WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.240 Harry Harry Harry, start the court branch story three or four, 2 00:00:03.279 --> 00:00:08.240 Watson County's no session, our Lord's grant Union presiding silences commanded. 3 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:20.320 That you maybe should jurors. 4 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:25.480 The beginning of every trial, the lawyers are afforded an 5 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:29.120 opportunity to make a boot call and opening the statements, 6 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:32.200 and occurred recently a lot of people refer. 7 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:34.759 To it as an opening argument. It's not an argument, 8 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:36.119 it's an opening statement. 9 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:40.640 It's something it's it's not evidence in the case, but 10 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:43.719 rather it's something that's designed as an ad to the jurors, 11 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:47.600 for it gives each of the lawyers an opportunity to 12 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:50.320 give you an outlying thumbnail sketch. Sometimes it's referred to 13 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:53.359 as a roadmap, a worries going with the case. 14 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:55.920 Another way, it's sometimes. 15 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:58.399 Pictured it And I note that I know, thanks to 16 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:00.920 one of our court reporters, you have some jigsaw puzzles 17 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:02.479 back there in the jury room. 18 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:04.920 And if you kind of view the case as being 19 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:08.040 a jigsaw puzzle, and as the various witnesses come to 20 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:09.799 the witness stand, they give. 21 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:11.840 You various pieces of that puzzle. 22 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:14.519 But anybody who's ever worked on those puzzles, if you've 23 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:15.920 got that cover in front. 24 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:18.280 Of you that you can see what the whole picture 25 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:19.359 is supposed to look like. 26 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:22.480 It's a lot more helpful as far as putting those 27 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:27.040 various pieces together. The opening statement is that big picture, 28 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:30.599 and that's what the lawyers are trying to accomplish when 29 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:31.959 they make their opening statements. 30 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:34.480 Now, we have a certain order that we follow throughout 31 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:37.840 this trial, and as we've talked in jury selection, this 32 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:40.280 is kind of unique in terms of the order we 33 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:43.480 have here because in this case the defendant has the 34 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:46.079 burden of proof, and so throughout the trial. 35 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:48.359 It's the defendant who will always go first. And thus 36 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:51.640 mister Boyle has the opportunity of making the first opening statement. 37 00:01:51.840 --> 00:02:07.280 Mister Boyle, leading part, mister McCann, Famara's wife, Ladies and 38 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:14.479 gentlemen of the jury, We now begin an odyssey, the 39 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:20.120 results of which, in a short period of time, will 40 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:23.400 result in a decision to be made by you and 41 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:28.439 you alone, as to whether or not Jeffrey Donner. 42 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:34.159 Did, at the time he committed. 43 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:41.000 These horrific murders to which he has pled guilty, whether 44 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:43.240 or not he was suffering. 45 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:49.080 From a mental disease, the result of which. 46 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:57.840 That he lacked substantial capacity to either appreciate the wrongfulness 47 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:02.199 of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the 48 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:08.319 requirements of law. It is very difficult for an advocate 49 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:13.960 not to be an advocate, not to argue, not to 50 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:15.919 try and convince it all stages. 51 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.879 I cannot attempt to convince you of anything. 52 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:25.280 Now. The time for that to happen will come in 53 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:29.680 what's called closing argument, when I will say in closing 54 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:31.439 argument that as. 55 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:32.560 It relates to some. 56 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:40.439 One or all of these offenses, that I have proved 57 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:44.960 to a reasonable certainty by the greater weight of the 58 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:50.919 credible evidence that mister Dohmer was not responsible because of 59 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:55.159 this mental disease and the legal definition of insanity. As 60 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:59.520 I've said it, now, I know from having been with 61 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:03.159 you for the last three days, that we have a 62 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:07.319 jury here that is fresh, that. 63 00:04:07.479 --> 00:04:10.759 Has an opinion and is going to listen to the evidence. 64 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:14.639 But it's very difficult for you to understand what the 65 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:16.560 rest of us understand, because. 