WEBVTT 1 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:18.879 Welcome to Inside Edition examines Jeffrey Dahmer. In nineteen seventy eight, 2 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:22.120 a killing spree began that continued for more than thirteen 3 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:26.280 years and left seventeen men dead. The man behind them 4 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:30.519 became known as the Milwaukee Monster. Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested 5 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:34.520 in nineteen ninety one and was eventually convicted in sixteen 6 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:37.640 of those gruesome murders and sentenced to life in prison. 7 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:42.439 In nineteen ninety three, Dahmer granted Inside Edition a jailhouse interview. 8 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:43.200 Take a look. 9 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:46.280 I desensitize myself to it. 10 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:46.640 I I. 11 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:54.880 I don't know. I went to great Links. 12 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:57.600 He is pure evil, but you'd never know it by 13 00:00:57.679 --> 00:00:59.880 looking at him. But when you hear him, that's an 14 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:03.359 the story. His killing field was Milwaukee, and he got 15 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:05.840 away with murder for more than a decade. But how 16 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:08.000 could any of this happen? For the first time ever, 17 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:11.400 Nancy Glass is here inside the World of Jeffrey Dahmer. 18 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:11.920 Bill. 19 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:15.000 When I sat down opposite Jeffrey Dahmer for this interview, 20 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:17.760 I wondered what he would tell me, how hard it 21 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:20.719 would be to get him to discuss his horrific crimes. 22 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:24.200 What I found was that he was very forthcoming. He 23 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:27.840 volunteered details that may be difficult to hear. I began 24 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:30.879 by asking what he wanted from the men he picked up. 25 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:38.280 I had these obsessive desires and thoughts, wanting to control 26 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:45.319 them to I don't know how to put it, possess 27 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:49.200 them permanently. And that's why you killed them right right, 28 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:51.799 Not because I was angry with them, not because I 29 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:56.079 hated them, but because I wanted to keep them with me. 30 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:05.079 And as my obsession grew, I was saving body parts 31 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:09.319 such as skulls and skeletons. 32 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:14.400 Jeffrey Dahmer is recalling his monstrous past. Almost two years ago, 33 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:18.919 in this little apartment in Milwaukee, police discovered the grisly 34 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:21.840 remnants of one of the most horrible crime sprees in 35 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:27.280 American history. Jeffrey Dahmer, an unassuming chocolate factory worker, would 36 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:32.080 eventually confess that he had seduced, murdered, and dismembered seventeen 37 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:35.719 young men. He even ate some of his victim's body parts. 38 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:41.560 He instantly became the center of worldwide media attention, a 39 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:47.360 serial killer unmasked. There were protests and press conferences in 40 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:50.840 Milwaukee as people tried to understand how this could have 41 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:54.759 happened in their midst How did Jeffrey Dahmer get away 42 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:58.680 with murder after murder for thirteen years? How did a 43 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:02.919 boy born into a hardworking, middle class family turn into 44 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:07.599 the worst kind of monster imaginable? In this exclusive interview, 45 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:11.520 we put those questions to Jeffrey Dahmer himself. We met 46 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:14.159 with him at the maximum security prison where he is 47 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:17.120 serving his sentence of nine hundred and ninety nine years. 48 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:21.400 For the first time, he talks about his crimes and 49 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:24.639 gives us a chilling look inside the mind of a 50 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:25.560 serial killer. 51 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:33.120 It's a process. It doesn't happen overnight. When you depersonalize 52 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:38.319 another person and view them as just an object, an 53 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:42.039 object for pleasure, instead of a living, breathing human being, 54 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:52.319 it seems to make it easier to do things you 55 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:52.879 shouldn't do. 56 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:56.319 The reason why Jeffrey Dahmer was able to get away 57 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:59.159 with his crimes was because of just what you are 58 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:03.919 seeing here. Jeffrey Dahmer is intelligent and articulate. That is 59 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:07.319 what makes him so frightening. But if you listen carefully 60 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:10.960 to his words throughout this interview, you realize it is 61 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:14.639 a thin disguise. You do sound, though, like the kind 62 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:18.000 of person who could have said to himself, this is wrong, 63 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:19.279 I must stop. 64 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:28.120 I always knew that it was wrong, but after the 65 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:35.800 first the first killing was not planned. I was coming 66 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:39.240 back from the shopping mall back in seventy eight. I 67 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:45.560 had had fantasies about picking up a hitchhiker and taking 68 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:49.439 him back to the house and having complete control and 69 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:51.319 dominance over him. 70 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:54.000 The hitchhiker's name was Stephen Hicks. 