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It's the most unspeakable of crimes.
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- Cannibalism is so taboo, you can't wrap your head around it.
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- The idea of consuming human flesh is unbelievable.
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- People have to take a step back and recognize
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that human beings can indeed do that.
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And for many, cannibalism conjures up the name
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of one man.
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- Jeffrey, I hate you, motherfucker!
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I hate you!
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- Jeffrey Dahmer personifies every one of our fears.
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The flesh, the bones, the Polaroids.
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- It just kept getting worse and worse, and worse.
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But this carnal act is more common than you think.
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So where is the line between fantasy...
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- There are people practicing all of these kinks all the time.
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...and flesh eater?
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- He was actively eating human meat.
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And what drives those like Dahmer
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and his bloody brethren
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to indulge in this ultimate taboo?
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- He's like a shark that's had the taste of blood.
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He was never going to stop.
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- I lived in Milwaukee all my life.
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She was called Drug City because of the crime.
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There's a lot of drugs, a lot of murders.
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Drug City had it all.
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Looking for a safe home,
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Vernell and his wife, Pamela,
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move into the Oxford Apartments in October 1989.
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- It was a very nice place to live.
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They didn't just let anybody move into those apartments.
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And that was a good thing.
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Within a few days, Vernell meets several neighbors,
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including the tenant across the hall
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in apartment 213.
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- I noticed that he was a white guy,
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which seemed a little bit odd
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because we were in
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a predominantly black neighborhood.
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He seemed very pleasant.
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He introduced himself as Jeff.
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But six months into his lease,
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Vernell starts to notice a foul odor
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in the apartment building.
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- I can best describe it as meat rotting in the sun.
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It had gotten so bad, I went into our linen closet
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and I grabbed a bath towel.
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And I rolled it up and placed it in the gap
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between the floor and the door.
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Vernell's wife soon traces the stench
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back to the source.
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Their neighbor Jeff's front door.
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- She told me that she was sitting in a chair in the hall
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waiting for him to come home.
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I felt bad for the white boy for the meet an angry black woman.
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He said that his meat had soured in his freezer,
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and I didn't believe he had any reason to lie.
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Come to find out that that wasn't the deal at all.
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Police found a grisly scene.
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A human head plus several more skulls and parts of bodies.
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- One of the nation's worst mass murder cases ever.
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- Inside apartment 213.
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- That's when I met Jeffrey Dahmer.
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And after that, I never, I never saw Jeff again.
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Jeff was not real.
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Jeffrey Dahmer, that was real.
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- Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment was a series of nightmares.
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If you opened the door to his bedroom,
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you would see a dead body decomposing next to the bed.
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You go into the refrigerator, you open it up,
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human meat all inside of the refrigerator.
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You have a severed human skull inside of the freezer,
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and a pot filled with severed penises
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on the stove.
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He was actively consuming human flesh.
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- I remember when he got arrested.
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I was around 10 years old.
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And I didn't think that any human could ever do
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the things that I was hearing Jeffrey Dahmer did.
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So it really changed my perspective,
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and I know millions and millions
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of kids' perspective on what is the boogeyman.
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What does the boogeyman look like?
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Now, we have to look out for the guy in the khaki pants
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with the button-down shirt.
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- I was working for Inside Edition
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and the story came in.
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And my first instinct was to say,
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I've gotta find out about that story.
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I've gotta know who did this and why.
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- I think what was most remarkable
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about Dahmer's early life is how unremarkable it was.
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Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1960,
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Jeffrey Dahmer moves with his family to Bath, Ohio
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when he is eight years old.
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- Bath, Ohio was a great place. And there wasn't crime.
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There weren't problems.
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So I think Jeff had everything available to him
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that most kids would want growing up.
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With parents and a brother,
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and a nice home, and good schools.
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The offspring of a chemist and a stay-at-home mom,
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Jeffrey and his younger brother, David,
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grow up in modest, middle-class comfort.
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- Jeff played in the band.
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He wrote for the school paper.
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He was on the tennis team.
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I think his parents, especially his dad,
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tried to get him involved with
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activities and make some friends,
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and not be just off on his own all the time.
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Still, there are some activities
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that young Jeff enjoys more than others.
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- He had an interest in dead bodies of animals.
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He lived in a wooded area.
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You'd find inevitably some dead animals there.
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But he didn't go out hunting. He didn't go out and shoot them.
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- Once he found a dead dog and he completely
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skinned the animal. He dissolved the head in acid
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until he could get all the skin off of it,
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then he took that skull and he stuck it on a pole
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outside of his shed of collectables.
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- You know, there's a lot of kids who are interested
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in human biology, and to some degree
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that's exactly what he was interested in
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was animal biology.
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- He did well in biology classes and, you know,
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he had his little chemistry lab at home.
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I actually thought he might have someday
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become a medical doctor or something.
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Though his father is aware of his new hobby,
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Jeff finds little guidance within the Dahmer home.
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- His parents are what you would call emotionally distant.
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- Jeffrey's mother, Joyce, she had really bad depression.
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And the only time he would see his father
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was when he was coming home from work.
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But even in those family environments,
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his mother and his father were constantly fighting.
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- Some children take this lack of attention
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and they become hams, or jokey people
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looking for validation outside of their home.
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- One of the things I clearly remember about Jeff Dahmer,
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is that you'd be standin' there
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talking to somebody by your locker just doing nothing,
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and he'd just stoop over
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and put his head on your chest and say,
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I wanna listen to your heart.
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One time he stole the fetal pig in eighth grade biology class.
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- Dahmer was a little bit of a prankster in high school.
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And he managed to get himself into the honor club photo
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when he wasn't really in the honor club.
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- Of course, that's an infamous photo now because his head
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was blacked out in our yearbooks by the yearbook editor.
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And that's Jeff Dahmer.
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I'd say that at that time, no one really cared.
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It's just Jeff being goofy and it's okay.
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He had good manners and he treated people nice,
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so he was never suspected as a troublemaker.
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But soon, Dahmer's childish behavior
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makes it difficult for him to fit in.
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- Jeff Dahmer did have a feeling of alienation
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because he knew that he was different from other kids.
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He knew he had different feelings and desires.
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He's also starting to realize
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he's attracted to other men.
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- When Jeffrey was 13 years old, he had engaged
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in a romantic physical relationship
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with a boy in his neighborhood,
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and this was the first inclination to Jeffrey
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that he was in fact gay.
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- In 1976, '77, '78 nobody talked about, ah,
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being gay or sexual feelings.
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They didn't. Who could they tell?
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They couldn't tell their parents.
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They couldn't tell school counselors.
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- He wasn't able to express, uh,
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his desire to have sex with men after he hit puberty.
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He had to shove it down, and he had to keep it quiet.
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- By the time he was 14, he was already crippled
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with this feeling of otherness, so he would just pound beers
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or pound alcohol before going into school
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because it allowed him to kinda feel normal.
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- Jeffrey's alcoholism starting from such a young age
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was definitely a warning sign,
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but no one could possibly predict
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how much worse things were going to get.
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- You know, some people live good lives
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and become successful and raise families.
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And other people become Jeff Dahmer
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and go down a road of no return.
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Years before Jeffrey Dahmer
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first feasts on human flesh,
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he's a tortured high school student
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hiding his homosexuality.
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- Jeffrey Dahmer was the loneliest man in the world.
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He could not explain his inner fantasies
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to his young friends,
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and they overwhelmed him every single day.
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- He really drifted away from all of us,
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and his grades went way down.
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He lost interest in going to classes.
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He lost interest in doing most anything.
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And he was drinking every day.
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But it's a seminal event
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during his senior year of high school
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that tips Dahmer past the point.
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- Jeff's parents divorced our senior year,
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and Mrs. Dahmer moved to Wisconsin
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with his little brother.
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And I guess there was some kind of court order to sell the house
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in the divorce proceedings and so Jeff's father had to
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move out of the house, too.
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He moved in the Ohio Motel in Bath and lived there.
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And then Jeff was living in the house
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by himself while it was up for sale.
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- His parents are now gone from the home,
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the divorce was underway, it provided the opportunity
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for him to be alone in the family residence
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- Dahmer has this profound sense of loneliness and isolation
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that he's trying to fill, but he doesn't quite know how.
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- Jeffrey Dahmer I don't think ever had a true friend,
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and that's what he was searching for.
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That same year, in the spring of 1978,
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Dahmer finds a way to fill the void.
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- Jeffrey Dahmer was obsessed with this jogger.
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Every day he's been watching this jogger go by.
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- He had frequently had the fantasy
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of maybe he could get this jogger to come in
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and be sexual with him.
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But the day Dahmer decides to finally
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put his plan into action, the jogger never shows.
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So, he sets out in search of a new target.
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- His desire to have people stay with him,
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it was just so tangible.
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He didn't care about who they were as a person,
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he just cared about their physical form.
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- He was left to his own devices,
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and he was drinking heavily,
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and he saw a young man that was essentially an opening
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to make his fantasies real.
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Steven Hicks was 19 years old, hitchhiking, as many kids did.
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- Jeffrey Dahmer picked up Steven Hicks
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and said that he would offer him a ride,
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but he offered to go back to Jeffrey's house first
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to have some drinks.
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And Steven accepted it.
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- Dahmer brought him home.
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They start to drink.
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He makes a move on Steven Hicks.
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And Steven Hicks tells him that he isn't gay.
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That's all it takes to send Dahmer over the edge.
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- For Jeffrey Dahmer, with his particular temperament
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and makeup, he's trying to fill with sex
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and trying to make intimate connections,
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but mostly it's about power and control.
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- He grabbed a barbell, and he beat him to death
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in what he called a moment of passion.
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High school senior Jeffrey Dahmer
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has just crossed the Rubicon, graduating to stone-cold killer.
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- As Mr. Hicks lie dying, uh,
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Jeffrey Dahmer strangely enough wasn't satisfied.
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He saw the dead body after, uh, after Hicks had bled out
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and he became aroused,
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and he masturbated on the victim.
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- The part of him that knew it was wrong
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and knew there were consequences to his actions
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was probably scared about what was going to happen to him.
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But that thrill, that high that he's chasing
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is just too irresistible.
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- Once he realized how aroused he was
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at the sight of a lifeless corpse,
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there was no turning back.
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It is the beginning of a recipe of complete and utter horror.
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But Dahmer's depravity doesn't end there.
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- Dahmer then proceeded to do what he did
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to countless animals in his shed.
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He figured out he needed to get rid of this body,
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and so he dismembered it.
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Using a paring knife, he removed his arms and his legs,
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and he separated them into a bunch of different garbage bags.
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- Jeffrey Dahmer's willingness to manipulate carcasses
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and play with dead animals
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can be an early indicator of a psychopath.
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They are lacking a connection to humanity,
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a, a certain empathy.
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It's definitely a red flag. No doubt about it.
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Dahmer's affinity for dead animals
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is not uncommon among cannibals.
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This same predilection was adopted
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by another famous flesh eater,
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29 year old, Luka Magnotta.
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- Luka Magnotta is a, let's call him an amateur model
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that, uh, uploaded videos of himself
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murdering cats to Facebook.
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- Luka Magnotta was all about seeking attention.
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He wanted all eyes on him at all times.
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- When you see his first video that he uploaded,
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he's messing with cats, he's killing cats.
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It's absolutely horrific.
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And it goes all the way to him finally killing a human being.
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On May 25, 2011,
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Magnotta posts an 11-minute video of himself
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repeatedly stabbing an unknown man with an ice pick.
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He then uses a knife and fork
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to remove his victim's flesh and eat it.
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- It's very much like a drug addiction.
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I'm gonna do X amount of drugs the first time,
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but then I'm gonna need to do more and more and more
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as it goes on.
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- Luka Magnotta didn't just wanna heighten his crimes,
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he also wanted to heighten his fame,
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which is something that's unique to serial killers nowadays,
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especially with the rise of the internet.
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- That same week, Magnotta ships the remains of his victim
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to the headquarters of Canada's various political parties.
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- He's tempting the cops, daring them to catch him.
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Killers like Luka Magnotta,
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they go try to get the thrill-seeking
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by wanting to get caught.
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Sometimes even fantasizing
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about the moment they get caught.
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Because if you're caught, like sure, yeah,
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you're caught for murder
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and yeah, you might go to jail or be put to death, but man,
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are you gonna have that spotlight
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for one glorious 15 minutes of fame.
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Six days later,
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the attention-seeking cannibal gets his wish.
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After fleeing Canada and triggering
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a highly-publicized worldwide manhunt,
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Magnotta is arrested in a Berlin internet cafe
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while surfing for stories about his own media coverage.
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He's extradited to Canada,
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stands trial, and is found guilty
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of murdering the man he ate,
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his 21-year-old lover, Jun Lin.
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Magnotta's currently serving a life sentence.
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Unlike Luka Magnotta,
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Jeffery Dahmer prefers to avoid the spotlight.
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After killing and dismembering his first victim, Steven Hicks,
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Dahmer fears he will be caught.
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- Dahmer, at this point in his development,
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is still shy with what he's doing.
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So he's going to try to get rid of the evidence.
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With his victim in several garbage bags,
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Dahmer sets out to dispose of the remains at the dump.
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But en route, his worst fear comes true.
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He's stopped by the police for erratic driving.
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- They flashed the light into the back of his car
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and said, what's in the bags back there?
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Dahmer calmly explains to the officer
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that he was having trouble sleeping,
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so he decided to get a jump
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on his weekly trash duty.
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- Obviously, Jeff Dahmer
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was very good at hiding this dark side of himself.
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He was able to convince people, talk his way out of things,
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appear relatively normal.
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- The police just give him an
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aw, shucks, you just get out of here.
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You watch yourself gettin' home.
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Jeffrey Dahmer's so freaked out,
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he drives back to his house with the remains.
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This time, Dahmer leaves nothing to chance.
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- He then dissected it further, pounded the bones
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into piece, small pieces, and then spread it out
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over the 1 1/4 wooded acres of his home.
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This wouldn't be the only time
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Dahmer narrowly escapes being caught in the act.
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- He's proven to himself that he can do it
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and get away with it.
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So how do I find this, this high again?
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Some believe Dahmer's dark desires
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were biologically predetermined.
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- You could say that Jeffrey Dahmer's
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fate was sealed almost at birth.
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When his mother was pregnant with him,
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she took 27 pills a day,
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including growth hormones, estrogen, progesterone,
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uppers, downers.
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- Could that trauma while his mother was pregnant with him
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have damaged his brain while he was in utero?
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It is a possibility.
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For now, Dahmer quiets his demons.
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After graduating from high school in 1978,
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his struggles become more normal.
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- The story of Dahmer's after high school life
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reads like the story of millions and millions of people
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who are trying to find themselves.
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Dahmer attends Ohio State University,
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but once again, struggles to fit in.
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- He enrolled into college, which he actually
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did flunk out of after a year
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because of his alcoholic tendencies,
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and after that, his father forced him
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to go into the Army.
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- He became an Army medic, was dispatched to Germany,
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but the drinking problems
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surfaced while he was in the military.
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And after a period of time, a year or so, he was sent home.
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But coming home to Ohio doesn't help either.
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- There were some problems there at home drinking,
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and the father thought Dahmer would be best served
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by going to live with the grandmother.
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In December 1981, Jeffrey moves to Wisconsin
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to live with 77-year-old Catherine Dahmer.
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- The hope was that maybe a,
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a change of venue would be helpful.
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Dahmer seems to take well
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to his new environment,
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finding new ways to suppress his feelings of otherness.
