1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.BZ 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.BZ 3 00:00:19,309 --> 00:00:22,879 - MALE NARRATOR: It's the most unspeakable of crimes. 4 00:00:22,879 --> 00:00:26,116 - Cannibalism is so taboo, you can't wrap your head around it. 5 00:00:26,116 --> 00:00:30,253 - The idea of consuming human flesh is unbelievable. 6 00:00:30,253 --> 00:00:32,856 - People have to take a step back and recognize 7 00:00:32,856 --> 00:00:35,292 that human beings can indeed do that. 8 00:00:35,292 --> 00:00:38,161 - NARRATOR: And for many, cannibalism conjures up the name 9 00:00:38,161 --> 00:00:39,796 of one man. 10 00:00:39,796 --> 00:00:42,633 - Jeffrey, I hate you, motherfucker! 11 00:00:42,633 --> 00:00:44,167 I hate you! 12 00:00:44,167 --> 00:00:48,171 - Jeffrey Dahmer personifies every one of our fears. 13 00:00:48,171 --> 00:00:51,775 The flesh, the bones, the Polaroids. 14 00:00:53,010 --> 00:00:56,680 - It just kept getting worse and worse, and worse. 15 00:00:57,614 --> 00:01:02,085 - NARRATOR: But this carnal act is more common than you think. 16 00:01:02,085 --> 00:01:05,922 So where is the line between fantasy-- 17 00:01:05,922 --> 00:01:10,027 - There are people practicing all of these kinks all the time. 18 00:01:10,027 --> 00:01:11,728 - NARRATOR: --and flesh eater? 19 00:01:11,728 --> 00:01:13,997 - He was actively eating human meat. 20 00:01:13,997 --> 00:01:16,466 - NARRATOR: And what drives those like Dahmer 21 00:01:16,466 --> 00:01:18,168 and his bloody brethren 22 00:01:18,168 --> 00:01:23,040 to indulge in this ultimate taboo? 23 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,610 - He's like a shark that's had the taste of blood. 24 00:01:26,610 --> 00:01:29,746 He was never going to stop. 25 00:01:32,582 --> 00:01:35,252 - ♪ 26 00:01:49,199 --> 00:01:52,335 - I lived in Milwaukee all my life. 27 00:01:54,938 --> 00:01:57,941 She was called Drug City because of the crime. 28 00:01:58,975 --> 00:02:01,845 There's a lot of drugs, a lot of murders. 29 00:02:02,813 --> 00:02:05,182 Drug City had it all. 30 00:02:06,817 --> 00:02:08,785 - NARRATOR: Looking for a safe home, 31 00:02:08,785 --> 00:02:11,088 Vernell and his wife, Pamela, 32 00:02:11,088 --> 00:02:16,793 move into the Oxford Apartments in October 1989. 33 00:02:16,793 --> 00:02:19,062 - It was a very nice place to live. 34 00:02:19,062 --> 00:02:22,365 They didn't just let anybody move into those apartments. 35 00:02:22,365 --> 00:02:25,068 And that was a good thing. 36 00:02:25,068 --> 00:02:28,338 - NARRATOR: Within a few days, Vernell meets several neighbors, 37 00:02:28,338 --> 00:02:31,475 including the tenant across the hall 38 00:02:31,475 --> 00:02:34,644 in apartment 213. 39 00:02:34,644 --> 00:02:36,646 - I noticed that he was a white guy, 40 00:02:36,646 --> 00:02:39,850 which seemed a little bit odd 41 00:02:39,850 --> 00:02:42,586 because we were in 42 00:02:42,586 --> 00:02:46,356 a predominantly black neighborhood. 43 00:02:46,356 --> 00:02:48,692 He seemed very pleasant. 44 00:02:48,692 --> 00:02:52,129 He introduced himself as Jeff. 45 00:02:55,365 --> 00:02:57,734 - NARRATOR: But six months into his lease, 46 00:02:57,734 --> 00:03:00,537 Vernell starts to notice a foul odor 47 00:03:00,537 --> 00:03:02,405 in the apartment building. 48 00:03:02,405 --> 00:03:08,044 - I can best describe it as meat rotting in the sun. 49 00:03:09,446 --> 00:03:13,984 It had gotten so bad, I went into our linen closet 50 00:03:13,984 --> 00:03:15,752 and I grabbed a bath towel. 51 00:03:15,752 --> 00:03:20,590 And I rolled it up and placed it in the gap 52 00:03:20,590 --> 00:03:24,027 between the floor and the door. 53 00:03:24,027 --> 00:03:26,329 - NARRATOR: Vernell's wife soon traces the stench 54 00:03:26,329 --> 00:03:28,231 back to the source. 55 00:03:28,231 --> 00:03:31,201 Their neighbor Jeff's front door. 56 00:03:31,201 --> 00:03:34,104 - She told me that she was sitting in a chair in the hall 57 00:03:34,104 --> 00:03:36,606 waiting for him to come home. 58 00:03:36,606 --> 00:03:41,611 I felt bad for the white boy for the meet an angry black woman. 59 00:03:42,913 --> 00:03:46,082 He said that his meat had soured in his freezer, 60 00:03:46,082 --> 00:03:49,386 and I didn't believe he had any reason to lie. 61 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,924 Come to find out that that wasn't the deal at all. 62 00:03:55,158 --> 00:03:57,594 - REPORTER: Police found a grisly scene. 63 00:03:57,594 --> 00:04:02,499 A human head plus several more skulls and parts of bodies. 64 00:04:02,499 --> 00:04:06,102 - One of the nation's worst mass murder cases ever. 65 00:04:06,102 --> 00:04:09,606 - Inside apartment 213. 66 00:04:11,241 --> 00:04:14,377 - That's when I met Jeffrey Dahmer. 67 00:04:14,377 --> 00:04:19,449 And after that, I never, I never saw Jeff again. 68 00:04:19,449 --> 00:04:22,118 Jeff was not real. 69 00:04:22,118 --> 00:04:25,889 Jeffrey Dahmer, that was real. 70 00:04:28,124 --> 00:04:32,862 - Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment was a series of nightmares. 