71 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:55.519 He was just eighteen. 72 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:59.319 Jeffrey Dahmer took him to his parents' house. There he 73 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:02.519 strangled with a bar belt. He dismembered the body and 74 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:05.680 hid it in a drain pipe. It was Jeffrey Dahmer 75 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:09.120 who gave those details to the police in his confession. 76 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:13.519 No one had a clue as to what was happening 77 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:15.399 for over a decade. 78 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:18.560 During that time, Jeffrey Dahmer joined the army and was 79 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:22.160 sent to Germany. He was eventually discharged for a drinking 80 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:27.000 problem and returned to Ohio. Nine years after Stephen hicks murder, 81 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:30.279 the killing began again. What happened to you in the 82 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:33.639 nine years in between, that you were able to stop, 83 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:36.279 that you were able to control yourself. 84 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:41.959 Just wasn't an opportunity to fully express what I wanted 85 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:45.879 to do. There was just not the physical opportunity to 86 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:50.199 do it then. And I started when I moved to 87 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:58.040 Milwaukee in eighty one. I started reading pornography, going to 88 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:07.439 the bookstores. Eventually that led to frequenting the gay bars, 89 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:13.079 and then I one time I brought this young man 90 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:17.519 back to the hotel room the Ambassador Hotel, was just 91 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:21.560 planning on drugging him and spending the night with him. 92 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:24.600 Had no intention of hurting him. When I woke up 93 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:28.519 in the morning, he had a broken rib. Here I 94 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:33.120 was heavily bruised. Apparently I had beaten him to death 95 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:36.079 with my fists. And you have no memory, no memory 96 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:38.959 of it. But that's what started the whole spree all 97 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:39.639 over again. 98 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.519 Dahmer says he snuck the corpse of his victim, Stephen Toomey, 99 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:46.480 out of his hotel room in a suitcase. Then he 100 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:49.399 took it to his grandmother's house, where he cut up 101 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:52.600 the body and put it in plastic garbage bags. When 102 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:56.759 you killed the man afterwards, were you repulsed? 103 00:06:57.439 --> 00:06:59.160 Were you upset? No? 104 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:05.199 It the time, it was almost addictive. It was almost 105 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:15.319 a surge of energy. I wouldn't have to worry about. 106 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:19.480 Any of their needs or anything. I just had complete 107 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:20.720 control of the situation. 108 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:24.000 But Jeffrey Dahmer was out of control. The urge to 109 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:27.639 kill had overpowered him. As police later learned, he wasn't 110 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:31.639 satisfied with his victim's death. He wanted more. Why did 111 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:33.000 you photograph them? 112 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:42.680 It was my way of remembering their appearance, their physical beauty. 113 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:45.639 I also wanted to keep. 114 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:47.360 Something. 115 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:50.600 If I couldn't keep them there with me whole, at 116 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:55.879 least I felt that I could keep their skeletons. And 117 00:07:56.720 --> 00:08:00.480 I even went so far as planning on up an 118 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:06.319 altar with the ten different skulls and skeletons. 119 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:08.720 And what was the purpose of the altar going to be? 120 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:17.240 As a sort of memorial a point where I could 121 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:22.639 I don't know. It's so bizarre and strange. 122 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:25.399 It's hard to describe a place where I could collect 123 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:26.480 my thoughts. 124 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:30.160 And feed my obsession. 125 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:35.600 When the bodies were still in your apartment, there was 126 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:40.159 no time when you would see them and say, this 127 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:42.519 is grotesque, what have I done? 128 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:47.360 There were times, There were times, but the compulsive obsession 129 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:54.000 with doing what I was doing overpowered any feelings of revulsion. 