66 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:18.839 We've been working on in this case for so many months, 67 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:20.120 and we. 68 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:23.319 Are here trying to tell you things for not any 69 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:28.160 other reason than the hopefully make you understand. As this 70 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:32.680 is progressing down the road, of evidence as to what 71 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:37.279 is happening in this courtroom, so you can say, good, 72 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:38.319 I understand it. 73 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:44.360 If I were trying to explain to you the game of. 74 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:48.199 Football in order for you, who have just come in 75 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:51.959 from some place that never saw the game played, it 76 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:55.199 might take me hours, if not weeks, for you to 77 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:59.120 understand all the nuances. What I am doing here in 78 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:02.759 a very, very a brief period of time is trying 79 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:05.399 to lay out for you what I say. 80 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:09.279 I have accepted to be my burden, and that is 81 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:12.920 my burden, and I understand that. 82 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:17.199 So in that regard, what I want to do is 83 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:20.079 to tell you to completely disregard that long list of 84 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:23.879 witnesses that I read to you, because now that we're 85 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:26.639 at this point in time, certain decisions had to be 86 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:29.920 made by myself with the advice and consol of the 87 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.839 people who are assisted me, as to how this case 88 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:36.839 should proceed, and it really hasn't varied for a long 89 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:37.560 period of time. 90 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:38.920 But we had to name a. 91 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:41.800 Lot of witnesses because at the last moment, if something 92 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:46.000 became important and we hadn't put that witness's name down, we. 93 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:49.720 Might be foreclosed. And that's why both mister McCann and 94 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:53.319 I have done what we've done, and I would. 95 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:55.199 Like to tell you how this case is going to 96 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:59.120 be proceeded before I get into some of the other details. 97 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:04.240 I anticipate and I know that the judge is going 98 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:07.199 to give you some general idea as to what mister 99 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:12.040 Dahmer pled guilty to the fifteen compass. You see, there 100 00:06:12.040 --> 00:06:16.800 were seventeen homicides, but fifteen charged. The evidence is going 101 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:19.480 to show that the first homicide took place in a 102 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:22.160 place called Bath, Ohio in the year nineteen hundred and 103 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:26.279 seventy eight, that the second homicide took place in Milwaukee, 104 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:29.160 but because of the nature of the homicide, it was 105 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:32.000 not a charge. Homicipen is going to be discussed. It's 106 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:34.920 going to be discussed. Everything's going to be discussed, but 107 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:37.920 that certainly is going to be discussed. The rest of 108 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:41.160 the homicides that took place took place in Milwaukee County. 109 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:44.279 You will be made knowing. You will be made known 110 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:45.879 about every aspect of it. 111 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:49.360 And the person that's going to speak to you about 112 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:52.759 every aspect of it is Jeffrey Dahmer. But he is 113 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:55.120 going to speak to you through the members of the 114 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:58.800 Milwaukee Police Department. The first of who I'm going to 115 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:02.639 summon as my very first witness, and that is the 116 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:05.680 detective and or detectives, dependent upon how they want to 117 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:10.040 split up the testimony, who are going to read a 118 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:13.000 very very very. 119 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:14.560 Long confession to you. 120 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:19.680 And this confession is going to have details that will 121 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:23.879 cause you to be uncomfortable, but I'm sure that you 122 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:27.000 will listen to the words for the purposes that you 123 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:32.720 must know all of this information because subsequent to this confession, 124 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:36.079 Jeffrey Dahmer talked to a lot of other people. He 125 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:41.720 talked to a full bevy of psychiatrists and psychologists and others. 126 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:47.000 And the reason he did that was because every citizen 127 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:53.160 in this country has an absolute right to have it 128 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:55.920 investigated as to whether. 