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- The grandmother was a spiritual person,
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and she seemed to have a beneficial influence on him.
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Dahmer said he started reading the bible,
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started thinking about these things,
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and assessing what he had done.
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- Religion was like his last effort on trying to fix
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what he thought was broken, which was being gay.
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And he really dove into that,
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and spent a lot a time studying religion,
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going to church, and everyone around Jeffery
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thought that this was going to be a really good thing for him.
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Now, 21-year-old Dahmer lives under the radar,
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doing his best to play the part
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of a dutiful, church-going grandson.
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But below the surface, evil is rising.
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- He continued to push down
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these darker demons that he held within.
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But keep in mind, what happens in the darkness comes to light.
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In the spring of 1982,
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Jeffrey Dahmer is living
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with his grandmother in West Allis, Wisconsin
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and struggling to keep his dark fantasies at bay.
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He already has one murder under his belt
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and is fighting the urge to commit further unspeakable acts.
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But he has yet to find the taste for human flesh.
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- He still felt the quote, unquote,
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"remorse" about Steven Hicks into his adulthood.
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And he knew he had to do something,
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because his thoughts weren't going away.
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The Bible didn't help it, and the booze
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actually made it worse.
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Desperate to act out on his dark desires,
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Dahmer finds a partner who won't fight back.
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- So he stole a mannequin from a department store,
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and he treated it as if it was his boyfriend.
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He would go out with it. He'd leave it in his car.
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He'd sleep with it in the bed.
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- This wasn't some fun senior prank.
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This was for Dahmer's own sexual purposes.
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- Pygmalionism is the psychological condition
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of falling in love with one's own creation.
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Dahmer has this mannequin as a kind of stop-gap measure,
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somebody he can impose his will on that won't fight back.
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Dahmer keeps this new obsession
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close to the chest,
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storing the mannequin in his closet whenever he's away.
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But it's only a matter of time
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before his dark secret is exposed.
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- One day his grandmother went into his room,
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opened his closet, and was shocked and disturbed
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at seeing this mannequin.
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So she completely freaked out and forced him to get rid of it.
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Now Dahmer must find new ways to get his kicks...
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outside the home.
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- He did a lot of public exposure
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where he exposed himself to young boys
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on more than one occasion.
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He was a public masturbator as well.
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- He goes to a state fair,
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and he gets arrested for exposing himself.
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- And then later, he exposed himself to two boys in a park,
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and that led to a prosecution.
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Still, Dahmer doesn't murder anyone else,
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for now.
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- Dahmer had great impulse control
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combined with complete and utter lack
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of impulse control.
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Just him trying to present himself as normal.
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That must have not been easy to do
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when you're hiding all of these dark thoughts.
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To keep his mind busy,
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Dahmer takes a job at the Ambrosia Chocolate Factory
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in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in January, 1985.
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- He was a reliable worker. Did good work.
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He was able to mix hundreds of different mixtures
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of the cocoa that went into the different
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orders of chocolate that the company produced.
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None of Dahmer's coworkers have any idea
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of the dangerous sexual fantasies filling his head.
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But as his desire grows stronger,
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Dahmer seeks out a new lover
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in the strangest of places.
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- One day he saw the obituary of a man who had passed away
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in a motorcycle accident.
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And just by looking at the picture of this man,
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he completely fell in love with him.
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So he ended up going to where this body was buried.
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- He did try to dig up the body.
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He made an attempt and dug down maybe a little bit.
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- It would be bad enough
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if I were to go and desecrate a grave,
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dig up a body, vandalize a tombstone.
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That would be sacrilege and offensive to people,
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but now we're adding on
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this other layer of sexuality on top of it.
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In the end, the ground is too hard,
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and Dahmer quickly aborts the effort.
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But the beast inside of him awakens.
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Dahmer continues his quest for a submissive lover.
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He heads to nearby Milwaukee,
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where he discovers a thriving gay community.
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- The bar scene was amazing.
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Second Street was the main drag in the '80s.
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It was very gay friendly.
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People who, uh, didn't care about what other people thought.
517
00:26:17,699 --> 00:26:21,236
Dahmer does his best not to draw attention.
518
00:26:21,236 --> 00:26:25,941
Still, he manages to stand out in the crowd.
519
00:26:25,941 --> 00:26:29,178
- He would always hang out by the cigarette machine.
520
00:26:29,178 --> 00:26:31,346
Sat back in a little alcove.
521
00:26:31,346 --> 00:26:34,583
And he would sit there and watch people.
522
00:26:34,583 --> 00:26:37,519
I'm the kinda person, if I see someone standing around
523
00:26:37,519 --> 00:26:38,854
countless times, you know,
524
00:26:38,854 --> 00:26:41,156
I'm gonna go up and say something to 'em.
525
00:26:41,156 --> 00:26:43,158
And I walked by him just nonchalantly
526
00:26:43,158 --> 00:26:44,760
and go, smile, It's not that bad.
527
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,696
And he kinda smiled and I was like, what's your name? Jeff.
528
00:26:47,696 --> 00:26:49,164
And, you know, we talked a little bit
529
00:26:49,164 --> 00:26:51,133
and I said, yeah, I see you here a lot.
530
00:26:51,133 --> 00:26:54,303
I'd see him looking at somebody. I'd say, you like that one, huh?
531
00:26:54,303 --> 00:26:56,538
You know, he'd give a little smile once in a while.
532
00:26:56,538 --> 00:26:59,808
I thought he was a very shy person.
533
00:26:59,808 --> 00:27:01,443
Goldie's not the only one
534
00:27:01,443 --> 00:27:05,581
to take note of the tall, blonde man in the corner.
535
00:27:05,581 --> 00:27:08,116
- A lot a people would like the way Jeffrey looked.
536
00:27:08,116 --> 00:27:11,053
And they would talk about him and wanna go talk to him.
537
00:27:11,053 --> 00:27:12,487
And I always said, well talk to him.
538
00:27:12,487 --> 00:27:14,890
I've talked to him before, you know, he's a nice guy.
539
00:27:14,890 --> 00:27:16,358
At least I thought so.
540
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:18,627
- Jeffrey was not someone
541
00:27:18,627 --> 00:27:20,028
that would appear to be a threat to anyone,
542
00:27:20,028 --> 00:27:22,631
and so when he would approach these men at bars,
543
00:27:22,631 --> 00:27:25,667
he didn't seem like someone that anyone should be afraid of.
544
00:27:25,667 --> 00:27:29,271
And that really worked in his advantage.
545
00:27:29,271 --> 00:27:30,539
But when Dahmer migrates
546
00:27:30,539 --> 00:27:33,208
over to the gay bath houses nearby,
547
00:27:33,208 --> 00:27:36,878
the reception isn't quite as welcoming.
548
00:27:36,878 --> 00:27:40,249
- Bath houses were a place that you could go
549
00:27:40,249 --> 00:27:45,087
and anticipate you would meet a sexual partner.
550
00:27:45,087 --> 00:27:47,856
But the men there found Jeffrey Dahmer
551
00:27:47,856 --> 00:27:50,759
to be incredibly creepy.
552
00:27:50,759 --> 00:27:53,128
So Dahmer finds his own way
553
00:27:53,128 --> 00:27:55,964
to gain companionship.
554
00:27:55,964 --> 00:27:58,634
- He'd say, here have a drink of my, whatever he'd be using.
555
00:27:58,634 --> 00:28:01,937
The guy would take the drink and pass out.
556
00:28:01,937 --> 00:28:04,706
And Dahmer would then sexually exploit him.
557
00:28:04,706 --> 00:28:06,508
- Many of the men that would go to that bath house
558
00:28:06,508 --> 00:28:07,743
were on the down low.
559
00:28:07,743 --> 00:28:09,911
Many of them had families, I am sure of it.
560
00:28:09,911 --> 00:28:13,215
So they couldn't tell anybody what happened to them.
561
00:28:13,215 --> 00:28:15,350
That's a whole 'nother level of trauma
562
00:28:15,350 --> 00:28:18,553
that Jeffrey Dahmer put upon these men.
563
00:28:18,553 --> 00:28:21,623
But then Dahmer overplays his hand.
564
00:28:23,291 --> 00:28:25,961
- The bath house operator finds a man unconscious in there,
565
00:28:25,961 --> 00:28:27,396
has to summon an ambulance.
566
00:28:27,396 --> 00:28:28,630
The guy's taken out to the hospital.
567
00:28:28,630 --> 00:28:30,198
They realized he was drugged.
568
00:28:30,198 --> 00:28:35,103
The owners soon trace the victim back to Dahmer.
569
00:28:35,103 --> 00:28:36,471
- They were able to identify Dahmer
570
00:28:36,471 --> 00:28:38,240
and said, that's it, no more in the bath house.
571
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,542
You can't come in the bath house.
572
00:28:40,542 --> 00:28:43,545
But the ban does little to stop Dahmer.
573
00:28:43,545 --> 00:28:46,915
He continues to drug men at the bars,
574
00:28:46,915 --> 00:28:49,584
then brings them back to nearby hotels
575
00:28:49,584 --> 00:28:51,953
to have his way with them.
576
00:28:51,953 --> 00:28:54,423
- He can't enjoy himself
577
00:28:54,423 --> 00:28:57,659
when the other person is conscious,
578
00:28:57,659 --> 00:29:01,296
because they'll say, you're weird, Jeffrey.
579
00:29:01,296 --> 00:29:03,365
Why are you so drunk, Jeffrey?
580
00:29:03,365 --> 00:29:05,667
He wants total control.
581
00:29:05,667 --> 00:29:07,836
Though Dahmer sedates his prey,
582
00:29:07,836 --> 00:29:12,674
some cannibals prefer their victims awake.
583
00:29:17,646 --> 00:29:20,449
- There are people who actively search out the concept
584
00:29:20,449 --> 00:29:22,818
of being consumed, and vice versa.
585
00:29:22,818 --> 00:29:27,556
People who are looking for willing dinners.
586
00:29:27,556 --> 00:29:31,460
In 2001, 40-year-old Armin Meiwes
587
00:29:31,460 --> 00:29:34,162
isn't shy about what he's looking for.
588
00:29:34,162 --> 00:29:40,068
He posts a personal ad online for a man he can cannibalize.
589
00:29:40,068 --> 00:29:43,105
- His whole thing was he wanted consensual cannibalism.
590
00:29:43,105 --> 00:29:49,044
He wanted his victim to agree to allow Armin to eat them.
591
00:29:49,044 --> 00:29:52,080
Incredibly, an engineer from Berlin
592
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:57,052
by the name of Bernd Brandes enthusiastically replies.
593
00:29:57,052 --> 00:29:59,921
- They arrived at his home. They got intoxicated.
594
00:29:59,921 --> 00:30:02,524
He chopped off his penis. He cooked it.
595
00:30:02,524 --> 00:30:04,226
They ate it together.
596
00:30:04,226 --> 00:30:07,896
His victim was then saying, I'm feeling pretty woozy.
597
00:30:07,896 --> 00:30:10,732
He then put him in a bathtub and then, uh,
598
00:30:10,732 --> 00:30:13,502
drained his blood until he was dead.
599
00:30:13,502 --> 00:30:15,337
Over the next 10 months,
600
00:30:15,337 --> 00:30:18,373
Meiwes continues to take sexual pleasure
601
00:30:18,373 --> 00:30:21,376
out of eating Brandes's flesh.
602
00:30:21,376 --> 00:30:27,015
In all, he consumes nearly 50 pounds of his victim's body.
603
00:30:27,015 --> 00:30:29,084
- It's interesting because the argument there is,
604
00:30:29,084 --> 00:30:30,552
was this really murder?
605
00:30:30,552 --> 00:30:32,154
It was cannibalism, but was it murder
606
00:30:32,154 --> 00:30:34,856
because they both agreed to it?
607
00:30:34,856 --> 00:30:37,225
But when Meiwes returns to the internet
608
00:30:37,225 --> 00:30:39,594
in search of a second victim,
609
00:30:39,594 --> 00:30:42,497
authorities are alerted to his crime
610
00:30:42,497 --> 00:30:45,567
and arrest the man who will become known
611
00:30:45,567 --> 00:30:48,069
as the Rotenberg Cannibal.
612
00:30:48,069 --> 00:30:51,406
- The idea of somebody consuming us for food
613
00:30:51,406 --> 00:30:56,178
is so far out of our grasp of reality
614
00:30:56,178 --> 00:30:58,513
that it just shocks you.
615
00:30:58,513 --> 00:31:00,148
People have to take a step back
616
00:31:00,148 --> 00:31:03,585
and recognize that human beings can indeed do that.
617
00:31:09,758 --> 00:31:13,995
By November 1987, Dahmer has not yet crossed
618
00:31:13,995 --> 00:31:18,133
into forbidden realm of cannibalism.
619
00:31:18,133 --> 00:31:21,703
But with eight years passing since his first kill,
620
00:31:21,703 --> 00:31:26,775
his need to control another living person is escalating.
621
00:31:26,775 --> 00:31:29,477
- He meets Steven Tuomi at a bar
622
00:31:29,477 --> 00:31:33,281
and goes back with him to the Ambassador Hotel.
623
00:31:33,281 --> 00:31:35,750
- Dahmer gave him the drink that rendered him unconscious,
624
00:31:35,750 --> 00:31:38,253
and then sexually abused him, set upon him sexually.
625
00:31:38,253 --> 00:31:40,655
But just when things are heating up,
626
00:31:40,655 --> 00:31:44,159
Dahmer makes a major mistake.
627
00:31:44,159 --> 00:31:46,428
- What appears to have happened is that Mr. Dahmer
628
00:31:46,428 --> 00:31:52,367
accidentally drank some of this Halcion-laced drink himself.
629
00:31:52,367 --> 00:31:55,470
Dahmer soon passes out.
630
00:31:55,470 --> 00:32:01,142
The next morning, he wakes up to find he's covered in blood.
631
00:32:02,177 --> 00:32:05,480
- So, it was while he was himself intoxicated
632
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,582
after eight years of trying not to kill
633
00:32:07,582 --> 00:32:09,818
that he killed again.
634
00:32:09,818 --> 00:32:11,887
- The slow process to cannibalism
635
00:32:11,887 --> 00:32:14,022
has now been accelerated immensely.
636
00:32:14,022 --> 00:32:16,324
After the second murder, he is back
637
00:32:16,324 --> 00:32:19,227
and he's more powerful than ever.
638
00:32:23,064 --> 00:32:25,233
Jeffrey Dahmer has spent eight years
639
00:32:25,233 --> 00:32:29,538
trying to convince himself that he will not kill again.
640
00:32:29,538 --> 00:32:32,574
Then, in November 1987,
641
00:32:32,574 --> 00:32:35,443
he wakes up to a shocking discovery
642
00:32:35,443 --> 00:32:38,914
in a Milwaukee hotel room.
643
00:32:38,914 --> 00:32:42,484
- Steven Tuomi was dead in that hotel room.
644
00:32:42,484 --> 00:32:46,554
He had been beaten to death.
645
00:32:46,554 --> 00:32:47,923
- He was black and blue.
646
00:32:47,923 --> 00:32:52,727
And Jeffrey realized that in his blackout state
647
00:32:52,727 --> 00:32:55,797
he had murdered Steven Tuomi.
648
00:32:57,399 --> 00:33:01,002
- Dahmer claims that he has no memory of it whatsoever.
