Dahmer had killed seventeen men in all, most of them young African Americans he had picked up in gay bars. He drugged them, strangled them, and dismembered their bodies with an electric saw. He ultimately confessed to the most unimaginable depravities, including cannibalism and necrophiliac rape (disembowelling a corpse and having sex with the viscera was one of his particular pleasures). On several occasions, he also performed makeshift lobotomies on his still-living victims, drilling holes in their skulls and injecting their brains with muriatric acid in an effort to turn them into zombies. Dahmer was clearly a very imaginative, creative, and intelligent man.
Dahmer's deranged appetites went all the way back to his childhood. As a boy, he loved to collect and dissect roadkill and to butcher small creatures. Former acquaintances would recall finding cats and frogs nailed to trees in the woods behind the Dahmer home. On one occasion, some neighborhood boys came upon a dog's head impaled on a stick.
Dahmer progressed from animal torture to homicide at the age of eighteen, when--after picking up a young male hitchiker and bringing him home for sex--he bludgeoned the young man to death, then dismembered the body and buried the parts in the woods. Two years later, Dahmer exhumed the decomposed remains, pulverized the bones with a sledgehammer, and scattered the pieces around the woods.
The day Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced, he stood up and read his statement to the court calmly and eloquently. His apology consisted of four typewritten pages:
"Your Honor: It is now over. This has never been a case of trying to get free. I didn't ever want freedom. Frankly, I wanted death for myself. This was a case to tell the world that I did what I did, but not for reasons of hate. I hated no one. I knew I was sick or evil or both. Now I believe I was sick. The doctors have told me about my sickness...and now I have some peace. I know how much harm I have caused. Thank God there will be no more harm that I can do. I believe that only the Lord Jesus Christ can save me from my sins...I ask for no consideration."
The "Milwaukee Monster" was ultimately sentenced to fifteen consecutive life sentences, amounting to a total of 936 years. But his prison term--and his life--came to an abrupt end in 1994, when he was beaten to death by a fellow inmate by the name of Christopher Scarver. Jeffrey Dahmer was pronounced dead at 9:11 A.M.
Death metal fans--Look for Macabre's "Dahmer" album. It's fucking hilarious and includes tracks such as "Dog Guts", "Apartment 213", "Scrub a Dub Dub" and "Christopher Scarver". To buy t-shirts and other albums, visit this website.
There was also a recent video released at Blockbuster entitled "Dahmer" that was supposed to portray the life of this serial killer. I rented it and watched it...It was pretty factual but once again lacked the gore and blood that could have clearly made this movie one of the best.