71 00:04:32,862 --> 00:04:34,631 If you opened the door to his bedroom, 72 00:04:34,631 --> 00:04:37,934 you would see a dead body decomposing next to the bed. 73 00:04:37,934 --> 00:04:40,537 You go into the refrigerator, you open it up, 74 00:04:40,537 --> 00:04:44,541 human meat all inside of the refrigerator. 75 00:04:44,541 --> 00:04:46,977 You have a severed human skull inside of the freezer, 76 00:04:46,977 --> 00:04:48,578 and a pot filled with severed penises 77 00:04:48,578 --> 00:04:49,846 on the stove. 78 00:04:49,846 --> 00:04:52,716 He was actively consuming human flesh. 79 00:04:52,716 --> 00:04:53,783 - I remember when he got arrested. 80 00:04:53,783 --> 00:04:55,585 I was around 10 years old. 81 00:04:55,585 --> 00:04:58,388 And I didn't think that any human could ever do 82 00:04:58,388 --> 00:05:01,191 the things that I was hearing Jeffrey Dahmer did. 83 00:05:01,191 --> 00:05:03,927 So it really changed my perspective, 84 00:05:03,927 --> 00:05:05,562 and I know millions and millions 85 00:05:05,562 --> 00:05:08,798 of kids' perspective on what is the boogeyman. 86 00:05:08,798 --> 00:05:10,433 What does the boogeyman look like? 87 00:05:10,433 --> 00:05:13,670 Now, we have to look out for the guy in the khaki pants 88 00:05:13,670 --> 00:05:16,106 with the button-down shirt. 89 00:05:21,244 --> 00:05:23,613 - I was working for Inside Edition 90 00:05:23,613 --> 00:05:26,082 and the story came in. 91 00:05:26,082 --> 00:05:28,451 And my first instinct was to say, 92 00:05:28,451 --> 00:05:31,354 I've gotta find out about that story. 93 00:05:31,354 --> 00:05:35,492 I've gotta know who did this and why. 94 00:05:37,394 --> 00:05:39,029 - I think what was most remarkable 95 00:05:39,029 --> 00:05:41,998 about Dahmer's early life is how unremarkable it was. 96 00:05:43,066 --> 00:05:46,336 - NARRATOR: Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1960, 97 00:05:46,336 --> 00:05:50,106 Jeffrey Dahmer moves with his family to Bath, Ohio 98 00:05:50,106 --> 00:05:52,275 when he is eight years old. 99 00:05:52,275 --> 00:05:54,978 - Bath, Ohio was a great place. And there wasn't crime. 100 00:05:54,978 --> 00:05:56,346 There weren't problems. 101 00:05:56,346 --> 00:05:59,849 So I think Jeff had everything available to him 102 00:05:59,849 --> 00:06:02,585 that most kids would want growing up. 103 00:06:02,585 --> 00:06:04,721 With parents and a brother, 104 00:06:04,721 --> 00:06:07,857 and a nice home, and good schools. 105 00:06:08,925 --> 00:06:11,561 - NARRATOR: The offspring of a chemist and a stay-at-home mom, 106 00:06:11,561 --> 00:06:13,563 Jeffrey and his younger brother, David, 107 00:06:13,563 --> 00:06:16,733 grow up in modest, middle-class comfort. 108 00:06:16,733 --> 00:06:17,967 - Jeff played in the band. 109 00:06:17,967 --> 00:06:19,569 He wrote for the school paper. 110 00:06:19,569 --> 00:06:21,204 He was on the tennis team. 111 00:06:21,204 --> 00:06:23,807 I think his parents, especially his dad, 112 00:06:23,807 --> 00:06:26,409 tried to get him involved with 113 00:06:26,409 --> 00:06:29,512 activities and make some friends, 114 00:06:29,512 --> 00:06:33,350 and not be just off on his own all the time. 115 00:06:33,350 --> 00:06:35,952 - NARRATOR: Still, there are some activities 116 00:06:35,952 --> 00:06:40,090 that young Jeff enjoys more than others. 117 00:06:40,090 --> 00:06:43,026 - He had an interest in dead bodies of animals. 118 00:06:43,026 --> 00:06:44,361 He lived in a wooded area. 119 00:06:44,361 --> 00:06:47,797 You'd find inevitably some dead animals there. 120 00:06:47,797 --> 00:06:51,201 But he didn't go out hunting. He didn't go out and shoot them. 121 00:06:51,201 --> 00:06:53,169 - Once he found a dead dog and he completely 122 00:06:53,169 --> 00:06:56,339 skinned the animal. He dissolved the head in acid 123 00:06:56,339 --> 00:06:57,774 until he could get all the skin off of it, 124 00:06:57,774 --> 00:07:01,444 then he took that skull and he stuck it on a pole 125 00:07:01,444 --> 00:07:03,613 outside of his shed of collectables. 126 00:07:05,448 --> 00:07:07,817 - You know, there's a lot of kids who are interested 127 00:07:07,817 --> 00:07:09,953 in human biology, and to some degree 128 00:07:09,953 --> 00:07:12,021 that's exactly what he was interested in 129 00:07:12,021 --> 00:07:14,624 was animal biology. 130 00:07:14,624 --> 00:07:17,660 - He did well in biology classes and, you know, 131 00:07:17,660 --> 00:07:20,930 he had his little chemistry lab at home. 132 00:07:20,930 --> 00:07:23,433 I actually thought he might have someday 133 00:07:23,433 --> 00:07:26,536 become a medical doctor or something. 134 00:07:26,536 --> 00:07:29,205 - NARRATOR: Though his father is aware of his new hobby, 135 00:07:29,205 --> 00:07:32,709 Jeff finds little guidance within the Dahmer home. 136 00:07:32,709 --> 00:07:35,645 - His parents are what you would call emotionally distant. 137 00:07:35,645 --> 00:07:38,581 - Jeffrey's mother, Joyce, she had really bad depression. 138 00:07:38,581 --> 00:07:40,917 And the only time he would see his father 139 00:07:40,917 --> 00:07:43,052 was when he was coming home from work. 140 00:07:43,052 --> 00:07:44,754 But even in those family environments, 141 00:07:44,754 --> 00:07:48,124 his mother and his father were constantly fighting. 