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Jeffrey: I did what I did not
for reasons of hate.

I hated no one.

I knew I was sick or evil
or both.

I should have stayed with God.

I tried and failed
and created a Holocaust.

♪♪

♪♪

Hey, everyone.
I'm Hill Harper.

Jeffrey Dahmer is one
of the most depraved

and dangerous serial killers
in recent memory,

not only because of the number
of young men he killed, 17,

and what he actually did
to his victims,

but because Jeffrey Dahmer
was able to hide in plain sight

for years, committing murder
after murder after murder.

He had everyone fooled --
judges, police, friends,

even his own family.

You see, by the spring of 1991,
12 young men had gone missing.

No one had connected the dots,
not even the police.

There was a serial killer
on the loose in Milwaukee,

and no one knew.

This is
"How It Really Happened."

♪♪

A woman in an apartment
building called police to say,

"There's a young man
running in the street

without any clothes on."

Dr. Jentzen: Concerned neighbors
came around him

and were offering
assistance to him.

At that time, he appeared to be
confused and disoriented

and basically
looked intoxicated.

Casarez:
The neighbors are there.

The police are there,

and everybody's trying to figure
out what's going on,

and then suddenly,
Dahmer arrives on the scene.

Balcerzak: He stated that his
roommate had been drinking

and had passed out
on the couch of the apartment,

and that that's where
he had left him

when he had gone
to a local tavern

to obtain some beer
or cigarettes.

Dr. Jentzen: Dahmer convinced
them that he and Konerak

had a consensual
and intimate relationship

and that he would take him
back to the apartment.

"Konerak is drunk.

Let me take him back up
to my apartment.

Everything will be fine."

Casarez:
What no one knew at the time

was that Dahmer had
just met this kid.

He offered him money to come
back to his apartment with him.

This kid had been drugged

and was trying
to escape his captor.

Dr. Jentzen: Konerak, he was
in a comatose state,

and then he revived,
left the apartment

and was outside naked.

Dahmer is coming back
literally from the liquor store

with liquor and encounters
the police with his victim.

Balcerzak:
He appeared to be calm.

There was nothing to suggest

that he was not as he was
presenting himself to be.

Schwartz: So the officers go up
to the apartment,

and they don't see anything
that gives them pause.

They see Konerak's
clothes folded

over the side of the couch.

They see an apartment that's not
out of "Architectural Digest,"

but it doesn't look like
something untoward

had been happening there.

He manipulated those officers
that night.

Casarez: The police see
no reason to arrest Dahmer.

They just say to him,
"Take care of this kid,"

and then they leave.

Immediately after the officers
left, Dahmer killed Konerak.

They escort this boy
to his death,

essentially handing him
over to Jeffrey Dahmer

who proceeds to kill him
and dismember him.

Reporter: Konerak Sinthasomphone
was just 14 years old,

the youngest in a family
of Laotian refugees.

He's the boy who was spotted
naked and bleeding,

running from Jeffrey Dahmer.

The investigation further
discloses

that the police department
individuals who responded

failed to conduct a basic proper
police investigation

into the matter.

If the police would have only
checked Jeffrey Dahmer's record,

they would've found that
he's a registered sex offender

who was on probation
for sexually assaulting a boy,

and it's almost impossible
to imagine,

but that victim was
the brother of Konerak.

Reporter 2: One of Konerak's
older teenage brothers

had been molested
by Dahmer three years ago.

So the whole thing was
full of some very strange, like,

what-are-the-chance
kind of coincidences.

Casarez: What police didn't know
at this time --

Jeffrey Dahmer was in the middle
of a killing spree.

If the police had gone
into the next room,

they would have found
a dead body.

Reporter 2:
Even as police officers

talked to Dahmer
in the living room,

the body of his latest victim
lay just a room away.

He was so quiet, so reserved.

You wouldn't have believed
in a million years

that he was a serial killer.

Never would you believe it.

Banfield:
Dahmer was a master manipulator,

and he probably got that way
because he knew he had thoughts

that were just
too dark to share,

and he began to fantasize
about what it would be like

to have sex with men
who were dead or unconscious.

Dr. Dietz:
What Jeffrey Dahmer wanted

was a man
who looked good to him,

which basically meant nice face,
good biceps, good physique,

who would accept him,

not force him to do things
he didn't want to do,

allow him to lay with them
all night long and not leave.

