Speaker 1: This program chronicles the crimes of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer,
Speaker 1: the description of which some viewers may find disturbing.
Speaker 2: Fewer discretion is advised.
Speaker 3: There is no question in my mind at what Jeffrey
Speaker 3: Dahmer became was the embodiment of evil.
Speaker 4: The first thing that we saw was a human head
Speaker 4: that was in a refrigerator.
Speaker 5: The bodies had totally disappeared, not a trace.
Speaker 6: None of them knew what had happened to their sons.
Speaker 3: And no one in a million years could have guessed
Speaker 3: the monstrosity that was inside his head.
Speaker 1: When the city of Milwaukee awoke on the morning of
Speaker 1: July twenty third, nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2: One, the damage had all already been done.
Speaker 1: Best known for its many breweries, Milwaukee had overnight become
Speaker 1: notorious as the home of one of the worst serial
Speaker 1: killers in history. The night before, in a small, one
Speaker 1: bedroom apartment on the city's west side, police had discovered
Speaker 1: a death chamber. Only one man ever to escape that
Speaker 1: apartment to tell the story. Six months later, in the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee County Courthouse, thirty two year old Tracy Edwards would
Speaker 1: recount a knight of sheer terror at the hens of
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Dahmer. Late in the afternoon of July twenty second,
Speaker 1: Dahmer approached Edwards, who was eating with some friends at
Speaker 1: the Grand Avenue.
Speaker 6: Mall, and he said he was a professional photographer. He
Speaker 6: usually pays peoples for pictures and stuff like that if
Speaker 6: anybody was interested in making money at that time.
Speaker 1: He offered Edwards one hundred dollars to pose nude at
Speaker 1: Dahmer's apartment. According to Edwards, there was no indication of
Speaker 1: any homosexual intent.
Speaker 6: He didn't even act like it at that time.
Speaker 2: At first.
Speaker 1: Edwards hesitated, but needed the money and agreed to go
Speaker 1: to Dummer's apartment to check things out. They entered the
Speaker 1: Oxford Apartment and complex and Dumber unlocked the door to
Speaker 1: aputmand two thirty.
Speaker 6: When we got inside, he turned out burke alarms. I
Speaker 6: asked him why, first it was a foul odor?
Speaker 2: Okay, tell us about that? What kind of all?
Speaker 6: It was just like an odor. I didn't quite know
Speaker 6: what it was, you know. He told me a sewer
Speaker 6: pipead broke and management would take care of it.
Speaker 1: There were security cameras and a sophisticated alarm system.
Speaker 6: He said. The part of the neighborhood he was in.
Speaker 6: He was protecting this property. Things like that. It was
Speaker 6: like normal, pretty decent apartment, had nice things in it.
Speaker 1: They sat down on the couch. Tracy Edwards suspected nothing.
Speaker 1: He was simply visiting with a normal everyday person, a
Speaker 1: good conversationalist.
Speaker 6: He asked me, was I interested in doing the photography?
Speaker 6: You know? I told him I I was still contemplating.
Speaker 6: So therefore he offered me a beer and a rum
Speaker 6: and coke mixture.
Speaker 2: Dumber drank a beer two as Edward slipped at his
Speaker 2: rum and coke.
Speaker 6: I'm not a big liquor drink or so it then
Speaker 6: tastes that good of me.
Speaker 1: While he didn't know it, then his distaste for liquor
Speaker 1: may have saved Tracy Edwards's life. The drink was drugged
Speaker 1: Dummer's motors Operendi for gaining control over his victims, and
Speaker 1: to Edwards, the mood seemed to grow heavy. He decided
Speaker 1: to skip the photos and prepared to leave.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Then I was just, I don't know, getting a
Speaker 6: little agitated, maybe you know, because of the smell and things.
Speaker 6: And then he threw my conversation off talking about the
Speaker 6: fist in the fish tank. You know, As.
Speaker 1: Edwards turned to look at the fish, Dumber seized the moment.
Speaker 1: He slapped a handcuff on Edward's left wrist and placed
Speaker 1: a large knife against his ribs.
Speaker 6: I think, like, you know what's going on? You know,
Speaker 6: this guy saw nice and all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 6: it's like he spulling knives and handcuffs and all on me,
Speaker 6: you know. And he told me at that point if
Speaker 6: I wouldn't do what he said, he would kill me.
Speaker 6: It's like, not the same person that we met at
Speaker 6: Grand Avenue, mall.
Speaker 2: How did he different?
Speaker 6: Faced? Seemed different, you know, his body structure, It's like
Speaker 6: it wasn't him anymore. You know, It's like it's a
Speaker 6: totally different guy here.
Speaker 2: Dumber then seemed to calm down.
Speaker 1: He told Edwards the key to the handcuffs was in
Speaker 1: the bedroom, and with the knife at Edward's back, guided
Speaker 1: him there.
Speaker 2: As they entered the.
Speaker 1: Bedroom, Edwards noticed a large blue drum against the wall,
Speaker 1: but didn't ask about it.
Speaker 2: With Edwards still cuffed on his left wrist.
Speaker 1: Only they sat on the bed together and began to
Speaker 1: watch the tape of The Exorcist three, which Dummer said
Speaker 1: was his favorite movie. Periodically while watching the tape, Dumber
Speaker 1: would rock back and forth, mumbling and chanting, and.
Speaker 6: Then he would turn around and try to ask me
Speaker 6: to put both of my hinds behind my back, and
Speaker 6: I went, you know, do it. I would talk to him.
Speaker 6: I tell him you can trust me, you know, you
Speaker 6: don't have to do this, and that would calm him
Speaker 6: down a little bit.
Speaker 2: After a while, Dummer assumed control again.