142 00:07:49,559 --> 00:07:51,995 - Some children take this lack of attention 143 00:07:51,995 --> 00:07:54,464 and they become hams, or jokey people 144 00:07:54,464 --> 00:07:57,267 looking for validation outside of their home. 145 00:07:57,267 --> 00:08:00,003 - One of the things I clearly remember about Jeff Dahmer, 146 00:08:00,003 --> 00:08:01,471 is that you'd be standin' there 147 00:08:01,471 --> 00:08:04,240 talking to somebody by your locker just doing nothing, 148 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:06,042 and he'd just stoop over 149 00:08:06,042 --> 00:08:07,911 and put his head on your chest and say, 150 00:08:07,911 --> 00:08:09,512 I wanna listen to your heart. 151 00:08:09,512 --> 00:08:13,917 One time he stole the fetal pig in eighth grade biology class. 152 00:08:13,917 --> 00:08:16,519 - Dahmer was a little bit of a prankster in high school. 153 00:08:16,519 --> 00:08:19,222 And he managed to get himself into the honor club photo 154 00:08:19,222 --> 00:08:21,758 when he wasn't really in the honor club. 155 00:08:22,959 --> 00:08:26,596 - Of course, that's an infamous photo now because his head 156 00:08:26,596 --> 00:08:31,367 was blacked out in our yearbooks by the yearbook editor. 157 00:08:31,367 --> 00:08:33,636 And that's Jeff Dahmer. 158 00:08:33,636 --> 00:08:36,039 I'd say that at that time, no one really cared. 159 00:08:36,039 --> 00:08:39,809 It's just Jeff being goofy and it's okay. 160 00:08:39,809 --> 00:08:42,645 He had good manners and he treated people nice, 161 00:08:42,645 --> 00:08:46,316 so he was never suspected as a troublemaker. 162 00:08:47,684 --> 00:08:51,020 - NARRATOR: But soon, Dahmer's childish behavior 163 00:08:51,020 --> 00:08:54,190 makes it difficult for him to fit in. 164 00:08:54,190 --> 00:08:56,693 - Jeff Dahmer did have a feeling of alienation 165 00:08:56,693 --> 00:09:00,129 because he knew that he was different from other kids. 166 00:09:00,129 --> 00:09:03,733 He knew he had different feelings and desires. 167 00:09:03,733 --> 00:09:05,468 - NARRATOR: He's also starting to realize 168 00:09:05,468 --> 00:09:09,239 he's attracted to other men. 169 00:09:09,239 --> 00:09:12,509 - When Jeffrey was 13 years old, he had engaged 170 00:09:12,509 --> 00:09:15,445 in a romantic physical relationship 171 00:09:15,445 --> 00:09:17,547 with a boy in his neighborhood, 172 00:09:17,547 --> 00:09:20,683 and this was the first inclination to Jeffrey 173 00:09:20,683 --> 00:09:22,485 that he was in fact gay. 174 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:29,292 - In 1976, '77, '78 nobody talked about, ah, 175 00:09:29,292 --> 00:09:31,227 being gay or sexual feelings. 176 00:09:31,227 --> 00:09:32,362 They didn't. Who could they tell? 177 00:09:32,362 --> 00:09:33,563 They couldn't tell their parents. 178 00:09:33,563 --> 00:09:36,299 They couldn't tell school counselors. 179 00:09:36,299 --> 00:09:38,334 - He wasn't able to express, uh, 180 00:09:38,334 --> 00:09:41,671 his desire to have sex with men after he hit puberty. 181 00:09:41,671 --> 00:09:45,241 He had to shove it down, and he had to keep it quiet. 182 00:09:45,241 --> 00:09:47,877 - By the time he was 14, he was already crippled 183 00:09:47,877 --> 00:09:52,415 with this feeling of otherness, so he would just pound beers 184 00:09:52,415 --> 00:09:55,385 or pound alcohol before going into school 185 00:09:55,385 --> 00:09:57,987 because it allowed him to kinda feel normal. 186 00:09:57,987 --> 00:10:00,323 - Jeffrey's alcoholism starting from such a young age 187 00:10:00,323 --> 00:10:02,225 was definitely a warning sign, 188 00:10:02,225 --> 00:10:04,394 but no one could possibly predict 189 00:10:04,394 --> 00:10:07,130 how much worse things were going to get. 190 00:10:07,130 --> 00:10:10,433 - You know, some people live good lives 191 00:10:10,433 --> 00:10:14,170 and become successful and raise families. 192 00:10:14,170 --> 00:10:17,607 And other people become Jeff Dahmer 193 00:10:17,607 --> 00:10:21,377 and go down a road of no return. 194 00:10:26,716 --> 00:10:29,018 - NARRATOR: Years before Jeffrey Dahmer 195 00:10:29,018 --> 00:10:32,155 first feasts on human flesh, 196 00:10:32,155 --> 00:10:34,223 he's a tortured high school student 197 00:10:34,223 --> 00:10:36,759 hiding his homosexuality. 198 00:10:36,759 --> 00:10:40,163 - Jeffrey Dahmer was the loneliest man in the world. 199 00:10:40,163 --> 00:10:42,899 He could not explain his inner fantasies 200 00:10:42,899 --> 00:10:44,400 to his young friends, 201 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,537 and they overwhelmed him every single day. 202 00:10:47,537 --> 00:10:50,006 - He really drifted away from all of us, 203 00:10:50,006 --> 00:10:52,075 and his grades went way down. 204 00:10:52,075 --> 00:10:53,910 He lost interest in going to classes. 205 00:10:53,910 --> 00:10:56,412 He lost interest in doing most anything. 206 00:10:56,412 --> 00:10:59,015 And he was drinking every day. 207 00:11:02,218 --> 00:11:03,620 - NARRATOR: But it's a seminal event 208 00:11:03,620 --> 00:11:05,989 during his senior year of high school 209 00:11:05,989 --> 00:11:09,459 that tips Dahmer past the point. 210 00:11:09,459 --> 00:11:12,228 - Jeff's parents divorced our senior year, 211 00:11:12,228 --> 00:11:14,931 and Mrs. Dahmer moved to Wisconsin 212 00:11:14,931 --> 00:11:16,566 with his little brother. 