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Jeffrey Dahmer The Monster Within (Documentary)

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    The crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer
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    made the world cringe.
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    Seventeen murders
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    Cannibalism
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    Sex with the dead.
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    A man who made is Milwaukee apartment
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    into a violent and neurotic death chamber.
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    "One thing led to another
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    it took more and more deviant type
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    of behaviors to satisfy
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    My urges."
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    Dahmer even tried to create living
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    sex zombies by injecting acid into their brains.
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    Jeffrey Dahmer it seemed, was a close to
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    raw evil as the world had ever known.
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    "Jeffrey thought he was the devil,
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    Jeffrey thought he was so evil
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    that he was equal to the devil."
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    (music)
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    The first child of Joyce and Lionel Dahmer
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    was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin
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    on May 21st, 1960, just before their first
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    anniversary. His name was Jeffrey.
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    "It was a very happy when Jeff
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    was first born and for a couple of
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    months it was like everything was brand new
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    and very, very um enjoyable and happy.
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    Looking forward to the future."
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    While Jeff's father pursued his chemistry
    degree,
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    Jeff grew into a bright and loving child.
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    "He was very exuberant, he liked to wrestle.
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    He liked to run around and ham it up for the
    camera.
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    And he liked to play with kids,
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    liked to get together with them.
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    He was very outgoing."
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    Jeff was also a very curious child.
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    "He seemed to want to play with things
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    and feel things and get to know their
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    texture and he seemed to be very in tuned
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    with what's around him. He just wanted
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    to know what was going on."
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    He had a fascination with animals
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    as a youngster. Once, 4 year old
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    Jeff watched his father collect the bones
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    of small animals that had died under the house.
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    "I had brought them out, put them in a metal
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    pail just to collect them all in one place,
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    and they had dropped in with sort of clanky
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    noise and Jeff seemed sort of interested
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    in that noise and he took a whole and let
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    them drop too.
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    You know, in retrospect, everything
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    looks grim and dark and sinister,
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    like you know could that be the start of
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    something evil. Well, I have to admit,
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    it's simply just the curiosity of a child."
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    Lionel finished his schooling with a PhD
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    in chemistry. The family moved to Ohio,
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    relocating 3 times before settling down
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    on a nearly 2 acre wooden lot in the town
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    of Bath, an hours drive south of Cleveland.
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    It was then that Lionel began to notice
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    the previously gregarious Jeff
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    had become shy and withdrawn.
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    "He did seem to be awkward socially
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    and just didn't feel comfortable."
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    To take his mind off of the move,
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    7 year Jeff was given a dog, Frisky,
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    who he loved dearly.
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    "With the people he new, or his new pet,
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    um the next door neighbor boy, he was very
    relaxed
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    but there was this shyness and feeling of
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    inferiority that we were concerned about at
    that time."
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    What the Dahmer's thought their son needed
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    was to feel more involved, so they let
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    Jeff choose the name of their second son,
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    Jeff named his brother David.
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    Lionel also encouraged his son to
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    participate in activities that would include
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    contact with other kids.
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    "What we were trying to do was involve
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    Jeff in those activities with the thought
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    that involvement would lead to human involvement,
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    forced almost, interaction."
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    And on the weekends, father and son planted
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    gardens and raised sheep for competitions
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    at 4H fairs.
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    To commemorate their gardening days,
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    young Jeff gave his father a handmade card
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    with a poem.
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    "There's a picture of me eating
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    an ear of corn on the front, and Jeff
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    says 'the squash and the pumpkins
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    can never compare to the dad that has curly
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    hair.' and it says 'this poem is from Jeff
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    and I love you to death.'"
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    When Jeff was 10, his mother was hospitalized
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    and treated for anxiety.
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    From their, his parents marriage began to
    fail.
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    Jeff's fascination with nature and
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    small animals continued into his teenage years
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    where he became curious about what they
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    looked like on the inside.
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    For specimens, he collected road kill,
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    riding around the country roads in Bath
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    carrying garbage bags, Jeff searched
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    for carcasses. Jeff brought road kill
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    he found into the backyard of the house,
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    and there in the secrecy of the woods,
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    he dissected the animals.
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    "I really have become convinced
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    that was the starting point of this downward
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    spiral of his. And it was associated
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    with just puberty, and when you have
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    hormones kicking into this, this
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    terrible mixture, what he's doing,
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    he's investigating insides of animals,
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    and his sexuality was developing at the same
    time."
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    Teenage Jeff was discovering that he
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    felt sexually attracted only to men,
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    but the thoughts with sex with men
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    became interlocked with fantasies of killing
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    another men and dismemberment.
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    The fantasies excited him, but were unspeakable.
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    "I think it was around age 14 or 15
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    I started to have obsessive thoughts
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    of violence, intermingled with sex
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    and it just got worse and worse,
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    I didn't know how to tell anyone about it,
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    so I didn't, I just kept it all inside."
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    The fantasies included lying next to
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    an unconscious man, for the first time,
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    Jeff's fantasies crossed the line
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    from his mind into action.
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    He devised a plan,
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    he would knock out a local jogger with a bat
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    and lie next to him.
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    On the day he opted to wait for his victim,
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    the jogger didn't run by,
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    he never attempted the clubbing a second time.
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    As he entered high school,
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    his sexual fantasies traumatized him.
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    He began drinking. On the way to classes
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    in the morning, he would fill a cup
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    with hard liquor at a friend's house.
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    "And I remember sitting next to him in
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    um, first period, I believe history class,
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    and he had a Styrofoam cup of scotch I believe.
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    I remember saying, 'Jeff what is that?' and
    he
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    threw his head back and he said, 'It's my
    medicine."
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    But clearly, he was getting drunk at 8 o'clock
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    in the morning."
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    At home, Jeff was watching his parents
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    marriage dissolve. When their bickering
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    escalated to open fighting, he retreated
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    to the forested backyard, slapping tree trunk
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    with sticks.
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    "I would leave the house, run out
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    in the woods and sulk, wondering
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    why they had to have such a rough relationship."
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    He remained aloof with few interests and
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    no close friendships.
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    But he still seemed to have a sense of humor.
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    On the high school tennis team,
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    Jeff spent most of his time goofing around
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    rather than playing a serious game.
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    But more often than not, the jokes where
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    at Jeff's expense. He gained a reputation
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    as the class clown, acting out in a
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    bizarre or unexpected manner became known
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    as "doing a Dahmer."