Speaker 6: He told me to lay down, face down, put both
Speaker 6: of my hands behind my back. He he changed again
Speaker 6: at that point, like he got more aggressive. At that time,
Speaker 6: he kind of laid across me, put his head across
Speaker 6: my chest like he was listening to my heart because
Speaker 6: at the point he told me he was gonna eat
Speaker 6: my heart.
Speaker 3: At that point said he was gonna eat your heart.
Speaker 6: Yes, that's correct.
Speaker 2: Did he still have the knife?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Where was the knife pointed?
Speaker 6: When I was on the floor, he had a pointed
Speaker 6: at my growing area. At that time, I knew something
Speaker 6: was about to happen, so I suggested that I go
Speaker 6: to the bathroom. I had to use the bathroom.
Speaker 2: Dumber let him go, and which said he seen calmer
Speaker 2: when he returned.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I told him all I want to sit in
Speaker 6: the front because it's an air conditioning. I was just
Speaker 6: gonna try to jump out the window or go for
Speaker 6: the door. So I had unbuttoned my shirt to try
Speaker 6: to make him feel more at ease. And then and
Speaker 6: then I just sat on the couch like and he
Speaker 6: just start going out of.
Speaker 2: Hisself again, going out of himself.
Speaker 6: He was like paying me no attention at that time.
Speaker 1: Edwards seized the opportunity. He hit Dahmer and bolted out
Speaker 1: the door. As he ran down the street, he flagged
Speaker 1: a passing police car.
Speaker 2: The police, with Edwards.
Speaker 1: Returned to the apartment and found Dahmer and his chamber
Speaker 1: of horrors. There were photos strewn about of young men
Speaker 1: in various stages of dismemberment. Realizing the enormity of the
Speaker 1: crime scene, police arrested Dahmer, sealed the apartment and called
Speaker 1: in County medical examiner doctor Jeffrey Jensen.
Speaker 2: First thing that.
Speaker 4: We saw was a human head that was in a refrigerator,
Speaker 4: and after that it was we considered to be a
Speaker 4: localized disaster.
Speaker 1: Jensen then led a room by room search, finding body parts, skulls,
Speaker 1: and a human heart. In the freezer, they found soup
Speaker 1: kettles filled with skulls.
Speaker 2: Male genitons, and human hands.
Speaker 1: There was a complete skeleton in the bedroom and the
Speaker 1: blue tub contained in three human torsos.
Speaker 4: In the freezer component, there was another frozen skeleton, and
Speaker 4: that was also inventory. And then it was the process
Speaker 4: of piecing together, so to speak, the different body parts
Speaker 4: with skulls.
Speaker 1: The morning after his arrest, the startling images of Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Dahmer's freezer and other evidence being hauled out of his
Speaker 1: apartment beamed all over the world. In Milwaukee, the discovery
Speaker 1: of a serial killer terrified families who had loved ones missing.
Speaker 1: Stanley Miller's nephew, Ernest, had disappeared ten months earlier.
Speaker 7: That morning, when I woke up and thaw it on
Speaker 7: the news, something just drew me there, just drew me there.
Speaker 2: I just knew he was there. He was right. Ernest
Speaker 2: Miller's skull was among those discovered in the apartment.
Speaker 1: It was Oliver Lacy's head in the refrigerator, the head
Speaker 1: of Emmanuel Lacey's father and Catherine Lee's son.
Speaker 8: I even went over there and I seen them take
Speaker 8: him out in all his things, and I walked around
Speaker 8: the building and I got off.
Speaker 2: Cold feeling in my stomach.
Speaker 6: It's like a pain that hit near no stomach.
Speaker 1: The pain would turn to horror as they learned exactly
Speaker 1: how their loved ones died necrophilia, dismemberment, cannibalism, the bottomism.
Speaker 1: Within hours of his arrest, Jeffrey Dummer admitted to all
Speaker 1: this and more.
Speaker 3: He wanted to confessor was clearly volunteer. He wanted to
Speaker 3: get it off. He helped the police sell murders that
Speaker 3: they didn't even know about, that they were murders, so
Speaker 3: he wanted to unload.
Speaker 1: His full confession would detail eleven murders within his tiny apartment,
Speaker 1: four more in the basement of his grandmother's house, one
Speaker 1: in a hotel room, and another his first in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy nine, in his boyhood.
Speaker 2: Home in Bath, Ohio.
Speaker 1: His upbringing, as he traced it now for police, was
Speaker 1: in some ways unusual for a serial killer.
Speaker 5: He was not sexually abused, and he was not physically
Speaker 5: abused by his parents. A third feature less frequently found,
Speaker 5: but often found in serial killers is economic deprivation. In
Speaker 5: other words, raised in financial hardships. Quite the opposite was
Speaker 5: the case in Dahmer's situation. He was raised in an
Speaker 5: affluent home. Indeed, they lived on one in a quarter
Speaker 5: wooded acres with a private pond. Dahmer's father is an
Speaker 5: educated man with a doctor's degree in chemistry. In my opinion,
Speaker 5: Dahmer himself has a superior intellect.
Speaker 1: But in another respect, he did fit the profile of
Speaker 1: a serial killer. He was a loner who had difficulty
Speaker 1: relating to people. Author and retired FBI agent Robert Wrestler
Speaker 1: coined the term serial killer during his time as head
Speaker 1: of the FBI unit that tracks such criminals. He has
Speaker 1: studied the childhood behavior of many serial killers and found
Speaker 1: that most don't interact well, rarely dating. As teenagers.
Speaker 2: In their isolation, they begin to have powerful fantasies.
Speaker 9: The fantasies become violent, retribution, getting even with those who
Speaker 9: have been unfair with me, hurting others, destroying property, vandalism,
Speaker 9: setting fires. All these things become interwoven with sexual fantasies,
Speaker 9: and the sexual fantasies, which again are normal for a
Speaker 9: young pre adolescent or adolescent, become abnormal, and that they
Speaker 9: become violent.