213 00:11:16,566 --> 00:11:20,703 And I guess there was some kind of court order to sell the house 214 00:11:20,703 --> 00:11:24,007 in the divorce proceedings and so Jeff's father had to 215 00:11:24,007 --> 00:11:25,475 move out of the house, too. 216 00:11:25,475 --> 00:11:28,645 He moved in the Ohio Motel in Bath and lived there. 217 00:11:28,645 --> 00:11:30,246 And then Jeff was living in the house 218 00:11:30,246 --> 00:11:33,216 by himself while it was up for sale. 219 00:11:33,216 --> 00:11:34,684 - His parents are now gone from the home, 220 00:11:34,684 --> 00:11:37,553 the divorce was underway, it provided the opportunity 221 00:11:37,553 --> 00:11:40,223 for him to be alone in the family residence 222 00:11:40,223 --> 00:11:45,428 - Dahmer has this profound sense of loneliness and isolation 223 00:11:45,428 --> 00:11:48,531 that he's trying to fill, but he doesn't quite know how. 224 00:11:48,531 --> 00:11:51,834 - Jeffrey Dahmer I don't think ever had a true friend, 225 00:11:51,834 --> 00:11:53,603 and that's what he was searching for. 226 00:11:54,704 --> 00:11:58,875 - NARRATOR: That same year, in the spring of 1978, 227 00:11:58,875 --> 00:12:02,645 Dahmer finds a way to fill the void. 228 00:12:04,313 --> 00:12:08,985 - Jeffrey Dahmer was obsessed with this jogger. 229 00:12:08,985 --> 00:12:13,523 Every day he's been watching this jogger go by. 230 00:12:13,523 --> 00:12:15,591 - He had frequently had the fantasy 231 00:12:15,591 --> 00:12:18,127 of maybe he could get this jogger to come in 232 00:12:18,127 --> 00:12:20,029 and be sexual with him. 233 00:12:21,531 --> 00:12:24,067 - NARRATOR: But the day Dahmer decides to finally 234 00:12:24,067 --> 00:12:27,904 put his plan into action, the jogger never shows. 235 00:12:29,872 --> 00:12:34,277 So, he sets out in search of a new target. 236 00:12:34,277 --> 00:12:36,879 - His desire to have people stay with him, 237 00:12:36,879 --> 00:12:38,114 it was just so tangible. 238 00:12:38,114 --> 00:12:41,351 He didn't care about who they were as a person, 239 00:12:41,351 --> 00:12:44,487 he just cared about their physical form. 240 00:12:46,289 --> 00:12:47,523 - He was left to his own devices, 241 00:12:47,523 --> 00:12:49,025 and he was drinking heavily, 242 00:12:49,025 --> 00:12:53,029 and he saw a young man that was essentially an opening 243 00:12:53,029 --> 00:12:56,666 to make his fantasies real. 244 00:12:56,666 --> 00:13:00,837 Steven Hicks was 19 years old, hitchhiking, as many kids did. 245 00:13:00,837 --> 00:13:03,339 - Jeffrey Dahmer picked up Steven Hicks 246 00:13:03,339 --> 00:13:05,141 and said that he would offer him a ride, 247 00:13:05,141 --> 00:13:07,510 but he offered to go back to Jeffrey's house first 248 00:13:07,510 --> 00:13:08,678 to have some drinks. 249 00:13:08,678 --> 00:13:11,380 And Steven accepted it. 250 00:13:11,380 --> 00:13:13,049 - Dahmer brought him home. 251 00:13:13,049 --> 00:13:15,051 They start to drink. 252 00:13:15,051 --> 00:13:16,385 He makes a move on Steven Hicks. 253 00:13:16,385 --> 00:13:20,957 And Steven Hicks tells him that he isn't gay. 254 00:13:20,957 --> 00:13:24,761 - NARRATOR: That's all it takes to send Dahmer over the edge. 255 00:13:24,761 --> 00:13:27,497 - For Jeffrey Dahmer, with his particular temperament 256 00:13:27,497 --> 00:13:29,999 and makeup, he's trying to fill with sex 257 00:13:29,999 --> 00:13:32,368 and trying to make intimate connections, 258 00:13:32,368 --> 00:13:35,772 but mostly it's about power and control. 259 00:13:35,772 --> 00:13:39,242 - He grabbed a barbell, and he beat him to death 260 00:13:39,242 --> 00:13:42,145 in what he called a moment of passion. 261 00:13:43,513 --> 00:13:45,348 - NARRATOR: High school senior Jeffrey Dahmer 262 00:13:45,348 --> 00:13:51,287 has just crossed the Rubicon, graduating to stone-cold killer. 263 00:13:51,287 --> 00:13:53,990 - As Mr. Hicks lie dying, uh, 264 00:13:53,990 --> 00:13:57,126 Jeffrey Dahmer strangely enough wasn't satisfied. 265 00:13:57,126 --> 00:14:01,497 He saw the dead body after, uh, after Hicks had bled out 266 00:14:01,497 --> 00:14:04,200 and he became aroused, 267 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,102 and he masturbated on the victim. 268 00:14:07,069 --> 00:14:09,005 - The part of him that knew it was wrong 269 00:14:09,005 --> 00:14:11,607 and knew there were consequences to his actions 270 00:14:11,607 --> 00:14:14,977 was probably scared about what was going to happen to him. 271 00:14:14,977 --> 00:14:18,314 But that thrill, that high that he's chasing 272 00:14:18,314 --> 00:14:20,116 is just too irresistible. 273 00:14:21,551 --> 00:14:24,487 - Once he realized how aroused he was 274 00:14:24,487 --> 00:14:27,089 at the sight of a lifeless corpse, 275 00:14:27,089 --> 00:14:28,891 there was no turning back. 276 00:14:28,891 --> 00:14:34,096 It is the beginning of a recipe of complete and utter horror. 277 00:14:35,698 --> 00:14:39,268 - NARRATOR: But Dahmer's depravity doesn't end there. 