130 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:57.679 This man, with a quiet, almost shy demeanor, became a 131 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:01.279 master manipulator who was able to strangers he met at 132 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:04.279 gay bars to his apartment. He was even able to 133 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:07.360 calm the police into returning a fourteen year old boy 134 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:10.639 to him after neighbors called nine to one one upset 135 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:13.639 that the child was in the street naked and bleeding. 136 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:16.720 Dahmer convinced the police that he and the boy were 137 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:19.039 simply having a lover's quarrel. 138 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:23.600 And they untoxicated boyfriend of another boyfriend. 139 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:26.639 How was this child was? 140 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:31.919 After the police left, Jeffrey Dahmer murdered that boy. Conorrac 141 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:35.799 synthes some phone. This man says he had a near 142 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:37.919 fatal encounter with Jeffrey Dahmer. 143 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:39.879 You want to take some picture of my back? 144 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:43.399 He hear me with a robber hammer on my neck. 145 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.720 He was lucky to escape because by then the killing 146 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:50.240 had become almost routine. Before you went out to pick 147 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:53.559 up the man, was there any kind of ritual you 148 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:54.120 went through. 149 00:09:54.679 --> 00:10:00.440 I go to the nightclubs, drink, watch the uh the strip, 150 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:05.240 tea shows, and if I didn't meet anyone at the bars, 151 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:10.919 I'd go to the bath clubs and meet someone there, 152 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:15.720 offer them money, and we'd go back to the apartment. 153 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:18.679 Have a few drinks. 154 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:26.039 I'd have the sleeping pill mixture already prepared, a person 155 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:31.799 would drink it, fall asleep, and that's when they would 156 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:32.440 be strangled. 157 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:36.320 After the break, there was more to Jeffrey Dahmer's murder ritual. 158 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:39.960 A specific movie would often get him going. We'll hear 159 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:56.320 more from Dahmer himself. Stay with us, Welcome back to 160 00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:00.399 Inside Edition examines Jeffrey Dahmer. Before the Break, we heard 161 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:03.759 Dahmer talk about the ritual he went through before each killing. 162 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:07.039 There was another part to this, and it might surprise you. 163 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:12.600 Watching the movie Exorcist three was also part of his ritual. 164 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:14.720 It put him in the mood for murder. 165 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:17.639 I felt so hopelessly. 166 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:26.440 Evil and perverted that that I actually derives a sort 167 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:29.840 of pleasure from watching that tape. 168 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:31.519 Did you like feeling evil? 169 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:33.759 No? No, I didn't. 170 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:39.960 But I tried to overcome the thoughts and it worked 171 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:42.919 for a while, but eventually I gave in. 172 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:46.320 While Jeffrey Dahmer may say things today that make it 173 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:49.399 seem like he understands what went on in his mind, 174 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.559 he does not. All he can do is tell you 175 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:56.279 what happened, but he cannot stop whatever it is that 176 00:11:56.440 --> 00:11:59.480 drove him to kill in the first place. Do you 177 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:04.360 still feel those same urges? Do you still feel that compulsion, 178 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:05.120 that obsession. 179 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:09.639 I wish I could say that it just left completely, 180 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:14.159 but no, there are times when I still still do 181 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:16.000 have the old compulsions. 182 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:19.240 Jeffrey Dahmer says as time went on, his mind became 183 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:22.360 more and more warped, and yet he was clever enough 184 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:25.240 to continue to elude police and lure young men to 185 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:29.559 his apartment. We should warn you the details are very graphic. 186 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:34.039 I started having these obsessive thoughts when I was about 187 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:37.840 fifteen and sixteen, and they got worse and worse. 188 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:39.639 What were your fantasies about? 189 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:47.080 They were sexual fantasies of control, power, complete dominance. 190 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:49.120 They became reality. 191 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:51.000 Was there pleasure in that fantasy? 192 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:57.000 There was excitement, fear, pleasure all mixed together. 193 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:02.960 Jeffrey Dahmer fulfilled his fantasies, murdering and dismembering seventeen young men. 194 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:08.279 In time, his desires became more extreme, his deeds more grotesque. 