Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), popularly known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who murdered and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.
Many of his later crimes entailed necrophilia, cannibalism, and the permanent preservation of body parts—typically the entire or a portion of the skeleton.
Dahmer was ruled to be legally sane at his trial despite being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, and psychotic disorder. On February 17, 1992, he was convicted of fifteen of the sixteen homicides he committed in Wisconsin and sentenced to fifteen terms of life imprisonment. Dahmer was eventually sentenced to a sixteenth life sentence for another crime in Ohio in 1978. Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver, a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin, on November 28, 1994.
Dahmer committed his first murder three weeks after graduating in 1978. Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Mark Hicks, who was almost 19, on June 18. Dahmer enticed the young man to his home under the guise of drinking. Hicks, who had hitchhiked to a rock event at Chippewa Lake Park in Ohio, consented to follow Dahmer to his house in exchange for “a couple of beers” with Dahmer because he had the house to himself.
What tools did Jeffrey Dahmer use to dismember his victims?
Among the materials found in Dahmer’s estate were equipment that he may have used to cannibalize victims, saws and blades, and a refrigerator in which police discovered human heads. Families of some of Dahmer’s victims had previously secured a court order directing that the goods be turned over to them.