278 00:14:40,870 --> 00:14:43,940 - Dahmer then proceeded to do what he did 279 00:14:43,940 --> 00:14:46,843 to countless animals in his shed. 280 00:14:46,843 --> 00:14:49,645 He figured out he needed to get rid of this body, 281 00:14:49,645 --> 00:14:51,280 and so he dismembered it. 282 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:54,917 Using a paring knife, he removed his arms and his legs, 283 00:14:54,917 --> 00:14:58,921 and he separated them into a bunch of different garbage bags. 284 00:14:58,921 --> 00:15:03,226 - Jeffrey Dahmer's willingness to manipulate carcasses 285 00:15:03,226 --> 00:15:05,061 and play with dead animals 286 00:15:05,061 --> 00:15:07,997 can be an early indicator of a psychopath. 287 00:15:07,997 --> 00:15:10,733 They are lacking a connection to humanity, 288 00:15:10,733 --> 00:15:13,035 a, a certain empathy. 289 00:15:13,035 --> 00:15:16,505 It's definitely a red flag. No doubt about it. 290 00:15:16,973 --> 00:15:19,242 - NARRATOR: Dahmer's affinity for dead animals 291 00:15:19,242 --> 00:15:21,744 is not uncommon among cannibals. 292 00:15:21,744 --> 00:15:24,280 This same predilection was adopted 293 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,116 by another famous flesh eater, 294 00:15:32,321 --> 00:15:35,691 29 year old, Luka Magnotta. 295 00:15:35,691 --> 00:15:40,096 - Luka Magnotta is a, let's call him an amateur model 296 00:15:40,096 --> 00:15:42,798 that, uh, uploaded videos of himself 297 00:15:42,798 --> 00:15:45,735 murdering cats to Facebook. 298 00:15:45,735 --> 00:15:48,538 - Luka Magnotta was all about seeking attention. 299 00:15:48,538 --> 00:15:51,774 He wanted all eyes on him at all times. 300 00:15:51,774 --> 00:15:53,643 - When you see his first video that he uploaded, 301 00:15:53,643 --> 00:15:55,578 he's messing with cats, he's killing cats. 302 00:15:55,578 --> 00:15:57,213 It's absolutely horrific. 303 00:15:57,213 --> 00:16:00,616 And it goes all the way to him finally killing a human being. 304 00:16:01,350 --> 00:16:03,953 - NARRATOR: On May 25, 2011, 305 00:16:03,953 --> 00:16:07,356 Magnotta posts an 11-minute video of himself 306 00:16:07,356 --> 00:16:12,395 repeatedly stabbing an unknown man with an ice pick. 307 00:16:12,395 --> 00:16:14,530 He then uses a knife and fork 308 00:16:14,530 --> 00:16:18,868 to remove his victim's flesh and eat it. 309 00:16:18,868 --> 00:16:20,803 - It's very much like a drug addiction. 310 00:16:20,803 --> 00:16:23,139 I'm gonna do X amount of drugs the first time, 311 00:16:23,139 --> 00:16:25,141 but then I'm gonna need to do more and more and more 312 00:16:25,141 --> 00:16:27,410 as it goes on. 313 00:16:27,410 --> 00:16:30,079 - Luka Magnotta didn't just wanna heighten his crimes, 314 00:16:30,079 --> 00:16:32,081 he also wanted to heighten his fame, 315 00:16:32,081 --> 00:16:34,850 which is something that's unique to serial killers nowadays, 316 00:16:34,850 --> 00:16:37,954 especially with the rise of the internet. 317 00:16:39,155 --> 00:16:42,525 - That same week, Magnotta ships the remains of his victim 318 00:16:42,525 --> 00:16:46,062 to the headquarters of Canada's various political parties. 319 00:16:47,063 --> 00:16:51,267 - He's tempting the cops, daring them to catch him. 320 00:16:51,267 --> 00:16:52,802 Killers like Luka Magnotta, 321 00:16:52,802 --> 00:16:54,603 they go try to get the thrill-seeking 322 00:16:54,603 --> 00:16:55,905 by wanting to get caught. 323 00:16:55,905 --> 00:16:57,073 Sometimes even fantasizing 324 00:16:57,073 --> 00:16:59,608 about the moment they get caught. 325 00:16:59,608 --> 00:17:01,744 Because if you're caught, like sure, yeah, 326 00:17:01,744 --> 00:17:03,312 you're caught for murder 327 00:17:03,312 --> 00:17:05,915 and yeah, you might go to jail or be put to death, but man, 328 00:17:05,915 --> 00:17:07,450 are you gonna have that spotlight 329 00:17:07,450 --> 00:17:11,253 for one glorious 15 minutes of fame. 330 00:17:11,253 --> 00:17:12,588 - NARRATOR: Six days later, 331 00:17:12,588 --> 00:17:16,525 the attention-seeking cannibal gets his wish. 332 00:17:16,525 --> 00:17:19,028 After fleeing Canada and triggering 333 00:17:19,028 --> 00:17:22,131 a highly-publicized worldwide manhunt, 334 00:17:22,131 --> 00:17:26,202 Magnotta is arrested in a Berlin internet cafe 335 00:17:26,202 --> 00:17:30,573 while surfing for stories about his own media coverage. 336 00:17:30,573 --> 00:17:32,441 He's extradited to Canada, 337 00:17:32,441 --> 00:17:35,044 stands trial, and is found guilty 338 00:17:35,044 --> 00:17:37,847 of murdering the man he ate, 339 00:17:37,847 --> 00:17:41,751 his 21-year-old lover, Jun Lin. 340 00:17:41,751 --> 00:17:45,788 Magnotta's currently serving a life sentence. 341 00:17:45,788 --> 00:17:47,656 Unlike Luka Magnotta, 342 00:17:47,656 --> 00:17:51,360 Jeffery Dahmer prefers to avoid the spotlight. 343 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:55,831 After killing and dismembering his first victim, Steven Hicks, 344 00:17:55,831 --> 00:17:58,300 Dahmer fears he will be caught. 345 00:17:58,300 --> 00:18:00,236 - Dahmer, at this point in his development, 346 00:18:00,236 --> 00:18:02,438 is still shy with what he's doing. 347 00:18:02,438 --> 00:18:05,908 So he's going to try to get rid of the evidence. 