Casarez: Jeffrey Dahmer had sick
fantasies of having sex

with a dead
or unconscious lover,

but in the earlier years,

he really tried to find
alternatives to killing them.

Dr. Dietz:
And the things he tried --

he would scan obituaries
for young males who had died,

and he tried to dig up
their graves,

but the ground was frozen,
so that didn't work.

Another strategy he tried

was to steal a mannequin
from a department store

by hiding out
until after closing hours.

He wanted to have it there
with him as a substitute person.

He tried every strategy
he could devise to find

a substitute
for that voluntary partner

who would lay there
and not leave.

♪♪

Eventually, none of those
strategies satisfied him,

so he began
to target live victims.

Dr. Dietz:
The next strategy he tried

was to administer a sedative

to men that
he found attractive.

Dr. Jentzen: Before Dahmer went
out for an evening,

he knew that he was going to be
trying to find a victim,

and he would prepare
a drug concoction

of benzodiazepines, valium.

Meuler: He picked up victims
at such a variety of places,

you know, adult bookstores,
the gay bars, on the streets.

I mean, you -- you know,

you have to have a little bit
of con man in you to do that.

Schwartz: Dahmer would strike up
a conversation with these men.

"How you doing?"

He talked to them a little bit.

What he was trying to find out

is if this was something
who would be missed.

If someone said, "I haven't
spoken with my family in years,"

that was the kind of person
he was looking for.

Dr. Jentzen: And when he brought
a victim back,

he would offer
the individual the drink,

and that would sedate them,

and then he was able
to take control of them.

McCann: And then do
what he wished with them,

and they were completely
under his control.

They couldn't resist.

They couldn't say, "No, I don't
like this or don't want that,"

so it was his desire
to dominate,

to completely dominate.

Casarez: This was Dahmer's M.O.
for years --

picking men up
and drugging them,

but in 1987, the M.O. changed.

He lured a man
to his hotel room.

Schwartz:
Dahmer met him in Milwaukee.

He took him to
the Ambassador Hotel.

They had sex.

Dahmer says that he blacked out,

and when he woke up
in the morning,

he woke up next to
Steven Tuomi's dead body.

Banfield: Later, Jeffrey Dahmer
talked about that night

with Stone Phillips
on "Dateline NBC."

He was hanging over
the side of the bed,

and I have no memory
of beating him to death,

but I must've,

and that's when
it all started again.

And once it started again,
you found it impossible to
stop.

Right.
That -- that's when the --

the obsession
went into full swing.

After he got a taste of it,
that's when he went out

and starting actively
looking for victims,

one after the other.

He was very, very calculating,
the way he picked out victims,

the way he covered his tracks

so that victims
couldn't be linked to him.

You know, he thought that out.

Casarez: This is a guy who'd
been living a double life

since he was a kid,

trying to be normal
on the outside

but holding secrets
on the inside

as he told NBC's "Dateline."

Talking about it,
I don't think,

would've made
that much difference

because like I said, there were
things going on in my head

that I would've
never opened up

and talked about
with anybody.

He had developed a fascination
fairly early

with the idea of skeletons
and dissection.

It's pretty frightening that
he was thinking that way

way back then,
and the rest of us had no clue.

King: Tonight, exclusive --
the parents of Jeffrey Dahmer.

Their son was one of America's
most notorious serial killers.

Now, in an exclusive interview,
his parents,

Lionel and Shari Dahmer,
speak out on what went wrong

to turn their handsome,
soft-spoken son into a monster.

King:
Why are you coming on?

I really want to tell parents
about what I think

they should look for
in rearing their children.

That could help
a lot of people?

Yeah.

And you support that,
Shari?

Shari: Oh, absolutely,
anything that we could do

to circumvent or prevent another
Jeff would be a blessing.

Because it can't be easy.
It is not easy.

It would be easier to forget
about it...

Absolutely.
...if you can, right?

But no one allows us
to forget about it.

What was he like
as a teenager?

He had
a small circle of friends

who liked to play gags
and joke around a lot.

Practical jokes?

Yeah.

Kukral: In high school,
Jeff Dahmer sort of became

attached to my group of friends.

We sort of adopted him,
you could say.