Speaker 2: They become hostile.
Speaker 1: As children, many serial killers abuse animals.
Speaker 2: In his confession, Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: Dummer talked at length about his adolescent fascination with dissection,
Speaker 1: even picking up road kills to examine the anatomy. A
Speaker 1: boyhood neighbors stumbled across this dog's head mounted in Dumber's backyard.
Speaker 1: Around the same time he was mutilating animals, Dummer had
Speaker 1: his first homosexual experience with a who lived nearby, but
Speaker 1: as he discovered his homosexuality, his fantasies became deviant.
Speaker 6: It had nothing to do with him being gay.
Speaker 3: If he had been headed on sexual as victims would
Speaker 3: have been women.
Speaker 1: At the trial, court appointed psychiatrist George Palermo recounted one
Speaker 1: of Dahmer's teenage fantasies about a male jugger.
Speaker 9: I liked him and I had the idea overheiting him
Speaker 9: on the head and having sex with him.
Speaker 2: Those are the words that he stated he in fact
Speaker 2: tried to do that.
Speaker 10: That the man didn't jog by that day and so
Speaker 10: it didn't come to pass. This was quite early.
Speaker 1: Forensic psychiatrist Park Deets spent many hours interviewing Dahmer.
Speaker 2: He feels that Dummer.
Speaker 1: Somehow began to associate sexual arousal with a mutilation of
Speaker 1: animals and thoughts of harming and controlling people.
Speaker 10: My best guess of how that happened is that he
Speaker 10: was at the age at which all boys are having
Speaker 10: sexual arousal in response to diverse stimuli. Boys of that
Speaker 10: age get stimulated while they're riding to school on the
Speaker 10: bub or on a roller coaster, and in the course
Speaker 10: of that they can, without trying to, without knowing it,
Speaker 10: become conditioned to quite coincidental stimuli. And I think that's
Speaker 10: what happened to Dahmer, that somehow he became conditioned accidentally
Speaker 10: to thoughts of violence and control and mutilation.
Speaker 1: Duhmer's sexual attractions and his ability to control them, would
Speaker 1: become the central question.
Speaker 2: In his nineteen ninety two sanity trial.
Speaker 1: In high school, Dahmer was regarded as something of an oddball.
Speaker 1: Often ridiculed, he resorted to playing the clown to get attention.
Speaker 1: Classmates began referring to any prank as doing a Dummer.
Speaker 1: Perhaps his most creative effort was.
Speaker 2: On a class trip to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: Classmates recall that on a dare, he talked his way
Speaker 1: into a personal tour of the Vice President's White House office,
Speaker 1: a spot not normally.
Speaker 2: Open to visitors. He attended his senior prom.
Speaker 1: In May nineteen seventy eight with um sixteen year old
Speaker 1: Bridget Geiger. A nervous Jeffrey afraid he would stick Bridget
Speaker 1: with the pin at Geiger's.
Speaker 2: Mother put on the corsage.
Speaker 1: Just weeks after the prom, Dahmer would kill his first victim.
Speaker 1: There is no single key that unlocks the mystery of
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Dahmer, but one clue lies in the relationship of
Speaker 1: his parents, which was troubled at beast. When Jeffrey was eighteen,
Speaker 1: they divorced. His mother, Joyce, left for Wisconsin, and father Lionel,
Speaker 1: with younger brother David, stayed at a nearby motel. In
Speaker 1: the confusion of the separation, Jeffrey was left alone for
Speaker 1: several weeks in the house on West Bath Road.
Speaker 2: When he picked up hitchhiker Stephen Hicks, Dahmer didn't know
Speaker 2: he would kill him.
Speaker 1: They came back to Dahmer's empty home and had a
Speaker 1: couple of beers, but when Hicks decided it was time
Speaker 1: to get going, Dahmer was in no mood to be alone.
Speaker 1: The guy wanted to leave, Dahmer recalled, I didn't want
Speaker 1: him to leave. He picked up a barbelle and hit
Speaker 1: Hicks over the head and then strangled.
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Dahmer had acted.
Speaker 1: Out his fantasy, and now the grim reality of a
Speaker 1: dead body was staring him in the face. He took
Speaker 1: the corpse into a crawl space beneath the house and
Speaker 1: cut it up, placing portions of it in plastic garbage bags.
Speaker 1: He loaded Hicks's body in his car and headed.
Speaker 2: For the local dump.
Speaker 1: On the way, a policeman stopped him for swerving over
Speaker 1: the center line and administered a sobriabe test, which Dahmer passed.
Speaker 1: Tamar was just about to leave when the officer noticed
Speaker 1: the garbage bags in the back seat. Smoothly, Dahmer explained
Speaker 1: that it was garbage from his parents' house. The unsuspecting
Speaker 1: officer sent him on his way. Dahmer had told the
Speaker 1: most important lie of his young life had gotten away
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 2: A frightened Jeffrey Dahmer took the body back home and
Speaker 2: into the crawl space. There.
Speaker 1: With a sledgehammer, he broke the bones into tiny bits.
Speaker 1: He took the fragments to a hillside on his property, and,
Speaker 1: spinning slowly in a full circle, scattered the bones all
Speaker 1: over the land, Stephen Hicks had totally disappeared.
Speaker 5: The first slang occurred in nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 2: The parents had no idea what happened to their son.
Speaker 5: No trace of the body was found until Dahmer confessed
Speaker 5: in nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 2: That was thirteen years of living hell.
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Dahmer was repulsed by what he had done. Already
Speaker 1: a heavy drinker in high school, he continued to seek
Speaker 1: refuge in alcohol. He entered Ohio State University in the
Speaker 1: fall of nineteen seventy eight, but drank himself out of
Speaker 1: school after one semester. His father was concerned and talked
Speaker 1: Geoffrey into joining the army. He did so and trained
Speaker 1: to be a medic, spending untold hours studying human anatomy.
