WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:05.559 This program chronicles the crimes of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, 2 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:08.599 the description of which some viewers may find disturbing. 3 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:10.439 Fewer discretion is advised. 4 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:17.359 There is no question in my mind at what Jeffrey 5 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:20.440 Dahmer became was the embodiment of evil. 6 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:25.000 The first thing that we saw was a human head 7 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:26.440 that was in a refrigerator. 8 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:31.039 The bodies had totally disappeared, not a trace. 9 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:33.479 None of them knew what had happened to their sons. 10 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:36.840 And no one in a million years could have guessed 11 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:41.600 the monstrosity that was inside his head. 12 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:56.320 When the city of Milwaukee awoke on the morning of 13 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:58.479 July twenty third, nineteen ninety. 14 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:01.000 One, the damage had all already been done. 15 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:05.400 Best known for its many breweries, Milwaukee had overnight become 16 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:08.439 notorious as the home of one of the worst serial 17 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:13.000 killers in history. The night before, in a small, one 18 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:17.000 bedroom apartment on the city's west side, police had discovered 19 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:20.799 a death chamber. Only one man ever to escape that 20 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:24.079 apartment to tell the story. Six months later, in the 21 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:28.040 Milwaukee County Courthouse, thirty two year old Tracy Edwards would 22 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:31.120 recount a knight of sheer terror at the hens of 23 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:35.439 Jeffrey Dahmer. Late in the afternoon of July twenty second, 24 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:38.920 Dahmer approached Edwards, who was eating with some friends at 25 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:40.159 the Grand Avenue. 26 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:42.519 Mall, and he said he was a professional photographer. He 27 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:45.480 usually pays peoples for pictures and stuff like that if 28 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:48.519 anybody was interested in making money at that time. 29 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:50.959 He offered Edwards one hundred dollars to pose nude at 30 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:54.319 Dahmer's apartment. According to Edwards, there was no indication of 31 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:55.719 any homosexual intent. 32 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:57.719 He didn't even act like it at that time. 33 00:01:58.200 --> 00:01:58.799 At first. 34 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:02.000 Edwards hesitated, but needed the money and agreed to go 35 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:05.200 to Dummer's apartment to check things out. They entered the 36 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:08.360 Oxford Apartment and complex and Dumber unlocked the door to 37 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:09.759 aputmand two thirty. 38 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:14.080 When we got inside, he turned out burke alarms. I 39 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:16.120 asked him why, first it was a foul odor? 40 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:18.759 Okay, tell us about that? What kind of all? 41 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:20.759 It was just like an odor. I didn't quite know 42 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:22.719 what it was, you know. He told me a sewer 43 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:25.080 pipead broke and management would take care of it. 44 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:30.319 There were security cameras and a sophisticated alarm system. 45 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:32.520 He said. The part of the neighborhood he was in. 46 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:35.879 He was protecting this property. Things like that. It was 47 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:39.520 like normal, pretty decent apartment, had nice things in it. 48 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:43.599 They sat down on the couch. Tracy Edwards suspected nothing. 49 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:47.280 He was simply visiting with a normal everyday person, a 50 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:48.560 good conversationalist. 51 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:51.800 He asked me, was I interested in doing the photography? 52 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:54.800 You know? I told him I I was still contemplating. 53 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:57.599 So therefore he offered me a beer and a rum 54 00:02:57.639 --> 00:02:58.479 and coke mixture. 55 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:01.800 Dumber drank a beer two as Edward slipped at his 56 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:02.520 rum and coke. 57 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:04.960 I'm not a big liquor drink or so it then 58 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:05.800 tastes that good of me. 59 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:09.599 While he didn't know it, then his distaste for liquor 60 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:12.879 may have saved Tracy Edwards's life. The drink was drugged 61 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:16.800 Dummer's motors Operendi for gaining control over his victims, and 62 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:20.800 to Edwards, the mood seemed to grow heavy. He decided 63 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:22.719 to skip the photos and prepared to leave. 64 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:25.280 Yeah. Then I was just, I don't know, getting a 65 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:27.919 little agitated, maybe you know, because of the smell and things. 66 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:31.080 And then he threw my conversation off talking about the 67 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:33.360 fist in the fish tank. You know, As. 68 00:03:33.319 --> 00:03:36.439 Edwards turned to look at the fish, Dumber seized the moment. 