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    "All of a sudden you would be walking down
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    the hall, and you would hear someone
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    yelling or and hollering and running
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    through the hallway and it's Jeff Dahmer
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    in the middle of the day,
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    running, flapping his arms, yelling
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    'Hurrican drill, hurricane drill, everybody
    hide.'
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    At one point, Jeff collected money from
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    classmates in exchange for a show at the mall.
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    "And a woman is handing out samples of
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    sunflower seeds, and Jeff is taking one
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    and then another and then another,
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    being very polite as he always was,
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    and then just spits them out all over the
    place,
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    and starts yelling at the top of his lungs
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    'I'm allergic, I'm alleric!' and runs away."
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    During his junior high, Jeff went along
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    on a school sponsored trip to Washington D.C.
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    "And Jeff said, 'I have an idea, let's go
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    see the Vice President.' And we all sort
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    of laughed and said sure, the Vice President."
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    Jeff went to a payphone, when he returned,
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    he announced that they would be seen in the
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    office of Vice President Walter Mondale in
    2 hours.
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    "He has explained that we were high school
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    students from Ohio, working on our school
    newspaper,
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    and we were in town for a week and could
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    we come and talk to someone in the Vice President's
    office."
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    His slick talking worked. Dahmer had
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    gotten his classmates inside the executive
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    office building to meet with Mondale.
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    In the classroom, Jeff was something
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    of a model student.
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    "Very polite to adults, dressed very nice,
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    very respectful to teachers, um
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    did his work, he could be an "A" student
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    if he wanted to. Other times he would fail
    the
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    class because he had no interest.
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    He could be very polite with very good manners,
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    'Yes sir, no sir' when he spoke with teachers."
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    He was perfecting his ability to fool
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    authority figures, but as time went on,
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    Jeff became less interested with his
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    performance at school.
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    "No one really knew what was going on in his
    mind,
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    he didn't really open up to anybody
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    he didn't have any close friends,
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    and he had really slipped away from his
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    social life. The older we got in high school."
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    At the school near Bath, Ohio, Jeff
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    remained an alcoholic outcast,
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    his behavior was the subject of mockery
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    from other students.
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    "I don't think he connected, you know
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    he didn't engage with people.
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    So if you don't engage with people,
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    you um, you know, give and take of conversation
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    and feelings, you end up internalizing a lot
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    you fantasize a lot and then the next step
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    is to think that some of those fantasies are
    real."
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    A step Jeff was ready to make,
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    he would kill his first victim just after
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    high school graduation.
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    For Jeffrey Dahmer, the summer of 1978
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    started with high school graduation.
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    It would be down hill from there.
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    His parents, after years of open and bitter
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    fighting, divorced.
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    Jeffrey's father, Lionel, moved out of the
    family's house
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    in Bath and into this nearby motel
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    unbeknownst to Lionel, Jeff's mother
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    took younger brother David and moved to Wisconsin.
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    Jeffrey found himself home lone.
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    Jeffrey was 18, and like most teens his age,
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    he had active sexual fantasies.
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    But Jeffrey's deviated from the norm
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    to include thoughts of killing his lover.
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    Now the isolation of the empty family home
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    gave him the opportunity to act out those
    fantasies.
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    Just weeks after graduation,
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    Jeffrey picked up a hitch hiker along the
    road.
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    It was 18 year old Steven Hicks.
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    "I wish I had just kept going, but I didn't.
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    I turned around, picked up him, and
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    that's when, that's when the nightmare
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    became a reality."
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    Jeffrey invited Hicks back to the house
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    they drank beers, and spent a couple of hours
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    just hanging out.
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    Then Hicks said he had to go, but Jeffrey
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    didn't want to be alone.
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    He attacked Hicks, knocking him out
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    with a barbell, and then he strangled him.
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    Dahmer had fulfilled his fantasy,
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    but he was lucid enough to know he
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    had committed a murder. He quickly began
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    to hide the evidence.
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    He dismembered Hicks' body with a knife,
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    a skill he had practiced as a younger teen
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    with roadkill.
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    He put the pieces into trash bags,
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    and loaded them into his car in the middle
    of the night.
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    He was heading for a dump site
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    when he was pulled over by the police
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    for drifting over the center line.
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    The officer asked Jeff what was in the bags
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    and why was he out so late.
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    Jeff was trapped for the first time,
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    but he was ready with a lie.
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    He cooly told the cops that he was troubled
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    by his parents' divorce and couldn't sleep.
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    So he thought a trip to the dump would
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    take his mind off of things.
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    The police let him go with a ticket.
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    Jeffrey turned home, racked with guilt
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    over the murder. He stashed the bones
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    of Steven Hicks under the house for 2 weeks.
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    Then he smashed them to bits with a sledge
    hammer.
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    Behind the house, Jeff spun in a circle,
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    tossing the fragments among the leaves and
    brush.
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    In August, Jeffrey's father stopped by the
    house.
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    "I said, 'where is your mother? Where's
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    Dave?' and he said 'they're gone.'
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    I said, 'what do you mean?' 'They're gone
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    they left.'
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    Jeff's father moved back into the house
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    he encouraged Jeff to find a job.
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    But Jeff wasn't interested.
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    He spent his days drinking,
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    even getting himself arrested for
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    public intoxication.
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    Lionel took his son to Alcoholics Anonymous
    meetings
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    and psychological counseling sessions.
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    They had little impact.
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    Nothing could erase the violence and terror
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    his first murder had imprinted on his mind.
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    Only the alcohol seemed to provide relief.
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    By the end of the summer,
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    Jeff was still jobless,
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    so Lionel suggested an alternative
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    college.
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    He enrolled Jeff at Ohio State.
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    But Jeff spent the first quarter in
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    a drunken state, selling his blood
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    to plasma centers and spending the money
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    on beer.
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    Predictably, Dahmer flunked out and
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    returned home
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    "I said, Jeff the doors are closing
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    um, I think perhaps the armed services
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    might be something that you need."
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    Like all the other choices that had been
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    made for him, Jeff passively went along
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    with his enlistment.
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    After his basic training was complete,
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    he left for an army hospital in San Antonio
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    Texas, where he was given specialized
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    instruction as a field medic.
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    There, Dahmer learned more about
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    human anatomy.
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    For one of the first times in his life,
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    he was excited about what he was doing,
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    responding to instruction and discipline.
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    After 6 months in the Army,
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    his sluggish body had become lean and strong.
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    Normally shy and reclusive,
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    Jeff became outgoing, even smiling.