We found him an interesting guy
because of his sense of humor.

I remember him running down
the hall and yelling,

"Tornado! Tornado!

Tornado!
Get down on the floor!

Everybody get down
on the floor!"

And then just walking down
the hall calmly after that.

We thought things like that
were really funny that he did.

One of my best friends from
high school is John Backderf,

and he wrote a book called
"My Friend Dahmer,"

a graphic novel,

and that book basically shows
our high school days

at Revere High better
than anything else,

better than anything
I can tell you.

Casarez: What his high school
friends didn't know

and what his family
didn't even know

was that Jeffrey Dahmer
wasn't what he seemed to be.

He was hiding something.

He had developed a fascination
fairly early

with the idea
of skeletons and dissection.

Lionel: At the age of 12 to 14,
we found out

that he had been collecting
dead animals, roadkill,

riding around the rural roads
and collecting them in bags.

He would take them home,
and he'd cut them up,

and the colors fascinated him.

The colors of the internal
organs of the dead animals

got him all excited.

Dr. Dietz: And he had
the additional problem

that he was growing up in Ohio,

discovering he was gay at a time
when this was very repressed

and not something that he could
come out freely about.

Banfield:
In the book "My Friend Dahmer,"

it really lays out the struggles

that Jeffrey Dahmer
had in high school,

the struggles to fit in,

the struggles
that he had fighting off

those twisted fantasies,

and he tried to explain
his bizarre behavior

when he did an interview
with "Dateline NBC."

I think it was around
age 14 or 15,

I started to have --

having obsessive
thoughts of --

of...violence

intermingled with sex.

The rest of us had no clue

that he was thinking about
killing someone

or having sex with someone
or their body at that age.

Well, what we learned
many years later

was that Jeff Dahmer had
an obsession with a jogger

that ran by his house.

Casarez: What nobody knew at the
time, including the jogger,

was that Jeffrey Dahmer

was having fantasies
about abducting him.

Dr. Dietz: He was planning
to hit the jogger

over the head
with a heavy object,

drag him into the bushes
and have his way with him.

He had hidden in shrubbery,
hoping to attack him

and prepared to attack him,
but he never got the nerve.

That was pretty frightening to
realize that we were around him

when his mind had
these visions going on in it.

Jeffrey Dahmer knew that
his sexual urges were sick.

They were twisted,
but he couldn't tell anybody.

His solution was alcohol.

Kukral: He was drinking in
the parking lot before school.

He was drinking out of booze
in his briefcase

that he carried around,
which was sort of weird.

When Jeffrey was in his
senior year,

his parents' marriage
was really falling apart,

and his dad
ended up moving out.

King:
How did Jeff take it?

Jeff, I think, he had --

he told me that --
that it disturbed him very much.

Kukral: Senior year,
he drifted away from us.

I think that his academic record
started to fall apart,

and he stopped going
to a lot of classes

the end of our junior year,
senior year.

I think Jeffrey Dahmer
really lost it

when his parents divorced,

and his mother took off
with their younger son

and moved somewhere else

and left Jeffrey Dahmer
alone in the family home.

Banfield: Later, Dahmer
explained it in his confession.

He states that it was
at this time

he started to have
strong feelings of being left

all alone
and strong desires

of not wanting to
have people leave him.

That not-leaving-him was
an important issue to him.

Velez-Mitchell: Being abandoned
in the family home

while dad's gone and mother
leaves with the younger brother

to start a new life --
that's the moment he broke.

He snapped.

The world became a dark
and awful place,

and everybody was his enemy.

Banfield:
Shortly after his graduation,

Jeffrey Dahmer was driving
around and passed Stephen Hicks,

and something told him
to turn back around, and he did.

Stephen Hicks was on his way
to a rock concert that night,

and Stephen Hicks never made it
to that rock concert.

Dahmer took Stephen Hicks back
to his parents' empty place,

and they were
drinking beers together,

and that's when something
went horrifically wrong.

There was an altercation
because Stephen wanted to leave.

Jeff had made a pass at him,
and Stephen wanted to leave.

Dr. Dietz:
Dahmer took a barbell

and banged him over the head
with it,

and this was his first encounter
with how much work it is

to dispose of a human corpse.

Reporter 3: Police say Hicks

was a hitchhiker
picked up by Dahmer

when he was just 18,
the victim killed in a bedroom,

his body dismembered
in a tight crawl space.