69 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:39.800 He slapped a handcuff on Edward's left wrist and placed 70 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:41.560 a large knife against his ribs. 71 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:44.159 I think, like, you know what's going on? You know, 72 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:46.439 this guy saw nice and all of a sudden, you know, 73 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:49.719 it's like he spulling knives and handcuffs and all on me, 74 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:51.439 you know. And he told me at that point if 75 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:53.159 I wouldn't do what he said, he would kill me. 76 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:56.439 It's like, not the same person that we met at 77 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:57.360 Grand Avenue, mall. 78 00:03:57.759 --> 00:03:58.719 How did he different? 79 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:03.560 Faced? Seemed different, you know, his body structure, It's like 80 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.199 it wasn't him anymore. You know, It's like it's a 81 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:07.400 totally different guy here. 82 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:10.280 Dumber then seemed to calm down. 83 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:12.840 He told Edwards the key to the handcuffs was in 84 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:16.000 the bedroom, and with the knife at Edward's back, guided 85 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:16.519 him there. 86 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:18.800 As they entered the. 87 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:22.079 Bedroom, Edwards noticed a large blue drum against the wall, 88 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:23.920 but didn't ask about it. 89 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:26.680 With Edwards still cuffed on his left wrist. 90 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:29.160 Only they sat on the bed together and began to 91 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:32.319 watch the tape of The Exorcist three, which Dummer said 92 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:36.839 was his favorite movie. Periodically while watching the tape, Dumber 93 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:41.120 would rock back and forth, mumbling and chanting, and. 94 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:43.040 Then he would turn around and try to ask me 95 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:45.680 to put both of my hinds behind my back, and 96 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:47.439 I went, you know, do it. I would talk to him. 97 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:49.759 I tell him you can trust me, you know, you 98 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:51.480 don't have to do this, and that would calm him 99 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:52.319 down a little bit. 100 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:55.680 After a while, Dummer assumed control again. 101 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:58.639 He told me to lay down, face down, put both 102 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:02.519 of my hands behind my back. He he changed again 103 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:05.000 at that point, like he got more aggressive. At that time, 104 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:07.519 he kind of laid across me, put his head across 105 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:09.920 my chest like he was listening to my heart because 106 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:11.600 at the point he told me he was gonna eat 107 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:11.959 my heart. 108 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:14.199 At that point said he was gonna eat your heart. 109 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:15.519 Yes, that's correct. 110 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:17.199 Did he still have the knife? 111 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:19.000 Yeah? 112 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:20.319 Where was the knife pointed? 113 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:23.879 When I was on the floor, he had a pointed 114 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:27.879 at my growing area. At that time, I knew something 115 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:30.279 was about to happen, so I suggested that I go 116 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:32.439 to the bathroom. I had to use the bathroom. 117 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:35.480 Dumber let him go, and which said he seen calmer 118 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:36.319 when he returned. 119 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:38.639 Yeah, I told him all I want to sit in 120 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:40.720 the front because it's an air conditioning. I was just 121 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:42.639 gonna try to jump out the window or go for 122 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:45.519 the door. So I had unbuttoned my shirt to try 123 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:50.800 to make him feel more at ease. And then and 124 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:53.839 then I just sat on the couch like and he 125 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:55.600 just start going out of. 126 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:57.959 Hisself again, going out of himself. 127 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:00.360 He was like paying me no attention at that time. 128 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:04.560 Edwards seized the opportunity. He hit Dahmer and bolted out 129 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:07.360 the door. As he ran down the street, he flagged 130 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:08.439 a passing police car. 131 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:11.040 The police, with Edwards. 132 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:14.240 Returned to the apartment and found Dahmer and his chamber 133 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:18.040 of horrors. There were photos strewn about of young men 134 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:22.360 in various stages of dismemberment. Realizing the enormity of the 135 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:26.399 crime scene, police arrested Dahmer, sealed the apartment and called 136 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:29.079 in County medical examiner doctor Jeffrey Jensen. 137 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:30.199 First thing that. 138 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:34.120 We saw was a human head that was in a refrigerator, 139 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:40.120 and after that it was we considered to be a 140 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:41.480 localized disaster. 