348 00:18:05,908 --> 00:18:08,844 - NARRATOR: With his victim in several garbage bags, 349 00:18:08,844 --> 00:18:13,749 Dahmer sets out to dispose of the remains at the dump. 350 00:18:13,749 --> 00:18:17,153 But en route, his worst fear comes true. 351 00:18:17,153 --> 00:18:21,157 He's stopped by the police for erratic driving. 352 00:18:21,157 --> 00:18:23,259 - They flashed the light into the back of his car 353 00:18:23,259 --> 00:18:25,194 and said, what's in the bags back there? 354 00:18:25,194 --> 00:18:27,663 - NARRATOR: Dahmer calmly explains to the officer 355 00:18:27,663 --> 00:18:29,765 that he was having trouble sleeping, 356 00:18:29,765 --> 00:18:31,767 so he decided to get a jump 357 00:18:31,767 --> 00:18:33,936 on his weekly trash duty. 358 00:18:33,936 --> 00:18:35,471 - Obviously, Jeff Dahmer 359 00:18:35,471 --> 00:18:38,374 was very good at hiding this dark side of himself. 360 00:18:38,374 --> 00:18:41,977 He was able to convince people, talk his way out of things, 361 00:18:41,977 --> 00:18:45,448 appear relatively normal. 362 00:18:45,448 --> 00:18:47,083 - The police just give him an 363 00:18:47,083 --> 00:18:48,751 aw, shucks, you just get out of here. 364 00:18:48,751 --> 00:18:50,419 You watch yourself gettin' home. 365 00:18:50,419 --> 00:18:51,821 Jeffrey Dahmer's so freaked out, 366 00:18:51,821 --> 00:18:55,825 he drives back to his house with the remains. 367 00:18:55,825 --> 00:18:59,462 - NARRATOR: This time, Dahmer leaves nothing to chance. 368 00:18:59,462 --> 00:19:03,265 - He then dissected it further, pounded the bones 369 00:19:03,265 --> 00:19:06,068 into piece, small pieces, and then spread it out 370 00:19:06,068 --> 00:19:09,839 over the 1 1/4 wooded acres of his home. 371 00:19:09,839 --> 00:19:11,440 - NARRATOR: This wouldn't be the only time 372 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:15,644 Dahmer narrowly escapes being caught in the act. 373 00:19:15,644 --> 00:19:17,446 - He's proven to himself that he can do it 374 00:19:17,446 --> 00:19:18,647 and get away with it. 375 00:19:18,647 --> 00:19:20,950 So how do I find this, this high again? 376 00:19:22,351 --> 00:19:25,054 - NARRATOR: Some believe Dahmer's dark desires 377 00:19:25,054 --> 00:19:28,090 were biologically predetermined. 378 00:19:28,090 --> 00:19:31,026 - You could say that Jeffrey Dahmer's 379 00:19:31,026 --> 00:19:33,863 fate was sealed almost at birth. 380 00:19:33,863 --> 00:19:35,598 When his mother was pregnant with him, 381 00:19:35,598 --> 00:19:37,867 she took 27 pills a day, 382 00:19:37,867 --> 00:19:42,872 including growth hormones, estrogen, progesterone, 383 00:19:42,872 --> 00:19:45,708 uppers, downers. 384 00:19:45,708 --> 00:19:48,844 - Could that trauma while his mother was pregnant with him 385 00:19:48,844 --> 00:19:50,946 have damaged his brain while he was in utero? 386 00:19:50,946 --> 00:19:53,516 It is a possibility. 387 00:19:53,516 --> 00:19:57,486 - NARRATOR: For now, Dahmer quiets his demons. 388 00:19:58,954 --> 00:20:02,024 After graduating from high school in 1978, 389 00:20:02,024 --> 00:20:05,895 his struggles become more normal. 390 00:20:05,895 --> 00:20:08,097 - The story of Dahmer's after high school life 391 00:20:08,097 --> 00:20:10,900 reads like the story of millions and millions of people 392 00:20:10,900 --> 00:20:13,269 who are trying to find themselves. 393 00:20:13,269 --> 00:20:16,205 - NARRATOR: Dahmer attends Ohio State University, 394 00:20:16,205 --> 00:20:19,341 but once again, struggles to fit in. 395 00:20:19,341 --> 00:20:21,510 - He enrolled into college, which he actually 396 00:20:21,510 --> 00:20:23,078 did flunk out of after a year 397 00:20:23,078 --> 00:20:25,347 because of his alcoholic tendencies, 398 00:20:25,347 --> 00:20:27,483 and after that, his father forced him 399 00:20:27,483 --> 00:20:29,485 to go into the Army. 400 00:20:29,485 --> 00:20:34,423 - He became an Army medic, was dispatched to Germany, 401 00:20:34,423 --> 00:20:35,424 but the drinking problems 402 00:20:35,424 --> 00:20:37,126 surfaced while he was in the military. 403 00:20:37,126 --> 00:20:41,030 And after a period of time, a year or so, he was sent home. 404 00:20:41,030 --> 00:20:45,367 - NARRATOR: But coming home to Ohio doesn't help either. 405 00:20:45,367 --> 00:20:47,069 - There were some problems there at home drinking, 406 00:20:47,069 --> 00:20:48,938 and the father thought Dahmer would be best served 407 00:20:48,938 --> 00:20:51,774 by going to live with the grandmother. 408 00:20:51,774 --> 00:20:55,945 - NARRATOR: In December 1981, Jeffrey moves to Wisconsin 409 00:20:55,945 --> 00:20:59,715 to live with 77-year-old Catherine Dahmer. 410 00:20:59,715 --> 00:21:00,916 - The hope was that maybe a, 411 00:21:00,916 --> 00:21:03,285 a change of venue would be helpful. 412 00:21:03,285 --> 00:21:04,920 - NARRATOR: Dahmer seems to take well 413 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:06,422 to his new environment, 414 00:21:06,422 --> 00:21:10,459 finding new ways to suppress his feelings of otherness. 