Banfield:
He killed Stephen Hicks.

He cut him into pieces.

He put him into garbage bags.

This is where it all
could've ended.

Dahmer was on the way
to the dump with Hicks' body...

[ Siren wailing ]

....and he's suddenly
pulled over by police.

Murphy: You know, you stop him
for a violation.

You know, he wasn't drunk,
so they let him go.

Boyle: Incredible.

Here, the first time
he kills a human being,

and the cops pull him over,
and they say he wasn't nervous.

"What were you doing?"

"I'm taking garbage
to the dump."

He was as cool as cool could be.

That was a close call for Dahmer

and a missed opportunity
for society.

Casarez: Mike Kukral remembers
giving Dahmer a ride home

about that time
and dropping him off

right in the driveway
of his parents' empty home.

Kukral:
What I didn't know at that time,

there would be
no way to know it,

was that when I gave Jeff Dahmer
a ride home that night,

there was probably a body
in his house,

the body of Stephen Hicks
that he had killed.

I never thought that would be
the last time I'd see him.

Banfield: Just a couple of weeks
after high school,

Jeffrey Dahmer had already
killed his first victim.

He was pretty aimless, didn't
know what he wanted to do,

and it was actually his dad that
pushed him to go to college.

Kukral: He did go to Ohio State
for one semester or one quarter

in the fall that fall,
and all he did was drink

and not go to classes,
and that was the end of that.

Lionel: He came back home,

and I then proceeded
to take him to the Army.

He served, and he came back
from boot camp

looking like just a wonderful
physical specimen.

We were encouraged.

Reporter 4: Less than three
years after joining the Army,

Dahmer was kicked out
for excessive drinking.

What happens
after the Army?

Lionel:
He kept getting into trouble.

Eventually, it got so bad
that we sent him

to his grandmother's house...

To your parents?
...in Wisconsin.

McCann: That's when he came
under grandmother's influence

and kind of straightened
out his lifestyle.

She had him going to church,

and he abstained from many
of these activities.

Lionel:
For a while, it went very well.

My mother cooked for him,
and he finally found a job

at a chocolate company,

but then things
started to occur.

His drinking accelerated,
and the killing accelerated.

It was only a matter of time
before Dahmer would trip up.

Jeffrey Dahmer had already
killed five young men

by the time his grandmother
threw him out in 1990.

He moved into his own apartment

in a seedy neighborhood
of Milwaukee,

and that's when things really
started to spin out of control.

No longer accountable to anyone,

Dahmer was now free to give
into his most twisted,

sadistic fantasies, like some
horror movie come to life.

♪♪

Dahmer was one of the few
Caucasian people

that lived
in that neighborhood,

and he moved into
an apartment building

where it was almost
all African Americans.

And when he moved
into apartment 213,

nobody knew what was
happening behind that door.

Velez-Mitchell: Jeffrey Dahmer's
crimes were escalating.

His dismemberment rituals were
getting more and more grotesque

if that's even possible.

Dr. Dietz:
He'd lay down plastic

and was preparing
to dismember the body,

but he hated doing so,

so much that he had to get drunk

to overcome
his aversion to it.

Banfield: Dahmer hated disposing
of his victims,

and he came up with an idea
that was more horrific

than anything
he had already done.

It was a way to keep
his would-be victims alive.

My brother was Errol Lindsey.

He was 19 years old.

He left home,
going to get a key made,

and he just never came back.

He never came back.

Errol Lindsey was Dahmer's
first experiment.

Errol was just like the normal
kid trying to hustle up,

you know, on money and however
he could get it, you know?

Dr. Dietz:
He met this individual

approximately March of '91

on the corner
of 27th and Kilbourn.

He offered this individual money
for posing and to view videos.

Errol was not gay, you know,
and if he was gay, I --

you know,
he was still my brother,

and I still would love him,
but he wasn't gay.

I don't know what it took
to get him to his house.

What Jeffrey did to Errol
Lindsey was so beyond the pale,

I mean, you really can't
write this stuff.

He started drilling holes in the
skulls of people who are alive!

Dahmer talked about this period
in an interview

with "Inside Edition."

I tried to keep the person alive

by inducing
a zombielike state...