141 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:47.319 Jensen then led a room by room search, finding body parts, skulls, 142 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:50.839 and a human heart. In the freezer, they found soup 143 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:53.199 kettles filled with skulls. 144 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:54.759 Male genitons, and human hands. 145 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:58.399 There was a complete skeleton in the bedroom and the 146 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:02.079 blue tub contained in three human torsos. 147 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:08.120 In the freezer component, there was another frozen skeleton, and 148 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:12.079 that was also inventory. And then it was the process 149 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:16.519 of piecing together, so to speak, the different body parts 150 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:17.759 with skulls. 151 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:23.040 The morning after his arrest, the startling images of Jeffrey 152 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:25.759 Dahmer's freezer and other evidence being hauled out of his 153 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:30.879 apartment beamed all over the world. In Milwaukee, the discovery 154 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:34.399 of a serial killer terrified families who had loved ones missing. 155 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:39.319 Stanley Miller's nephew, Ernest, had disappeared ten months earlier. 156 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:42.399 That morning, when I woke up and thaw it on 157 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:47.240 the news, something just drew me there, just drew me there. 158 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:50.879 I just knew he was there. He was right. Ernest 159 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:53.759 Miller's skull was among those discovered in the apartment. 160 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:57.480 It was Oliver Lacy's head in the refrigerator, the head 161 00:07:57.480 --> 00:08:00.800 of Emmanuel Lacey's father and Catherine Lee's son. 162 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.120 I even went over there and I seen them take 163 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:07.759 him out in all his things, and I walked around 164 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:10.720 the building and I got off. 165 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:12.879 Cold feeling in my stomach. 166 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:15.439 It's like a pain that hit near no stomach. 167 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:19.360 The pain would turn to horror as they learned exactly 168 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:29.720 how their loved ones died necrophilia, dismemberment, cannibalism, the bottomism. 169 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:33.240 Within hours of his arrest, Jeffrey Dummer admitted to all 170 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:34.799 this and more. 171 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:39.000 He wanted to confessor was clearly volunteer. He wanted to 172 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:40.799 get it off. He helped the police sell murders that 173 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:43.159 they didn't even know about, that they were murders, so 174 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:44.480 he wanted to unload. 175 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:49.120 His full confession would detail eleven murders within his tiny apartment, 176 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:52.279 four more in the basement of his grandmother's house, one 177 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:55.519 in a hotel room, and another his first in nineteen 178 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:57.799 seventy nine, in his boyhood. 179 00:08:57.320 --> 00:08:59.120 Home in Bath, Ohio. 180 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:02.279 His upbringing, as he traced it now for police, was 181 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:04.720 in some ways unusual for a serial killer. 182 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:08.039 He was not sexually abused, and he was not physically 183 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:12.320 abused by his parents. A third feature less frequently found, 184 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:17.320 but often found in serial killers is economic deprivation. In 185 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:20.840 other words, raised in financial hardships. Quite the opposite was 186 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:23.840 the case in Dahmer's situation. He was raised in an 187 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:26.600 affluent home. Indeed, they lived on one in a quarter 188 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:30.519 wooded acres with a private pond. Dahmer's father is an 189 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:34.360 educated man with a doctor's degree in chemistry. In my opinion, 190 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:37.480 Dahmer himself has a superior intellect. 191 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:40.399 But in another respect, he did fit the profile of 192 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:43.600 a serial killer. He was a loner who had difficulty 193 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:49.320 relating to people. Author and retired FBI agent Robert Wrestler 194 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:52.559 coined the term serial killer during his time as head 195 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:55.759 of the FBI unit that tracks such criminals. He has 196 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:59.159 studied the childhood behavior of many serial killers and found 197 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:03.159 that most don't interact well, rarely dating. As teenagers. 198 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:06.840 In their isolation, they begin to have powerful fantasies. 199 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:12.200 The fantasies become violent, retribution, getting even with those who 200 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:18.639 have been unfair with me, hurting others, destroying property, vandalism, 201 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:24.200 setting fires. All these things become interwoven with sexual fantasies, 202 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:27.200 and the sexual fantasies, which again are normal for a 203 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:32.360 young pre adolescent or adolescent, become abnormal, and that they 204 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:33.080 become violent. 