American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and passed away on November 28, 1994, in Portage, Wisconsin.
His arrest in 1991 sparked criticism of the local police and increased public interest in serial killings and other crimes.
In 1978, Dahmer carried out his first homicide in Ohio’s Bath Township. In 1987, he committed a second homicide, and over the next five years, he killed 15 more boys and young men, most of whom were poor and of African American, Asian, or Latino descent, mostly in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dahmer’s crimes, which involved cannibalism and necrophilia, were particularly gruesome, despite the fact that other serial killers had killed far more people. In February 1992 Dahmer was condemned to 15 continuous life terms; In May, he received his 16th consecutive life sentence for the 1978 murder. In 1994, a fellow prisoner in Wisconsin murdered Dahmer.
Which Black community did Jeffrey Dahmer live?
Jeffrey Dahmer and his grandmother, Catherine Jemima Hughes, lived in her home in West Allis, a suburb near Milwaukee’s downtown. She claimed to be completely unaware of the murders that took place within her home, which is still standing today at 2357 S. 57th Street. In September 1988, Dahmer moved out of an apartment at 808 North 24th Street and into the Oxford Apartments a year and a half later.