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    But the mood swing was temporary.
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    The Army sent him for a tour of duty
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    in Germany, and there once again,
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    Jeff emptied bottle after bottle.
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    His superiors noticed and gave Dahmer
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    an early discharge.
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    He went directly to Miami Beach
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    without contacting his family.
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    He worked at a sandwich shop and lived
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    out of a motel.
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    When his booze bills exceeded the room cost
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    Jeff took to sleeping on the beach.
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    "He was terrified one night
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    when a rat, big huge rat, came crawling over
    him
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    and he called us, he said he needs some money
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    I said we won't send you money but
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    we will send you a ticket.
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    You can come home.
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    So I met him at the airport,
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    Cleveland Hopkins Airport and
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    he had a smile on his face,
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    but as I got closer, it wasn't a smile
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    of happiness, it was a smile of
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    Lionel tried for a year to help his
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    inebriation. "
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    alcoholic son, to no avail,
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    Jeff was sent to stay with his father's
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    mother near Milwaukee.
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    There, he seemed to find some stability
  • 16:50 - 16:53
    at last, making a concentrated effort to
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    turn his life around. He stopped drinking,
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    went to church with his grandmother,
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    and he fought what he believed were
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    immoral homosexual urges
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    which eventually led to his inescapable
  • 17:04 - 17:07
    fantasies about murder.
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    Dahmer even found jobs, first at a blood bank
  • 17:09 - 17:11
    and then working nights as a chocolate mixer
  • 17:11 - 17:14
    in a candy factory.
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    But the lifestyle of church going and right
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    living as he called it
  • 17:18 - 17:22
    didn't last. After 3 quiet years in his
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    grandmothers home, Jeff came face to face
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    with his fears.
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    At the library, a man handed him a note
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    offering sexual favors.
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    Dahmer declined, but later would say
  • 17:32 - 17:34
    the note was a turning point.
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    He awakened sexual desires deep inside him
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    specifically, he wanted the submissive
  • 17:39 - 17:41
    company of another male,
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    he wanted someone to fulfill his sexual needs
  • 17:43 - 17:45
    but he didn't want to be burdened
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    by anyone else's needs.
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    Jeffrey started with a perfectly
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    submissive partner.
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    He stole a store window mannequin.
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    He kept the plastic man in his closet
  • 17:57 - 17:59
    bringing it out to masterbate to until
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    his grandmother found it and insisted
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    he get rid of it.
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    On his free nights
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    Jeffrey began exploring gay life in
  • 18:07 - 18:09
    Milwaukee, browsing through porn shops
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    and going to bath houses.
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    The bath clubs catered mostly to men
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    seeking anonymous sex.
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    To make his partners there submissive
  • 18:17 - 18:19
    Jeffrey gave them drinks laced with
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    sleeping pills.
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    When they fell unconscious,
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    he would lie down next to them,
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    listening to the sounds of their bodies.
  • 18:27 - 18:30
    Their heartbeats, their stomachs,
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    but the druging experiments, when one man
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    over dosed and spent a week in a hospital.
  • 18:35 - 18:39
    Jeff was asked never to return to the club.
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    But he then discovered the gay bars and
  • 18:41 - 18:43
    discos of Milwaukee.
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    These would become the killer's favorite
  • 18:45 - 18:51
    hunting grounds.
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    By his late 20's, Jeffrey Dahmer
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    was settled in Milwaukee,
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    living at his grandmother's and
  • 18:56 - 18:58
    prowling the cities gay scene.
  • 18:58 - 19:01
    No one suspected that this reclusive loner
  • 19:01 - 19:03
    with boyish good looks was on his way to
  • 19:03 - 19:07
    becoming a psychopathic serial killer.
  • 19:07 - 19:11
    "He did take pleasure in the fact
  • 19:11 - 19:13
    that he was in control of his own
  • 19:13 - 19:15
    little world. That nobody knew what
  • 19:15 - 19:18
    was going on, that he was the master of it."
  • 19:18 - 19:20
    "Dahmer could fit in any group
  • 19:20 - 19:22
    and you wouldn't say oh he must be crazy
  • 19:22 - 19:24
    or he must be a killer. That's why
  • 19:24 - 19:25
    he was so successful.
  • 19:25 - 19:27
    He wasn't a repulsive individual."
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    Certainly not in Milwaukee's gay clubs.
  • 19:30 - 19:32
    "We have it on good facts
  • 19:32 - 19:34
    that he was considered somewhat of a honey
  • 19:34 - 19:35
    in the gay community.
  • 19:35 - 19:38
    That people found him attractive.
  • 19:38 - 19:39
    Several people told us that he was
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    the kind of guy you wanted to take care of
  • 19:41 - 19:42
    you wanted to baby him."
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    But Dahmer had very specific requirements
  • 19:45 - 19:45
    for his men.
  • 19:45 - 19:49
    "He chose a body style. He liked long
  • 19:49 - 19:54
    lean smooth muscular body styles and it didn't
  • 19:54 - 19:56
    matter if they were black, white, yellow
  • 19:56 - 20:00
    or brown, if he found them attractive,
  • 20:00 - 20:02
    he would try to get them."
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    In November 1987, Dahmer met 25 year old
  • 20:06 - 20:10
    Steve Toomey at a downtown club called 219
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    after a few drinks they left the bar
  • 20:11 - 20:15
    for a night at the nearby Embassador Hotel.
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    Dahmer used an old trick to get Toomey
  • 20:17 - 20:19
    into the submissive state he craved.
  • 20:19 - 20:23
    "I put some sleeping pills in his drink
  • 20:23 - 20:24
    to render him unconscious and um
  • 20:24 - 20:31
    was just going to spend the night with him
  • 20:31 - 20:33
    when I woke up in the morning, my
  • 20:33 - 20:35
    fore arms were bruised
  • 20:35 - 20:38
    and his chest was bruised and blood
  • 20:38 - 20:40
    was coming out of his mouth,
  • 20:40 - 20:43
    he was hanging over the side of the bed
  • 20:43 - 20:46
    and um, I have no memory of beating him to
    death.
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    But I must of."
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    But Dahmer didn't panic.
  • 20:49 - 20:53
    He went out and bought the biggest suitcase
    he could find.
  • 20:53 - 20:55
    At the hotel, he crammed Toomey's body
  • 20:55 - 20:58
    into the case, dragged it into a taxi,
  • 20:58 - 21:00
    went back to his grandmother's house
  • 21:00 - 21:02
    and dismembered Toomey in the basement.