205 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:34.039 They become hostile. 206 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:37.679 As children, many serial killers abuse animals. 207 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:39.440 In his confession, Jeffrey. 208 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:43.080 Dummer talked at length about his adolescent fascination with dissection, 209 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:47.840 even picking up road kills to examine the anatomy. A 210 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:52.279 boyhood neighbors stumbled across this dog's head mounted in Dumber's backyard. 211 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:57.759 Around the same time he was mutilating animals, Dummer had 212 00:10:57.799 --> 00:11:02.320 his first homosexual experience with a who lived nearby, but 213 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:06.600 as he discovered his homosexuality, his fantasies became deviant. 214 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:08.759 It had nothing to do with him being gay. 215 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:10.879 If he had been headed on sexual as victims would 216 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:11.440 have been women. 217 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:15.840 At the trial, court appointed psychiatrist George Palermo recounted one 218 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:18.679 of Dahmer's teenage fantasies about a male jugger. 219 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:22.159 I liked him and I had the idea overheiting him 220 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:24.480 on the head and having sex with him. 221 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:27.519 Those are the words that he stated he in fact 222 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:28.440 tried to do that. 223 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:30.639 That the man didn't jog by that day and so 224 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:33.440 it didn't come to pass. This was quite early. 225 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:37.759 Forensic psychiatrist Park Deets spent many hours interviewing Dahmer. 226 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:39.519 He feels that Dummer. 227 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:43.120 Somehow began to associate sexual arousal with a mutilation of 228 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.240 animals and thoughts of harming and controlling people. 229 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:49.240 My best guess of how that happened is that he 230 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:51.840 was at the age at which all boys are having 231 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:56.360 sexual arousal in response to diverse stimuli. Boys of that 232 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:59.720 age get stimulated while they're riding to school on the 233 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:02.480 bub or on a roller coaster, and in the course 234 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:06.080 of that they can, without trying to, without knowing it, 235 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:10.799 become conditioned to quite coincidental stimuli. And I think that's 236 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:16.399 what happened to Dahmer, that somehow he became conditioned accidentally 237 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.200 to thoughts of violence and control and mutilation. 238 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:24.720 Duhmer's sexual attractions and his ability to control them, would 239 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:26.200 become the central question. 240 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:28.080 In his nineteen ninety two sanity trial. 241 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:32.440 In high school, Dahmer was regarded as something of an oddball. 242 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:36.799 Often ridiculed, he resorted to playing the clown to get attention. 243 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:40.720 Classmates began referring to any prank as doing a Dummer. 244 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:43.320 Perhaps his most creative effort was. 245 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:44.919 On a class trip to Washington, d C. 246 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:48.799 Classmates recall that on a dare, he talked his way 247 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:52.480 into a personal tour of the Vice President's White House office, 248 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:54.240 a spot not normally. 249 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:58.279 Open to visitors. He attended his senior prom. 250 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:00.919 In May nineteen seventy eight with um sixteen year old 251 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:05.159 Bridget Geiger. A nervous Jeffrey afraid he would stick Bridget 252 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:07.720 with the pin at Geiger's. 253 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:08.840 Mother put on the corsage. 254 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:14.159 Just weeks after the prom, Dahmer would kill his first victim. 255 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:18.480 There is no single key that unlocks the mystery of 256 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:22.000 Jeffrey Dahmer, but one clue lies in the relationship of 257 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:26.200 his parents, which was troubled at beast. When Jeffrey was eighteen, 258 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:30.639 they divorced. His mother, Joyce, left for Wisconsin, and father Lionel, 259 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:33.919 with younger brother David, stayed at a nearby motel. In 260 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:37.320 the confusion of the separation, Jeffrey was left alone for 261 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:39.720 several weeks in the house on West Bath Road. 262 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:45.639 When he picked up hitchhiker Stephen Hicks, Dahmer didn't know 263 00:13:45.879 --> 00:13:47.200 he would kill him. 264 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:49.960 They came back to Dahmer's empty home and had a 265 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:53.000 couple of beers, but when Hicks decided it was time 266 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:57.279 to get going, Dahmer was in no mood to be alone. 267 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:00.720 The guy wanted to leave, Dahmer recalled, I didn't want 268 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:03.600 him to leave. He picked up a barbelle and hit 269 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:05.840 Hicks over the head and then strangled. 270 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:08.480 Jeffrey Dahmer had acted. 