649
00:33:01,002 --> 00:33:03,338
Now, I don't know how much credence to give that
650
00:33:03,338 --> 00:33:05,907
because immediately upon discovering this dead body
651
00:33:05,907 --> 00:33:08,910
Jeffrey Dahmer took action.
652
00:33:08,910 --> 00:33:10,946
- Dahmer went out and got a large suitcase,
653
00:33:10,946 --> 00:33:14,149
brought it back and packed this young man into the suitcase
654
00:33:14,149 --> 00:33:15,817
and summoned a cab.
655
00:33:15,817 --> 00:33:17,085
The cab driver came and helped him down
656
00:33:17,085 --> 00:33:19,054
with the suitcase, and actually said to him,
657
00:33:19,054 --> 00:33:22,190
what do you got, a dead body in here?
658
00:33:22,190 --> 00:33:24,993
Dahmer takes the cab to his grandmother's house
659
00:33:24,993 --> 00:33:29,364
where he gets right to work butchering the body.
660
00:33:29,364 --> 00:33:31,900
- Physically it's very difficult to cut up a body.
661
00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:34,669
It's hours and hours of work, and it's messy work,
662
00:33:34,669 --> 00:33:37,939
which takes, uh, a lot of strength.
663
00:33:37,939 --> 00:33:39,274
But this time,
664
00:33:39,274 --> 00:33:43,144
Dahmer doesn't dispose of his entire victim.
665
00:33:43,144 --> 00:33:47,449
- He keeps the skull. The skull was significant
666
00:33:47,449 --> 00:33:52,020
in Jeffrey Dahmer's progression as a serial murderer.
667
00:33:52,721 --> 00:33:55,056
- There have been some serial killers
668
00:33:55,056 --> 00:33:56,992
who've actually taken trophies
669
00:33:56,992 --> 00:33:59,894
as though this is the fruits of my, my labor.
670
00:33:59,894 --> 00:34:03,131
That really was not what was going on with Mr. Dahmer.
671
00:34:03,131 --> 00:34:07,335
This was him trying to hold on and stay close in his mind,
672
00:34:07,335 --> 00:34:09,938
to those whom he had victimized.
673
00:34:09,938 --> 00:34:12,173
- He masturbated inside of the skull.
674
00:34:12,173 --> 00:34:15,276
He would look at the skull and fantasize about the crime
675
00:34:15,276 --> 00:34:16,811
that he committed.
676
00:34:16,811 --> 00:34:20,048
Yes, maybe Tuomi is dead, but at least he has his skull.
677
00:34:20,048 --> 00:34:23,418
And with the skulls come the memories.
678
00:34:23,418 --> 00:34:26,988
It's not long before even this prized possession
679
00:34:26,988 --> 00:34:30,225
starts losing its luster for Dahmer.
680
00:34:30,225 --> 00:34:32,494
- He's worried about the consequences,
681
00:34:32,494 --> 00:34:34,429
so he's going to shatter these bones.
682
00:34:34,429 --> 00:34:36,598
He's gonna pulverize them
683
00:34:36,598 --> 00:34:40,001
Two months later, he seeks out another victim,
684
00:34:40,001 --> 00:34:43,438
14-year-old Jamie Doxtator.
685
00:34:43,438 --> 00:34:45,774
- Jeffrey approached it with a different angle this time.
686
00:34:45,774 --> 00:34:47,809
He said, listen I'll give you $50.
687
00:34:47,809 --> 00:34:49,644
Just come back to my apartment with me,
688
00:34:49,644 --> 00:34:53,148
and let me take your picture. And obviously as a 14-year-old,
689
00:34:53,148 --> 00:34:56,051
Jamie's not thinking worst-case scenario.
690
00:34:56,051 --> 00:35:00,155
- You're in downtown Milwaukee, and this white, timid guy
691
00:35:00,155 --> 00:35:02,724
come to you flashing money in your face,
692
00:35:02,724 --> 00:35:05,160
sure you're gonna go with him.
693
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:09,864
But once he gave them that drink to knock 'em out,
694
00:35:09,864 --> 00:35:14,169
then the game was over. Checkmate.
695
00:35:14,169 --> 00:35:17,038
Dahmer follows the same pattern with the teen
696
00:35:17,038 --> 00:35:19,340
as his previous two victims.
697
00:35:19,340 --> 00:35:23,478
He roofies, rapes, and strangles his prey
698
00:35:23,478 --> 00:35:27,649
before dismembering him and keeping a memento.
699
00:35:27,649 --> 00:35:30,385
Once again, the skull.
700
00:35:30,385 --> 00:35:33,988
- Dahmer killed this boy in his grandmother's house.
701
00:35:33,988 --> 00:35:36,825
He realized that he could get away with this stuff anywhere.
702
00:35:39,461 --> 00:35:41,863
Dahmer hasn't crossed into the realm
703
00:35:41,863 --> 00:35:44,566
of cannibalism just yet.
704
00:35:44,566 --> 00:35:47,936
Still, his hunger grows stronger.
705
00:35:47,936 --> 00:35:50,939
Dahmer actively begins searching for prey
706
00:35:50,939 --> 00:35:53,942
within Milwaukee's gay bars.
707
00:35:53,942 --> 00:35:56,344
- There becomes a point of no return.
708
00:35:56,344 --> 00:35:58,346
He's like a shark that's had a taste of blood.
709
00:35:58,346 --> 00:36:01,316
There really is no going back for Dahmer.
710
00:36:01,316 --> 00:36:04,052
Just three months after killing the teen,
711
00:36:04,052 --> 00:36:08,356
Dahmer homes in on 22-year-old Richard Guerrero.
712
00:36:10,158 --> 00:36:13,361
- Richard was a young man, got into a lot of the bars.
713
00:36:13,361 --> 00:36:15,396
I would do shows. He'd come and watch them.
714
00:36:15,396 --> 00:36:16,931
We became friends that way.
715
00:36:16,931 --> 00:36:18,199
He had that aura about him
716
00:36:18,199 --> 00:36:21,336
where, you know, he was a good kid.
717
00:36:22,270 --> 00:36:24,005
- Jeffrey Dahmer brought Richard Guerrero
718
00:36:24,005 --> 00:36:25,840
back over to his grandma's house.
719
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,543
He got him inebriated. He drugged his drink.
720
00:36:28,543 --> 00:36:30,812
While he was, uh, out of it,
721
00:36:30,812 --> 00:36:32,914
Jeffrey Dahmer strangled him to death.
722
00:36:34,482 --> 00:36:35,750
But this is where Jeffrey Dahmer
723
00:36:35,750 --> 00:36:37,585
starts to take things up to the next level.
724
00:36:39,220 --> 00:36:43,791
- Here we have the beginning of a whole new path
725
00:36:43,791 --> 00:36:47,262
that Jeffrey Dahmer opened up for himself.
726
00:36:48,062 --> 00:36:50,798
- Necrophilia is the desire to have sex
727
00:36:50,798 --> 00:36:53,768
with a dead person's corpse.
728
00:36:53,768 --> 00:36:57,839
When we start describing having sex with a person's dead body,
729
00:36:57,839 --> 00:36:59,974
we are now objectifying a human.
730
00:36:59,974 --> 00:37:04,145
A dead person cannot give consent.
731
00:37:04,145 --> 00:37:06,881
- Necrophilia's about power and control.
732
00:37:06,881 --> 00:37:08,950
If you think your sexual desires are so perverse
733
00:37:08,950 --> 00:37:11,352
that nobody would relate to them or understand them,
734
00:37:11,352 --> 00:37:14,789
then having sex with a dead body is a way to, uh,
735
00:37:14,789 --> 00:37:17,959
have that sexual relationship without somebody fighting back
736
00:37:17,959 --> 00:37:20,929
or speaking against it.
737
00:37:20,929 --> 00:37:23,631
- Jeffrey Dahmer thought, I'll kill someone
738
00:37:23,631 --> 00:37:25,366
and I'll feel better.
739
00:37:25,366 --> 00:37:28,136
I'll dismember them and I'll feel better.
740
00:37:28,136 --> 00:37:30,371
Then he thought, that didn't work,
741
00:37:30,371 --> 00:37:32,974
so he would have sex with the corpse.
742
00:37:32,974 --> 00:37:36,945
It just kept getting worse and worse and worse.
743
00:37:41,249 --> 00:37:43,718
Friends in Milwaukee's gay scene
744
00:37:43,718 --> 00:37:46,721
soon notice Guerrero's absence.
745
00:37:46,721 --> 00:37:48,489
- We were wondering what was going on
746
00:37:48,489 --> 00:37:50,325
because there was a few people disappearing.
747
00:37:50,325 --> 00:37:53,127
But Richard told us that he was gonna get a job.
748
00:37:53,127 --> 00:37:56,698
And a lot of us figured that he, he's doing good at his job.
749
00:37:56,698 --> 00:38:00,368
He's working and, you know, helping his parents out.
750
00:38:00,368 --> 00:38:02,070
We were all happy for him, you know,
751
00:38:02,070 --> 00:38:06,140
but we never realized that he was actually gone.
752
00:38:07,542 --> 00:38:08,910
It's not long
753
00:38:08,910 --> 00:38:11,746
before Dahmer returns to his hunting grounds,
754
00:38:11,746 --> 00:38:15,350
secretly searching for his next victim.
755
00:38:16,985 --> 00:38:20,054
And on April 23, 1988,
756
00:38:20,054 --> 00:38:23,358
he finds it in a stranded motorist,
757
00:38:23,358 --> 00:38:26,094
Ronald Flowers.
758
00:38:26,094 --> 00:38:27,528
- His car wouldn't start.
759
00:38:27,528 --> 00:38:29,831
So Jeffery Dahmer wanted to help him get his car started.
760
00:38:29,831 --> 00:38:31,532
So he invited Ronald Flowers
761
00:38:31,532 --> 00:38:33,701
back to his grandma's house for some coffee.
762
00:38:33,701 --> 00:38:36,170
And what do we know about coffee with Jeffrey Dahmer?
763
00:38:36,170 --> 00:38:38,239
Uh, it does the opposite at Jeffrey Dahmer's house.
764
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:39,907
It puts you to sleep, right?
765
00:38:39,907 --> 00:38:43,611
So, he laced it with Halcion, gave it to him.
766
00:38:43,611 --> 00:38:46,881
But just as his victim's passing out,
767
00:38:46,881 --> 00:38:51,419
Dahmer receives an unexpected visitor.
768
00:38:53,354 --> 00:38:55,923
- He hears, Jeffrey, is that you?
769
00:38:55,923 --> 00:38:58,326
His grandmother was still home.
770
00:38:58,326 --> 00:39:02,263
And his grandmother was asking what the noise was all about.
771
00:39:02,263 --> 00:39:05,733
His grandmother had been home the entire time.
772
00:39:06,934 --> 00:39:08,403
- That ended it. He couldn't go ahead.
773
00:39:08,403 --> 00:39:10,204
The risk the grandmother would ask,
774
00:39:10,204 --> 00:39:13,374
what happened to that young man? So he didn't kill that guy.
775
00:39:13,374 --> 00:39:16,778
Dahmer waits for Flowers to lose consciousness.
776
00:39:16,778 --> 00:39:21,015
Then drops his would-be victim off at the county hospital.
777
00:39:21,015 --> 00:39:22,317
- In the hospital, Ronald Flowers
778
00:39:22,317 --> 00:39:24,118
told the police what happened.
779
00:39:24,118 --> 00:39:26,187
They arrested Jeffrey Dahmer,
780
00:39:26,187 --> 00:39:30,892
and once again he talked his way out of it.
781
00:39:30,892 --> 00:39:33,561
Ronald Flowers was the only victim
782
00:39:33,561 --> 00:39:35,897
who escaped and survived,
783
00:39:35,897 --> 00:39:39,067
and could have gotten Dahmer arrested
784
00:39:39,067 --> 00:39:42,670
if the authorities had believed him.
785
00:39:42,670 --> 00:39:44,939
- You find out later on that you survived Jeffrey Dahmer,
786
00:39:44,939 --> 00:39:46,374
it's the ultimate nightmare come true.
787
00:39:46,374 --> 00:39:48,943
There was a little bit of a trust built.
788
00:39:48,943 --> 00:39:51,079
You hope we're looking out for each other.
789
00:39:51,079 --> 00:39:54,349
And Jeffrey Dahmer manipulated that trust.
790
00:39:54,349 --> 00:39:58,052
The Flowers incident also breaks Dahmer's trust
791
00:39:58,052 --> 00:40:02,023
with someone else, his grandmother.
792
00:40:02,023 --> 00:40:03,758
- Tensions are escalating.
793
00:40:03,758 --> 00:40:06,094
She knows he's bringing guys home.
794
00:40:06,094 --> 00:40:09,797
She knows that something smells terrible,
795
00:40:09,797 --> 00:40:11,933
but every time she asks him
796
00:40:11,933 --> 00:40:13,935
she doesn't get a straight answer.
797
00:40:13,935 --> 00:40:16,537
And on top of that, worst of all,
798
00:40:16,537 --> 00:40:19,273
he won't go to church.
799
00:40:19,273 --> 00:40:22,009
- He realized that if he was going to keep going
800
00:40:22,009 --> 00:40:23,444
the way that he was,
801
00:40:23,444 --> 00:40:25,513
he needed to do it in the privacy of his own home.
802
00:40:25,513 --> 00:40:27,482
So, he ended up moving into his own apartment
803
00:40:27,482 --> 00:40:29,117
living by himself.
804
00:40:29,117 --> 00:40:31,652
- Mr. Dahmer's moving out of his grandmother's house
805
00:40:31,652 --> 00:40:34,522
and into a place of his own was certainly a setup
806
00:40:34,522 --> 00:40:38,192
that was gonna enable him to spiral out of control.
807
00:40:41,462 --> 00:40:43,998
It's September 1988,
808
00:40:43,998 --> 00:40:46,367
and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer
809
00:40:46,367 --> 00:40:51,372
has already stolen the lives of four men.
810
00:40:51,372 --> 00:40:54,675
Though he has not eaten any victims yet,
811
00:40:54,675 --> 00:40:58,045
when he leaves the confines of his grandmother's home
812
00:40:58,045 --> 00:41:01,549
for his own apartment in downtown Milwaukee,
813
00:41:01,549 --> 00:41:06,254
he takes his bloodlust to a new level.
814
00:41:06,254 --> 00:41:07,488
- Every decision that he made
815
00:41:07,488 --> 00:41:09,357
whether conscious or subconscious
816
00:41:09,357 --> 00:41:13,528
was to at one point give himself the opportunity
817
00:41:13,528 --> 00:41:17,865
to fulfill his darkest sexual fantasies.
818
00:41:22,537 --> 00:41:25,506
Just one day after his move,
819
00:41:25,506 --> 00:41:31,212
Dahmer once again gives into his macabre desires
820
00:41:31,212 --> 00:41:34,682
when he approaches a 13-year-old boy.
821
00:41:36,250 --> 00:41:39,220
- Jeffrey Dahmer lured him to his apartment by saying
822
00:41:39,220 --> 00:41:42,523
he would pay him $50 if
823
00:41:42,523 --> 00:41:45,393
he would pose for pictures in the nude.
824
00:41:47,361 --> 00:41:49,097
- And so, the two of them ended up going back
825
00:41:49,097 --> 00:41:50,998
to Jeffrey's apartment together.
826
00:41:50,998 --> 00:41:52,467
Jeffrey made him coffee,
827
00:41:52,467 --> 00:41:56,304
tried to make him feel as comfortable as possible.