  • 21:02 - 21:06
    "That's when the obsession went into full
    swing."
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    "He decided after the second death
  • 21:08 - 21:10
    he would no longer attempt to control
  • 21:10 - 21:12
    his desires, that he would give full
  • 21:12 - 21:15
    reign to them, yield entirely to them
  • 21:15 - 21:18
    and after that his life became the
  • 21:18 - 21:21
    pursuit of unmitigated sexual pleasure."
  • 21:21 - 21:24
    Dahmer now decided to pursue his fantasies
  • 21:24 - 21:27
    of ultimate control. It was no longer enough
  • 21:27 - 21:30
    for his partners submissive just a night.
  • 21:30 - 21:32
    He wanted to keep them that way forever.
  • 21:32 - 21:34
    So with the intent to murder and then
  • 21:34 - 21:36
    butcher the men he picked up,
  • 21:36 - 21:38
    Dahmer returned to the clubs.
  • 21:38 - 21:41
    At a bus stop outside 219,
  • 21:41 - 21:44
    he met 14 year old James Docksdater.
  • 21:44 - 21:46
    Dahmer offered him $50 to spend the night
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    with him. They took the bus back to
  • 21:48 - 21:50
    Dahmer's grandmothers while she
  • 21:50 - 21:53
    slept, Jeff and Docksdater had oral sex
  • 21:53 - 21:57
    then Dahmer drugged and strangled him
  • 21:57 - 21:59
    his preferred method of killing.
  • 21:59 - 22:01
    "He stated that in no way did he want to
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    hurt anybody, as funny as it sounds,
  • 22:04 - 22:07
    that is the reason why he killed everyone
  • 22:07 - 22:09
    by strangling them, because not only did
  • 22:09 - 22:12
    he get the power and the thill of
  • 22:12 - 22:14
    committing the murder, but it was
  • 22:14 - 22:16
    also the most humane way."
  • 22:16 - 22:18
    With Docksdater, Dahmer further explored
  • 22:18 - 22:20
    his dark fantasies.
  • 22:20 - 22:22
    He hid the body in the basement for
  • 22:22 - 22:24
    a week and continued to have sex with it.
  • 22:24 - 22:28
    "Most serial killers are sexual deviants
  • 22:28 - 22:32
    who are social and psychological
  • 22:32 - 22:36
    sociopaths and sexual sexiopaths
  • 22:36 - 22:40
    who kill people for their own sexual gratification.
  • 22:40 - 22:43
    Dahmer was different than that.
  • 22:43 - 22:45
    He was a true necrophiliac
  • 22:45 - 22:48
    he was trying to have sex with an
  • 22:48 - 22:51
    unconscious or dead person."
  • 22:51 - 22:54
    Once Docksdater started to decay,
  • 22:54 - 22:57
    Dahmer dismembered him near a floor drain
  • 22:57 - 22:59
    just as he had with Toomey.
  • 22:59 - 23:01
    Dahmer was now drinking heavily
  • 23:01 - 23:03
    again, especially on the nights he
  • 23:03 - 23:04
    planned to murder.
  • 23:04 - 23:07
    By the time he killed he would be stoned drunk.
  • 23:07 - 23:09
    "He drank because his conscious was
  • 23:09 - 23:12
    so strong. This isn't a man that
  • 23:12 - 23:13
    didn't know the difference of right
  • 23:13 - 23:15
    from wrong."
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    Two months after killing Docksdater
  • 23:17 - 23:20
    Dahmer picked up 21 year old Richard Guierro
  • 23:20 - 23:21
    from a Milwaukee bar,
  • 23:21 - 23:24
    again offering him money to spend the night.
  • 23:24 - 23:26
    In a familiar pattern,
  • 23:26 - 23:29
    Dahmer drugged and strangled him.
  • 23:29 - 23:30
    He spent a few hours with the corpse
  • 23:30 - 23:32
    before dismembering it.
  • 23:32 - 23:33
    He then placed the body parts
  • 23:33 - 23:35
    into trash bags for the city
  • 23:35 - 23:40
    garbage collection the next day.
  • 23:40 - 23:42
    In the summer of 1988,
  • 23:42 - 23:44
    Jeff's grandmother had asked him to move out.
  • 23:44 - 23:45
    She had been troubled by Jeff's
  • 23:45 - 23:48
    late hours, the mannequin in his bedroom,
  • 23:48 - 23:51
    and now unidentified foul smells
  • 23:51 - 23:52
    from the basement.
  • 23:52 - 23:55
    He took an apartment on Milwaukee's
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    west side, and immediately
  • 23:57 - 24:00
    accelerated his downward spiral
  • 24:00 - 24:02
    when he approached a 13 year old
  • 24:02 - 24:03
    boy on the street and lured him
  • 24:03 - 24:05
    into the apartment.
  • 24:05 - 24:08
    Inside, Dahmer scared the boy by
  • 24:08 - 24:11
    fondling him and the youngster ran
  • 24:11 - 24:15
    from the apartment.
  • 24:15 - 24:17
    Dahmer was convicted on 2nd degree
  • 24:17 - 24:19
    sexual assault charges only.
  • 24:19 - 24:21
    The murders were still his secret.
  • 24:21 - 24:23
    He was sentenced to 1 year in a work
  • 24:23 - 24:24
    release program, which required
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    to spend his nights in a prison
  • 24:26 - 24:28
    dormitory while he continued working
  • 24:28 - 24:32
    at the chocolate factory.
  • 24:32 - 24:34
    In the 10 days before he began
  • 24:34 - 24:36
    his sentence, Dahmer struck again.
  • 24:36 - 24:39
    He met 26 year old, Anthony Sears
  • 24:39 - 24:42
    at the gay club "La Cashe" and killed him.
  • 24:42 - 24:45
    He mummified Sear's head and genitals
  • 24:45 - 24:46
    and kept them inside his locker
  • 24:46 - 24:49
    at the chocolate factory.
  • 24:49 - 24:51
    Towards the end of the work release term,
  • 24:51 - 24:53
    Jeff's father wrote to the judge
  • 24:53 - 24:55
    and urged him to put Jeff in an
  • 24:55 - 24:58
    alcoholic treatment program writing,
  • 24:58 - 25:00
    I have tremendous reservations regarding
  • 25:00 - 25:04
    Jeff's chances when he hits the streets.
  • 25:04 - 25:06
    No program was ordered.