271 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:11.320 Out his fantasy, and now the grim reality of a 272 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:14.639 dead body was staring him in the face. He took 273 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:17.279 the corpse into a crawl space beneath the house and 274 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:20.960 cut it up, placing portions of it in plastic garbage bags. 275 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:24.480 He loaded Hicks's body in his car and headed. 276 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:25.799 For the local dump. 277 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:28.440 On the way, a policeman stopped him for swerving over 278 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:32.679 the center line and administered a sobriabe test, which Dahmer passed. 279 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:37.240 Tamar was just about to leave when the officer noticed 280 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:41.799 the garbage bags in the back seat. Smoothly, Dahmer explained 281 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:45.240 that it was garbage from his parents' house. The unsuspecting 282 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:48.879 officer sent him on his way. Dahmer had told the 283 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:52.840 most important lie of his young life had gotten away 284 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:53.080 with it. 285 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:58.519 A frightened Jeffrey Dahmer took the body back home and 286 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:00.639 into the crawl space. There. 287 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:04.519 With a sledgehammer, he broke the bones into tiny bits. 288 00:15:06.200 --> 00:15:08.919 He took the fragments to a hillside on his property, and, 289 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:13.200 spinning slowly in a full circle, scattered the bones all 290 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:17.200 over the land, Stephen Hicks had totally disappeared. 291 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:20.080 The first slang occurred in nineteen seventy eight. 292 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:23.120 The parents had no idea what happened to their son. 293 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:26.759 No trace of the body was found until Dahmer confessed 294 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:27.879 in nineteen ninety one. 295 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:31.000 That was thirteen years of living hell. 296 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:35.279 Jeffrey Dahmer was repulsed by what he had done. Already 297 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:38.120 a heavy drinker in high school, he continued to seek 298 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:42.080 refuge in alcohol. He entered Ohio State University in the 299 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:45.480 fall of nineteen seventy eight, but drank himself out of 300 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:50.200 school after one semester. His father was concerned and talked 301 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:54.039 Geoffrey into joining the army. He did so and trained 302 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:58.200 to be a medic, spending untold hours studying human anatomy. 303 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:02.399 He was shipped to but was discharged two years later 304 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:05.240 at the age of twenty again because his drinking was 305 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:09.639 so compulsive. Feeling lost, he came to Milwaukee to live 306 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:12.799 with his grandmother in this house tucked into the safe, 307 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:17.360 tidy suburb of West Alas. Although arrested in nineteen eighty 308 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:21.200 two for exposing himself to two adolescent boys, the twenty 309 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:23.679 two year old Dahmer tried, in his own words, to 310 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:26.919 walk the straight and narrow. For a while, he attended 311 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.759 church with his grandmother and stopped drinking. In his confession, 312 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:33.240 he stated that he tried at this time to suppress 313 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:38.000 any homosexual thoughts. He got work in a blood plasma 314 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:42.600 center and later as a mixer making candies for Ambrosia Chocolates, 315 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:46.879 but eventually he slipped back into drinking. He began going 316 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:51.399 out to gay bars and sometimes not coming home. In 317 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:55.559 November nineteen eighty seven, in the two nineteen club, Jeffrey 318 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:59.559 Dahmer met Steve Toomey. The two left together and got 319 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:02.679 a room at the Ambassador Hotel. According to Dahmer, they 320 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:04.799 drank heavily and engaged. 321 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:05.599 In consensual sex. 322 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:09.119 Dahmer passed out, and when he awoke, Toomey was lying 323 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:10.680 in bed next to him dead. 324 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:12.599 Dahmer was confused. 325 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.119 He bought a large suitcase and put Toomey's body inside it. 326 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:18.400 He then walked out the front door of the hotel 327 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:21.079 and hailed a cab. He had the driver help him 328 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:24.039 with his heavy baggage and headed for his grandmother's house. 