Speaker 1: He was shipped to but was discharged two years later
Speaker 1: at the age of twenty again because his drinking was
Speaker 1: so compulsive. Feeling lost, he came to Milwaukee to live
Speaker 1: with his grandmother in this house tucked into the safe,
Speaker 1: tidy suburb of West Alas. Although arrested in nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: two for exposing himself to two adolescent boys, the twenty
Speaker 1: two year old Dahmer tried, in his own words, to
Speaker 1: walk the straight and narrow. For a while, he attended
Speaker 1: church with his grandmother and stopped drinking. In his confession,
Speaker 1: he stated that he tried at this time to suppress
Speaker 1: any homosexual thoughts. He got work in a blood plasma
Speaker 1: center and later as a mixer making candies for Ambrosia Chocolates,
Speaker 1: but eventually he slipped back into drinking. He began going
Speaker 1: out to gay bars and sometimes not coming home. In
Speaker 1: November nineteen eighty seven, in the two nineteen club, Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Dahmer met Steve Toomey. The two left together and got
Speaker 1: a room at the Ambassador Hotel. According to Dahmer, they
Speaker 1: drank heavily and engaged.
Speaker 2: In consensual sex.
Speaker 1: Dahmer passed out, and when he awoke, Toomey was lying
Speaker 1: in bed next to him dead.
Speaker 2: Dahmer was confused.
Speaker 1: He bought a large suitcase and put Toomey's body inside it.
Speaker 1: He then walked out the front door of the hotel
Speaker 1: and hailed a cab. He had the driver help him
Speaker 1: with his heavy baggage and headed for his grandmother's house.
Speaker 1: With his grandmother gone to church, he took the body
Speaker 1: to the basement and dismembered it. When he was finished,
Speaker 1: he threw it all out in the trash. It had
Speaker 1: been nine years since Stephen Hicks, and now Dahmer had
Speaker 1: killed again. This time he would no longer resist his
Speaker 1: violent fantasies. Two months later, Dahmer was back at the
Speaker 1: two nineteen club. Outside, he met a fourteen year old
Speaker 1: Native American boy, James dock Stater. He asked James if
Speaker 1: he wanted to come to West Alice with him and
Speaker 1: make some money posing naked for pictures. Docstater read and
Speaker 1: became victim number three. Dahmer was perfecting the process. Once
Speaker 1: back at his grandmother's house, Dahmer slipped a drug into
Speaker 1: a drink, and when Doc Stater passed out, Dahmer had
Speaker 1: oral sex with him, strangled, dismembered, and then disposed of him.
Speaker 1: Two months after killing Doc Stater, Dahmer repeated the ritual
Speaker 1: with Richard Guerrero. In September nineteen eighty eight, the twenty
Speaker 1: eight year old Dahmer left his grandmother's house and rented
Speaker 1: a cheap apartment in a rough section of town. The
Speaker 1: day after he moved in, he went cruising for men,
Speaker 1: and not far from his new apartment came across a
Speaker 1: thirteen year old Laotian named Sunhom synthesom phone. He enticed
Speaker 1: the boy to his apartment to take pictures. By waiting
Speaker 1: for the sleeping potion to kick in, Dahmer began to
Speaker 1: fondle the boy. The boy panicked and ran out of
Speaker 1: the apartment to his nearby home. When Sundholm's parents heard
Speaker 1: their son's story, they called a police, who arrested Dahmer.
Speaker 1: On January thirtieth, nineteen eighty nine, Jeffrey Dahmer was convicted
Speaker 1: of second degree sexual assault. He was released on bond
Speaker 1: until sentencing in May. In the interim, he would kill again.
Speaker 1: This time the victim was twenty four year.
Speaker 2: Old Anthony Sears.
Speaker 1: At the May sentencing, the five time killers spoke to
Speaker 1: the judge and pleaded for leniency on his sexual assault charge.
Speaker 1: This enticing a child was the climax of my idiocy.
Speaker 1: If anything would shock me out of my past behavior patterns,
Speaker 1: it is this.
Speaker 2: The judge felt that there was still hope of.
Speaker 1: Saving the sex offender and sentence Dahmer to a year
Speaker 1: in a work release prison, with orders that he received
Speaker 1: treatment for his drinking and sexual problems.
Speaker 2: But in a bureaucratic mix up.
Speaker 1: As Dahmer approached his release date a year later, he
Speaker 1: still had not received counseling for alcoholism. In March nineteen ninety,
Speaker 1: Dahmer's father, Lionel, wrote a letter to the judge for
Speaker 1: the case, asking him not to release his son before
Speaker 1: he had completed a treatment program. I sincerely hope that
Speaker 1: you might intervene in some way to help my son,
Speaker 1: who I love very much and for whom I want
Speaker 1: a better life. This may be our last chance to
Speaker 1: institute something lasting. One day after Lionel Dahmer mailed that letter,
Speaker 1: his son, Jeffrey walked out of prison.
Speaker 2: On May thirteenth.
Speaker 1: He signed a lease for Apartment two thirteen in the
Speaker 1: Oxford Apartments. Two weeks later, he would kill again. Most
Speaker 1: serial killers are sexual deviants. Usually they are either sadists
Speaker 1: like Ted Bundy, or they are necrophiles like Jeffrey Dahmer.
Speaker 1: Sadists enjoy the power of taking a human life, but
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Dahmer hated killing.
Speaker 10: He had to get himself intoxicated every time he killed
Speaker 10: one of his victims, and he had to get himself
Speaker 10: intoxicated again in order to dismember them because he found
Speaker 10: those aspects distasteful.