  • 25:06 - 25:09
    Jeff was release 2 months early.
  • 25:09 - 25:11
    He moved into another low income
  • 25:11 - 25:14
    neighborhood in Milwaukee.
  • 25:14 - 25:16
    The rent at the Oxford Apartments was cheap
  • 25:16 - 25:20
    and the location was close to the gay clubs.
  • 25:20 - 25:22
    On his own again, he was free to feed
  • 25:22 - 25:25
    his relentless sexual urges.
  • 25:25 - 25:27
    Within 3 weeks of his release,
  • 25:27 - 25:30
    Dahmer began a 1 year killing frenzy.
  • 25:30 - 25:33
    He would leave 13 more families
  • 25:33 - 25:35
    most of them African American,
  • 25:35 - 25:36
    searching for loved ones
  • 25:36 - 25:38
    who had simply, disappeared.
  • 25:38 - 25:41
    The police too searched in vain.
  • 25:41 - 25:44
    "Once Jeff started on his killing spree,
  • 25:44 - 25:45
    all his financial resources,
  • 25:45 - 25:48
    all of his time, money, effort,
  • 25:48 - 25:51
    desires, emotions, thoughts, went into
  • 25:51 - 25:53
    his secret world of killing people and
  • 25:53 - 25:55
    keeping them with him.
  • 25:55 - 25:57
    Many times he talked about trying to
  • 25:57 - 25:59
    fight it, even after he killed a
  • 25:59 - 26:00
    couple people saying how he wasn't
  • 26:00 - 26:01
    going to do it again,
  • 26:01 - 26:03
    but within a month he would be out
  • 26:03 - 26:05
    at the bars stalking."
  • 26:05 - 26:08
    One victim almost got away.
  • 26:08 - 26:10
    Dahmer had drugged 14 year old
  • 26:10 - 26:12
    Konerak Sinthasomphone.
  • 26:12 - 26:13
    The brother of the boy Dahmer
  • 26:13 - 26:16
    had been jailed for molesting the year before.
  • 26:16 - 26:18
    As Konerak slept, Dahmer went out
  • 26:18 - 26:21
    to buy more liquor. But while he was gone,
  • 26:21 - 26:24
    the teen woke up. He staggered out
  • 26:24 - 26:25
    to the street naked.
  • 26:25 - 26:45
    A concerned neighbor called 9-1-1.
  • 26:45 - 26:47
    Police arrived by this time Dahmer
  • 26:47 - 26:48
    had returned from his beer run.
  • 26:48 - 26:51
    As he had with police in Bath Ohio,
  • 26:51 - 26:52
    after his first killing,
  • 26:52 - 26:55
    Dahmer smoothly lied.
  • 26:55 - 26:56
    He told police that Konerak was
  • 26:56 - 26:58
    his gay lover that simply had
  • 26:58 - 26:59
    too much to drink.
  • 26:59 - 27:01
    He brought the cops into his apartments
  • 27:01 - 27:03
    and showed them polaroids he taken
  • 27:03 - 27:07
    of the teen. Proof of their relationship.
  • 27:07 - 27:09
    The police believed the 14 year old
  • 27:09 - 27:11
    was of legal age and left him behind
  • 27:11 - 27:12
    with Dahmer.
  • 27:12 - 27:14
    They wrote the incident off as a
  • 27:14 - 27:15
    lover's quarrel.
  • 27:15 - 27:17
    Again, Dahmer had been slippery enough
  • 27:17 - 27:20
    to keep his killings a secret.
  • 27:20 - 27:21
    As soon as the cops left,
  • 27:21 - 27:25
    he murdered the boy.
  • 27:25 - 27:26
    Inside Dahmer's apartment,
  • 27:26 - 27:28
    the bodies started to pile up.
  • 27:28 - 27:31
    So he bought a 50 gallon sized drum
  • 27:31 - 27:31
    and he filled it up with
  • 27:31 - 27:33
    a powerful acid to dissolve
  • 27:33 - 27:36
    the dismembered limbs and torsos.
  • 27:36 - 27:37
    After weeks in the acid,
  • 27:37 - 27:38
    the remains of Dahmer's would be
  • 27:38 - 27:40
    lovers became slug which
  • 27:40 - 27:42
    he flushed down the toilet or
  • 27:42 - 27:45
    the bathtub drain.
  • 27:45 - 27:46
    For others, Jeffrey boiled
  • 27:46 - 27:49
    the skin off their bones on the stove.
  • 27:49 - 27:50
    A sweet bitter odor of death
  • 27:50 - 27:53
    began to infest the building,
  • 27:53 - 27:54
    and many tenants traced
  • 27:54 - 27:57
    the smells straight to Dahmer's door.
  • 27:57 - 27:58
    "It was awfully funny, whatever
  • 27:58 - 28:00
    Jeff was cookin'. Jeff never bought
  • 28:00 - 28:02
    no groceries, so what could
  • 28:02 - 28:03
    have been cookin'?
  • 28:03 - 28:06
    That smelled like chitlins.
  • 28:06 - 28:11
    Chitlins have very peculiar nasty odor to
    them.
  • 28:11 - 28:13
    You know?"
  • 28:13 - 28:16
    Dahmer was pathologically lonesome,
  • 28:16 - 28:17
    not wanting his sexual partners to
  • 28:17 - 28:19
    leave him even after death.
  • 28:19 - 28:21
    He took keepsake photos while
  • 28:21 - 28:24
    removing their flesh and preserved
  • 28:24 - 28:25
    certain parts.
  • 28:25 - 28:27
    "And one thing led to another
  • 28:27 - 28:32
    it took more and more deviant type
  • 28:32 - 28:38
    behaviors to satisfy my urges."
  • 28:38 - 28:40
    He devised a plan to build a shrine
  • 28:40 - 28:41
    out of skeletons and skulls, but
  • 28:41 - 28:43
    he was still in search for the perfect
  • 28:43 - 28:45
    partner, one that was completely
  • 28:45 - 28:50
    submissive but alive and not prone to decay.
  • 28:50 - 28:52
    On a few still living victims,
  • 28:52 - 28:54
    Dahmer used a power drill to open small
  • 28:54 - 28:56
    holes in their skulls, then he
  • 28:56 - 28:58
    injected acid into their brains.
  • 28:58 - 29:00
    According to Dahmer, none of his
  • 29:00 - 29:03
    experimental zombies lived longer than
  • 29:03 - 29:06
    a day. And in perhaps the ultimate effort
  • 29:06 - 29:08
    to keep his victims with him,
  • 29:08 - 29:10
    Dahmer began eating their flesh.