...by injecting, first,

a dilute acid solution
into their brain

or hot water.

Schwartz: In his mind, he was
trying to create

a kind of a zombie,
someone in a zombie state.

He wanted these people
to stay with him.

He didn't want them to leave,

and he didn't really
want them to die.

Harris:
My brother was not an angel.

I know that, but he didn't
deserve to die

the way that he did.

Schwartz:
After Errol Lindsey was killed,

Dahmer killed six more people

in the span
of about three months.

Casarez: Dahmer talked about the
end of his killing spree

on an interview
with "Dateline NBC."

The killing was just
a means to an end.

That was the least
satisfactory part.

I didn't enjoy doing that.
Stone: Mm-hmm.

That's why I tried to create
living zombies

with the muriatic acid
and the -- and the drill.

Dr. Dietz:
Late in his killing spree,

he was in an uncontrolled
drinking binge

that made him fall behind in his
schedule of disposing of bodies.

Meuler: He would often
call in sick that Monday

because he would be working
on disposing of the bodies,

and -- and if you looked
at the early timeline,

he always spaced it out.

He would never bring
another victim in

until other victim had been
disposed of, if you will.

His drinking accelerated,
and the killing accelerated.

It was only a matter of time
before Dahmer would trip up.

Meuler:
He just became very desperate,

and there was less planning
as it went on.

After killing 17 victims
over 13 years,

Jeffrey Dahmer met a guy
named Tracy Edwards.

McCann:
Dahmer had picked him up,

persuaded him to come
to his home.

Edwards, deciding
he was in danger,

wanted to get out of there.

Dahmer had gotten a handcuff on.

Velez-Mitchell: He handcuffed
the guy with one cuff,

and then there was sort of
this elaborate negotiation

where the guy said he had
to go to the bathroom.

Tracy Edwards would've
been number 18.

Edwards: I knew something was
about to happen,

so I suggested
that I go to the bathroom.

I just seized the opportunity.

I said, "Well, at least
I'm gonna die trying.

I'm not just gonna sit here,"
you know?

Man: What'd you do, son?

I hit him, and I ran
towards the door,

and he, like, was right there,
tried to grab me,

get me back in there.

Velez-Mitchell: He races
to the cops, and he says,

"Get this handcuff off me!"

Edwards: I told the policeman
that this freak,

this crazy guy,
was trying to hurt me.

The key wouldn't fit,
so they got --

so they went back
to Dahmer's apartment

to get the key to let --
get the handcuff off.

On the way -- on the way,
Edwards told them,

"By the way,
he wouldn't let me look

in the refrigerator
for some reason."

Dahmer was there.
He had been -- he was drunk.

He opened the door.
He says, "Come on in."

Dahmer lets them in,
unlocked this thing,

and the cop walks over
and looks in the refrigerator,

and there's
a floating flesh skull.

Banfield: When police showed up
at Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment

to check out
Tracy Edwards' story,

they walked into
a human slaughterhouse.

Dr. Dietz: There were whole
heads in the refrigerator,

and there were fillets
of biceps in the freezer.

It was kind of clear
the jig was up

when you're found with
so much in your apartment,

and there's really
no way out.

♪♪

Dr. Jentzen:
There was a large, silver,

stainless-steel cooking pot,

and in the bottom
of that cooking pot

were two severed hands.

There were binders
of Polaroid photographs

that basically
depicted individuals

before and after death.

Bass:
The pictures were horrific.

It was like someone setting
a stage with mannequins,

but these aren't mannequins.

These are human beings.

Schwartz: Imagine these police
officers standing there

and trying to take this in,

trying to process
what was going on.

There was no crime scene
ever like this

for the people
that responded that night.

The types of revulsion
that one feels when you --

when you witness something
like this firsthand

cannot be described.

Schwartz: Back in 1991, you show
up at a crime scene.

People have the boom boxes out.

They're yelling.

This was eerie in how quiet
it was,

especially when the barrels
started coming down the stairs.

Dr. Jentzen: In the corner

was this large
50-gallon plastic container,

and it turned out that there
were four intact skeletons

in that container,
and at that time,

we made the decision that we
would contact a Hazmat unit

to transport that container.

The actual crime-scene
investigation

was more like dismantling
a museum

rather than
an actual crime scene.