Speaker 1: But it was a means to an end in obtaining
Speaker 1: a seconctual partner Ernest Miller near the Oxford Apartments.
Speaker 2: Miller was an accomplished dancer.
Speaker 1: Dahmer later told police he immediately took a liking to
Speaker 1: the muscular twenty four year old and offered him money
Speaker 1: to pose for pictures. Miller agreed, and once in the apartment,
Speaker 1: Duhmer drugged him, but Miller woke up sooner than expected,
Speaker 1: and Dummer, instead of strangling him, was forced to slip
Speaker 1: his throat. Dummer had sex with a dead body, and
Speaker 1: while he was still naked, dismembered it. Dummer later stated
Speaker 1: he always dismembered his victims while in the nude.
Speaker 10: What he wanted was something that he could hug, spend
Speaker 10: his time next to fondle, and not have any demands
Speaker 10: made for sodomy, which he did not like. The dilemma
Speaker 10: he had was that he didn't have the social skills
Speaker 10: to find someone who would find that gratifying and wanted
Speaker 10: no more.
Speaker 1: Dummer began to keep souvenirs. He took polaroids as Miller
Speaker 1: bled to death on the bed dumber, then decapitated him,
Speaker 1: boiled the flesh off the head, painted the skull.
Speaker 2: And kept it.
Speaker 1: It's common among serial killers to keep jewelry, photos, even
Speaker 1: body parts of victims as a keepsake. Dahmer took it
Speaker 1: one horrifying step further. With Ernest Miller, he related that
Speaker 1: this was.
Speaker 2: A person he really liked.
Speaker 10: He indicated that he had laid his heart and kept
Speaker 10: it in a freezer, and he also kept his bicep.
Speaker 2: He stated that it tasted like beef for a filet mignon.
Speaker 10: He ate only the people that he really liked, and
Speaker 10: he wanted them to be a part of him or
Speaker 10: with him all the time.
Speaker 7: Sometime I like, I just think, well, maybe this is
Speaker 7: just a bad train. You know, I'm gonna wake up
Speaker 7: tomorrow and all this whole thing has been a bad train,
Speaker 7: because there's no one in this square like that.
Speaker 2: In fact, Dahmer may have represented a new wave of
Speaker 2: serial killer.
Speaker 9: Initally, the serial killers were like Ted Bundy, the predator
Speaker 9: serial killer, picking up a victim in a bar, sexually
Speaker 9: assaulting and disposing of the bodies, sometimes, as in the
Speaker 9: case of the Hillside stranglers, jumping up the side of
Speaker 9: the road. We are now finding these individuals spending more
Speaker 9: time with their victims and having a desire to keep
Speaker 9: that relationship going for a period of time. This hit
Speaker 9: and run type is becoming less frequent, and the collector
Speaker 9: as I call them or, is becoming more frequent.
Speaker 1: Dahmer was attracted to men with dark skin and thin,
Speaker 1: athletic builds. He was also a necrophile, but he wasn't
Speaker 1: necessarily drawn to corpses.
Speaker 2: He wanted a completely compliant partner.
Speaker 10: He tried various strategies to solve that need of his.
Speaker 10: He drugged men so that they would be available to
Speaker 10: him all night long. He stole a mannequin from a
Speaker 10: department store so that he could lie next to that
Speaker 10: and fondle it.
Speaker 9: And Dahmer even had a fantasy that he tried to
Speaker 9: pursue actively, and that was to create a sex nmbie
Speaker 9: by drilling holes in the head of his vicim with
Speaker 9: a drill and injecting acid into the brains of his
Speaker 9: victims in any just a limited amount. The fantasy was
Speaker 9: to kill the brain, to kill the well power.
Speaker 1: It was classic serial killer thinking, making the human into
Speaker 1: an object. In late May Dahmer killed Tony Hughes, a
Speaker 1: deaf mute who he had known for some time. Dahmer
Speaker 1: told police that, as with his other victims, Hughes came
Speaker 1: to his apartment to make money posing for pictures. In
Speaker 1: nearly all the murders, police had only Dahmer's confession to
Speaker 1: go on, While much of it was later confirmed as true,
Speaker 1: Tony Hughes's mother feels Dahmer not only killed her son,
Speaker 1: he lied about him afterward.
Speaker 2: He knew my.
Speaker 8: Son, and my son trusted him as a friend, and
Speaker 8: he didn't have to go to his house for money
Speaker 8: coust to day.
Speaker 2: He the last day I saw him, he had cast his.
Speaker 8: Chickeyhet over four hundred dollars in his pocket, so he
Speaker 8: didn't need.
Speaker 6: His fifty dollars.
Speaker 8: And he went a process too out on the street
Speaker 8: either like the meteor portrayed all him.
Speaker 6: I'm speaking of Tony. I can't speak for anybody else
Speaker 6: I know about my son.
Speaker 1: Two days after killing Tony Hughes, Dahmer went to the
Speaker 1: Grand Avenue Mall. He testified, he met an Asian boy
Speaker 1: and struck up a conversation with him. As had worked
Speaker 1: so often before, Dahmer said He offered him fifty dollars
Speaker 1: to come to his apartment to take pictures. The boy agreed,
Speaker 1: although Dahmer stated he did not know it at the time.
Speaker 1: The boy was contact synthesom phone.
Speaker 2: The brother of the boy. Dahmer had been arrested for
Speaker 2: fondling in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1: After contract passed out from the drug drink, Dahmer had
Speaker 1: oral sex with the boy and then went out to
Speaker 1: get more beer. The boy woke up while Jeffrey was gone.
Speaker 1: He was naked and disoriented from the drugs. He stumbled
Speaker 1: out of the apartment and into the street. Neighbors tried
Speaker 1: to help the boy and saw bruises on his body.
Speaker 1: One of them made this nine to one one call.