  • 29:10 - 29:12
    "It made me feel like they were
  • 29:12 - 29:16
    permanent part of me.
  • 29:16 - 29:19
    Besides just curiosity of what it would
  • 29:19 - 29:20
    be like, it made them feel like
  • 29:20 - 29:22
    they were part of me and it gave me
  • 29:22 - 29:28
    a sexual satisfaction."
  • 29:28 - 29:31
    Throughout this year of ruthless killing
  • 29:31 - 29:33
    Dahmer still appeared outwardly normal.
  • 29:33 - 29:35
    In this video taken at his grandmother's
  • 29:35 - 29:37
    house on Thanksgiving, Dahmer
  • 29:37 - 29:39
    talked calmly with his father.
  • 29:39 - 29:41
    "Well, you are looking good."
  • 29:41 - 29:41
    "Thanks"
  • 29:41 - 29:43
    "Grandma was saying that she thought
  • 29:43 - 29:44
    that you got quite a bit thinner,
  • 29:44 - 29:45
    but you look fit, I don't know."
  • 29:45 - 29:45
    Well, I have been surviving mostly
  • 29:45 - 29:45
    on McDonald's food, so much
  • 29:45 - 29:47
    easier to just pop into a restaurant.
  • 29:47 - 29:54
    Like I said before it gets too expensive,
    and
  • 29:54 - 30:01
    I have to start eating at home more."
  • 30:01 - 30:04
    "It's amazing how he could sit there
  • 30:04 - 30:08
    and appear like he's clean cut,
  • 30:08 - 30:12
    nice jacket on, and talking very
  • 30:12 - 30:17
    hopefully about his job. Intellegent.
  • 30:17 - 30:20
    It's amazing how much a human being
  • 30:20 - 30:23
    can hide from another human being."
  • 30:23 - 30:26
    But careful as he was, Jeffrey Dahmer
  • 30:26 - 30:30
    was about to run out of good lies.
  • 30:30 - 30:36
    In July, 1991, the city of Milwaukee
  • 30:36 - 30:38
    discovered a serial killer.
  • 30:38 - 30:43
    31 year old Jeffrey Dahmer.
  • 30:43 - 30:45
    One man, Tracy Edwards,
  • 30:45 - 30:47
    managed to escape from the horrors
  • 30:47 - 30:49
    of Dahmer's apartment and flagged down
  • 30:49 - 30:51
    a passing patrol car.
  • 30:51 - 30:53
    When the officer's entered the apartment,
  • 30:53 - 30:56
    they found 83 polaroids of bodies
  • 30:56 - 30:58
    in various stages of dismemberment.
  • 30:58 - 31:01
    There were more shocking discoveries in the
    kitchen.
  • 31:01 - 31:04
    "There were 4 fully infleshed
  • 31:04 - 31:06
    skulls still there, sitting
  • 31:06 - 31:07
    in the refrigerator.
  • 31:07 - 31:10
    One officer said he opened the ice box
  • 31:10 - 31:13
    he heard a scream, it was only later that
  • 31:13 - 31:15
    he realized that it was he himself
  • 31:15 - 31:20
    that had screamed."
  • 31:20 - 31:22
    TV news cameras rolled as what
  • 31:22 - 31:25
    was left of the victims was carried out.
  • 31:25 - 31:27
    The 57 gallon drum that was filled
  • 31:27 - 31:29
    with the torsos of 3 men.
  • 31:29 - 31:35
    A freezer with dismembered limbs
  • 31:35 - 31:37
    and flesh, metal cooking pots
  • 31:37 - 31:42
    with mummified hands and genitals.
  • 31:42 - 31:44
    This time there was no lie
  • 31:44 - 31:46
    Dahmer could tell to save himself.
  • 31:46 - 31:49
    "He was walking at a pretty defeated manner
  • 31:49 - 31:50
    his shoulders were hunched, his head
  • 31:50 - 31:52
    was down, he was sweating perfusely.
  • 31:52 - 31:57
    He had a faint, kind of a whining,
  • 31:57 - 31:59
    like a baby crying noise about him."
  • 31:59 - 32:01
    At the police station, detectives
  • 32:01 - 32:05
    began a marathon interview with the
  • 32:05 - 32:05
    suspected killer.
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    Dahmer had first blamed the booze
  • 32:07 - 32:09
    instead of himself, saying he wouldn't
  • 32:09 - 32:12
    have been caught if he hadn't been so drunk,
  • 32:12 - 32:15
    but Dahmer was now clearly scared.
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    "The look of terror and almost hysteria
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    that he had on his face in the interrogation
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    room that first night as he was coming off
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    of the alcohol and he was realizing
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    that the gig was up, he was caught,
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    he did cry several times,
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    he went into a rage, besides
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    asking to kill himself,
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    he stood up and pounced around a couple of
    times."
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    Once Dahmer sobered up,
  • 32:39 - 32:41
    no one could guess at the gruesome
  • 32:41 - 32:41
    details to follow.
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    "He made this statement when I tell you
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    what I am going to tell you, you
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    are going to be famous."
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    And I tried to say Jeff, there is nothing
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    you can tell me that is going to
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    freak me out. And he laughed at that.
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    He said you don't know, you don't
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    know what I have done."
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    Dahmer spent the next 6 weeks with the
  • 33:02 - 33:04
    detectives recounting the murders of 17 men
  • 33:04 - 33:07
    a 159 paged confession.
  • 33:07 - 33:09
    It seemed cathartic to Dahmer to
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    finally get the deeds of the last 13 years
  • 33:12 - 33:17
    off of his chest.
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    With the information from his confession
  • 33:18 - 33:20
    investigators went back to Dahmer's
  • 33:20 - 33:22
    childhood home in Bath Ohio.
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    They raked up the shattered bones
  • 33:24 - 33:31
    of Steven Hicks, Dahmer's first victim.
  • 33:31 - 33:32
    The Milwaukee county coroner started
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    matching skulls with torsos and the police
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    started the sad task of notifying
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    families.
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    Dahmer pleaded guilty but insane.
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    The issue of his sanity would be the sole
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    question before the jury.
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    "You know immediately that it's going
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    to be probably a sanity defense. What
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    can you argue, you can't claim self defense,
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    you can't say you don't know how those
  • 33:54 - 33:56
    bodies got there."
