Inside the Mind of Jeffrey Dahmer: The Cannibal Killer

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Most of Dahmer's victims had been rendered unconscious prior to their murder, although some had died as a result of having acid or boiling water injected into their brain. As he had no memory of the killing of his second victim, Steven Tuomi, he was unsure whether he was unconscious when beaten to death, although he did concede it was possible that his viewing the exposed chest of Tuomi while in a drunken stupor may have led him to unsuccessfully attempt to tear Tuomi's heart from his chest. [239] Almost all the murders Dahmer committed after moving into the Oxford Apartments had involved a ritual of posing the victims' bodies in suggestive positions—typically with the chest thrust outwards—prior to dismemberment. [240] According to a friend of Hughes named Michael Ross, Hughes had known Dahmer "for a long time" prior to his murder. Ross further expounded: "Tony and Jeff had had [sexual] relations. Tony told me so." [175] Dahmer's murders were committed at a time of heightened racial tension in Milwaukee. A professor of community studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Walter Farrell, later stated race relations in the city had been "in a state of disrepair for nearly a decade" at the time of Dahmer's arrest. [n 19] In an August 1991 interview given to the Christian Science Monitor, Farrell stated that news of the murders, as well as the conduct of Milwaukee police officers John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish with regards to victim Konerak Sinthasomphone, exacerbated and highlighted racial tensions within the city. [320]Lambe, Stacy (October 11, 2022). "Mother of Jeffrey Dahmer Victim Tony Hughes Speaks Out Against Netflix Limited Series". CBS . Retrieved November 8, 2022. Teen Describes Escape from Dahmer". Lodi News-Sentinel. Lodi, California. Associated Press. February 8, 1992. Archived from the original on January 22, 2021 . Retrieved December 5, 2013. Buelow, Michael C. (December 16, 1994). "Bar From Weight Room Used to Kill Dahmer". Herald Journal. Logan, Utah: Adams Publishing Group. Archived from the original on January 22, 2021 . Retrieved April 29, 2018– via Google News.

According to Dahmer, Tuomi's murder was a pivotal incident after which he did not try to control his compulsions. [124] He began to actively seek victims, most of whom he encountered in or around gay bars and would typically lure them to his grandmother's home. He would drug his victim with triazolam or temazepam before or shortly after engaging in sexual activity with them. Once his victim was unconscious, he strangled them to death. [125] [126] Worthington, Rogers (August 7, 1991). "Dahmer Polite In Court As New Charges Are Filed". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois: Tronc. Archived from the original on October 1, 2019 . Retrieved April 29, 2018. April 7: Errol Lindsey, 19. The first victim upon whom Dahmer practiced what he later described to investigators as his "drilling technique", a procedure in which he drilled holes into the victim's skull, through which he injected hydrochloric acid into the brain. According to Dahmer, Lindsey awoke after this practice, after which he was again rendered unconscious with a drink laced with sedatives, then strangled to death. Dahmer flayed Lindsey's body and retained the skin for several weeks. [346] His skull was found following Dahmer's arrest. May 24: Tony Anthony Hughes, 31. Hughes was lured by Dahmer to his apartment upon the promise of posing nude for photographs. As Hughes was deaf, he and Dahmer communicated using handwritten notes. [346] [n 22] The injection of hydrochloric acid into Hughes's skull proved fatal. His body was left on Dahmer's bedroom floor for three days before being dismembered, with Dahmer photographing the dismemberment process. His skull was retained and identified from dental records. [347]Dahmer Cremated". The Vindicator. Youngstown, Ohio. September 18, 1995. p.A3. Archived from the original on January 22, 2021 . Retrieved December 5, 2013. O'Connor, William (July 28, 1991). "And So We Ask: Who - and Why - is This Man?". Akron Beacon Journal . Retrieved November 14, 2022. Dvorchak, Robert J.; Holewa, Lisa (1992). Milwaukee Massacre: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Milwaukee Murders. London: Hale Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7090-5003-2. Walsh, Edward (February 1, 1992). "Man Describes Hours-long Ordeal Before Police Apprehended Dahmer". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 22, 2021 . Retrieved January 22, 2021. Joyce Flint died of cancer on November 27, 2000. Prior to her death, she had attempted suicide on at least one occasion. [330] Dahmer's younger brother, David, changed his surname and lives in anonymity. [331] Victims

a b Bardsley, Marilyn. "Jeffrey Dahmer– Serial Killer and Cannibal– Lust, Booze & Murder". TruTV.com. TruTV Crime Library. Archived from the original on December 15, 2011 . Retrieved July 26, 2010. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link)Imrie, Robert (August 2, 1991). "Officers Were in Dahmer's Apartment". The Times-News. Burlington, North Carolina: New Media Investment Group. Associated Press. Archived from the original on January 20, 2021 . Retrieved December 5, 2013. In January 1985, Dahmer was hired as a mixer at the Milwaukee Ambrosia Chocolate Factory, where he worked from 11p.m to 7a.m. six nights per week, with Saturday evenings off. [102] Shortly after he found this job, an incident occurred in which Dahmer was propositioned by another man while reading in the West Allis Public Library. The stranger threw Dahmer a note offering to perform fellatio upon him. Although Dahmer did not respond to this proposition, [103] the incident stirred in his mind the fantasies of control and dominance he had developed as a teenager, and he began to familiarize himself with Milwaukee's gay bars, gay bathhouses, and bookstores. He also stole a male mannequin from a store, [104] which he briefly used for sexual stimulation, until his grandmother discovered the item stowed in a closet and demanded that he discard it. [105] a b Estate of Sinthasomphone v. City of Milwaukee, 838Federal Supplement1320, 1324(E.D. Wis.November 23, 1993). The Dahmer Chronicles: A Prom, a Seance, and a Victim". The Akron Beacon Journal. August 11, 1991 . Retrieved October 11, 2022.