129 00:07:55.800 --> 00:08:00.120 Or not when they did any act, any act, that 130 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:01.839 they were of sound mind. 131 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:05.839 And I'm going to use these phrases sanity, sanity with 132 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:07.639 the clear cut understanding is. 133 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:10.160 Mister McCann brought to your attention, and as I have 134 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:10.600 brought to. 135 00:08:10.639 --> 00:08:14.199 Your attention, that the legal definition for the purposes of 136 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.879 the criminal justice system of insanity is the one I 137 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:20.720 have just told you as the one I'm confident mister 138 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:21.879 McCann will remind you. 139 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:24.040 Of and as the judge will instruct you. 140 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:27.240 So if I use the word insane or insane, if 141 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:31.600 I use the word cookie crazy, all those words are 142 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:35.440 being used to portray a state of mind. 143 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:40.240 And I submit to you that the testimony that the. 144 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:44.480 Doctors will bring to your attention, all the doctors will 145 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:48.799 give to you a very sound, deep basis for you 146 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:54.320 making the ultimate decision. I am going to call into 147 00:08:54.399 --> 00:09:03.440 this courtroom three doctors, two psychiatris, and one psychologist. Doctor 148 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:09.000 Verlin of Johns Hopkins University, a PhD in psychology and 149 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:14.000 a doctor of medicine with especially in psychiatry, is going. 150 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:15.200 To testify in this case. 151 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:19.799 I'm going to bring into this courtroom a doctor Carol Walstrom, 152 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:24.679 a psychiatrist, a doctor of medicine who's at Rush Presbyterian 153 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:27.759 Hospital in the field of psychiatry, who's. 154 00:09:27.559 --> 00:09:30.080 Going to testify as to his opinion. 155 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:33.320 I'm going to bring into this courtroom a doctor by 156 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:37.840 the name of Judith Becker, a doctor of psychology who 157 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:41.039 is from the University of Arizona in Tucson, who is 158 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:44.600 going to come in and testify as to heroic as 159 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:48.080 to Jeffrey Dahmer's mental state at the time that he 160 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:49.440 committed these offenses. 161 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:52.360 But they are not the decision makers. 162 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:56.320 You are going to be the decision makers, and for 163 00:09:56.559 --> 00:10:01.759 you to make those decisions, must and I am duty 164 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:07.120 bound to bring to your attention every single aspect of 165 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:13.360 mister Dahmer's life, of mister Dahmer's conduct, so that you, 166 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:16.679 when you make your decision, will be able to say, 167 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:19.159 I had the facts needed for. 168 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:21.120 Me to make a decision, whatever it may be. 169 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:25.039 I know because under the system of laws we are 170 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:28.519 forced to trade information with the other side that mister 171 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:31.960 McCann is likewise going to feel filled in this. 172 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:34.879 Courtroom super professionals who. 173 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:38.080 Are likewise going to give their opinions, and the court 174 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:41.879 will likewise have an expert that will testify in this court. 175 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:45.320 So you're going to be equipped when it's all over with, 176 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:49.639 with everything you need to know to make your decision. 177 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:55.720 And the purpose of this court proceeding is a search 178 00:10:55.879 --> 00:11:00.080 for the truth. And in that regard, we must not 179 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:03.759 keep anything from you you're entitled to hear. We obviously 180 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:08.559 make tactical decisions so that you may make the proper decision. 181 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:15.639 On the night of mister Dahmer's arrest, a man by 182 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:18.919 the name of Tracy Edwards was present with mister Dahmer. 183 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:22.799 The evidence is going to show that he was about 184 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:27.919 to be the next victim. Through fate, he did not 185 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:28.919 become a victim. 186 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:34.480 And the saga of mister Dahmer ended at that time, 187 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:39.679 and in fact began at that time. It was subsequent 188 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:44.200 to his arrest very shortly thereafter, as the police will 189 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:48.080 tell you, as Detective Murphy or Detective Kennedy will tell you, 190 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:54.159 that mister Dahmer confessed to all, to everything as best 191 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:56.879 he could under the constraints that he was placed in. 192 00:11:57.480 --> 00:12:00.960 He gave a full and complete statement to the Milwaukee 193 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:05.279 Police Department, to the officers from Bath Ohio, to the 194 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:08.559 officers from the West Dallas Police Department, because in fact, 195 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:11.840 acts took place in West Allis. In one act took 196 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:15.159 place in Bath Ohio, And you're gonna hear every bit 197 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:21.440 of that. And I want to say unequivocally a number 198 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:23.519 of things that I think the evidence is going to 199 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:30.039 show this was not racial. The evans is going to 200 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:34.200 show after you hear the testimony of mister Dahmer as 201 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:37.480 told to the Milwaukee Police Department and as told to 202 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:42.879 the doctors, doctor Becker, doctor Wallstrom, and doctor Berlin that 203 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:49.440 mister Dahmer's obsession was to body form, not color. 