Speaker 8: Okay him this, I'm all twenty fifty State and hething,
Speaker 8: young men, he's button.
Speaker 2: Neck, he is beaten up. He's very bruised.
Speaker 5: He can't see, he's study fall out.
Speaker 2: He hash but he has no calls on.
Speaker 11: He us hurt and I you know, I got a
Speaker 11: corner him.
Speaker 7: I don't think him.
Speaker 9: He needs to work on the twenty fIF State.
Speaker 1: The corner twenty fifty State, A police squad car and
Speaker 1: an ambulance were immediately dispatched. Jeffrey Dahmer was returning from
Speaker 1: a neighborhood bar when he saw the crowd on the
Speaker 1: corner of twenty fifth in State. As he had done
Speaker 1: many times before, Dahmer coolly walked up to the authorities
Speaker 1: and lied. He told the police he and Contract were
Speaker 1: lovers who had had a fight. He laughed and said
Speaker 1: Contract had acted this way before when he had had.
Speaker 2: Too much to drink.
Speaker 1: The officers went back to the apartment, where Dahmer showed
Speaker 1: them some pictures of Contract and himself. Police later reported
Speaker 1: that Contract tried to speak in a slurred Asian dialect,
Speaker 1: but was unintelligible.
Speaker 2: The officers noticed a odds smell in.
Speaker 1: The apartments, but did not investigate. If they had gone
Speaker 1: into the bedroom, they would have stumbled across Tony Hughes'
Speaker 1: decomposing body. That they run Jeffrey Dahmer's name through police computers,
Speaker 1: who would have told them he was still on probation
Speaker 1: for a sex crime. In the end, the officers took
Speaker 1: Dahmer at his word that the fourteen year old boy
Speaker 1: was an adult. They left Contract with Dahmer in the
Speaker 1: living room. Back at the squad car they chuckled about
Speaker 1: the unique domestic disturbance.
Speaker 5: The intoxicated Agean naked mail was returned.
Speaker 2: Boyfriend and day.
Speaker 1: Dahmer later confessed that moments after the officers left, he
Speaker 1: strangled contract and had sex.
Speaker 2: With the body.
Speaker 1: He took pictures as he dismembered the corpse and then
Speaker 1: put the torso in the big blue vat Dummer kept
Speaker 1: the skull.
Speaker 4: Basic law enforcement practices were not follow.
Speaker 2: When the story of the incident broke.
Speaker 1: After Dahmer's arrest, police Chief Philip Eriola suspended the three officers.
Speaker 1: The incident ignited the gay and minority communities in the
Speaker 1: weeks of rallies, vigils, and protests over police insensitivity.
Speaker 6: It's nice that you suspended the people, but we don't
Speaker 6: want anybody suspended. We want to be treated with dignity.
Speaker 1: Milwaukee's mayor would call it the most traumatic time in
Speaker 1: the city's history. Not long after he killed conorrac centesim Phone,
Speaker 1: Dahmer lost.
Speaker 2: His job at the chocolate factory.
Speaker 1: He was broke behind on his rent and spending all
Speaker 1: his money on cruising and buying materials for disposing of
Speaker 1: the bodies. The one momentary pleasure for him was sex,
Speaker 1: which inevitably led to murder.
Speaker 2: Dahmer would kill four more.
Speaker 1: Young men before Tracy Edwards was lucky enough to escape
Speaker 1: on July twenty second, nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 2: The trial of Jeffrey Dahmer opened on January.
Speaker 1: Thirty, nineteen ninety two, six months after his arrest. A
Speaker 1: bulletproof shield divided the spectators from the participants. It was
Speaker 1: an audience filled largely with victims' families, as well as
Speaker 1: Dahmer's father and stepmother. Jeffrey Dahmer did not testify at
Speaker 1: the trial. He had already pleaded guilty to the killings.
Speaker 1: The only question was his sanity at the time of
Speaker 1: the murders. If found insane, Dahmer would be housed in
Speaker 1: a mental institution. The burden of proving he was not
Speaker 1: sane fell to the defense.
Speaker 3: I think everybody initial reaction is you have to be
Speaker 3: nuts to do something like this, and that is the
Speaker 3: first reaction of everybody. That's one thing to say that,
Speaker 3: it's another thing to prove it, And in order to
Speaker 3: prove it, you must show psychosis.
Speaker 5: Psychosis is that particular mental malady where a person can't
Speaker 5: understand reality when they think a stick is a bat,
Speaker 5: and they fear that a human being is a devil.
Speaker 2: That type of unreality.
Speaker 5: One of the more famous ones the Son of Sam case,
Speaker 5: where the man was taking orders from a.
Speaker 2: Dog, at least he said he was.
Speaker 1: Serial killer David Berkowitz, known as the Son of Sam,
Speaker 1: murdered six young women in New York in the mid
Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. When he was apprehended, Berkowitz said he was insane.
Speaker 1: It was not convincing to the judge, who found him
Speaker 1: competent to stand trial. He was sentenced to life in prison.
Speaker 1: In the Dahmer trial, the jury first had to determine
Speaker 1: if the killer had a mental disease, and if he did,
Speaker 1: was he able to understand that his actions were wrong,
Speaker 1: and further, was he able to act in accordance with
Speaker 1: the law. Dahmer's defense was that his mental illness was necrophilia,
Speaker 1: and that his sexual urges toward dead bodies became so
Speaker 1: strong that he couldn't stop himself from killing. As the
Speaker 1: prosecution saw it, Dahmer was not crazy, but slowly accepted
Speaker 1: the idea of killing.
Speaker 5: Certainly, as Jeffrey Dahmer first thought of the idea of
Speaker 5: having sex with an unconscious man and then a dead man.