828
00:41:56,304 --> 00:41:58,739
The teen knows he's in too deep
829
00:41:58,739 --> 00:42:03,444
when Dahmer suddenly asks if he can listen to his stomach.
830
00:42:03,444 --> 00:42:06,581
- And this boy saw an opportunity to run
831
00:42:06,581 --> 00:42:07,715
and he took it.
832
00:42:07,715 --> 00:42:11,853
So he grabs his backpack and he runs out the door.
833
00:42:12,553 --> 00:42:15,423
- He gets out. He runs away.
834
00:42:15,423 --> 00:42:19,794
He goes to the police. He's obviously in bad shape.
835
00:42:19,794 --> 00:42:23,331
- Luckily, this boy remembers where he was with Jeffrey.
836
00:42:23,331 --> 00:42:24,632
So he points police
837
00:42:24,632 --> 00:42:26,968
into the direction of Jeffrey's apartment.
838
00:42:26,968 --> 00:42:28,402
Police go and knock on the door.
839
00:42:28,402 --> 00:42:31,839
Jeffrey was there and he was arrested.
840
00:42:33,307 --> 00:42:34,609
- Dahmer was charged by our office
841
00:42:34,609 --> 00:42:36,177
with sexual assault on this child,
842
00:42:36,177 --> 00:42:37,578
on this 13-year-old boy,
843
00:42:37,578 --> 00:42:40,181
and was found guilty by the judge.
844
00:42:40,181 --> 00:42:42,016
- It's almost this sigh of relief
845
00:42:42,016 --> 00:42:44,118
of like, yes, he's finally been caught.
846
00:42:44,118 --> 00:42:46,454
He's finally off of the street.
847
00:42:46,454 --> 00:42:50,391
But it's only Dahmer's first known offense.
848
00:42:50,391 --> 00:42:55,363
- He had a very slick, smooth-talking lawyer.
849
00:42:56,297 --> 00:42:59,133
He went to trial. The lawyer helped him out.
850
00:42:59,133 --> 00:43:01,269
- The judge gave him one year work release
851
00:43:01,269 --> 00:43:03,471
and five years probation. Certainly, Dahmer did not
852
00:43:03,471 --> 00:43:06,908
unburden himself to any psychologist or social worker
853
00:43:06,908 --> 00:43:08,376
about what he had been doing,
854
00:43:08,376 --> 00:43:10,077
and whatever examination was conducted
855
00:43:10,077 --> 00:43:13,614
did not give rise to belief that he was a serial killer.
856
00:43:13,614 --> 00:43:16,250
But before he starts serving his time,
857
00:43:16,250 --> 00:43:19,954
Dahmer's determined to get one more fix.
858
00:43:19,954 --> 00:43:23,357
- You think that Jeffrey Dahmer might be scared
859
00:43:23,357 --> 00:43:27,628
or chastened by the fact that he was sentenced to a year,
860
00:43:27,628 --> 00:43:32,199
but instead, before he goes to prison,
861
00:43:32,199 --> 00:43:35,436
he acts again.
862
00:43:35,937 --> 00:43:38,539
After meeting 24-year-old Anthony Sears
863
00:43:38,539 --> 00:43:41,509
at a club, Dahmer takes him home
864
00:43:41,509 --> 00:43:47,048
and subjects the aspiring model to his usual routine.
865
00:43:47,048 --> 00:43:51,419
- He thought Sears was the hottest man he has ever seen.
866
00:43:51,419 --> 00:43:52,853
Usually when someone says you're attractive,
867
00:43:52,853 --> 00:43:53,988
you take it as a compliment,
868
00:43:53,988 --> 00:43:55,523
but if Jeffrey Dahmer says you're attractive,
869
00:43:55,523 --> 00:43:58,359
you gotta take it as a threat.
870
00:43:58,359 --> 00:44:01,462
- They drank. He kills him.
871
00:44:01,462 --> 00:44:06,000
He dismembers him. And he saves some body parts.
872
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,136
But when it comes time to get rid of the body,
873
00:44:09,136 --> 00:44:13,441
Dahmer finds it harder to let go.
874
00:44:13,441 --> 00:44:15,176
- With the murder of Anthony Sears,
875
00:44:15,176 --> 00:44:17,612
that's when necrophilia wasn't enough.
876
00:44:17,612 --> 00:44:20,915
So, he would keep Anthony Sears' skull,
877
00:44:20,915 --> 00:44:25,286
and he'd put it in a bag, and he'd take it with him to work.
878
00:44:25,286 --> 00:44:26,554
- Keeping some of the body parts
879
00:44:26,554 --> 00:44:28,990
and carrying them around to work,
880
00:44:28,990 --> 00:44:30,558
Dahmer's able to keep it with him
881
00:44:30,558 --> 00:44:33,361
as a kind of security blanket.
882
00:44:33,361 --> 00:44:36,163
The only thing Dahmer finds satisfaction from
883
00:44:36,163 --> 00:44:38,566
is the mutilation, and the murder,
884
00:44:38,566 --> 00:44:40,701
and the rape of his victims.
885
00:44:40,701 --> 00:44:43,871
And by keeping a piece of them, he can keep some of that high
886
00:44:43,871 --> 00:44:46,073
until he can go back out into the streets to do
887
00:44:46,073 --> 00:44:49,810
what he really wants to do.
888
00:44:49,810 --> 00:44:53,714
Dahmer stores the skull inside his work locker.
889
00:44:53,714 --> 00:44:55,683
And in May 1989,
890
00:44:55,683 --> 00:44:58,853
when he begins his one-year work release sentence,
891
00:44:58,853 --> 00:45:03,591
Dahmer takes comfort having access to the skull every day.
892
00:45:04,892 --> 00:45:07,595
- He would go into the locker room at work...
893
00:45:07,595 --> 00:45:09,530
and this is completely real.
894
00:45:09,530 --> 00:45:13,701
He would open up the bag that held Anthony Sears' head,
895
00:45:13,701 --> 00:45:16,337
he would kiss it, and make out with it,
896
00:45:16,337 --> 00:45:17,972
and talk to it.
897
00:45:17,972 --> 00:45:19,740
He would put it back in the bag,
898
00:45:19,740 --> 00:45:21,575
and then he'd go make chocolate
899
00:45:21,575 --> 00:45:25,112
with fresh corpse grime
900
00:45:25,112 --> 00:45:27,615
on his lips.
901
00:45:27,615 --> 00:45:28,949
- That's interesting.
902
00:45:28,949 --> 00:45:30,551
I looked at the, uh, mental health records
903
00:45:30,551 --> 00:45:33,888
of Mr. Dahmer during the period when he was on probation.
904
00:45:33,888 --> 00:45:36,724
They weren't treating him as someone who had necrophilia
905
00:45:36,724 --> 00:45:38,926
because he was not able to bring himself to talk
906
00:45:38,926 --> 00:45:41,696
about that at the time.
907
00:45:41,696 --> 00:45:43,664
- Even the most serious paraphilias
908
00:45:43,664 --> 00:45:45,466
can be counseled out of it.
909
00:45:45,466 --> 00:45:48,402
I think it's very difficult, uh, but it can be done.
910
00:45:48,402 --> 00:45:50,971
If Dahmer said, I want to change.
911
00:45:50,971 --> 00:45:53,607
I believe that with professional help,
912
00:45:53,607 --> 00:45:54,942
it could have been done
913
00:45:54,942 --> 00:45:56,744
even after he'd done a number of slayings.
914
00:45:56,744 --> 00:45:59,947
But he has to wanna do it. That didn't happen with Dahmer.
915
00:46:01,015 --> 00:46:04,452
Instead, Dahmer lets his thoughts fester.
916
00:46:04,452 --> 00:46:05,886
And each new day,
917
00:46:05,886 --> 00:46:09,390
his fantasies grow even more frightening.
918
00:46:09,390 --> 00:46:14,028
Soon, he crosses an even more twisted threshold,
919
00:46:14,028 --> 00:46:17,298
fantasizing about cannibalism.
920
00:46:17,298 --> 00:46:18,799
- Somebody like Jeffrey Dahmer
921
00:46:18,799 --> 00:46:21,202
wants to have absolute control over their victims.
922
00:46:21,202 --> 00:46:24,772
Dahmer realizes if you eat them, they'll always be with you.
923
00:46:24,772 --> 00:46:28,876
And that provides a satisfaction and even sometimes
924
00:46:28,876 --> 00:46:33,047
a sexual component to the psychopath
925
00:46:33,047 --> 00:46:35,216
that, you'll never leave me.
926
00:46:35,216 --> 00:46:38,085
But while Dahmer prefers to dine alone,
927
00:46:38,085 --> 00:46:43,524
some cannibals believe it's a meal that's best shared.
928
00:46:52,500 --> 00:46:55,770
- Natalia and Dmitry Baksheevy claimed that they had
929
00:46:55,770 --> 00:47:00,141
killed 30 people over the course of 18 years.
930
00:47:00,141 --> 00:47:02,376
And not only did they kill them,
931
00:47:02,376 --> 00:47:04,979
they kept them in pickled containers
932
00:47:04,979 --> 00:47:05,946
in their kitchen.
933
00:47:05,946 --> 00:47:07,915
They were seasoning their body parts.
934
00:47:07,915 --> 00:47:10,418
At one point they had decapitated a head,
935
00:47:10,418 --> 00:47:11,652
and decorated it,
936
00:47:11,652 --> 00:47:14,021
and served it as a Christmas dinner.
937
00:47:15,556 --> 00:47:17,658
For years, the married couple
938
00:47:17,658 --> 00:47:20,628
lives under the radar, feeding their frightening
939
00:47:20,628 --> 00:47:24,598
culinary creations to unsuspecting guests.
940
00:47:24,598 --> 00:47:26,567
- It was their secret that they had,
941
00:47:26,567 --> 00:47:28,769
and this is the difference that we see with them,
942
00:47:28,769 --> 00:47:31,939
is typically cannibals tend to be selfish
943
00:47:31,939 --> 00:47:33,507
and they like to commit these crimes
944
00:47:33,507 --> 00:47:35,409
for their own gratification,
945
00:47:35,409 --> 00:47:37,445
but part of Dmitry and Natalia's thing
946
00:47:37,445 --> 00:47:41,148
was giving this to other people.
947
00:47:41,148 --> 00:47:43,918
But when they invite 35-year-old neighbor
948
00:47:43,918 --> 00:47:46,754
Elena Vashrusheva over for a meal,
949
00:47:46,754 --> 00:47:50,090
things don't go according to plan.
950
00:47:50,090 --> 00:47:53,961
- Natalia had assumed that Elena was flirting with Dmitry
951
00:47:53,961 --> 00:47:56,063
and she got really angry about it,
952
00:47:56,063 --> 00:48:00,067
and she ordered Dmitry to kill Elena.
953
00:48:00,067 --> 00:48:03,137
And he basically followed Natalia's orders.
954
00:48:03,137 --> 00:48:06,106
But just days after killing Elena,
955
00:48:06,106 --> 00:48:08,676
Dmitry loses his phone.
956
00:48:08,676 --> 00:48:11,679
It's found by an unsuspecting Samaritan
957
00:48:11,679 --> 00:48:14,682
who stumbles across the grisly photos,
958
00:48:14,682 --> 00:48:17,318
and immediately turns them over to police.
959
00:48:17,318 --> 00:48:20,287
When the phone's eventually traced back to Dmitry,
960
00:48:20,287 --> 00:48:23,924
it links he and Natalia to their neighbor's murder,
961
00:48:23,924 --> 00:48:24,792
bringing an end
962
00:48:24,792 --> 00:48:28,963
to their 18-year reign of terror.
963
00:48:28,963 --> 00:48:31,065
Like the Russians, Dahmer's been able
964
00:48:31,065 --> 00:48:34,869
to live under the radar for more than a decade.
965
00:48:34,869 --> 00:48:38,939
But his taste for human flesh is only beginning.
966
00:48:38,939 --> 00:48:43,043
In the spring of 1990, he's released on parole
967
00:48:43,043 --> 00:48:47,982
and finally ready to act out on his darkest desires.
968
00:48:47,982 --> 00:48:50,584
- He got a cheap-as-possible apartment.
969
00:48:50,584 --> 00:48:52,720
He was in walking distance from his job.
970
00:48:52,720 --> 00:48:56,156
Jeffrey Dahmer simplified his life
971
00:48:56,156 --> 00:49:00,327
to make it easier for him to be a serial killer.
972
00:49:04,098 --> 00:49:07,801
By 1990, serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer
973
00:49:07,801 --> 00:49:09,904
has rented an apartment
974
00:49:09,904 --> 00:49:13,173
right inside his preferred kill zone,
975
00:49:13,173 --> 00:49:16,877
Milwaukee's Walker Point neighborhood.
976
00:49:16,877 --> 00:49:21,849
No one knows Dahmer already has five kills under his belt.
977
00:49:21,849 --> 00:49:26,287
Or that he's beginning to fantasize about cannibalism.
978
00:49:27,221 --> 00:49:29,056
- We lived in apartment 214
979
00:49:29,056 --> 00:49:33,460
and Dahmer lived in apartment 213.
980
00:49:33,460 --> 00:49:37,097
Jeff seemed to be a lonely person.
981
00:49:37,097 --> 00:49:38,232
Very alone.
982
00:49:38,232 --> 00:49:40,234
Seemed like the only highlight in his life
983
00:49:40,234 --> 00:49:43,504
was him going to work at the chocolate factory.
984
00:49:43,504 --> 00:49:46,040
He worked third shift,
985
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:49,109
meaning that when he got home from work,
986
00:49:49,109 --> 00:49:52,780
I had already left my apartment to go to work.
987
00:49:52,780 --> 00:49:54,548
- Jeffrey Dahmer just sounds like a
988
00:49:54,548 --> 00:49:57,117
relatively shy Midwestern guy.
989
00:49:57,117 --> 00:49:59,987
You can't even think that he would be fantasizing
990
00:49:59,987 --> 00:50:04,625
about cutting people up and eating them.
991
00:50:04,625 --> 00:50:06,593
But there are a few signs
992
00:50:06,593 --> 00:50:10,698
that something is off with this new neighbor.
993
00:50:10,698 --> 00:50:14,234
- Whenever I would want a cigarette
994
00:50:14,234 --> 00:50:16,437
and didn't feel like going to the store,
995
00:50:16,437 --> 00:50:22,042
I would go and knock on his door and he invited me in.
996
00:50:23,811 --> 00:50:26,714
He always had a lock on his bedroom door.
997
00:50:26,714 --> 00:50:30,851
I assumed that he was protecting his TV,
998
00:50:30,851 --> 00:50:33,988
you know, things of value. And he had a camera
999
00:50:33,988 --> 00:50:36,824
mounted in the corner of his living room.
1000
00:50:38,125 --> 00:50:40,260
Vernell doesn't know that cameras
1001
00:50:40,260 --> 00:50:44,064
have become a big part of Dahmer's grisly fun.
1002
00:50:44,064 --> 00:50:47,601
One week after moving into the Oxford Apartments,
1003
00:50:47,601 --> 00:50:51,405
Dahmer brings home 33-year-old Raymond Smith.
1004
00:50:57,011 --> 00:51:01,782
Dahmer drugs and kills his unsuspecting victim.
1005
00:51:01,782 --> 00:51:05,919
But this time, Dahmer's increasingly macabre behavior
1006
00:51:05,919 --> 00:51:08,055
takes an even darker turn.