Jackson: So the police arrest
Jeffrey Dahmer

just before midnight,

and by 1:30, he's at
the Milwaukee police department,

talking and talking and talking
like he had never talked before.

Boyle: I think he wanted to talk
to us so much

was because he'd never
had someone to sit down

and actually relate to,
and during that questioning,

we caught a semblance
of who was killed,

what time and when
and the order they were killed.

Jackson:
Over the next six weeks,

Jeffrey Dahmer spent 166 hours
confessing in graphic detail

to all the murders
he'd ever committed

and all the sick things
he'd ever engaged in,

including cannibalism.

Dr. Dietz: He got the nickname
"The Milwaukee Cannibal,"

but that was a small part
of his M.O.

and of his desires

and was a late arriving part

and really sprang
from his thought

that it was such a waste to have
brief time with these men

and then for them to disappear,

and the idea of eating
a part of them

was the idea of incorporating
a part of them into himself.

And we had secretaries that were
typing our reports

that couldn't type them.

They couldn't take it,
so they had to see

a psychiatrist about it.

Jeffrey Dahmer, the man
officially charged

in four murderers in Milwaukee

but at the center
of nearly a dozen others,

confessed to more
killings Monday.

And by July 24th, we had a
full confession for 17 murders.

♪♪

Ladies and gentlemen
of the jury,

we now begin an odyssey.

The details are grisly
and graphic and sickening.

Jeffrey Dahmer's odyssey of sex,
murder and cannibalism

is unfolding
in an Milwaukee courtroom.

McCann: In this case, his plea

was not guilty
by reason of insanity,

so the only issue was,
"Was he sane when he did it?"

Jackson: The foundation
of an insanity defense is,

does the defendant know
right from wrong?

And clearly, in this case,

Jeffrey Dahmer did know
right from wrong because,

"A," he elaborately
planned these crimes,

and, "B," he elaborately
covered them up.

Cold-blooded planning
for sexual satisfaction.

"Your life for my
sexual satisfaction."

I pointed out how carefully
everything had been planned.

He was not a man out of control.

The manifestations
of homicidal maniac,

he did not show.

Boyle: I tried to persuade them
that somewhere along the line,

he got to the point where he was
unable to control his conduct.

He was a runaway train
on a track of madness.

There was a locomotive engineer
running the train.

It wasn't out of control,
and the engineer was Dahmer.

To show that Jeffrey Dahmer was
mentally ill and out of control,

his defense attorney puts
Tracy Edwards on the stand.

Reporter 5: Tracy Edwards lived
to tell about it,

and tell he did in court Friday,

describing how
Jeffrey Dahmer underwent

an almost
physical transformation

from nice guy
to would-be killer.

Man: Now, when you got
to his apartment,

how was he acting?

Just like a normal everyday
person, you know, friendly.

This guy is so nice,
and all of a sudden, you know,

it's like, he's pulling knives
and handcuffs and all on me.

Where was the knife
pointed?

When I was on the floor,
he had it pointed

at my groin area at that time.

Then he was telling -- he didn't
want people to leave him

or abandon him.

His face structure
seemed different.

You know, his body structure,

it's like it wasn't him
anymore, you know?

It's like it was a totally
different guy there.

He kind of laid across me,

put his head across my chest
at that point.

What was he doing
with his head?

Like he was listening to
my heart because at a point,

he told me he was gonna eat
my heart at that point.

I just sat stunned
and motionless

listening to all these things,
but inside,

I was practically
losing my cookies.

Banfield: The whole trial took
less than three weeks,

and as is customary,

he got a chance
to address his victims,

and his victims' family members

got a chance to let him know
how they felt, too.

Jeffrey, I hate you.

[Bleep] [Bleep]
I hate you!

♪♪

"In regard to the death
of Richard Guerrero,

did the defendant,
Jeffrey L. Dahmer,

have a mental disease?"

The families were
very emotional.

This was three weeks of hearing
the most awful information

about how your loved one died

that most of us
can't even imagine it,

and now, the end is coming.

Judge Gram, Jr.: "Did the
defendant, Jeffrey L. Dahmer,

have a mental disease?

Answer -- no."

Jeffrey Dahmer's 3-week
sanity trial

came to an end this afternoon.

Most of the jurors rejected
the defense claim

that Dahmer was a sick man.