204 00:12:51.039 --> 00:12:51.919 It is also a. 205 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:54.440 Fact, as you know, that there was a lot of 206 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:59.799 homosexual tendencies here, and the obsessiveness of mister Dahmer was 207 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:06.279 clearly in the vein of fulfilling his sexual desires, which 208 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:09.240 happen to be of a homosexual nature. 209 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:16.240 This is not a case about homosexuality, so in that. 210 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:19.519 Regard, I would like to give you some ideas as 211 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:21.279 to what I think I'm supposed to be doing. 212 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:21.960 I'm curious, Tod. 213 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:26.559 First of all, I am your servant, and I will 214 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:29.200 be for as long as it takes to try this case. 215 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:33.120 I'm an advocate of my client's cause I'm an officer 216 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:34.840 of the court, but I'm a servant of. 217 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:37.720 The jury to bring to your attention that which you need. 218 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:40.279 So when it's all over with you say he did 219 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:43.480 his job for me, and I appreciate that. I am 220 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:47.000 not going to argue here. I have the greatest of 221 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:49.919 respect for the people who are sitting in the position 222 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:50.240 of the. 223 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:51.159 State of Wisconsin. 224 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:53.960 A co worker with mister McCann at one time in 225 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:59.519 my life, a man of enormous, wonderful reputation as is 226 00:13:59.559 --> 00:13:59.960 a staff. 227 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:04.360 This is not going to be a combat show. This 228 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:07.639 isn't you see. The case is over. 229 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:12.519 Mister Dahmer has pled guilty to these fifteen homicides. 230 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:16.320 The case continues because. 231 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:18.279 Under the law, as I have said, we are trying 232 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:21.039 to find out the mind of this man. 233 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:26.000 Was he evil or was he sick? And I use 234 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:27.679 that in a very shortened phrase. 235 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:32.480 Does he meet the definition of insanity as the law 236 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:35.399 will be defined to you for one sum or. 237 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:36.159 All of these. 238 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:46.840 I'm going to tell you basically what you can expect 239 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:50.759 to learn from the witches about Jeffrey Dinerd. 240 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:56.120 That he is thirty one years of age. They was 241 00:14:56.200 --> 00:14:57.000 born in Milwaukee. 242 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:59.720 In his early life was very unremarkable, as the doctors 243 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:02.639 will t you, moving from this place to that place, 244 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:04.240 as his family. 245 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:07.200 Moved that when he was five years of age. She 246 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:10.480 had a brother who was born into the family. 247 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:18.879 Doctor Becker is going to start indicating certain facts that 248 00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:25.360 she is going to use to support her opinion, not absolutely, 249 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:27.159 but matters of interest. 250 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:29.919 And I don't think it's my job to stand here 251 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:31.080 today and. 252 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:34.039 Tell you every single fact that these doctors are going 253 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:37.399 to testify to. But I think it necessary for me 254 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:41.840 to give you a general understanding of Jeffrey Dahmer and 255 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:45.960 his life and his actions and his conduct to assist 256 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:49.080 you that when these doctors are testifying, there would be 257 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:52.200 a better flow in their testimony because you have some 258 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:56.279 idea of how the game has been laid out. 259 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:59.440 To be played in his courtroom. And I don't mean game. 260 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:02.159 I don't mean game in the sense that this is 261 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:05.799 not the most important matter that all of us will 262 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:08.639 ever probably be confronted with in our entire lives. 263 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:13.039 But we have to lay out the plan so as 264 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:17.200 to help you. And Jeffrey Dahmer was in eighth grade. 265 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:21.240 He started in doing some things of a sexual nature 266 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:25.639 that were really the embryo of as what the doctors 267 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:28.360 will testify. Remember I'm saying when I don't say that 268 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:30.480 doctors will testify as a given. 