1007
00:51:10,324 --> 00:51:13,027
- He would pose the bodies in intricate,
1008
00:51:13,027 --> 00:51:15,963
oftentimes very graphic positions,
1009
00:51:15,963 --> 00:51:18,098
and take pictures of them.
1010
00:51:18,098 --> 00:51:21,668
- Photographs wind up having two-fold representation.
1011
00:51:21,668 --> 00:51:24,805
One, it's a souvenir that I can look at and reminisce later,
1012
00:51:24,805 --> 00:51:27,641
but two, it is a visual representation
1013
00:51:27,641 --> 00:51:29,910
of my murder design.
1014
00:51:29,910 --> 00:51:31,712
After I have had my way with them,
1015
00:51:31,712 --> 00:51:34,314
I have created them into what I want them to be.
1016
00:51:34,314 --> 00:51:37,151
I have put them into position. I've killed them.
1017
00:51:37,151 --> 00:51:39,720
I have submission and control over them.
1018
00:51:39,720 --> 00:51:42,256
- Everything that he felt on the inside
1019
00:51:42,256 --> 00:51:46,760
began to manifest itself inside of his tiny Milwaukee apartment,
1020
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:50,664
the Polaroids, the flesh, the bones, uh,
1021
00:51:50,664 --> 00:51:53,801
in some cases there were just bodies there still.
1022
00:51:53,801 --> 00:51:56,503
And all of these things really brought home
1023
00:51:56,503 --> 00:51:58,705
a sexual arousal, uh,
1024
00:51:58,705 --> 00:52:01,809
that he perhaps wasn't getting it any longer.
1025
00:52:04,378 --> 00:52:07,181
When he's finished, Dahmer saves Smith's skull
1026
00:52:07,181 --> 00:52:10,651
and places it inside a filing cabinet.
1027
00:52:10,651 --> 00:52:13,253
Over the next four months, he does the same
1028
00:52:13,253 --> 00:52:16,857
with two more victims, his seventh and eighth.
1029
00:52:16,857 --> 00:52:20,427
Still, he stops short of eating them.
1030
00:52:21,528 --> 00:52:25,699
- At this point in time, Jeffrey has killed eight people.
1031
00:52:25,699 --> 00:52:29,002
And he is still getting away with it.
1032
00:52:29,002 --> 00:52:33,540
So Jeffrey's ego kept getting boosted after each kill.
1033
00:52:34,441 --> 00:52:36,610
- Many of these men were reported missing,
1034
00:52:36,610 --> 00:52:38,011
but because of their color
1035
00:52:38,011 --> 00:52:40,080
and because of their sexual orientation,
1036
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:42,015
police said, oh okay, thanks.
1037
00:52:42,015 --> 00:52:44,218
What are we supposed to do about that?
1038
00:52:44,218 --> 00:52:47,855
- Milwaukee had its growing pains in the '80s.
1039
00:52:47,855 --> 00:52:49,556
We had a police chief at the time
1040
00:52:49,556 --> 00:52:51,191
that he didn't get along
1041
00:52:51,191 --> 00:52:53,994
with the gay community whatsoever.
1042
00:52:53,994 --> 00:52:56,230
- It was an obvious bias that the police had.
1043
00:52:56,230 --> 00:52:57,764
They did not look into these crimes
1044
00:52:57,764 --> 00:52:58,966
as deeply as they should.
1045
00:52:58,966 --> 00:53:01,101
Well, they should change their lifestyle
1046
00:53:01,101 --> 00:53:04,438
if they don't wanna get murdered.
1047
00:53:06,173 --> 00:53:10,144
27-year-old Edward Smith is no exception.
1048
00:53:10,144 --> 00:53:12,146
- I met Eddie at a house party.
1049
00:53:12,146 --> 00:53:15,349
And um, we almost hit it off immediately.
1050
00:53:15,349 --> 00:53:19,286
He always wore a sheik, so we nicknamed him the Sheik.
1051
00:53:19,286 --> 00:53:22,823
There was one time that Eddie saw Jeffrey.
1052
00:53:25,192 --> 00:53:28,562
And he was like, oh he's hot. I said, I can introduce you.
1053
00:53:28,562 --> 00:53:32,199
You know, and unfortunately, I introduced them.
1054
00:53:33,333 --> 00:53:35,235
When you're out there all the time doing shows
1055
00:53:35,235 --> 00:53:37,471
and, you know, having fun, you know,
1056
00:53:37,471 --> 00:53:41,875
you don't really realize how very vulnerable you are.
1057
00:53:41,875 --> 00:53:46,780
I mean, how can you tell a serial killer?
1058
00:53:46,780 --> 00:53:49,116
You know?
1059
00:53:49,883 --> 00:53:52,252
After that, they were hanging around for a good,
1060
00:53:52,252 --> 00:53:55,222
I would say three, four or five weeks.
1061
00:53:56,456 --> 00:53:58,192
And Eddie was with Jeff.
1062
00:53:59,593 --> 00:54:04,498
And then after that, um, no one really seen Eddie again.
1063
00:54:05,365 --> 00:54:06,967
Eddie's family and friends
1064
00:54:06,967 --> 00:54:08,602
come looking for him,
1065
00:54:08,602 --> 00:54:12,539
canvassing the bars where he is known to hang out.
1066
00:54:12,539 --> 00:54:15,709
- I was like, where's Eddie? You know, where's Sheik?
1067
00:54:15,709 --> 00:54:17,211
Like, we haven't seen him.
1068
00:54:17,211 --> 00:54:18,412
Word on the street
1069
00:54:18,412 --> 00:54:23,050
is Eddie was last seen with Jeff Dahmer.
1070
00:54:23,050 --> 00:54:25,219
- Jeff was drunk one night, and we're like,
1071
00:54:25,219 --> 00:54:27,888
Jeff, where's Eddie? You know, we're looking for him.
1072
00:54:27,888 --> 00:54:29,389
His sisters are here looking for him.
1073
00:54:29,389 --> 00:54:30,424
Have you seen Eddie?
1074
00:54:30,424 --> 00:54:32,292
And he said something real stupid like,
1075
00:54:32,292 --> 00:54:35,295
yeah, they found him in Racine in three pieces.
1076
00:54:35,295 --> 00:54:39,666
But Dahmer knows very well where Eddie is.
1077
00:54:39,666 --> 00:54:41,435
- He removed Eddie's head
1078
00:54:41,435 --> 00:54:43,036
and tried to dry it out in the oven,
1079
00:54:43,036 --> 00:54:44,204
and it shattered the skull.
1080
00:54:44,204 --> 00:54:46,039
And according to Jeffrey, he had never felt
1081
00:54:46,039 --> 00:54:48,208
so much remorse in his life.
1082
00:54:48,208 --> 00:54:50,877
And I really do think it's because
1083
00:54:50,877 --> 00:54:53,046
he had slipped so fully
1084
00:54:53,046 --> 00:54:57,751
into his fantasy that, that was,
1085
00:54:57,751 --> 00:55:00,320
that was Eddie to him.
1086
00:55:02,356 --> 00:55:03,824
Dahmer's heartbreak
1087
00:55:03,824 --> 00:55:07,461
only propels him to find his next victim.
1088
00:55:07,461 --> 00:55:08,862
And the next.
1089
00:55:08,862 --> 00:55:12,032
And people are starting to notice.
1090
00:55:12,032 --> 00:55:14,901
- He is keeping their bodies in his apartment.
1091
00:55:14,901 --> 00:55:17,070
He is preserving them. And they're stacking up.
1092
00:55:17,070 --> 00:55:18,972
You can only imagine the smell
1093
00:55:18,972 --> 00:55:22,242
that was coming from Jeffrey's apartment.
1094
00:55:22,242 --> 00:55:23,944
- Perhaps there was a much darker reason
1095
00:55:23,944 --> 00:55:27,281
to keep those body parts as well.
1096
00:55:35,622 --> 00:55:39,259
By 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer has lost touch
1097
00:55:39,259 --> 00:55:42,396
with his family and childhood friends.
1098
00:55:42,396 --> 00:55:44,097
- I mean, we never thought of Jeff Dahmer
1099
00:55:44,097 --> 00:55:46,566
after high school, hardly. He was out of the picture.
1100
00:55:46,566 --> 00:55:50,137
He wasn't like a close friend. He wasn't like somebody
1101
00:55:50,137 --> 00:55:53,674
that you were thinking about all the time at all.
1102
00:55:53,674 --> 00:55:55,909
At our 10-year class reunion,
1103
00:55:55,909 --> 00:55:58,145
we were sitting around at a table
1104
00:55:58,145 --> 00:56:00,180
and talking about people that didn't show up,
1105
00:56:00,180 --> 00:56:02,316
and Jeff Dahmer's name came up.
1106
00:56:02,316 --> 00:56:04,751
We're like, yeah, whatever happened to that guy?
1107
00:56:04,751 --> 00:56:06,253
And somebody at our table said,
1108
00:56:06,253 --> 00:56:09,389
oh, he's probably a serial killer.
1109
00:56:10,657 --> 00:56:14,628
Little do they know Dahmer's created new friends.
1110
00:56:14,628 --> 00:56:19,199
A macabre collection of skulls and body parts.
1111
00:56:19,199 --> 00:56:22,803
- There is some connection between collecting skulls
1112
00:56:22,803 --> 00:56:25,972
and body parts, and cannibalism.
1113
00:56:25,972 --> 00:56:28,775
Wanting that person to be with you forever,
1114
00:56:28,775 --> 00:56:31,278
and again, wanting that power
1115
00:56:31,278 --> 00:56:34,481
and that immense desire for control.
1116
00:56:35,515 --> 00:56:37,417
And it's with his next victim
1117
00:56:37,417 --> 00:56:40,187
that Dahmer forever sears his place
1118
00:56:40,187 --> 00:56:44,057
as the monster in our collective nightmares.
1119
00:56:46,493 --> 00:56:49,830
- Ernest Miller represented the next step
1120
00:56:49,830 --> 00:56:52,199
in his depraved behavior
1121
00:56:52,199 --> 00:56:55,168
because after he killed him and dismembered him,
1122
00:56:55,168 --> 00:56:58,438
he cooked him, and he ate him.
1123
00:56:59,973 --> 00:57:02,342
- That's when the cannibalism started.
1124
00:57:02,342 --> 00:57:07,180
The keeping of the body meat for his consumption was new.
1125
00:57:07,180 --> 00:57:10,484
And it shows the natural escalation of his crimes.
1126
00:57:10,484 --> 00:57:13,153
And it became a part of his sexual act
1127
00:57:13,153 --> 00:57:14,821
where he spent a long time
1128
00:57:14,821 --> 00:57:16,757
like cooking it and seasoning it.
1129
00:57:16,757 --> 00:57:21,395
And he would eat a chunk of it. And then the act of him doing it
1130
00:57:21,395 --> 00:57:24,664
would then make him sexually aroused again.
1131
00:57:24,664 --> 00:57:26,600
- Something like this that is so taboo,
1132
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:29,236
it makes you sit there and go, why did he do this?
1133
00:57:29,236 --> 00:57:32,672
Like, what drives a person to that point?
1134
00:57:33,607 --> 00:57:36,610
- There are songs we listen to every day that talk about like,
1135
00:57:36,610 --> 00:57:39,413
I could eat you to pieces. We say that to children.
1136
00:57:39,413 --> 00:57:44,151
And this is so common, there's even a name for it.
1137
00:57:44,151 --> 00:57:47,421
Vorarephilia. Vorarephilia is the fantasy
1138
00:57:47,421 --> 00:57:52,225
and the desire to be consumed or to consume others.
1139
00:57:52,225 --> 00:57:55,061
But those who truly practice vorarephilia
1140
00:57:55,061 --> 00:57:58,765
know there's one key distinction from cannibalism.
1141
00:57:58,765 --> 00:58:00,934
It's all fantasy.
1142
00:58:00,934 --> 00:58:05,505
- Once it crosses that line of fantasy and it actually becomes
1143
00:58:05,505 --> 00:58:09,743
a place of violence or harm to the folks that are involved,
1144
00:58:09,743 --> 00:58:11,478
it is no longer vorarephilia.
1145
00:58:11,478 --> 00:58:15,615
Violence against someone else, that is the taboo.
1146
00:58:15,615 --> 00:58:18,251
- Jeffrey is doing this because he wants to
1147
00:58:18,251 --> 00:58:19,619
not feel alone anymore.
1148
00:58:19,619 --> 00:58:21,655
He wants to feel like he has control.
1149
00:58:21,655 --> 00:58:24,291
He doesn't wanna feel rejected. He wants to feel like
1150
00:58:24,291 --> 00:58:27,427
his victims are going to stay with him forever.
1151
00:58:29,863 --> 00:58:33,700
- I assumed that he was lonely and was in need of a friend.
1152
00:58:33,700 --> 00:58:37,737
On one occasion, his apartment door was open,
1153
00:58:37,737 --> 00:58:39,272
and I could see inside.
1154
00:58:39,272 --> 00:58:44,511
And I saw a tall, black guy sitting in Jeff's apartment
1155
00:58:44,511 --> 00:58:47,247
and they were drinking beer.
1156
00:58:53,053 --> 00:58:54,287
Later that night,
1157
00:58:54,287 --> 00:58:56,723
Vernell recalls seeing that same man
1158
00:58:56,723 --> 00:58:59,960
disappear with Dahmer down the hall.
1159
00:58:59,960 --> 00:59:03,964
- I remember tellin' my wife. Well, hey, he got a friend.
1160
00:59:03,964 --> 00:59:07,200
You know, but it did turn out that,
1161
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:10,403
that was one of his victims.
1162
00:59:10,403 --> 00:59:16,009
His ninth. 22-year-old David Thomas.
1163
00:59:16,610 --> 00:59:20,580
This time, Dahmer changes up his routine.
1164
00:59:20,580 --> 00:59:26,019
He takes Thomas' body, and for the first time in years,
1165
00:59:26,019 --> 00:59:28,455
simply discards it.
1166
00:59:29,890 --> 00:59:32,492
- It is just so unbelievable
1167
00:59:32,492 --> 00:59:35,762
to think that somebody in an apartment
1168
00:59:35,762 --> 00:59:40,333
in Milwaukee would have the gall to murder this many people
1169
00:59:40,333 --> 00:59:44,638
and throw the human body away like it was rotten meat.
1170
00:59:44,638 --> 00:59:47,307
It just shows you how inhumane Dahmer was,
1171
00:59:47,307 --> 00:59:50,644
how little he respected human life,
1172
00:59:50,644 --> 00:59:52,746
of how often he's been murdering,
1173
00:59:52,746 --> 00:59:55,549
of how normalized he's made murdering,
1174
00:59:55,549 --> 00:59:58,251
and just how purposeful he acts.
1175
00:59:58,251 --> 01:00:00,954
Dahmer's not the only serial killer
1176
01:00:00,954 --> 01:00:03,990
to go down this morbid path.
1177
01:00:09,496 --> 01:00:12,532
Ed Gein, the Butcher of Plainfield,
1178
01:00:12,532 --> 01:00:14,467
was the king of the macabre
1179
01:00:14,467 --> 01:00:17,470
back in his Wisconsin hometown.
1180
01:00:17,470 --> 01:00:20,440
- Ed Gein was a grave-robbing serial killer.
1181
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:22,208
And he's the famous inspiration for
1182
01:00:22,208 --> 01:00:24,711
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Psycho".