Judge Gram, Jr.:
"In regard to the death

of James E. Doxtator..."

Schwartz: When the judge was
reading the decision

by the jury,

he went through every victim's
name and then said the decision.

Judge Gram, Jr.: "In regard to
the death of Anthony Sears..."

Schwartz:
The families would just weep.

Harris: I was there.

I was sitting in with the rest
of the families,

and I think we all were
in shock that day.

♪♪

And then came
the victim impact statements.

You took my 17-year-old son
away from me.

I'll never get a chance
to tell him that I loved him,

and for that,
I can never forgive you.

I hope you --

I hope you can deal
with what you've done.

Schwartz: Dahmer didn't look
at the people.

He looked straight ahead
the whole time.

I'm mad.

This is how you act
when you are out of control!

For the most part,
the family members

who gave their victims'
impact statements

maintained their composure,

but then one of the sisters
of Errol Lindsey let loose.

I don't want to ever see
my mother have to go

through this again,
never, Jeffrey.

Jeffrey!
I hate you!

This is out of control!

Don't [bleep] with me, Jeffrey!
I'll kill --

Harris: My sister,

I guess she just wanted
to let him know how she felt,

you know, to see the hurt
on my mom's face every day,

and, I don't know,
she just -- she lost it.

She just lost it.

You don't have to...

Jackson: So after the families

gave their gut-wrenching
victim impact statements,

Jeffrey Dahmer
addressed the court.

I know society will never
be able to forgive me.

I know the families
of the victims

will never be able to forgive me
for what I have done.

I have seen their tears,

and if I could
give my life right now

to bring their loved ones back,
I would do it.

I am so very sorry.

He was just a person who had
descended into another world

and had no emotion left

and no empathy or sympathy
for anyone else.

He had gone through a lot
of big changes

and was just far off
the deep end.

I know my time in prison
will be terrible,

but I deserve whatever I get
because of what I have done.

I didn't ever want freedom.

Frankly, I wanted death
for myself.

Jeffrey Dahmer stood up today
in Milwaukee county court

and asked for the maximum,
and he got it --

15 consecutive life sentences,
no parole for 936 years.

Schwartz:
Dahmer went to prison in '91.

He went to the Columbia
Correctional Institution

in Portage, Wisconsin.

It's a maximum-security prison.

Casarez:
In prison, Dahmer found God.

He even got baptized.

No one really heard about him
for nearly three years,

but that all changed
one day in 1994.

Jeffrey Dahmer was himself
attacked and killed this morning

as he and another inmate
were cleaning a prison toilet.

Schwartz: Dahmer was arguably
the most high-risk prisoner

at the institution,

and another inmate,
Jesse Anderson,

were together
cleaning a bathroom.

Christopher Scarver,
who was an inmate

who was there for murder,
grabbed a barbell from the gym,

went into the bathroom
and beat both Jeffrey Dahmer

and Jesse Anderson to death.

Preliminary findings
of the pathologist were

that Mr. Dahmer died as a result
of blunt-force injury of head.

Jeffrey Dahmer
was beaten so badly

that not even the people
treating him

knew who he was until after
he was pronounced dead.

Casarez:
Reactions to Dahmer's death

were what you would expect.

Of course, families
of his victims

were relieved
that the nightmare was over.

It shows today that he paid

for what he had did
to these childrens out here.

I don't feel anything.

I'm numb right now.

Harris: I looked at him with
a lot of hate in my heart.

I really hated him.

I hated that man.

I hated him for what he did
to our family.

My family has never been
the same behind that,

never been the same.

In closing, I just want to say
that I hope God has forgiven me.

I know society will never
be able to forgive me.

This was a case to tell
the world

that I did what I did
not for reasons of hate.

I hated no one.

I knew I was sick or evil
or both.

Jeffrey Dahmer's
defense attorney

hoped his client
would be found insane.

That would've landed him
in a psychiatric hospital,

where doctors could've studied
his urge to kill.

No one ever got to
study Dahmer's brain.

A judge ruled against preserving
it after his death,

and it was
ultimately destroyed.

We'll never know what drove
Jeffrey Dahmer to kill,

but even if we did,
it would've been too late

for 17 families
who lost their loved ones.

I'm Hill Harper.

We'll see you next time
on "How It Really Happened."