Speaker 5: Certainly it shocked him, but he kept turning over the
Speaker 5: fantasy in his mind. Finally it became tolerable, and then
Speaker 5: he decided to act out on the fantasy to realize it.
Speaker 2: And when he did kill, McCann argued he was sane
Speaker 2: and even methodical.
Speaker 1: Dahmer would most often cruise for victims on Friday, so
Speaker 1: he would have the weekend to enjoy and dispose of
Speaker 1: the bodies. If he didn't meet someone on Friday, he
Speaker 1: wouldn't kill that week. Dahmer never attacked on the street,
Speaker 1: only in the controlled environment of his apartment. He never
Speaker 1: picked up anyone with a car because he figured abandoned
Speaker 1: cars of missing persons would provide clues for police.
Speaker 5: So he was a man that demonstrated consistently that when
Speaker 5: he wished to do it, he could control himself. Police
Speaker 5: asked him, mister Dahmer, do you know what you're doing
Speaker 5: is wrong? He said, well, absolutely, That's why I put
Speaker 5: double locks on the doors. That's why I had the
Speaker 5: television cameras as so that anyone broke in that they
Speaker 5: would see the leave before they discovered the bodies.
Speaker 3: There was never a question of whether or not he
Speaker 3: understood the wrong force was kind of he knew what
Speaker 3: he was doing was wrong questions because he able to
Speaker 3: stop it. I think as he progressed into this killing
Speaker 3: spree that he certainly got crazier and crazier. So basically
Speaker 3: I tried to argue that he was crazy. Certainly after
Speaker 3: about the ninth.
Speaker 1: Or tenth murder, it was about that time, in the
Speaker 1: spring of nineteen ninety one, a Dummer began to experiment
Speaker 1: with the idea of creating a decorative altar of skulls.
Speaker 1: He never built the altar, but later sketched it for police,
Speaker 1: and it was also around the time he tried to
Speaker 1: give his victims crude lobotomies to create sex summies who
Speaker 1: would never leave him.
Speaker 9: To me, that is not a sane fantasy. That is
Speaker 9: not something coming from a person who has their psychological
Speaker 9: act together. It's coming from a person that has lost
Speaker 9: and really has stripped their years of sanity and are
Speaker 9: now wowing in some sort of a psychotic haze.
Speaker 1: Psychiatrist part Deeds testified for the prosecution. He feels that
Speaker 1: Dummer was not the runaway train Jerry Boyle described, but
Speaker 1: as with most serial killers one with Dummer at the controls.
Speaker 10: Nothing drives any of these men from fantasy to action
Speaker 10: except themselves.
Speaker 2: They're in the driver's seat.
Speaker 1: In his closing argument, Prosecutor mchann played on the issue
Speaker 1: of Dummer's characteristic lying.
Speaker 2: McCann warned the jury not to be fooled. He fooled
Speaker 2: the police in back, Ohio. He fooled the police when
Speaker 2: he had Hick's body.
Speaker 8: In his car.
Speaker 5: He fooled the Milwaukee police on the counteract simpis and
Speaker 5: dorn case.
Speaker 11: Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5: He's fooled of a lot of people, including the part
Speaker 5: that gave a year's probation. Please please, don't let this
Speaker 5: murderous killer fool you.
Speaker 1: Jerry Boyle, however, offered a synopsis of Dahmer's life that.
Speaker 2: Portrayed a sick, out of control man.
Speaker 12: To Jeffrey Dahmer as a total human being, a person
Speaker 12: who's in a fantasy drugging, keeping skulls in lock or cannibalism,
Speaker 12: having delusions, chanting and rocky, picking up gold killed going
Speaker 12: and trying to get a mannequin of home so he
Speaker 12: can play sex with a mannequin.
Speaker 6: Posing people are dead, that he killed for.
Speaker 12: Pictures masturbating all over the place. This is Jeffrey Dohnas.
Speaker 1: Family members of victims tried to pass the time as
Speaker 1: the jury deliberated, it took less than a day to
Speaker 1: return a verdict.
Speaker 2: In regard to the death of Ernest Miller. Did the defendant,
Speaker 2: Jeffrey L. Dahmer have a mental disease?
Speaker 6: Answer no?
Speaker 1: For every murder with which he was charged, Duhmer was
Speaker 1: found sane. At a press conference later, District Attorney mc
Speaker 1: cann told reporters how happy he was that uncontrollable sexual
Speaker 1: urges had not been accepted as grounds for insanity.
Speaker 5: We were all concerned of this emerging as a defense,
Speaker 5: not just in a murder case, but more likely in
Speaker 5: rat cases and the child molesting cases.
Speaker 1: At the sentencing hearing two days later, Judge Lawrence Graham
Speaker 1: allowed victims' families to tell both the court and Dahmer
Speaker 1: about the impact the crimes had made. It was one
Speaker 1: of the most emotional moments.
Speaker 2: Of the tribe.
Speaker 8: He took my seventeen year old son away from me.
Speaker 8: I'll never get a chance to tell him that I
Speaker 8: loved him. I'd have chance tell him that I love him.
Speaker 8: The last time I saw, which will be a year tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Lover Jaffrey Jay.
Speaker 1: One order was restored. Dahmer, who never testified, addressed the court.
Speaker 11: I know how much harm I have caused. I tried
Speaker 11: to do the best I could after the arrest to
Speaker 11: make amends, but no matter what I did, I could
Speaker 11: not undo the terrible harm I have caused. My attempt
Speaker 11: to help identify the remains was the best that I
Speaker 11: could do, and that was hardly anything.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 11: The families of the victims will never be able to
Speaker 11: forgive me for what I have done. I have seen
Speaker 11: their tears, and if I could give my life right
Speaker 11: now to bring their loved ones back, I would do it.
Speaker 6: I am so very sorry.
Speaker 2: Judge Graham then read the sentence count one.
