O'Connor, William (July 28, 1991). "And So We Ask: Who - and Why - is This Man?". Akron Beacon Journal . Retrieved November 14, 2022. Jeffrey Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, [10] the first of two sons to Lionel Herbert Dahmer, a Marquette University chemistry student and later a research chemist, and Joyce Annette Dahmer ( néeFlint), a teletype machine instructor. [11] [12] Lionel is of German and Welsh ancestry, [13] and Joyce was of English, Norwegian, and Irish ancestry. [14] Worthington, Rogers (February 9, 1992). "Psychiatrist: Dahmer in Contro In the early morning hours of May 27, Dahmer returned toward his apartment to discover Sinthasomphone sitting naked on the corner of 25th and State, talking in Lao, with three distressed young women standing near him. [182] [183] Dahmer approached the women and told them that Sinthasomphone (whom he referred to by the alias John Hmong) [184] [185] was his friend, and attempted to lead him to his apartment by the arm. The three women dissuaded Dahmer, explaining they had phoned 9-1-1. [186] The drama film Raising Jeffrey Dahmer was released in 2006. Revolving around the reactions of Dahmer's parents following his arrest in 1991, Raising Jeffrey Dahmer stars Rusty Sneary as Dahmer and co-stars Scott Cordes as Lionel. [355]

Dahmer Autopsy Completed". United Press International. November 29, 1994. Archived from the original on April 28, 2022 . Retrieved April 28, 2022. a b "Distress Signals from a Disturbed Life: Abundant Clues, but No Simple Answers". The Galveston Daily News. August 12, 1991. Archived from the original on October 31, 2021 . Retrieved January 23, 2023. The 2012 documentary The Jeffery Dahmer Files included fictionalized reenactments of Dahmer’s life (with Andrew Swant portraying him) along with real-life interviews with people involved with his cases. Several other documentaries have been produced about Dahmer as well. In September 2022, Netflix released a ten-part anthology series called Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Co-created by American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy, the series starred Evan Peters as Dahmer and highlighted incidents in which Dahmer was nearly apprehended before his arrest, with a particular focus on how police incompetence allowed him to extend his killing spree. It was not a case of hating them. It was just the only way I knew of to keep them there and keep them with me. [from The Scotsman; published on August 15, 2000] This has never been a case of trying to get free. I didn’t ever want freedom. Frankly, I wanted death for myself.Dahmer's murders were committed at a time of heightened racial tension in Milwaukee. A professor of community studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Walter Farrell, later stated race relations in the city had been "in a state of disrepair for nearly a decade" at the time of Dahmer's arrest. [n 19] In an August 1991 interview given to the Christian Science Monitor, Farrell stated that news of the murders, as well as the conduct of Milwaukee police officers John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish with regards to victim Konerak Sinthasomphone, exacerbated and highlighted racial tensions within the city. [320] a b Barron, James; Tabor, Mary B.W. (August 4, 1991). "17 Killed, and a Life Is Searched for Clues". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 15, 2018 . Retrieved April 30, 2018. While awaiting sentencing for his sexual assault case, Dahmer again put his grandmother’s basement to gruesome use. In March 1989, he lured, drugged, strangled, sodomized, photographed, dismembered, and disposed of Anthony Sears, an aspiring model. Dahmer found Sears particularly attractive and later said he did not want to “lose him,” and so Sears became the first victim from whom Dahmer kept preserved body parts for a long period of time, mummifying his head and genitals, according to Masters. Bardsley, Marilyn. "Jeffrey Dahmer– Serial Killer and Cannibal– The Head in the Fridge". TruTV.com. TruTV Crime Library. Archived from the original on January 7, 2012 . Retrieved July 26, 2010. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link)

Joyce Flint died of cancer on November 27, 2000. Prior to her death, she had attempted suicide on at least one occasion. [330] Dahmer's younger brother, David, changed his surname and lives in anonymity. [331] Victims The second and final witness to appear for the prosecution, forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz, began his testimony on February 12. Dietz testified that he did not believe Dahmer had any form of mental disease or defect at the time that he committed the crimes, stating that "Dahmer went to great lengths to be alone with his victim and to have no witnesses." [267] He explained that there was ample evidence that Dahmer prepared in advance for each murder, therefore, his crimes were not impulsive. [268] [269] Although Dietz did concede any acquisition of a paraphilia was not a matter of personal choice, [267] he stated his belief that Dahmer's habit of becoming intoxicated prior to committing each of the murders was significant; "If he had an impulse to kill or a compulsion to kill", Dietz testified, "he wouldn't have to drink alcohol to overcome it. He only has to drink alcohol to overcome it because he is inhibited against killing." [270]In the bedroom, Mueller noted there was a large knife beneath the bed. He saw an open drawer which, upon closer inspection, contained scores of Polaroid pictures—many of which were of human bodies in various stages of dismemberment. Mueller noted the decor indicated they had been taken in the same apartment in which they were standing. Mueller walked into the living room to show them to his partner, [225] uttering the words, "These are for real." [224] According to Dahmer, Tuomi's murder was a pivotal incident after which he did not try to control his compulsions. [124] He began to actively seek victims, most of whom he encountered in or around gay bars and would typically lure them to his grandmother's home. He would drug his victim with triazolam or temazepam before or shortly after engaging in sexual activity with them. Once his victim was unconscious, he strangled them to death. [125] [126]