1183
01:00:24,711 --> 01:00:27,547
Of all of the characters that you'd cover in true crime,
1184
01:00:27,547 --> 01:00:29,516
Ed Gein could be, very accurately,
1185
01:00:29,516 --> 01:00:31,117
described as a ghoul.
1186
01:00:31,117 --> 01:00:35,388
And he was an all-around weird guy.
1187
01:00:35,388 --> 01:00:37,023
Driven by loneliness,
1188
01:00:37,023 --> 01:00:42,729
Gein began stealing body parts from graves at the age of 41,
1189
01:00:42,729 --> 01:00:46,633
the first of which belongs to his own mother.
1190
01:00:46,633 --> 01:00:49,703
- He wore his mother's body.
1191
01:00:49,703 --> 01:00:52,439
Like he dug her up and he turned it into a suit,
1192
01:00:52,439 --> 01:00:55,342
and he wore it for fun.
1193
01:00:56,543 --> 01:00:59,613
- He finds ways to act out his sexual compulsions
1194
01:00:59,613 --> 01:01:03,049
for human mutilation, and power and control.
1195
01:01:03,049 --> 01:01:04,851
And he keeps these souvenirs
1196
01:01:04,851 --> 01:01:07,220
and these body parts, and these skins.
1197
01:01:07,220 --> 01:01:12,626
But it's not until 10 years later in November 1957
1198
01:01:12,626 --> 01:01:17,430
that the people of Plainville catch on to his crimes.
1199
01:01:17,430 --> 01:01:20,667
After the disappearance of a local hardware store owner
1200
01:01:20,667 --> 01:01:24,070
leads police to Gein, he is arrested
1201
01:01:24,070 --> 01:01:28,908
and his 195-acre farm is searched.
1202
01:01:28,908 --> 01:01:33,480
There, police not only find the headless, gutted corpse
1203
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:37,450
of their missing woman, but also the body parts
1204
01:01:37,450 --> 01:01:40,420
of at least 15 other women
1205
01:01:40,420 --> 01:01:43,056
that had been fashioned into clothing,
1206
01:01:43,056 --> 01:01:48,028
furniture, and other pieces of frightening decor.
1207
01:01:51,965 --> 01:01:55,535
- Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer are both similar in that.
1208
01:01:55,535 --> 01:01:59,339
'Cause in a way they had a childlike curiosity
1209
01:01:59,339 --> 01:02:01,708
about the human body.
1210
01:02:01,708 --> 01:02:05,478
Dahmer made his entire apartment a trophy case.
1211
01:02:05,478 --> 01:02:08,848
When he went into that home, he could experience
1212
01:02:08,848 --> 01:02:11,117
every single moment of every murder
1213
01:02:11,117 --> 01:02:12,952
again and again and again
1214
01:02:12,952 --> 01:02:14,821
just sittin' on the couch.
1215
01:02:20,060 --> 01:02:22,228
By 1990,
1216
01:02:22,228 --> 01:02:25,732
Dahmer's brazen behavior becomes reckless.
1217
01:02:25,732 --> 01:02:29,669
And neighbors are getting suspicious.
1218
01:02:29,669 --> 01:02:35,308
- This one particular evening on a Tuesday, I had gotten in,
1219
01:02:35,308 --> 01:02:38,378
and as I was entering the building,
1220
01:02:38,378 --> 01:02:42,982
I heard a hand tool running in Jeff's apartment.
1221
01:02:42,982 --> 01:02:46,519
I couldn't distinguish if it was a saw
1222
01:02:46,519 --> 01:02:50,824
or if it was, um, a drill.
1223
01:02:50,824 --> 01:02:53,193
I said, man, what is he building over there?
1224
01:02:53,193 --> 01:02:58,331
As I was entering the apartment, coming into the door,
1225
01:02:58,331 --> 01:03:02,102
I could hear Jeff very clearly
1226
01:03:02,102 --> 01:03:05,739
stating, see what you made me do!
1227
01:03:14,347 --> 01:03:16,583
Over the last three decades,
1228
01:03:16,583 --> 01:03:18,718
serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer
1229
01:03:18,718 --> 01:03:22,021
has left a trail of death and destruction
1230
01:03:22,021 --> 01:03:23,590
wherever he's gone,
1231
01:03:23,590 --> 01:03:28,328
and has even started eating his victims.
1232
01:03:28,328 --> 01:03:30,530
But the disappearances of these men
1233
01:03:30,530 --> 01:03:34,501
within Milwaukee's gay community don't go unnoticed.
1234
01:03:36,669 --> 01:03:38,505
- Everyone was speculating
1235
01:03:38,505 --> 01:03:39,939
'cause there were a few people disappearing.
1236
01:03:39,939 --> 01:03:42,375
They were coming from Madison to look for people.
1237
01:03:42,375 --> 01:03:45,078
I mean, they were in the bars every week.
1238
01:03:45,078 --> 01:03:50,316
You know, passing out fliers. Cops were nowhere to be found.
1239
01:03:50,316 --> 01:03:51,618
- And that's what allowed Jeffrey Dahmer
1240
01:03:51,618 --> 01:03:53,586
to operate in secrecy for so long,
1241
01:03:53,586 --> 01:03:56,556
because one thing about the gay scene at the time, too
1242
01:03:56,556 --> 01:03:59,159
was that guys used to kinda disappear all the time.
1243
01:03:59,159 --> 01:04:02,529
Because guys would have to go to another city to a gay bar,
1244
01:04:02,529 --> 01:04:04,330
so they could be gay in that city
1245
01:04:04,330 --> 01:04:07,100
and not be seen in their hometown.
1246
01:04:07,100 --> 01:04:10,003
And so nobody asked these questions about them.
1247
01:04:11,805 --> 01:04:14,541
Dahmer continues cruising the clubs.
1248
01:04:14,541 --> 01:04:18,011
But his behavior's becoming increasingly erratic.
1249
01:04:18,011 --> 01:04:20,146
- Jeffrey got a little bit too drunk once in a while
1250
01:04:20,146 --> 01:04:24,184
and he was asked to leave the bar a couple of times.
1251
01:04:24,184 --> 01:04:27,353
So Dahmer turns to the streets.
1252
01:04:27,353 --> 01:04:28,955
There, he propositions
1253
01:04:28,955 --> 01:04:32,125
14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone
1254
01:04:32,125 --> 01:04:34,527
with money to pose nude.
1255
01:04:34,527 --> 01:04:38,264
Konerak is the older brother of the boy
1256
01:04:38,264 --> 01:04:39,566
Dahmer was sentenced to jail
1257
01:04:39,566 --> 01:04:42,702
for sexually assaulting three years ago,
1258
01:04:42,702 --> 01:04:46,639
making the boys the only members of the same family
1259
01:04:46,639 --> 01:04:48,975
targeted by the serial killer.
1260
01:04:52,011 --> 01:04:55,582
- This boy comes back to his apartment.
1261
01:04:55,582 --> 01:04:59,452
Dahmer takes pictures of him. And he injects him.
1262
01:04:59,452 --> 01:05:01,855
He rapes him.
1263
01:05:01,855 --> 01:05:03,423
- This is when the Jeffrey Dahmer story
1264
01:05:03,423 --> 01:05:05,058
really jumps the shark.
1265
01:05:05,058 --> 01:05:09,495
Jeffrey Dahmer says to himself, this is just not working for me.
1266
01:05:09,495 --> 01:05:11,664
I'm not getting what I want out of this.
1267
01:05:11,664 --> 01:05:13,700
I'm not feeling any less lonely.
1268
01:05:13,700 --> 01:05:17,136
Um, as a matter of fact, my apartment stinks.
1269
01:05:17,136 --> 01:05:20,406
I need to figure out a way to make a permanent partner.
1270
01:05:20,406 --> 01:05:23,843
He wants someone silent, like a mannequin.
1271
01:05:23,843 --> 01:05:25,879
- Dahmer comes up with this idea
1272
01:05:25,879 --> 01:05:28,715
that if he can turn these men into zombies,
1273
01:05:28,715 --> 01:05:31,384
then he can keep them under his control,
1274
01:05:31,384 --> 01:05:33,920
and they'll stay with him.
1275
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:37,323
What he does next is right out of "Frankenstein."
1276
01:05:38,858 --> 01:05:43,529
He gives Konerak a homemade lobotomy.
1277
01:05:43,529 --> 01:05:45,665
- You just imagine being these poor victims,
1278
01:05:45,665 --> 01:05:49,202
and you have someone drilling in your skull,
1279
01:05:49,202 --> 01:05:53,106
and then dumping hydrochloric acid in your brain.
1280
01:05:53,106 --> 01:05:55,975
And the whole point is to make a sex zombie out of you.
1281
01:05:55,975 --> 01:05:59,879
And it's just... It is so beyond.
1282
01:06:01,147 --> 01:06:04,150
He thought he was actually improving in some ways
1283
01:06:04,150 --> 01:06:06,319
by saying well, I'm not gonna kill 'em.
1284
01:06:06,319 --> 01:06:08,221
I'm just gonna try to make a zombie out of them
1285
01:06:08,221 --> 01:06:10,623
so we can have sex.
1286
01:06:10,623 --> 01:06:13,326
- You would think on face value, oh my god,
1287
01:06:13,326 --> 01:06:14,928
you are a sadist
1288
01:06:14,928 --> 01:06:17,830
because you are drilling holes into somebody's head, right?
1289
01:06:17,830 --> 01:06:20,566
But for Dahmer, that's a means to an end.
1290
01:06:20,566 --> 01:06:24,003
Dahmer wants to create an intimate partner
1291
01:06:24,003 --> 01:06:26,205
that won't leave and abandon him.
1292
01:06:26,205 --> 01:06:29,575
Somebody that's a, a willing, complaint companion
1293
01:06:29,575 --> 01:06:31,711
that he can have absolute control over.
1294
01:06:31,711 --> 01:06:34,614
An ultimate submissive.
1295
01:06:38,084 --> 01:06:41,354
But Dahmer can't do this work sober.
1296
01:06:41,354 --> 01:06:43,756
An alcoholic since age 14,
1297
01:06:43,756 --> 01:06:47,593
he must get drunk to perform his unspeakable acts.
1298
01:06:47,593 --> 01:06:49,696
So halfway through the process,
1299
01:06:49,696 --> 01:06:52,198
he decides to step out for some beer.
1300
01:06:53,366 --> 01:06:54,667
- So Dahmer left the apartment,
1301
01:06:54,667 --> 01:06:56,569
went to a liquor store several blocks away.
1302
01:06:56,569 --> 01:06:59,439
This young Asian boy got out onto the street
1303
01:06:59,439 --> 01:07:01,007
with no clothes on.
1304
01:07:02,542 --> 01:07:08,281
- I noticed a image from afar. And I thought I was trippin'.
1305
01:07:08,281 --> 01:07:12,452
It was a person that looked completely naked.
1306
01:07:12,452 --> 01:07:15,755
When I got up close, I was able to tell, you know,
1307
01:07:15,755 --> 01:07:19,525
it was a male and that he was pretty young.
1308
01:07:19,525 --> 01:07:22,962
He was falling. He was staggering.
1309
01:07:22,962 --> 01:07:25,164
He couldn't talk. I'm askin' him,
1310
01:07:25,164 --> 01:07:27,934
like what happened to you? Are you ok?
1311
01:07:27,934 --> 01:07:29,068
Like where are your clothes?
1312
01:07:29,068 --> 01:07:30,903
And he just, he couldn't say anything.
1313
01:07:30,903 --> 01:07:35,775
He just kept reaching for me, you know, like a baby.
1314
01:07:35,775 --> 01:07:37,677
Clearly he got away from somewhere.
1315
01:07:37,677 --> 01:07:41,414
He was bruised up and he was bleedin'.
1316
01:07:41,414 --> 01:07:43,182
He needed help.
1317
01:07:43,182 --> 01:07:47,220
And so, I decided that I would go and dial 911.
1318
01:07:48,221 --> 01:07:50,523
He's been beaten up real bad and he's fell down.
1319
01:07:50,523 --> 01:07:52,558
And people was tryin' to help him stand, and he can't stand.
1320
01:07:52,558 --> 01:07:53,760
He's butt-naked. He has no clothes on.
1321
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:56,029
He is very hurt.
1322
01:07:56,029 --> 01:07:58,865
As I was speaking to them, they was asking me questions.
1323
01:07:58,865 --> 01:08:02,635
Then there was this man who appeared.
1324
01:08:02,635 --> 01:08:06,105
And I didn't know, um, who he was.
1325
01:08:06,105 --> 01:08:08,374
He just immediately grabbed the boy
1326
01:08:08,374 --> 01:08:12,912
and was trying to just take him.
1327
01:08:12,912 --> 01:08:15,148
I actually mentioned that on the 911 call.
1328
01:08:15,148 --> 01:08:17,016
I said, well, uh, a guy has come up
1329
01:08:17,016 --> 01:08:18,284
and he's trying to take him.
1330
01:08:18,284 --> 01:08:19,986
And they said, well, help is on the way.
1331
01:08:19,986 --> 01:08:21,888
Don't let him take him.
1332
01:08:26,492 --> 01:08:27,493
I went back.
1333
01:08:28,694 --> 01:08:33,332
I'm listening to the man talk to the boy
1334
01:08:33,332 --> 01:08:35,802
and he was saying, pull yourself together.
1335
01:08:35,802 --> 01:08:38,304
And I told him, I said, I just called 911.
1336
01:08:38,304 --> 01:08:40,206
Help is on the way.
1337
01:08:40,206 --> 01:08:44,243
And he was literally trying to drag him.
1338
01:08:44,243 --> 01:08:46,012
And I'm like, why are you taking him?
1339
01:08:46,012 --> 01:08:48,548
Like help is on the way. I'm like, do you know him?
1340
01:08:48,548 --> 01:08:51,084
And he was like, you know, you need to stay out of this.
1341
01:08:51,084 --> 01:08:53,686
This has nothing to do with you.
1342
01:08:53,686 --> 01:08:56,055
We was like doing a, like a tug a war.
1343
01:08:56,055 --> 01:08:58,224
I just felt like something wasn't right.
1344
01:08:58,224 --> 01:09:01,360
I just felt like I shouldn't let him take him.
1345
01:09:02,795 --> 01:09:04,564
But when police arrive,
1346
01:09:04,564 --> 01:09:07,934
they don't share Cola's concerns.
1347
01:09:07,934 --> 01:09:10,336
- The 14-year-old victim, he's already had a hole
1348
01:09:10,336 --> 01:09:13,005
halfway drilled into the top of his head.
1349
01:09:13,005 --> 01:09:16,342
He was bleeding, screaming.
1350
01:09:16,342 --> 01:09:18,811
Jeffrey Dahmer is like, yeah, he looks young,
1351
01:09:18,811 --> 01:09:20,613
but this is my 20-year-old boyfriend.
1352
01:09:20,613 --> 01:09:23,082
We were having some BDSM sex.
1353
01:09:23,082 --> 01:09:25,017
That's why he's bleeding.
1354
01:09:26,752 --> 01:09:29,222
- I butted in and I tapped one of their arms,
1355
01:09:29,222 --> 01:09:30,323
I said, excuse me,
1356
01:09:30,323 --> 01:09:31,791
I don't think he knew him because...
1357
01:09:31,791 --> 01:09:32,892
And they was like.
1358
01:09:34,160 --> 01:09:35,862
And this one officer told me
1359
01:09:35,862 --> 01:09:38,197
that he had been investigating eight years
1360
01:09:38,197 --> 01:09:41,834
and he didn't need an amateur pokin' in his business.