Speaker 4: He courtorial imposed the mandatory life sentence.
Speaker 1: Dahma received the maximum penalty for each and every count,
Speaker 1: but his story was far from finished. In fact, it
Speaker 1: began to take on a life of its own. Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Dahmer was one of the most publicized serial killers in history,
Speaker 1: but the fascination with such murders began more than a
Speaker 1: century ago. In London, between September and November of eighteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight, some one murdered and mutilated five prostitutes. The
Speaker 1: killer wrote letters to the police and the London Times,
Speaker 1: taunting them with clues of his next murder. He signed
Speaker 1: the letters Jack the Ripper. The lasting appeal of the
Speaker 1: Ripper legend is that he stopped after five killings and
Speaker 1: was never caught. Jack the Ripper became a model for
Speaker 1: how the media portrays serial killers. Modern day killers like
Speaker 1: Albert DiSalvo, the Boston Strangler and Richard Ramirez the Nightstalker,
Speaker 1: gained catching nicknames in the press. Son of Sam David Berkowitz,
Speaker 1: also wrote letters to the newspapers. Our dark fascination with
Speaker 1: serial murders as spilled into our entertainment, spawning some of
Speaker 1: the most popular movies ever made. Inevitably, as the Geoffrey
Speaker 1: Dahmer case grabbed worldwide attention, those with an eye to
Speaker 1: profit took the marketing of killers one step first.
Speaker 2: Serial killer trading cards.
Speaker 1: T shirts, even a comic book exploited and glamorized the crimes.
Speaker 3: I don't think my vooc will bottom as much as
Speaker 3: the fact that Dahmer was.
Speaker 2: In the top twenty five months.
Speaker 3: Intriguing people of nineteen ninety one for People magazine.
Speaker 1: Serial killers are mostly intrigued by themselves. In fact, they
Speaker 1: are so self centered that one source of ego fulfillment.
Speaker 2: Can be the body cunt.
Speaker 1: In August nineteen ninety one, when Jeffrey Dahmer's case was
Speaker 1: one of the top stories in the country, police in
Speaker 1: Mississippi arrested Donald Leroy Evans for killing a six year
Speaker 1: old girl. Soon, Evans confessed to nearly sixty killings across
Speaker 1: the country, causing just the kind of speculation a serial
Speaker 1: killer enjoys.
Speaker 7: Involves enough bodies to make people forget almost what happened.
Speaker 1: In Milwaukee, But to date, very few of the murders
Speaker 1: Evans confessed to have been verified. With homicide rates soaring
Speaker 1: nationally in the last thirty years years, serial killers may
Speaker 1: be losing some of their shock value. When William Herons
Speaker 1: killed three people in Chicago in nineteen forty five, it
Speaker 1: was called the crime of the century.
Speaker 2: Herons only kill three people.
Speaker 9: And when I say only kill three people, by today's standard,
Speaker 9: you don't even get attention of the media unless you've
Speaker 9: knocked off about twelve or fifteen people.
Speaker 1: In fact, it's all too easy to watch the stories
Speaker 1: about serial killers unfold in our newspapers and on our
Speaker 1: TV screens. It's a safe titillation of the height of
Speaker 1: evil as long as we keep a distance. The alternative
Speaker 1: is not to hear about the killings at all. As
Speaker 1: was the case in the Old Soviet Union, under communist rule,
Speaker 1: the press was strictly censored in reporting violent crime. As
Speaker 1: a result, Russians never knew that serial killers like Andre
Speaker 1: Chakatila were on the prowl. The self proclaimed mad Beast
Speaker 1: murdered fifty three people in a ten year spree with
Speaker 1: the end of censorship is nineteen ninety two. Trial received
Speaker 1: wide press cover and left viewers in disbelief and shock.
Speaker 1: Milwaukee is a city still healing from the crimes of
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer's apartment building was torn down about a
Speaker 1: year after the trial, erasing a painful landmark of his crimes. Then,
Speaker 1: on November twenty eighth, nineteen ninety four, at the State
Speaker 1: prison in Portage, Wisconsin, Dahmer was set on a bathroom
Speaker 1: cleaning detail with two other prisoners. When guards left the
Speaker 1: three unattended, one of the inmates, Chris Scarver, who called
Speaker 1: himself Christ, attacked both his Funne prisoners with a metal
Speaker 1: bar from a weight set. Two hours later, Jeffrey Dahmer
Speaker 1: was pronounced dead at Divine Savior Hospital.
Speaker 2: The horror that one man brought upon an entire city
Speaker 2: is still difficult to comprehend.
Speaker 3: There is no question in my mind that what Jeffrey
Speaker 3: Dahmer became was the embodiment of evil. I think that
Speaker 3: if we had lived in the Middle Ages, that would
Speaker 3: have been the defense, and a Jerry might have believed that,
Speaker 3: in fact he was the devil took or as being
Speaker 3: caused him to do these things.
Speaker 2: Dahmer, of course, is evil. Dahmer knew it was wrong
Speaker 2: all the time.
Speaker 5: One of the reasons that he drank as he did
Speaker 5: the killings, I think, was to silence his conscience, to
Speaker 5: dult his conscience. This isn't a man that didn't know
Speaker 5: right from wrong. He knew it was wrong, he knew
Speaker 5: it was evil.
Speaker 10: The hardest thing for the public to accept is that
Speaker 10: these men view humans as so inferior to themselves that
Speaker 10: the death of another is trivial compared to the momentary
Speaker 10: pleasure of the killer. His orgasm is more valuable than
Speaker 10: your life.
Speaker 2: I call him.
Speaker 3: Haley's comment he's a total mystery, comes around once every
Speaker 3: seventy five years. Can't figure out why, but he's there,
Speaker 3: and thank god, it's only once every seventy five years,