415 00:21:10,459 --> 00:21:12,394 - The grandmother was a spiritual person, 416 00:21:12,394 --> 00:21:15,231 and she seemed to have a beneficial influence on him. 417 00:21:15,231 --> 00:21:16,966 Dahmer said he started reading the bible, 418 00:21:16,966 --> 00:21:18,867 started thinking about these things, 419 00:21:18,867 --> 00:21:21,403 and assessing what he had done. 420 00:21:21,403 --> 00:21:24,506 - Religion was like his last effort on trying to fix 421 00:21:24,506 --> 00:21:26,809 what he thought was broken, which was being gay. 422 00:21:26,809 --> 00:21:29,111 And he really dove into that, 423 00:21:29,111 --> 00:21:31,480 and spent a lot a time studying religion, 424 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,849 going to church, and everyone around Jeffery 425 00:21:33,849 --> 00:21:37,052 thought that this was going to be a really good thing for him. 426 00:21:37,853 --> 00:21:41,991 - NARRATOR: Now, 21-year-old Dahmer lives under the radar, 427 00:21:41,991 --> 00:21:44,193 doing his best to play the part 428 00:21:44,193 --> 00:21:47,429 of a dutiful, church-going grandson. 429 00:21:47,429 --> 00:21:51,533 But below the surface, evil is rising. 430 00:21:51,533 --> 00:21:53,235 - He continued to push down 431 00:21:53,235 --> 00:21:56,639 these darker demons that he held within. 432 00:21:56,639 --> 00:22:00,342 But keep in mind, what happens in the darkness comes to light. 433 00:22:05,948 --> 00:22:07,549 - NARRATOR: In the spring of 1982, 434 00:22:07,549 --> 00:22:08,984 Jeffrey Dahmer is living 435 00:22:08,984 --> 00:22:12,121 with his grandmother in West Allis, Wisconsin 436 00:22:12,121 --> 00:22:17,192 and struggling to keep his dark fantasies at bay. 437 00:22:17,192 --> 00:22:20,362 He already has one murder under his belt 438 00:22:20,362 --> 00:22:25,301 and is fighting the urge to commit further unspeakable acts. 439 00:22:25,301 --> 00:22:30,406 But he has yet to find the taste for human flesh. 440 00:22:30,406 --> 00:22:32,041 - He still felt the quote, unquote, 441 00:22:32,041 --> 00:22:34,510 "remorse" about Steven Hicks into his adulthood. 442 00:22:34,510 --> 00:22:36,445 And he knew he had to do something, 443 00:22:36,445 --> 00:22:38,514 because his thoughts weren't going away. 444 00:22:38,514 --> 00:22:40,616 The Bible didn't help it, and the booze 445 00:22:40,616 --> 00:22:42,651 actually made it worse. 446 00:22:42,651 --> 00:22:46,088 - NARRATOR: Desperate to act out on his dark desires, 447 00:22:46,088 --> 00:22:49,758 Dahmer finds a partner who won't fight back. 448 00:22:51,293 --> 00:22:53,562 - So he stole a mannequin from a department store, 449 00:22:53,562 --> 00:22:56,665 and he treated it as if it was his boyfriend. 450 00:22:56,665 --> 00:22:59,268 He would go out with it. He'd leave it in his car. 451 00:22:59,268 --> 00:23:00,869 He'd sleep with it in the bed. 452 00:23:00,869 --> 00:23:02,938 - This wasn't some fun senior prank. 453 00:23:02,938 --> 00:23:05,808 This was for Dahmer's own sexual purposes. 454 00:23:06,642 --> 00:23:10,112 - Pygmalionism is the psychological condition 455 00:23:10,112 --> 00:23:13,882 of falling in love with one's own creation. 456 00:23:13,882 --> 00:23:17,319 Dahmer has this mannequin as a kind of stop-gap measure, 457 00:23:17,319 --> 00:23:21,423 somebody he can impose his will on that won't fight back. 458 00:23:22,458 --> 00:23:24,626 - NARRATOR: Dahmer keeps this new obsession 459 00:23:24,626 --> 00:23:26,161 close to the chest, 460 00:23:26,161 --> 00:23:29,932 storing the mannequin in his closet whenever he's away. 461 00:23:29,932 --> 00:23:32,101 But it's only a matter of time 462 00:23:32,101 --> 00:23:36,105 before his dark secret is exposed. 463 00:23:36,105 --> 00:23:37,773 - One day his grandmother went into his room, 464 00:23:37,773 --> 00:23:41,877 opened his closet, and was shocked and disturbed 465 00:23:41,877 --> 00:23:43,812 at seeing this mannequin. 466 00:23:43,812 --> 00:23:47,249 So she completely freaked out and forced him to get rid of it. 467 00:23:48,450 --> 00:23:52,488 - NARRATOR: Now Dahmer must find new ways to get his kicks-- 468 00:23:52,488 --> 00:23:55,157 outside the home. 469 00:23:55,958 --> 00:23:57,393 - He did a lot of public exposure 470 00:23:57,393 --> 00:23:59,795 where he exposed himself to young boys 471 00:23:59,795 --> 00:24:00,996 on more than one occasion. 472 00:24:00,996 --> 00:24:03,332 He was a public masturbator as well. 473 00:24:03,332 --> 00:24:06,035 - He goes to a state fair, 474 00:24:06,035 --> 00:24:09,938 and he gets arrested for exposing himself. 475 00:24:09,938 --> 00:24:13,409 - And then later, he exposed himself to two boys in a park, 476 00:24:13,409 --> 00:24:16,178 and that led to a prosecution. 477 00:24:16,178 --> 00:24:19,648 - NARRATOR: Still, Dahmer doesn't murder anyone else, 478 00:24:19,648 --> 00:24:22,284 for now. 479 00:24:22,284 --> 00:24:24,319 - Dahmer had great impulse control 480 00:24:24,319 --> 00:24:27,589 combined with complete and utter lack 481 00:24:27,589 --> 00:24:28,724 of impulse control. 482 00:24:28,724 --> 00:24:31,393 Just him trying to present himself as normal. 483 00:24:31,393 --> 00:24:33,362 That must have not been easy to do 484 00:24:33,362 --> 00:24:36,031 when you're hiding all of these dark thoughts. 485 00:24:36,031 --> 00:24:37,833 - NARRATOR: To keep his mind busy, 486 00:24:37,833 --> 00:24:41,070 Dahmer takes a job at the Ambrosia Chocolate Factory 487 00:24:41,070 --> 00:24:46,041 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in January, 1985. 