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    Wisconsin had no death penalty,
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    so if the jury found him sane,
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    he would spend the rest of his life
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    in prison. If they found him insane,
  • 34:04 - 34:07
    he would be prisoned in a mental facility.
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    Dahmer himself couldn't understand
  • 34:10 - 34:12
    why he enjoyed fantasizing about murder.
  • 34:12 - 34:14
    "Jeffrey thought he was the devil.
  • 34:14 - 34:17
    Jeffrey thought that he was so evil
  • 34:17 - 34:21
    that he was equal to the devil
  • 34:21 - 34:22
    and he knew there was something wrong with
  • 34:22 - 34:24
    him but he didn't know what it was but
  • 34:24 - 34:27
    he never categorized himself as being insane."
  • 34:27 - 34:28
    The man who entered the Milwaukee
  • 34:28 - 34:32
    County courtroom in January, 1992,
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    appeared completely normal. Until the words
  • 34:35 - 34:37
    of his confession were read in court by
  • 34:37 - 34:38
    Lt. Dennis Murphy.
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    "He said this was a person he really liked,
  • 34:42 - 34:44
    he indicated that he had fileted his heart
  • 34:44 - 34:46
    and kept it in the freezer, and he
  • 34:46 - 34:47
    also kept his bicep.
  • 34:47 - 34:49
    He indicated that he had eaten the
  • 34:49 - 34:51
    thigh muscle of this subject, but it
  • 34:51 - 34:54
    was so tough he could hardly chew it.
  • 34:54 - 34:55
    He then purchased a meat tenderizer and
  • 34:55 - 34:57
    used it on the bicep."
  • 34:57 - 35:00
    Dahmer's father, Lionel, sat in the courtroom
  • 35:00 - 35:02
    beside his second wife, Sherry,
  • 35:02 - 35:06
    stunned by what he heard.
  • 35:06 - 35:08
    "No one softened the blow for us,
  • 35:08 - 35:10
    no one told us, no one prepared us
  • 35:10 - 35:12
    with any of these details.
  • 35:12 - 35:14
    How could this be, how could I not know
  • 35:14 - 35:15
    about it?"
  • 35:15 - 35:17
    Dahmer's crimes seemed to be
  • 35:17 - 35:20
    devastating proof of insanity.
  • 35:20 - 35:22
    What else could explain the actions
  • 35:22 - 35:24
    of a man who had sex with the dead
  • 35:24 - 35:25
    dismembered their bodies,
  • 35:25 - 35:26
    preserved their skulls,
  • 35:26 - 35:28
    and ate their flesh,
  • 35:28 - 35:31
    all for sexual gratification
  • 35:31 - 35:32
    But the law has a very strict
  • 35:32 - 35:34
    interpretation of insanity
  • 35:34 - 35:36
    and Dahmer's defense team had to prove
  • 35:36 - 35:39
    2 things, 1, that he indeed suffered from
  • 35:39 - 35:42
    mental disease, and that it had kept him
  • 35:42 - 35:44
    from knowing right from wrong.
  • 35:44 - 35:47
    necrophilia, a compulsion to have sex
  • 35:47 - 35:49
    with the dead is recognized as a
  • 35:49 - 35:51
    sexual disorder, but it does not make
  • 35:51 - 35:53
    one legally insane.
  • 35:53 - 35:58
    "He argued that the necrophilic drive
  • 35:58 - 36:01
    was such that he could not control it, but
  • 36:01 - 36:02
    we don't accept that in the United States
  • 36:02 - 36:05
    as a defense, no more than we accept a
  • 36:05 - 36:07
    pediphilic drive of the man who wants
  • 36:07 - 36:08
    to have sex with children."
  • 36:08 - 36:14
    "Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury,
  • 36:14 - 36:16
    I understand that you have arrived
  • 36:16 - 36:18
    at a verdict in this manner....."
  • 36:18 - 36:19
    In a 10-2 decision, the jury found
  • 36:19 - 36:24
    Jeffrey Dahmer legally sane.
  • 36:24 - 36:25
    Some relatives of Dahmer's victims
  • 36:25 - 36:28
    sat quietly in court,
  • 36:28 - 36:29
    others cried.
  • 36:29 - 36:31
    Prior to his sentencing,
  • 36:31 - 36:32
    they were allowed to express themselves
  • 36:32 - 36:38
    before the judge.
  • 36:38 - 36:42
    "Jeffrey I hate you BEEP BEEP,
  • 36:42 - 36:45
    I hate you. This is out of control.
  • 36:45 - 36:48
    Don't BEEP with Jeffrey, I'll kill you
  • 36:48 - 36:49
    BEEP. I HATE YOU!!!"
  • 36:49 - 36:51
    Once order was restored,
  • 36:51 - 36:54
    Dahmer spoke publicly for the first time.
  • 36:54 - 36:56
    "I feel so bad for what I did to those poor
  • 36:56 - 36:59
    families and I understand their rightful
  • 36:59 - 37:01
    hate. I have seen their tears and if I
  • 37:01 - 37:02
    could give my life right now to bring
  • 37:02 - 37:05
    their loved ones back I would do it.
  • 37:05 - 37:08
    I am so very sorry."
  • 37:08 - 37:10
    Many questioned the emotional depth of
  • 37:10 - 37:12
    Dahmer's apology, whether a man who
  • 37:12 - 37:18
    killed so routinely, had the conscious
  • 37:18 - 37:18
    to feel remorse.
  • 37:18 - 37:23
    The judge sentenced Dahmer to a 937
  • 37:23 - 37:27
    year prison term, but it
  • 37:27 - 37:33
    would last only a few tormented years.
  • 37:33 - 37:34
    Jeffrey Dahmer's final home
  • 37:34 - 37:37
    was the Columbia Correctional Institution
  • 37:37 - 37:40
    in Portage, Wisconsin.
  • 37:40 - 37:41
    His former residence at the Oxford
  • 37:41 - 37:43
    Apartments in Milwaukee stood as a
  • 37:43 - 37:47
    painful reminder of the lives that
  • 37:47 - 37:49
    ended there so in November 1992,
  • 37:49 - 37:52
    it was demolished.
  • 37:52 - 37:55
    In his prison cell at the age of 32,
  • 37:55 - 37:58
    Dahmer's life became a conflicted introspection
  • 37:58 - 37:59
    trying to sort out the blame for his
  • 37:59 - 38:02
    killing nature and seeking devine
  • 38:02 - 38:04
    forgiveness for it.