1361
01:09:41,834 --> 01:09:44,203
I even saw one of the officers
1362
01:09:44,203 --> 01:09:46,906
pat Jeffrey Dahmer on his back.
1363
01:09:56,249 --> 01:09:58,251
- Dahmer brings the cops back to his apartment
1364
01:09:58,251 --> 01:10:00,620
and shows the officers Polaroid pictures
1365
01:10:00,620 --> 01:10:04,490
of this 14-year-old boy nude to prove to the officers
1366
01:10:04,490 --> 01:10:08,294
that they were indeed in a sexual relationship.
1367
01:10:08,294 --> 01:10:10,329
As Dahmer showed them the Polaroids,
1368
01:10:10,329 --> 01:10:15,101
he also had a corpse on his bed rotting.
1369
01:10:16,135 --> 01:10:17,870
- The cops commented that it smelled like
1370
01:10:17,870 --> 01:10:21,340
someone took a shit on the living room floor.
1371
01:10:21,340 --> 01:10:25,878
The cops essentially give the victim back to Jeffrey Dahmer
1372
01:10:25,878 --> 01:10:29,248
and then they left. They did not care.
1373
01:10:30,216 --> 01:10:33,119
- Here you have a young man bleeding from his behind,
1374
01:10:33,119 --> 01:10:36,088
beat up a little bit, and you're giving him back
1375
01:10:36,088 --> 01:10:39,559
to his lover who just probably beat him up?
1376
01:10:39,559 --> 01:10:41,561
I don't get that.
1377
01:10:44,130 --> 01:10:47,934
- The intoxicated Asian naked male
1378
01:10:47,934 --> 01:10:51,337
was returned to his sober boyfriend.
1379
01:10:53,406 --> 01:10:55,308
- You would think any rational officer would say,
1380
01:10:55,308 --> 01:10:57,043
well, number one, that's child pornography,
1381
01:10:57,043 --> 01:10:58,945
and number two, you're coming with us.
1382
01:10:58,945 --> 01:11:01,514
But instead they said, oh, I guess that proves it.
1383
01:11:01,514 --> 01:11:05,818
You guys must be lovers. And they simply left.
1384
01:11:05,818 --> 01:11:07,053
- The Milwaukee Police Department,
1385
01:11:07,053 --> 01:11:08,554
they weren't looking hard enough
1386
01:11:08,554 --> 01:11:10,156
because he was gay
1387
01:11:10,156 --> 01:11:13,125
and I think the police wanted to stay as far away
1388
01:11:13,125 --> 01:11:14,760
as they could at that time
1389
01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:18,164
from the gayness aspect of it.
1390
01:11:18,164 --> 01:11:21,767
- I'm thinking like, this is crazy
1391
01:11:21,767 --> 01:11:23,302
why they don't wanna listen to me?
1392
01:11:23,302 --> 01:11:28,341
This boy is in trouble. He is with the wrong person.
1393
01:11:28,341 --> 01:11:30,977
If they would've just did a check, you know,
1394
01:11:30,977 --> 01:11:32,245
how they run people name
1395
01:11:32,245 --> 01:11:34,714
constantly all the time, procedure,
1396
01:11:34,714 --> 01:11:39,485
they would of noticed like, oh my, this is a pedophile
1397
01:11:39,485 --> 01:11:42,888
who was on probation because he had molested
1398
01:11:42,888 --> 01:11:45,825
Konerak Sinthasomphone's brother.
1399
01:11:45,825 --> 01:11:49,762
It's just so many things that didn't happen
1400
01:11:49,762 --> 01:11:53,165
that should have happened that night.
1401
01:11:53,165 --> 01:11:55,134
- The way that justice is handed down
1402
01:11:55,134 --> 01:11:57,069
is oftentimes reflective of the way
1403
01:11:57,069 --> 01:11:58,871
that we look at marginalized folks.
1404
01:11:58,871 --> 01:12:00,640
We start to hear the stereotypes,
1405
01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:02,041
sex workers, black people,
1406
01:12:02,041 --> 01:12:04,010
Asian people. They can't be believed.
1407
01:12:04,010 --> 01:12:06,445
They're dramatic. They're over exaggerating.
1408
01:12:06,445 --> 01:12:09,215
And uphold the stereotype of a white man.
1409
01:12:09,215 --> 01:12:12,885
Safe, good, not causing any trouble.
1410
01:12:12,885 --> 01:12:16,522
I was only trying to help them.
1411
01:12:16,522 --> 01:12:22,061
You know, it was their idea. Um, I'll take it from here.
1412
01:12:22,962 --> 01:12:28,167
- So many times, Jeffrey Dahmer was an inch away
1413
01:12:28,167 --> 01:12:33,072
from being stopped and yet he never was.
1414
01:12:33,072 --> 01:12:35,908
Unchecked, Dahmer continues his quest
1415
01:12:35,908 --> 01:12:39,545
to transform Konerak into a sex zombie,
1416
01:12:39,545 --> 01:12:42,782
drilling another hole in the boy's head.
1417
01:12:42,782 --> 01:12:47,620
But the second attempt simply kills the 14-year-old
1418
01:12:47,620 --> 01:12:51,657
and further emboldens the killer cannibal.
1419
01:12:51,657 --> 01:12:55,127
- He was just becoming more and more out of control.
1420
01:12:55,127 --> 01:12:58,164
More and more disturbed in his, his thinking.
1421
01:12:58,164 --> 01:13:00,166
After the police had come into his apartment,
1422
01:13:00,166 --> 01:13:01,600
you'd think he'd have left that apartment.
1423
01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:04,370
He still stays there.
1424
01:13:04,370 --> 01:13:07,907
- He was actively eating people. And it'd become a habit for him.
1425
01:13:07,907 --> 01:13:10,076
He had put together meals
1426
01:13:10,076 --> 01:13:12,144
that were inside of his refrigerator.
1427
01:13:12,144 --> 01:13:16,782
But then also like he made that whole pot of penises.
1428
01:13:16,782 --> 01:13:18,250
That's real.
1429
01:13:18,250 --> 01:13:21,854
He did cook up a bunch of severed penises in a pot.
1430
01:13:21,854 --> 01:13:23,989
- He has no indication of being busted.
1431
01:13:23,989 --> 01:13:27,093
He doesn't particularly fear law enforcement.
1432
01:13:27,093 --> 01:13:29,862
Obviously he would, he just simply goes up to them
1433
01:13:29,862 --> 01:13:31,497
and talks to them.
1434
01:13:31,497 --> 01:13:35,901
If you're Dahmer at this point, why would you stop?
1435
01:13:35,901 --> 01:13:37,670
- This isn't a madman out of control.
1436
01:13:37,670 --> 01:13:39,972
This isn't a man that doesn't know what he's doing.
1437
01:13:39,972 --> 01:13:41,841
This is a man that knew it was wrong,
1438
01:13:41,841 --> 01:13:43,376
knew he had to be under stress
1439
01:13:43,376 --> 01:13:46,379
and he performed superbly under stress.
1440
01:13:49,081 --> 01:13:51,050
But as the months go by,
1441
01:13:51,050 --> 01:13:54,153
Dahmer's starting to get sloppy.
1442
01:13:54,153 --> 01:13:57,123
- The smell in the hallway, it was a smell
1443
01:13:57,123 --> 01:13:59,525
that you could not ignore it.
1444
01:13:59,525 --> 01:14:01,994
It was atrocious.
1445
01:14:01,994 --> 01:14:05,364
The smell was coming from Jeff's apartment.
1446
01:14:05,364 --> 01:14:09,969
He had been warned about the smell twice.
1447
01:14:09,969 --> 01:14:11,570
- At one point he started falling asleep
1448
01:14:11,570 --> 01:14:12,772
at the chocolate factory
1449
01:14:12,772 --> 01:14:15,207
and that was because of his nighttime activities,
1450
01:14:15,207 --> 01:14:17,977
his nocturnal depravity, he couldn't stay awake.
1451
01:14:17,977 --> 01:14:21,147
And they fired him for sleeping on the job.
1452
01:14:21,147 --> 01:14:23,082
With his world falling apart,
1453
01:14:23,082 --> 01:14:26,852
Dahmer slips deeper into fantasy.
1454
01:14:26,852 --> 01:14:30,089
- He had began taking victims, spray painted skulls.
1455
01:14:30,089 --> 01:14:32,057
And that was the beginning of what would become
1456
01:14:32,057 --> 01:14:33,426
a shrine to his victims,
1457
01:14:33,426 --> 01:14:36,061
of course for his own sick pleasure.
1458
01:14:36,061 --> 01:14:38,497
The murder museum Jeffrey Dahmer was creating
1459
01:14:38,497 --> 01:14:42,601
was just another reminder of how much he demanded control.
1460
01:14:42,601 --> 01:14:45,171
He never wanted the memories to go away.
1461
01:14:45,171 --> 01:14:48,207
That's why he has the pictures. He has the skulls.
1462
01:14:48,207 --> 01:14:50,342
- Think of somebody who's addicted to drugs, who,
1463
01:14:50,342 --> 01:14:51,544
yes, they're chasing the high.
1464
01:14:51,544 --> 01:14:53,279
Yes, they're doing the drugs every day,
1465
01:14:53,279 --> 01:14:54,980
but on another level, they just want it
1466
01:14:54,980 --> 01:14:57,249
to all be over. They want it to end.
1467
01:14:57,249 --> 01:15:01,387
They don't wanna keep running on this treadmill anymore.
1468
01:15:01,387 --> 01:15:04,890
- You almost wonder if at some point,
1469
01:15:04,890 --> 01:15:07,726
do you wanna be caught?
1470
01:15:12,164 --> 01:15:15,434
By May of 1991,
1471
01:15:15,434 --> 01:15:17,603
serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer
1472
01:15:17,603 --> 01:15:21,373
has murdered at least 17 men and boys
1473
01:15:21,373 --> 01:15:24,643
over the course of 13 years.
1474
01:15:24,643 --> 01:15:28,981
And eaten several of his victim's body parts.
1475
01:15:28,981 --> 01:15:35,020
To commemorate his achievement, he builds a horrific shrine.
1476
01:15:35,020 --> 01:15:37,857
- Jeffrey Dahmer had a ritualistic altar,
1477
01:15:37,857 --> 01:15:41,627
what he viewed as a throne that he would sit on
1478
01:15:41,627 --> 01:15:44,964
like as an emperor of his one-bedroom apartment.
1479
01:15:44,964 --> 01:15:48,501
He was submerged in his crimes.
1480
01:15:48,501 --> 01:15:51,837
- A shrine of skulls is almost a museum.
1481
01:15:51,837 --> 01:15:56,208
It's a way to kinda look back on your career of murder and mayhem
1482
01:15:56,208 --> 01:15:59,745
and take measure of it and appreciation.
1483
01:15:59,745 --> 01:16:02,348
And I'm not just looking at one murder and one thing I've done,
1484
01:16:02,348 --> 01:16:05,818
I'm looking at it in it's entirety.
1485
01:16:08,020 --> 01:16:11,123
On July 22, 1991,
1486
01:16:11,123 --> 01:16:14,326
Dahmer attempts to add one more skull
1487
01:16:14,326 --> 01:16:16,529
to his collection.
1488
01:16:16,529 --> 01:16:19,899
- Dahmer encountered a man named Tracy Edwards.
1489
01:16:19,899 --> 01:16:22,468
They picked up alcohol and he took Edwards with himself.
1490
01:16:22,468 --> 01:16:24,136
They went back to Dahmer's apartment.
1491
01:16:24,136 --> 01:16:26,238
That was obviously gonna be his next victim.
1492
01:16:28,107 --> 01:16:29,842
- He comes into the apartment.
1493
01:16:29,842 --> 01:16:33,345
He smells an awful smell, which smells like rotting meat.
1494
01:16:33,345 --> 01:16:36,081
He's like, somethin's goin' on here.
1495
01:16:36,081 --> 01:16:38,284
He's backin' his way out of the house.
1496
01:16:39,685 --> 01:16:41,720
But the cannibal is determined
1497
01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:43,622
to not let him leave.
1498
01:16:43,622 --> 01:16:48,627
Edwards tries to escape and the men struggle.
1499
01:16:48,627 --> 01:16:50,596
- He had the wherewithal to know
1500
01:16:50,596 --> 01:16:52,598
that trouble was right around the corner,
1501
01:16:52,598 --> 01:16:55,935
to realize that he was looking at, at the face of evil,
1502
01:16:55,935 --> 01:16:57,770
and to do something about it.
1503
01:16:57,770 --> 01:17:01,574
Edwards knew he had to get out of there as fast as possible.
1504
01:17:01,574 --> 01:17:05,511
Then Edwards sees his chance.
1505
01:17:05,511 --> 01:17:08,147
- Tracy Edwards was a street-savvy guy
1506
01:17:08,147 --> 01:17:09,982
and was able to escape.
1507
01:17:11,283 --> 01:17:12,851
He went down the street.
1508
01:17:12,851 --> 01:17:16,555
He had a handcuff hanging, and he stopped to a police car.
1509
01:17:16,555 --> 01:17:21,293
Edwards tells police a freak was holding him captive.
1510
01:17:21,293 --> 01:17:23,329
- Before I knew it he threw a handcuff on me,
1511
01:17:23,329 --> 01:17:25,130
and had a big blade up under my heart, you know,
1512
01:17:25,130 --> 01:17:27,032
tellin' me if I don't do what he says
1513
01:17:27,032 --> 01:17:28,567
he's gonna kill me, you know?
1514
01:17:28,567 --> 01:17:31,337
He took his mind, and the blade, off me for a moment, you know.
1515
01:17:31,337 --> 01:17:32,571
And then I knew then
1516
01:17:32,571 --> 01:17:34,607
it was my time to make my move, you know?
1517
01:17:34,607 --> 01:17:36,475
That if I didn't take my chance
1518
01:17:36,475 --> 01:17:39,712
then I would never get out this place, you know?
1519
01:17:39,712 --> 01:17:41,347
He then leads authorities
1520
01:17:41,347 --> 01:17:43,882
back to the Oxford Apartments.
1521
01:17:43,882 --> 01:17:45,384
- Dahmer opens the door.
1522
01:17:45,384 --> 01:17:47,186
They say, do you have a key to these handcuffs?
1523
01:17:47,186 --> 01:17:49,488
He says, yeah, they're in the bedroom.
1524
01:17:49,488 --> 01:17:52,358
- Jeffrey Dahmer assumes, I can get away with anything.
1525
01:17:52,358 --> 01:17:53,926
I can't be caught in my universe.
1526
01:17:53,926 --> 01:17:56,495
The cops, they're like, this place reeks.
1527
01:17:56,495 --> 01:17:57,796
And they look and see
1528
01:17:57,796 --> 01:18:00,099
a series of Polaroids that he had pinned up
1529
01:18:00,099 --> 01:18:01,667
like it was from his vacation
1530
01:18:01,667 --> 01:18:07,172
of a bunch of posed, nude, decapitated bodies.
1531
01:18:07,172 --> 01:18:09,208
The cop just looks around.
1532
01:18:09,208 --> 01:18:11,477
He gets his walkie talkie. And he's like,
1533
01:18:11,477 --> 01:18:12,911
I need some backup.
1534
01:18:14,113 --> 01:18:15,547
Dahmer knows
1535
01:18:15,547 --> 01:18:20,185
there's no talking his way out of things this time.