195 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:12.000 Listen to him talk about the most unnatural things in 196 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:15.240 the most matter of fact of ways. That's when you 197 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:17.799 realize that none of it has touched him. 198 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:23.039 I was branching out. That's when the cannibalism started, eating 199 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:28.120 of the heart and the arm muscle. It was a 200 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:32.639 way of making me feel that they were a part 201 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:38.080 of me. At first, it was just curiosity, and then 202 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:43.679 it became compulsive. Then I tried to keep the person 203 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:56.360 alive by inducing a zombie like state by injecting first 204 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:03.600 dilute acid solution into their brain hot water, and it 205 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:05.120 never did completely work. 206 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:08.759 Could someone like you be stopped? Could you be helped? 207 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:09.960 No? I was. 208 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:16.480 I was dead set on going with this compulsion. It 209 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:22.200 was the only thing that gave me any any satisfaction. 210 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:26.200 He became so warped by his evil impulses that he 211 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:28.960 even took a victim's head with him to work at 212 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:30.679 the Ambrosia Chocolate factory. 213 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:32.919 I kept the. 214 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:39.240 Mummified head and skull of one of the victims in 215 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:42.200 a carrying case in my locker at work. 216 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:44.000 Were you almost flaunting it? 217 00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:47.960 Yes, But that's how strong the compulsion was, That's how 218 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:53.399 bizarre the desire was. I wanted to keep something of 219 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:54.320 the person with me. 220 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:59.320 Jeffrey Dahmer exhibited some disturbing behavior early on. He began 221 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:03.519 drinking as a teenager, dropped out of college, was arrested 222 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:08.039 for indecent exposure, disorderly conduct, and fondling a thirteen year 223 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:11.519 old boy. Tragically, one of his murder victims would be 224 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:14.399 that boy's brother. Do you know what started it? Was 225 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:17.000 there any kind of incident that you can remember. 226 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:17.440 To this day. 227 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:21.080 I don't know what started it. And the person to 228 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:24.039 blame is sitting right across from you. That's the only person. 229 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:29.519 Not parents, not society, not pornography. I mean, those are 230 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:30.399 just excuses. 231 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:35.279 His Macarb thirteen year crime spray finally ended when this man, 232 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:39.360 Tracy Edwards, brought the police to the infamous apartment. Like 233 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:42.080 the others, he had gone there with the promise of money. 234 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:44.440 He was listening to my heart because at a point 235 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:46.000 he told me he was going to eat my heart. 236 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:48.840 At that point I hit him and Iran. 237 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:51.559 What was the turning point for you that made you 238 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:55.080 suddenly realize that you had done something terribly wrong, something 239 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:56.279 you should be sorry for. 240 00:15:56.840 --> 00:15:59.840 It was the night of the arrest. I have no 241 00:15:59.879 --> 00:16:06.879 memory of what happened during the six hours before the 242 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:09.639 last victim ran out of the apartment. They heard a 243 00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:14.080 knock on the door and the police were there with 244 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:20.440 the last victim. They asked me where the key was 245 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:25.279 to the handcuffs. I my mind was in a haze. 246 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:28.840 I sort of pointed to the bedroom and that's where 247 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:32.240 they found the pictures, and then they yelled cuff them. 248 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:38.799 I was handcuffed, and it was just the realization that 249 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:44.399 there was no point in trying to hide hide my 250 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:50.000 actions anymore. The best route was to help the police 251 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:54.840 identify all the victims and just make a complete confession. 252 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:57.639 When it was revealed that most of the victims were 253 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:02.000 black or homosexual people, the meal were incensed. Many felt 254 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:04.640 that was why he went after them and why the 255 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:08.480 police didn't seem to care when their families reported them missing. 256 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:13.680 Ten of your seventeen victims were black. Were they racially motivated? 257 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:17.720 It was not racially motivated. It was not a sexual preference. 258 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:23.000 It was just to find an obsession with the best 259 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:25.160 looking young man I could find. 260 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:28.200 While you just heard him say that his sexual preference 261 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:30.640 had nothing to do with the killings, he has not 262 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:34.119 come to terms with his homosexuality. 