  • 38:04 - 38:06
    He had spent time in church as a boy
  • 38:06 - 38:08
    and with his grandmother as an adult,
  • 38:08 - 38:13
    but had lost his religion during the murder
    spree.
  • 38:13 - 38:15
    Dahmer placed the blame for the murders
  • 38:15 - 38:17
    on his atheist beliefs and the theory
  • 38:17 - 38:18
    of evolution.
  • 38:18 - 38:23
    "He said if it all happens naturalistically
  • 38:23 - 38:25
    what's the need for a god. Can't I set my
  • 38:25 - 38:32
    own rules. Who owns me? I own myself."
  • 38:32 - 38:34
    Yet Jeffrey was still a controdiction
  • 38:34 - 38:36
    for he was always quite willing to blame
  • 38:36 - 38:39
    the devil for taking over his soul.
  • 38:39 - 38:40
    The serial killer wondered now
  • 38:40 - 38:45
    what would happen to him when he died.
  • 38:45 - 38:48
    Dahmer decided he wanted to be baptized.
  • 38:48 - 38:50
    Evangelist Roy Ratcliff was called
  • 38:50 - 38:53
    by the prison minister to talk with the inmate
  • 38:53 - 38:53
    in April, 1994.
  • 38:53 - 38:59
    "He was a very congenial, likeable sort
  • 38:59 - 39:01
    of person. I always felt I was dealing with
  • 39:01 - 39:03
    a small boy in a grown up man's body.
  • 39:03 - 39:05
    He could get real excited and interested
  • 39:05 - 39:08
    and neat or cool things that a little boy
  • 39:08 - 39:09
    would get involved in."
  • 39:09 - 39:11
    One month later, Dahmer was taken to
  • 39:11 - 39:14
    the prison's medical center where
  • 39:14 - 39:15
    he was baptized in a whirlpool.
  • 39:15 - 39:20
    "The way we walked other prisoners with
  • 39:20 - 39:21
    mops and brooms and various cleaning supplies
  • 39:21 - 39:23
    and they would look up and the only one
  • 39:23 - 39:26
    they saw who they recognized was Jeff,
  • 39:26 - 39:28
    and they would call out in a very friendly
  • 39:28 - 39:30
    banter "Hey J.D. how's it going?"
  • 39:30 - 39:32
    He would call back, "I'm going to be
  • 39:32 - 39:33
    baptized this is great."
  • 39:33 - 39:35
    Dahmer appeared to be making a remarkable
  • 39:35 - 39:37
    transformation in prison.
  • 39:37 - 39:39
    "He would ask questions,
  • 39:39 - 39:41
    he would say but what about this
  • 39:41 - 39:44
    what about that, so uncharacteristic
  • 39:44 - 39:46
    of the earlier years, go back to senior year
  • 39:46 - 39:49
    in high school, you wouldn't get any of that.
  • 39:49 - 39:53
    He was so interactive, and so concerned
  • 39:53 - 39:56
    about our welfare.
  • 39:56 - 40:01
    He was reaching out, he was rehumanizing."
  • 40:01 - 40:04
    But those dark haunted fantasies
  • 40:04 - 40:04
    remained with Dahmer.
  • 40:04 - 40:08
    "I will probably have live with it for
  • 40:08 - 40:10
    the rest of my life. I wish it would go away
  • 40:10 - 40:12
    I wish I there was some way to completely
    get
  • 40:12 - 40:18
    rid of the compulsive thoughts, the feelings."
  • 40:18 - 40:20
    Dahmer got another reminder of his past
  • 40:20 - 40:22
    when he was visited by Theresa Smith.
  • 40:22 - 40:24
    Dahmer had killed her brother, Eddie.
  • 40:24 - 40:26
    "First thing he did when he came in
  • 40:26 - 40:29
    was apologized for killing my brother.
  • 40:29 - 40:31
    I asked him why my brother and he
  • 40:31 - 40:36
    said he had seen the way he had danced
  • 40:36 - 40:38
    you know and he liked the way he looked
  • 40:38 - 40:41
    and he said I was just attracted to him.
  • 40:41 - 40:44
    He said he had strangle him and um,
  • 40:44 - 40:48
    then he was trying some new experiment or
  • 40:48 - 40:53
    something with preserving the skull and
  • 40:53 - 40:57
    the body and whatever and it didn't work.
  • 40:57 - 41:00
    So he had to destroy him."
  • 41:00 - 41:02
    Dahmer had spent his entire adult life
  • 41:02 - 41:06
    as the predator. But now in prison he
  • 41:06 - 41:09
    became the prey. The notorious serial killer
  • 41:09 - 41:11
    was a target for other inmates.
  • 41:11 - 41:13
    In August, 1994, he was attacked in the
  • 41:13 - 41:16
    prison chapel with a crudely fashioned knife.
  • 41:16 - 41:18
    He survived.
  • 41:18 - 41:21
    But on November 29th, 1994,
  • 41:21 - 41:23
    inmate Christopher Scarver, who called
  • 41:23 - 41:25
    himself Christ, bludgeoned Dahmer with a
  • 41:25 - 41:30
    metal rod from the prison gym.
  • 41:30 - 41:35
    Dahmer died on the way to the hospital.
  • 41:35 - 41:37
    Among his last wishes, Dahmer had asked
  • 41:37 - 41:40
    to be cremated. His ashes were split
  • 41:40 - 41:41
    between his mother and father.
  • 41:41 - 41:43
    "There are statements in his will and testament
  • 41:43 - 41:47
    that say I don't want a marker, I don't want
    a grave,
  • 41:47 - 41:52
    I don't want a funeral, I don't want any kind
    of
  • 41:52 - 41:55
    he's saying I want to be wiped out."
  • 41:55 - 41:57
    But the horrible questions that his
  • 41:57 - 42:00
    life of killing posed do continue
  • 42:00 - 42:01
    and they defy answers.
  • 42:01 - 42:03
    "There were mysteries of mysteries
  • 42:03 - 42:09
    that will never be solved. Even if he lived
  • 42:09 - 42:10
    I don't know that what he was all about
  • 42:10 - 42:13
    would ever be solved. Except maybes."
  • 42:13 - 42:16
    "It's hard when there is no explanations
  • 42:16 - 42:18
    sure there were red flags in Jeff's life
  • 42:18 - 42:20
    but no one knew about them.
  • 42:20 -
    He was so secretive and so careful."
Title:
Jeffrey Dahmer The Monster Within (Documentary)
Video Language:
English
Duration:
43:13
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