Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender. Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys – most of whom were of African or Asian descent – between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occurring between 1987 and 1991. His murders were particularly gruesome, involving rape, torture, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism. On November 28, 1994, Dahmer was beaten to death by fellow Columbia Correctional Institution inmate Christopher Scarver with a bar from a weight machine while on work detail in the prison gym.
When he was arrested, police found a human head in his refrigerator. "Further searching of the apartment revealed three more severed heads, multiple photographs of murdered victims and human remains, severed hands and penises, and photographs of dismembered victims and [other] human remains in his refrigerator," we're told. Dahmer experimented with creating what he called "zombies" -- mindless, compliant sex slaves -- "by drilling holes into their skulls and injecting hydrochloric acid into their brains." A complete inventory of his apartment revealed that "several corpses were stored in acid-filled vats, and implements for the construction of an altar of candles and human skulls were found in his closet." He had a human heart in his freezer.
Dahmer went on trial in 1992 and, oddly, there wasn't any big debate about what to do with such a clearly dangerous individual. He was going to prison. In the small town of Portage, Wisconsin. See, that's what the Columbia Correctional Institution is for -- warehousing seriously dangerous people.
Thinking about Jeffrey Dahmer, it's hard to understand the reasoning behind a move by a Wisconsin Republican to make sure criminals aren't sent to the state's prisons... [CLICK TO READ FULL POST]