269 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:33.200 These are things that I learned from. 270 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:35.720 The doctors that the doctors are going to testify to, 271 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:38.840 not what I'm going to testify to that the police 272 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:42.600 Department has brought to everyone's attention through the confession of 273 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:46.759 mister Dahmer and statements mister Dahmer has made. We're going 274 00:16:46.840 --> 00:16:49.360 to find that when mister Dahmer was in eighth grade, 275 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:54.840 he started into a series of sexual movements, and they 276 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:59.080 took on the form of two things. He started masturbating 277 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:03.000 on a daily base, and the object of his fantasies 278 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:05.279 while engaged in that self abuse. 279 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:07.920 Or self conduct, or whatever is called. 280 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:12.759 As the doctors will tell you where thoughts concerning young 281 00:17:13.079 --> 00:17:15.640 men of his age, young boys of his age. 282 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:18.279 Will find. 283 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:20.799 You will find then the testimony and I don't want 284 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:23.559 to say the testimony show or the testimony show, accept 285 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:25.279 that that's what I'm talking about. 286 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:28.640 That the testimonial show that even. 287 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:33.480 As an early teenager, he started becoming interested in bones 288 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:36.960 of dead animals. He would take him home, he would 289 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:42.920 bleach him, he would study them. None of this was 290 00:17:43.039 --> 00:17:46.640 discovered by any members of his family. None of the 291 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:51.279 interests that he had were known to his family. The 292 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:54.519 doctors are going to testify that basically his early years 293 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:59.440 were unremarkable, no greatly different than most, but a few 294 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:00.000 things differ. 295 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:02.359 For it that they will tell you what you might 296 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:06.720 consider the import of that to be. It was when 297 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:07.000 he was. 298 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:10.559 Fourteen years of age, as he has told the parties, 299 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:14.079 and I'm confident at this juncture. When Detective Murphy and 300 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:18.279 Detective Kennedy testify, you will get some understanding and you'll 301 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:21.440 be able to judge the credibility of Jeffrey Dahmer in 302 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:25.319 his dealings with all the parties concerned. But when he 303 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:28.640 was about fourteen years of age, he first came up 304 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:33.160 with the idea of using a corpse for sexual purposes. 305 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:38.279 He fantasized either having a corpse or a mannequin to use, 306 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:41.759 And it was at that time that he had his 307 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:49.839 first actual consensual homosexual encounter with ave a peer. He 308 00:18:49.960 --> 00:18:57.400 discovered his homosexuality and accepted it. He will tell you 309 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:00.640 through the doctors he didn't understand. It caused him no 310 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:03.400 concern other than the fact that he realized what he was. 311 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:08.119 It was while he was in high school that this 312 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:15.000 fantasy of his doing things with dead things started showing 313 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:18.759 up when in a biology class he dissected a baby 314 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:22.440 pig and took the head home with them, took the 315 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:28.079 skin off, and kept the skull. Three doctors are going 316 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:30.759 to come into this courtroom and they're going to tell you. 317 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:34.400 That their opinion is. 318 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:39.200 That Jeffrey Dahmer suffers from a mental disorder, and it 319 00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:44.880 is called paraphilia without my trying to be a doctor 320 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:52.279 and defining it for you, except generally, paraphilia is an 321 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:58.960 arousal of a sexual nature to an inanimate object, a body. 322 00:19:58.759 --> 00:20:00.640 Part, or a process. 323 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:06.279 And this paraphilia, there's all kinds of paraphilias. The doctors 324 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:08.759 are going to tell you about the different kinds of paraphilis. 325 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:14.640 But the paraphilia that best exemplifies the paraphilia that Jeffrey 326 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:18.119 Dahmer had, which they will claim is in their opinion, 327 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:21.920 a mental disorder, which they will state in Jeffrey Dahmer. 328 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:22.839 Was a mental disease. 329 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:33.039 Their paraphilia that they found was necrophilia, and necrophilia is 330 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:37.799 a disorder of the mind where there is a desire 331 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:43.440 to have sexual contact with dead bodies. 