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Jeffrey Dahmer

American serial killer who murdered seventeen men and boys.

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Dahmer was beaten to death by a fellow inmate on November 28, 1994.[1] Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, an American serial killer and sex offender, killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys.[2]

Key facts and history

Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the first of two sons.[3] Dahmer served as a combat medic in the United States Army from 1979 until his discharge in March 1981.[4][5] Police found severed heads, bleached skulls, and a vat of acid in his apartment.[6] Three weeks after finishing high school in 1978, Dahmer carried out his initial murder in Ohio.[7][8]

For many of his subsequent crimes, Dahmer's pattern was to attract victims to his Wisconsin home, give them drugs, commit sexual assault, and then kill them.[7] In his later killings, Dahmer frequently engaged in necrophilia, cannibalism, and keeping body parts.[7] In 1992, Dahmer received a sentence of 16 life terms without the possibility of parole after being found guilty of 16 murders.[9] Dahmer's 1991 arrest happened after a would-be victim got away and guided police to Dahmer's residence.[6]

What the cited sources add

The biographics.org account states that Dahmer's first-grade teacher wondered if he was neglected at home and noted he was a reserved child.[10] The "Jeffrey Dahmer's Inferno" article lists all seventeen victims by name, including Steven Hicks, Steven Tuomi, James Doxtator, and Richard Guerrero.[11] The oxygen.com article notes that close to 80 Polaroids of naked, posed, and dismembered bodies were discovered in Dahmer's dresser drawer.[6] The National World article states that Ronald Flowers testified against Dahmer in court and was working as a counselor at Lake County Division of Mental Health at the time.[12]

According to the same source, a minimum of two fellow soldiers claimed Dahmer sexually assaulted them during his time in the military.[10]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Jeffrey Dahmer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Terry, "Jeffrey Dahmer, Multiple Killer, is Bludgeoned to Death in Prison", The New York Times, November 29, 1994 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Jeffrey Dahmer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Fido 1995, p. 118; "Jeffrey Dahmer's Inferno", November 1, 1991 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Jeffrey Dahmer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Masters 1993, p. 136; Campbell, p. 32; Masters 1993, p. 136; Masters 1993, p. 136; Klotsche 1995, p. 19–20 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Jeffrey Dahmer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Norris 1992, p. 171; Dahmer 1994, p. 61 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Jeffrey Dahmer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Dahmer 1994, p. 61; Masters 1993, p. 136 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Hayden, "Jeffrey Dahmer Crime Scene Photographs", oxygen.com, November 9, 2017. facts only, no text reused. oxygen.com
  7. Wikipedia, "Jeffrey Dahmer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Masters 1993, p. 136; Norris 1992, p. 171 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Jeffrey Dahmer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Norris 1992, p. 171; Dvorchak Holewa 1992, p. 35; Taylor, "Sorrow and Frustration On Trails of the Missing", The New York Times, August 12, 1991; Dvorchak Holewa 1992, p. 35 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Jeffrey Dahmer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Campbell, p. 32; "Dahmer Gets Life Term in 1978 Murder in Ohio", The Washington Post, May 2, 1992 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. "Jeffrey Dahmer Biography: The Cannibal Killer", biographics.org, July 13, 2018. facts only, no text reused. biographics.org
  11. "Jeffrey Dahmer's Inferno", November 1, 1991. facts only, no text reused. vanityfair.com
  12. McCann, "Ronald Flowers: What Happened to Jeffrey Dahmer Survivor and Where is He Now?", National World, October 23, 2022. facts only, no text reused. nationalworld.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Jeffrey Dahmer (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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