329 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:27.240 With his grandmother gone to church, he took the body 330 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:30.200 to the basement and dismembered it. When he was finished, 331 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:33.799 he threw it all out in the trash. It had 332 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:36.920 been nine years since Stephen Hicks, and now Dahmer had 333 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:40.319 killed again. This time he would no longer resist his 334 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:46.880 violent fantasies. Two months later, Dahmer was back at the 335 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:50.279 two nineteen club. Outside, he met a fourteen year old 336 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:54.720 Native American boy, James dock Stater. He asked James if 337 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:56.680 he wanted to come to West Alice with him and 338 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:00.920 make some money posing naked for pictures. Docstater read and 339 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:06.480 became victim number three. Dahmer was perfecting the process. Once 340 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:09.440 back at his grandmother's house, Dahmer slipped a drug into 341 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:12.720 a drink, and when Doc Stater passed out, Dahmer had 342 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:17.200 oral sex with him, strangled, dismembered, and then disposed of him. 343 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:21.000 Two months after killing Doc Stater, Dahmer repeated the ritual 344 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:27.319 with Richard Guerrero. In September nineteen eighty eight, the twenty 345 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:29.839 eight year old Dahmer left his grandmother's house and rented 346 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:33.240 a cheap apartment in a rough section of town. The 347 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:36.079 day after he moved in, he went cruising for men, 348 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:38.880 and not far from his new apartment came across a 349 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:44.359 thirteen year old Laotian named Sunhom synthesom phone. He enticed 350 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:47.480 the boy to his apartment to take pictures. By waiting 351 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:50.279 for the sleeping potion to kick in, Dahmer began to 352 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:53.720 fondle the boy. The boy panicked and ran out of 353 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:58.319 the apartment to his nearby home. When Sundholm's parents heard 354 00:18:58.359 --> 00:19:01.400 their son's story, they called a police, who arrested Dahmer. 355 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:05.960 On January thirtieth, nineteen eighty nine, Jeffrey Dahmer was convicted 356 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:09.559 of second degree sexual assault. He was released on bond 357 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:13.480 until sentencing in May. In the interim, he would kill again. 358 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:16.119 This time the victim was twenty four year. 359 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:17.599 Old Anthony Sears. 360 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:20.599 At the May sentencing, the five time killers spoke to 361 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:24.400 the judge and pleaded for leniency on his sexual assault charge. 362 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:28.359 This enticing a child was the climax of my idiocy. 363 00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:31.920 If anything would shock me out of my past behavior patterns, 364 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:32.799 it is this. 365 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:35.920 The judge felt that there was still hope of. 366 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:38.880 Saving the sex offender and sentence Dahmer to a year 367 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:41.559 in a work release prison, with orders that he received 368 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:44.240 treatment for his drinking and sexual problems. 369 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:46.279 But in a bureaucratic mix up. 370 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:49.759 As Dahmer approached his release date a year later, he 371 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:54.559 still had not received counseling for alcoholism. In March nineteen ninety, 372 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:57.279 Dahmer's father, Lionel, wrote a letter to the judge for 373 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:00.319 the case, asking him not to release his son before 374 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:04.200 he had completed a treatment program. I sincerely hope that 375 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:06.599 you might intervene in some way to help my son, 376 00:20:06.920 --> 00:20:09.200 who I love very much and for whom I want 377 00:20:09.240 --> 00:20:12.400 a better life. This may be our last chance to 378 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:17.680 institute something lasting. One day after Lionel Dahmer mailed that letter, 379 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:19.960 his son, Jeffrey walked out of prison. 380 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:21.640 On May thirteenth. 381 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:24.519 He signed a lease for Apartment two thirteen in the 382 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:31.079 Oxford Apartments. Two weeks later, he would kill again. Most 383 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:35.759 serial killers are sexual deviants. Usually they are either sadists 384 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:40.000 like Ted Bundy, or they are necrophiles like Jeffrey Dahmer. 385 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:44.559 Sadists enjoy the power of taking a human life, but 386 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:46.440 Jeffrey Dahmer hated killing. 387 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:49.799 He had to get himself intoxicated every time he killed 388 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:52.039 one of his victims, and he had to get himself 389 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:55.519 intoxicated again in order to dismember them because he found 390 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:58.640 those aspects distasteful. 391 00:20:57.599 --> 00:20:59.680 But it was a means to an end in obtaining 392 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:03.960 a seconctual partner Ernest Miller near the Oxford Apartments. 393 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:05.880 Miller was an accomplished dancer. 394 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:09.160 Dahmer later told police he immediately took a liking to 395 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:12.039 the muscular twenty four year old and offered him money 396 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:17.200 to pose for pictures. Miller agreed, and once in the apartment, 397 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:20.920 Duhmer drugged him, but Miller woke up sooner than expected, 398 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:24.200 and Dummer, instead of strangling him, was forced to slip 399 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:27.119 his throat. Dummer had sex with a dead body, and 400 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:31.799 while he was still naked, dismembered it. Dummer later stated 401 00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:35.079