1536
01:18:20,185 --> 01:18:23,555
- Finally, Dahmer is arrested.
1537
01:18:23,555 --> 01:18:28,827
He says to the police, for what I did I should be dead.
1538
01:18:32,765 --> 01:18:36,435
As officers file into the one-bedroom apartment,
1539
01:18:36,435 --> 01:18:39,571
no amount of training can prepare them
1540
01:18:39,571 --> 01:18:43,308
for the chamber of terror they discover.
1541
01:18:43,308 --> 01:18:45,244
- They found severed lips in the apartment.
1542
01:18:45,244 --> 01:18:48,547
They found detached penises, uh, in jars.
1543
01:18:48,547 --> 01:18:51,350
Uh, obviously they found numerous skulls.
1544
01:18:51,350 --> 01:18:53,318
They found numerous bones.
1545
01:18:53,318 --> 01:18:55,421
Uh, they found brain matter.
1546
01:18:55,421 --> 01:18:58,190
Uh, they found a full human head.
1547
01:18:58,190 --> 01:19:01,460
The amount of murder memorabilia
1548
01:19:01,460 --> 01:19:04,697
that was crammed into this small Milwaukee apartment,
1549
01:19:04,697 --> 01:19:08,600
it is just unreal to think about.
1550
01:19:08,600 --> 01:19:12,738
Especially for those living right next door.
1551
01:19:13,806 --> 01:19:16,809
- I could see that it was a lot of activity going on
1552
01:19:16,809 --> 01:19:18,143
at his apartment.
1553
01:19:18,143 --> 01:19:20,713
And one of the officers told us
1554
01:19:20,713 --> 01:19:24,583
that we have to evacuate our apartment.
1555
01:19:24,583 --> 01:19:29,188
And I immediately asked the officer
1556
01:19:29,188 --> 01:19:31,690
if Jeff was ok.
1557
01:19:31,690 --> 01:19:35,427
And he responded, yeah, that fucker's ok.
1558
01:19:35,427 --> 01:19:37,629
And that's when he started to tell me
1559
01:19:37,629 --> 01:19:41,734
about the activity inside apartment 213.
1560
01:19:43,402 --> 01:19:46,438
I was more shocked than anything.
1561
01:19:46,438 --> 01:19:48,874
And then it went, it went,
1562
01:19:48,874 --> 01:19:54,980
it went from shock to embarrassment,
1563
01:19:54,980 --> 01:19:57,850
because we were duped.
1564
01:19:57,850 --> 01:19:59,918
When you think that you know someone,
1565
01:19:59,918 --> 01:20:04,590
and then you come to find out that you really don't.
1566
01:20:04,590 --> 01:20:08,460
- The bags and the barrels of human flesh
1567
01:20:08,460 --> 01:20:11,697
and all of the instruments that Dahmer had used to,
1568
01:20:11,697 --> 01:20:16,435
to dismember corpses, it was just coming out in droves.
1569
01:20:16,435 --> 01:20:18,337
Like you couldn't even imagine
1570
01:20:18,337 --> 01:20:20,639
that someone could commit this act
1571
01:20:20,639 --> 01:20:22,174
in such a tiny place,
1572
01:20:22,174 --> 01:20:24,209
and then all of this
1573
01:20:24,209 --> 01:20:26,812
unbelievably graphic, gory stuff.
1574
01:20:26,812 --> 01:20:28,814
News quickly spreads
1575
01:20:28,814 --> 01:20:34,019
that a serial killer cannibal has been caught in Milwaukee.
1576
01:20:34,019 --> 01:20:35,621
Inside a second floor apartment,
1577
01:20:35,621 --> 01:20:38,557
police found a grisly scene.
1578
01:20:38,557 --> 01:20:41,827
- After about maybe a half hour
1579
01:20:41,827 --> 01:20:45,230
watching them through the glass
1580
01:20:45,230 --> 01:20:50,202
taking out the boxes, the smell was leaving as well.
1581
01:20:50,202 --> 01:20:53,639
And by that morning,
1582
01:20:53,639 --> 01:20:56,475
they had gotten out all of the boxes.
1583
01:20:58,243 --> 01:21:01,847
And the smell was totally gone.
1584
01:21:01,847 --> 01:21:05,217
The next day, police question Jeffrey Dahmer,
1585
01:21:05,217 --> 01:21:07,419
knowing he's the only person
1586
01:21:07,419 --> 01:21:10,756
who can explain the horrors inside his home.
1587
01:21:10,756 --> 01:21:12,558
- Dahmer started talking right away.
1588
01:21:12,558 --> 01:21:14,326
He was fully cooperative with the police.
1589
01:21:14,326 --> 01:21:16,862
He gave full confession.
1590
01:21:16,862 --> 01:21:19,698
Even though police only discover various parts
1591
01:21:19,698 --> 01:21:23,068
of 11 different victims inside his apartment,
1592
01:21:23,068 --> 01:21:27,973
Dahmer confesses to murdering 17 men and boys,
1593
01:21:27,973 --> 01:21:32,344
dating back to 1978, when he killed his first victim,
1594
01:21:32,344 --> 01:21:35,314
Steven Hicks, in Bath, Ohio.
1595
01:21:35,314 --> 01:21:36,582
- As you can imagine,
1596
01:21:36,582 --> 01:21:38,617
the parents whose children had disappeared.
1597
01:21:38,617 --> 01:21:40,652
The first family, the slaying in Ohio,
1598
01:21:40,652 --> 01:21:43,489
that family waited 13 years.
1599
01:21:43,489 --> 01:21:45,557
Where is our son?
1600
01:21:45,557 --> 01:21:47,693
For those families, if you try to add up
1601
01:21:47,693 --> 01:21:50,729
the pain that's involved, it's enormous.
1602
01:21:53,198 --> 01:21:55,834
- After the names came out, police at the time
1603
01:21:55,834 --> 01:21:59,671
asked me to look at some pictures
1604
01:21:59,671 --> 01:22:02,608
and, um, there was one picture,
1605
01:22:02,608 --> 01:22:04,142
it was definitely Eddie.
1606
01:22:06,812 --> 01:22:08,514
And I found out it was Jeffrey Dahmer
1607
01:22:08,514 --> 01:22:11,950
when they showed his face and said his name.
1608
01:22:11,950 --> 01:22:14,753
He killed Eddie. He really did kill him.
1609
01:22:14,753 --> 01:22:19,057
Um, I, oh my God, I introduced them.
1610
01:22:19,625 --> 01:22:21,159
You know, I...
1611
01:22:28,433 --> 01:22:30,669
I lost it from there.
1612
01:22:30,669 --> 01:22:34,206
You know, I blame myself.
1613
01:22:34,206 --> 01:22:35,507
For a long time I did,
1614
01:22:35,507 --> 01:22:38,644
but I finally realized it wasn't my fault.
1615
01:22:38,644 --> 01:22:40,512
Who would have known what brings a human being
1616
01:22:40,512 --> 01:22:42,814
to do something like this to somebody else?
1617
01:22:44,950 --> 01:22:46,852
For Dahmer's defense attorneys,
1618
01:22:46,852 --> 01:22:49,821
this is a clear case of insanity.
1619
01:22:49,821 --> 01:22:52,558
And in January 1992,
1620
01:22:52,558 --> 01:22:55,627
that's exactly how they encourage him to plead
1621
01:22:55,627 --> 01:22:57,896
as Jeffrey Dahmer goes to trial
1622
01:22:57,896 --> 01:23:02,067
for 15 counts of first-degree murder.
1623
01:23:02,067 --> 01:23:04,670
- When the defendant enters a plea of insanity,
1624
01:23:04,670 --> 01:23:06,104
there are two phases to the trial.
1625
01:23:06,104 --> 01:23:08,206
The first trial is, was the crime committed?
1626
01:23:08,206 --> 01:23:09,341
Did he commit the murder?
1627
01:23:09,341 --> 01:23:12,110
The second phase, was he insane when he did it?
1628
01:23:12,110 --> 01:23:14,346
Proving the first is easy,
1629
01:23:14,346 --> 01:23:18,817
especially since Dahmer left so many witnesses behind.
1630
01:23:18,817 --> 01:23:21,019
- Like, he was listening to my heart, because at a point,
1631
01:23:21,019 --> 01:23:24,690
he told me he was gonna eat my heart.
1632
01:23:24,690 --> 01:23:28,060
- Hearing from people who had been victimized
1633
01:23:28,060 --> 01:23:31,463
by Jeffrey Dahmer was horrible.
1634
01:23:31,463 --> 01:23:34,666
The details were unbearable.
1635
01:23:36,034 --> 01:23:39,338
But proving that Dahmer was insane
1636
01:23:39,338 --> 01:23:42,007
is not as simple.
1637
01:23:42,007 --> 01:23:46,612
- If you can commit an organized and premeditated crime
1638
01:23:46,612 --> 01:23:49,848
knowing what you're doing, you're not insane.
1639
01:23:49,848 --> 01:23:51,984
And that is what Jeffrey continued to do
1640
01:23:51,984 --> 01:23:54,353
time and time again with each of his murders.
1641
01:23:56,154 --> 01:23:57,856
The lawyers have delivered
1642
01:23:57,856 --> 01:23:59,491
their final argument.
1643
01:23:59,491 --> 01:24:02,094
It's up to the jury to say what will happen to Jeffrey Dahmer.
1644
01:24:02,094 --> 01:24:04,162
He was pleading guilty, but insane
1645
01:24:04,162 --> 01:24:06,932
in the killing 15 young men and boys.
1646
01:24:06,932 --> 01:24:09,935
Jacqueline Adams reports from Milwaukee.
1647
01:24:09,935 --> 01:24:11,870
Jeffrey Dahmer never took the stand.
1648
01:24:11,870 --> 01:24:15,007
But the prosecution doesn't buy it.
1649
01:24:15,007 --> 01:24:17,309
- Dahmer told him that at the time he killed
1650
01:24:17,309 --> 01:24:19,911
each of these vic...15 victims,
1651
01:24:19,911 --> 01:24:23,649
he appreciated that it was wrong to kill the victim.
1652
01:24:24,216 --> 01:24:28,754
Your life, your life, your life for my sexual satisfaction.
1653
01:24:28,754 --> 01:24:31,657
- He's fooled a lot of people.
1654
01:24:31,657 --> 01:24:34,259
Please, don't let this
1655
01:24:34,259 --> 01:24:37,963
murderous killer fool you.
1656
01:24:37,963 --> 01:24:40,732
- When I finally got to interview Jeffrey,
1657
01:24:40,732 --> 01:24:43,001
he told me that if he was on the outside
1658
01:24:43,001 --> 01:24:45,070
he would have kept killing.
1659
01:24:45,070 --> 01:24:47,472
Nothing would have stopped him.
1660
01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:51,610
Do I think Jeffrey Dahmer was sane?
1661
01:24:51,610 --> 01:24:56,815
Well, not by your or my definition of sanity,
1662
01:24:56,815 --> 01:25:00,285
but the court found him to be sane.
1663
01:25:00,285 --> 01:25:02,354
After a two-week trial,
1664
01:25:02,354 --> 01:25:05,924
Dahmer is found guilty.
1665
01:25:08,260 --> 01:25:11,496
He's convicted of 15 counts of murder
1666
01:25:11,496 --> 01:25:16,902
and sentenced to 15 consecutive terms of life imprisonment.
1667
01:25:17,736 --> 01:25:22,207
- The sorrow and anger of the victims' families
1668
01:25:22,207 --> 01:25:24,810
was heartbreaking.
1669
01:25:24,810 --> 01:25:27,646
- You took my mother's oldest grandchild from her.
1670
01:25:27,646 --> 01:25:29,981
And for that I can never forgive you.
1671
01:25:29,981 --> 01:25:33,985
I hope you, I hope you can deal with what you done.
1672
01:25:33,985 --> 01:25:39,925
You are a diablo...
1673
01:25:39,925 --> 01:25:41,626
That means, the devil, the pure devil,
1674
01:25:41,626 --> 01:25:43,328
that walked our streets and was loose.
1675
01:25:43,328 --> 01:25:47,132
- The pain that you caused my family,
1676
01:25:47,132 --> 01:25:50,068
that was my baby boy that you took away from me.
1677
01:25:50,068 --> 01:25:53,438
- My mother gave five beautiful kids.
1678
01:25:53,438 --> 01:25:56,741
We lost, you destroyed the baby of the family.
1679
01:25:56,741 --> 01:26:01,279
- Why? You know, why would it be my son?
1680
01:26:01,279 --> 01:26:03,115
- The last family that got up was a young woman
1681
01:26:03,115 --> 01:26:05,016
and she lost control of herself.
1682
01:26:05,016 --> 01:26:09,421
- Jeffrey, I hate you, motherfucker! I hate you!
1683
01:26:09,421 --> 01:26:11,389
This is outta control.
1684
01:26:11,389 --> 01:26:13,692
Don't fuck with me, Jeffrey, I'll kill you!
1685
01:26:13,692 --> 01:26:16,394
Goddammit, look at me motherfucker!
1686
01:26:16,394 --> 01:26:18,897
I could kill you!
1687
01:26:18,897 --> 01:26:20,632
- He didn't react at all.
1688
01:26:20,632 --> 01:26:22,701
- How could you blame them
1689
01:26:22,701 --> 01:26:26,972
for being angry by what this monster did?
1690
01:26:28,106 --> 01:26:30,242
But the story of Jeffrey Dahmer
1691
01:26:30,242 --> 01:26:33,745
doesn't end with his prison sentence.
1692
01:26:33,745 --> 01:26:37,382
Two years later, in November 1994,
1693
01:26:37,382 --> 01:26:42,287
the most depraved serial killer cannibal in American history
1694
01:26:42,287 --> 01:26:47,058
is beaten to death by a fellow inmate.
1695
01:26:47,058 --> 01:26:50,395
- He was smashed over the head with a barbell,
1696
01:26:50,395 --> 01:26:52,130
and that's how he died.
1697
01:26:52,130 --> 01:26:55,267
And interestingly enough,
1698
01:26:55,267 --> 01:26:58,036
that's how he killed his first victim.
1699
01:26:58,036 --> 01:27:01,840
So maybe his death was just revenge.
1700
01:27:03,809 --> 01:27:05,510
But even in death,
1701
01:27:05,510 --> 01:27:11,016
Jeffrey Dahmer still haunts our collective psyche.
1702
01:27:11,016 --> 01:27:14,152
- Not only did Jeffrey Dahmer kill 17 people,
1703
01:27:14,152 --> 01:27:18,623
he ate some of those people. He is a necrophile.
1704
01:27:18,623 --> 01:27:22,661
This man committed the worst crimes
1705
01:27:22,661 --> 01:27:25,463
that a human being can commit.
1706
01:27:29,835 --> 01:27:31,603
- The whole idea of cannibalism
1707
01:27:31,603 --> 01:27:33,972
is something that is so grotesque
1708
01:27:33,972 --> 01:27:36,041
that people can't wrap their head around it.
1709
01:27:36,041 --> 01:27:37,976
People are fascinated by things
1710
01:27:37,976 --> 01:27:40,245
that they can't quite seem to understand.
1711
01:27:43,148 --> 01:27:45,116
- Jeffrey Dahmer viewed us
1712
01:27:45,116 --> 01:27:48,286
as a series of body parts just walkin' around.
1713
01:27:49,187 --> 01:27:51,289
We were not people to him.
1714
01:27:53,458 --> 01:27:55,894
We are just meat.
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