ, bludgeoned Dahmer with a 964 00:41:25,067 --> 00:41:30,068 metal rod from the prison gym. 965 00:41:30,068 --> 00:41:35,339 Dahmer died on the way to the hospital. 966 00:41:35,339 --> 00:41:37,349 Among his last wishes, Dahmer had asked 967 00:41:37,349 --> 00:41:39,569 to be cremated. His ashes were split 968 00:41:39,569 --> 00:41:41,022 between his mother and father. 969 00:41:41,022 --> 00:41:43,007 "There are statements in his will and testament 970 00:41:43,007 --> 00:41:47,098 that say I don't want a marker, I don't want a grave, 971 00:41:47,098 --> 00:41:51,869 I don't want a funeral, I don't want any kind of 972 00:41:51,869 --> 00:41:55,048 he's saying I want to be wiped out." 973 00:41:55,048 --> 00:41:57,259 But the horrible questions that his 974 00:41:57,259 --> 00:41:59,779 life of killing posed do continue 975 00:41:59,779 --> 00:42:01,004 and they defy answers. 976 00:42:01,004 --> 00:42:03,071 "There were mysteries of mysteries 977 00:42:03,071 --> 00:42:09,068 that will never be solved. Even if he lived 978 00:42:09,068 --> 00:42:10,041 I don't know that what he was all about 979 00:42:10,041 --> 00:42:13,016 would ever be solved. Except maybes." 980 00:42:13,016 --> 00:42:16,038 "It's hard when there is no explanations 981 00:42:16,038 --> 00:42:18,009 sure there were red flags in Jeff's life 982 00:42:18,009 --> 00:42:20,046 but no one knew about them. 983 00:42:20,046 --> 99:59:59,999 He was so secretive and so careful."