263 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:34.359 Never understood it. 264 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:36.640 There was no use trying to fight it because I 265 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:39.839 couldn't rid myself of it. It was it was too 266 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:41.039 powerful and persistent. 267 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:42.400 Do you dislike it? 268 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:44.319 Yes, It's caused. 269 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:49.079 A lot of problems for me, a lot of conflicts 270 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:51.240 and unanswered questions. 271 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:54.960 The conflicts remain with him, and so do his compulsions, 272 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:59.240 but in prison, he finally cannot act on his savage desires. 273 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:02.880 You were out on the street, now, would you still 274 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:04.039 be committing the crimes? 275 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:07.759 Probably if this hadn't happened, There's no doubt I probably 276 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:08.200 would be. 277 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:11.200 I can't think of anything that would have stopped me. 278 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:14.920 Coming up after the break. Some rarely seen footage from 279 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:29.160 this interview stay with us. 280 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:33.559 It's Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killer and cannibal who Saga 281 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:35.839 of Evil has been given new life in the hit 282 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:37.240 Netflix series Monster. 283 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:39.359 I'm going to ask you some questions that are tough. 284 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:42.960 It is never before seen video from the Inside Edition archives. 285 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:46.519 He's clearly nervous. His hands won't stay still as he 286 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:50.680 prepares for the exclusive nineteen ninety three interviews. What questions 287 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:54.599 A new generation is learning about his horrifying crimes through 288 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:56.240 the number one Netflix series. 289 00:18:56.519 --> 00:19:01.359 What appears to be a psychopathic mass Morko Clear. 290 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:05.880 This world exclusive interview took place inside the maximum security 291 00:19:05.880 --> 00:19:08.680 prison in Wisconsin, where he was serving nine hundred and 292 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:12.000 ninety nine years. He was escorted by three prison guards. 293 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:15.400 One officer held each arm as he was taken in 294 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:19.359 handcuffs into an elevator. Nobody was taking any chances with 295 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:24.400 the most notorious killer in America. Dahmer was thirty three 296 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:27.720 when he told Nancy Glass about his twisted motive for 297 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:29.119 killing seventeen men. 298 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:31.359 Not because I was angry with them, not because I 299 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:35.640 hated them, but because I wanted to keep them with me. 300 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:44.640 And as my obsession grew, I was saving body parts 301 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:51.400 such as skulls and skeletons, and eventually I did turn 302 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.359 to cannibalism. 303 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:56.839 He described how he picked up his victims in gay 304 00:19:56.920 --> 00:19:58.440 bars and brought them home. 305 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:04.119 I'd have the sleeping pill mixture already prepared, a person 306 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:09.880 would drink it, fall asleep, and that's when they would 307 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:10.599 be strangled. 308 00:20:10.839 --> 00:20:14.079 And he made a startling admission about the evil urges 309 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:15.519 that propelled him to kill. 310 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:19.400 Do you still feel those same urges? Do you still 311 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:21.880 feel that compulsion, that obsession? 312 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:27.079 I wish I could say that it just left completely. 313 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:31.480 But no, there are times when I still do, still 314 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:33.480 do have the old compulsions. 315 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:36.319 A creature of the night. He said he slept most 316 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:38.920 of the day in prison. During the interview, he asked 317 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:39.920 for several breaks. 318 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:41.960 Can we cut the film here for him? 319 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:42.160 Sure? 320 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:45.440 Dahmer was murdered by another prison inmate just a year 321 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:48.880 and ten months after this interview. A form of justice, 322 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:50.400 he said, he deserved. 323 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:52.599 That's what I deserve. I deserve death. 324 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:56.559 Dahmer was beaten to death by another inmate while they 325 00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:57.720 were on cleaning duty. 326 00:20:58.279 --> 00:20:58.720 Coming up. 327 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:02.119 The families of dahmer victims speak out about the Netflix 328 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:08.680 movie about the killings, saying it triggers horrible memories. 329 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:20.960 The number one show on Netflix this weekend was the 330 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:25.000 mini series on murderer Jeffrey Dahmer. The film reopened some 331 00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:29.200 old wounds for some of Dahmer's victims and his Amricogliano reports. 