332 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:49.640 That's what they're going to say Jeffrey Dahmer was. 333 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:53.240 There's a lot more than that, but that's the mainstay 334 00:20:53.319 --> 00:20:57.920 of his condition, was his desire for dead bodies. 335 00:20:58.640 --> 00:20:59.559 They have sex with that. 336 00:20:59.720 --> 00:21:04.319 By armed with that information here now I'm ready to 337 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:07.640 continue on in the chronology of Jeffrey Dahmer's life so 338 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:11.680 that you may understand how that embryo that may fit. 339 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:13.319 As the doctors will testify. 340 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:18.279 There came a time in nineteen seventy five or seventy 341 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:24.400 six that Jeffrey Dahmer's obsession with this sexual desire and 342 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:28.359 fantasy and obsession got to the point where he saw. 343 00:21:28.279 --> 00:21:32.160 A man who lived somewhere in the general area where he. 344 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:37.559 Lived, running jogging. Every day he would see him jogging 345 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:41.039 down the road, and he became so attached to the 346 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:47.359 concept of having sex with this man that he went 347 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:51.039 home and he sought off a baseball bat so that 348 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:53.680 he could get on his bike and ride past the 349 00:21:53.799 --> 00:21:55.680 man and hit him in the head with the baseball 350 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:58.680 bat and knock him out. So I was to take 351 00:21:58.720 --> 00:22:01.160 him up into the woods and have sex with him. 352 00:22:02.759 --> 00:22:06.519 That's what his quest was. And he put that quest 353 00:22:06.599 --> 00:22:10.759 in the play and got on that bicycle and went 354 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:14.000 out to find this man. And thanks me to God, 355 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:17.200 the man had never jogged that way again, so it 356 00:22:17.319 --> 00:22:21.000 didn't happen. But the doctors are going to tell you 357 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:26.160 what that meant in the grand scheme of things, as 358 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:33.759 it is to the mind of Jeffrey Dunnod beginning when 359 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:36.640 he was about sixteen years of age, and this would 360 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:41.720 be in the years of seventy six, seventy seven, he 361 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:49.279 started collecting animals, always dead animals, and there's going to 362 00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:54.839 be testimony as to why that's significant. Never killed a 363 00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:59.319 live animal, but would go on the roads and find 364 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:03.880 would kill dogs, other type of animals that have been 365 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:07.079 struck by powers, that were laying there, and he would 366 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:10.680 take him home, and he started having a fascination of 367 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:12.000 wanting to see what they look. 368 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:14.799 Like inside, and he would open them up. 369 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:19.480 One time he took off the head of a dog 370 00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:21.920 and put it on a steak and hung it out. 371 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:26.359 So everybody could see it, primarily for shock value. This 372 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:27.359 obsession of this. 373 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:32.000 Dead animals and doing things with them started becoming something. 374 00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:34.720 That became more and more into his life, into his head. 375 00:23:35.960 --> 00:23:38.240 The way he conducted himself in high school will be 376 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:41.599 made known to you take it for what it's worth 377 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:42.279 and what it meant. 378 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:44.839 Doctors are going to be asked. 379 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:48.599 They're going to be testifying to how a person who 380 00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:51.200 starts acting like this at a certain age and is 381 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:53.720 now a thirty one can go on day in and 382 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:56.480 day out living what ostensibly. 383 00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:57.799 Appears to be the kind of things that most people 384 00:23:57.839 --> 00:23:58.119 would do. 385 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:02.799 Goes to work, eats eats food, goes out for dinner, 386 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:04.960 goes to the store. They're going to tell you what 387 00:24:05.119 --> 00:24:08.200 that means in the mind of a Jeffrey Dahmer, whose 388 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:14.400 life starts taking on an obsession and a fantasy that 389 00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:15.759 has so foreigned. 390 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:18.559 To us that we can't even comprehend it. But for 391 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:20.640 the next two weeks, we're going to be asked to 392 00:24:20.759 --> 00:24:22.839 at least listen to it and try and. 393 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:31.119 Understand what it's all about. His home life changed a lot. 394 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:34.920 There was some problems in his mother and father's marriage. 395 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:39.480 There was an ultimate divorce. He was about eighteen at 396 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:44.720 the time. It was traumatic, and he became somewhat of 397 00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:50.440 a rectress. He isolated himself, spent a lot of time alone, 398 00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:54.119 started internalizing. 399 00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:55.319 As the doctors would tell you, started. 400 00:24:55.039 --> 00:24:59.359 Internalizing his feelings, and they'll explain that to you, internalization 401 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:00.880