332 00:21:29.319 --> 00:21:31.440 Some say the impact of the movie is heightened by 333 00:21:31.480 --> 00:21:35.200 the incredible resemblance between the real life killer and the 334 00:21:35.240 --> 00:21:36.559 actor proof portrays him. 335 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:40.480 It's the face of evil reborn. These are scenes from 336 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:44.119 the new Netflix drama about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. 337 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:46.680 Make Me Do Things I don't want to do. 338 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:50.839 Actor Evan Peters plays the infamous cannibal killer. This is 339 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:54.559 the actor and this is the monstrous Dahmer. Dahmer, a 340 00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:59.559 chocolate factory worker, lured unsuspecting young men to his Milwaukee apartment, 341 00:21:59.599 --> 00:22:03.599 where he drugged and strangled them. He dismembered his victims 342 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:07.680 and ate their body parts. Dahmer's bloody history finally came 343 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:10.160 to an end when a young man he had targeted 344 00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:14.000 for death escaped the killer's apartment and alerted cops. Dahmer 345 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:18.000 was arrested and confessed to seventeen killings. 346 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:19.799 I knew I was sick, were evil. 347 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:21.720 We're both at his sentencing. 348 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:30.359 The disgust he inspired in one victim's sister irerupted. Inside 349 00:22:30.519 --> 00:22:34.640 Edition aired a world exclusive interview with Dahmer in nineteen 350 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:38.400 ninety three at the maximum security prison where he was 351 00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:42.319 serving nine hundred and ninety nine years. 352 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:47.279 Eating of the heart and the arm muscle. It was 353 00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:51.640 a way of making me feel that they were a 354 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:52.200 part of me. 355 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:56.160 Now, the new Netflix series is bringing memories of Dahmer's 356 00:22:56.319 --> 00:23:00.440 vile deeds flooding back. Preston Davis narrowly escaped death at 357 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:03.559 Dahmer's hands when they were in the army together and 358 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:08.400 Dahmer sexually assaulted him. Davis, now sixty three, has watched 359 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:09.440 the Netflix series. 360 00:23:09.880 --> 00:23:11.119 How was that for you watching? 361 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:12.559 I think they did a good job. 362 00:23:12.680 --> 00:23:13.640 It didn't trigger me. 363 00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:16.559 I've gotten better through therapy. 364 00:23:16.759 --> 00:23:21.359 I felt more sympathy or empathy for the victims' families. 365 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:25.400 Billy Joe Capshaw was also sexually assaulted by Dahmer in 366 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:25.960 the army. 367 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:28.799 Does it bring back all of these horrible memories? 368 00:23:28.920 --> 00:23:31.839 Yes, it does. I have been through hell because of 369 00:23:31.880 --> 00:23:34.000 this one person. 370 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:36.119 I'm gonna keep the language clean. 371 00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:39.319 The woman who vented her anger on Dahmer watched the 372 00:23:39.400 --> 00:23:43.000 show's recreation of that moment and says it felt like 373 00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:45.759 reliving it all over again. It brought back all the 374 00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:49.599 emotions I was feeling back then. In our nineteen ninety 375 00:23:49.599 --> 00:23:53.079 three interview, Dahmer made this confession. 376 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:55.920 There's no question that I deserved the death penalty. 377 00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:58.799 In a sense. He got his way. He was bludgeoned 378 00:23:58.880 --> 00:24:01.319 to death by another He was an inmate in nineteen 379 00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:04.920 ninety four, but in the Netflix series He Lives Again. 380 00:24:06.680 --> 00:24:09.200 Dahmer was thirty four years old when he was killed 381 00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:10.079 in prison. 382 00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:14.000 Coming up, The father of Jeffrey Dahmer dies will tell 383 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:30.640 you about his complicated feelings regarding his son. The father 384 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:35.279 of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer has died. Reports say 385 00:24:35.319 --> 00:24:38.279 Lionel Dahmer died in hospice care in Ohio. 386 00:24:38.759 --> 00:24:39.759 He was eighty seven. 387 00:24:40.559 --> 00:24:43.599 Lionel was a fierce defender of his son, even after 388 00:24:43.640 --> 00:24:47.400 his crimes were discovered. He even appeared alongside Jeffrey in 389 00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:49.519 a jailhouse interview with MSNBC. 390 00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:52.519 This is the first time you're talking about these things. 391 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:57.319 You talk your dad here at great length with a psychiatrist, 392 00:24:57.680 --> 00:24:59.960 court appointed psychiatrist, psychologist. 393 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:04.920 Yes, but not with my family. We learned everything at the. 394 00:25:04.920 --> 00:25:08.039 Trial and then the confessions and that sort of thing. 395 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:11.440 After the fact, Lionel and his wife Sharry spoke with 396 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:15.440 doctor Phil about some of the disturbing behaviors Jeffrey exhibited 397 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:16.119 as a child. 398 00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:20.920 If your kid is going around collecting dead animals, cutting 399 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:23.440 them open and exploring them and that sort of thing, that, 400 00:25:24.039 --> 00:25:25.400 how do you not know that? 401 00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:26.480