488 00:24:46,041 --> 00:24:47,709 - He was a reliable worker. Did good work. 489 00:24:47,709 --> 00:24:50,145 He was able to mix hundreds of different mixtures 490 00:24:50,145 --> 00:24:52,147 of the cocoa that went into the different 491 00:24:52,147 --> 00:24:54,917 orders of chocolate that the company produced. 492 00:24:54,917 --> 00:24:58,387 - NARRATOR: None of Dahmer's coworkers have any idea 493 00:24:58,387 --> 00:25:02,891 of the dangerous sexual fantasies filling his head. 494 00:25:02,891 --> 00:25:05,160 But as his desire grows stronger, 495 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,763 Dahmer seeks out a new lover 496 00:25:07,763 --> 00:25:10,666 in the strangest of places. 497 00:25:10,666 --> 00:25:14,436 - One day he saw the obituary of a man who had passed away 498 00:25:14,436 --> 00:25:16,271 in a motorcycle accident. 499 00:25:16,271 --> 00:25:18,941 And just by looking at the picture of this man, 500 00:25:18,941 --> 00:25:20,809 he completely fell in love with him. 501 00:25:20,809 --> 00:25:25,547 So he ended up going to where this body was buried. 502 00:25:25,547 --> 00:25:27,816 - He did try to dig up the body. 503 00:25:27,816 --> 00:25:32,254 He made an attempt and dug down maybe a little bit. 504 00:25:33,021 --> 00:25:34,289 - It would be bad enough 505 00:25:34,289 --> 00:25:36,592 if I were to go and desecrate a grave, 506 00:25:36,592 --> 00:25:39,228 dig up a body, vandalize a tombstone. 507 00:25:39,228 --> 00:25:42,197 That would be sacrilege and offensive to people, 508 00:25:42,197 --> 00:25:43,532 but now we're adding on 509 00:25:43,532 --> 00:25:46,668 this other layer of sexuality on top of it. 510 00:25:46,668 --> 00:25:49,371 - NARRATOR: In the end, the ground is too hard, 511 00:25:49,371 --> 00:25:52,708 and Dahmer quickly aborts the effort. 512 00:25:53,509 --> 00:25:56,645 But the beast inside of him awakens. 513 00:25:56,645 --> 00:26:00,415 Dahmer continues his quest for a submissive lover. 514 00:26:00,415 --> 00:26:02,618 He heads to nearby Milwaukee, 515 00:26:02,618 --> 00:26:06,488 where he discovers a thriving gay community. 516 00:26:06,989 --> 00:26:08,290 - The bar scene was amazing. 517 00:26:08,290 --> 00:26:11,827 Second Street was the main drag in the '80s. 518 00:26:11,827 --> 00:26:13,395 It was very gay friendly. 519 00:26:13,395 --> 00:26:17,699 People who, uh, didn't care about what other people thought. 520 00:26:17,699 --> 00:26:21,236 - NARRATOR: Dahmer does his best not to draw attention. 521 00:26:21,236 --> 00:26:25,941 Still, he manages to stand out in the crowd. 522 00:26:25,941 --> 00:26:29,178 - He would always hang out by the cigarette machine. 523 00:26:29,178 --> 00:26:31,346 Sat back in a little alcove. 524 00:26:31,346 --> 00:26:34,583 And he would sit there and watch people. 525 00:26:34,583 --> 00:26:37,519 I'm the kinda person, if I see someone standing around 526 00:26:37,519 --> 00:26:38,854 countless times, you know, 527 00:26:38,854 --> 00:26:41,156 I'm gonna go up and say something to 'em. 528 00:26:41,156 --> 00:26:43,158 And I walked by him just nonchalantly 529 00:26:43,158 --> 00:26:44,760 and go, smile, It's not that bad. 530 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,696 And he kinda smiled and I was like, what's your name? Jeff. 531 00:26:47,696 --> 00:26:49,164 And, you know, we talked a little bit 532 00:26:49,164 --> 00:26:51,133 and I said, yeah, I see you here a lot. 533 00:26:51,133 --> 00:26:54,303 I'd see him looking at somebody. I'd say, you like that one, huh? 534 00:26:54,303 --> 00:26:56,538 You know, he'd give a little smile once in a while. 535 00:26:56,538 --> 00:26:59,808 I thought he was a very shy person. 536 00:26:59,808 --> 00:27:01,443 - NARRATOR: Goldie's not the only one 537 00:27:01,443 --> 00:27:05,581 to take note of the tall, blonde man in the corner. 538 00:27:05,581 --> 00:27:08,116 - A lot a people would like the way Jeffrey looked. 539 00:27:08,116 --> 00:27:11,053 And they would talk about him and wanna go talk to him. 540 00:27:11,053 --> 00:27:12,487 And I always said, well talk to him. 541 00:27:12,487 --> 00:27:14,890 I've talked to him before, you know, he's a nice guy. 542 00:27:14,890 --> 00:27:16,358 At least I thought so. 543 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:18,627 - Jeffrey was not someone 544 00:27:18,627 --> 00:27:20,028 that would appear to be a threat to anyone, 545 00:27:20,028 --> 00:27:22,631 and so when he would approach these men at bars, 546 00:27:22,631 --> 00:27:25,667 he didn't seem like someone that anyone should be afraid of. 547 00:27:25,667 --> 00:27:29,271 And that really worked in his advantage. 548 00:27:29,271 --> 00:27:30,539 - NARRATOR: But when Dahmer migrates 549 00:27:30,539 --> 00:27:33,208 over to the gay bath houses nearby, 550 00:27:33,208 --> 00:27:36,878 the reception isn't quite as welcoming. 551 00:27:36,878 --> 00:27:40,249 - Bath houses were a place that you could go 552 00:27:40,249 --> 00:27:45,087 and anticipate you would meet a sexual partner. 553 00:27:45,087 --> 00:27:47,856 But the men there found Jeffrey Dahmer 554 00:27:47,856 --> 00:27:50,759 to be incredibly creepy. 555 00:27:50,759 --> 00:27:53,128 - NARRATOR: So Dahmer finds his own way 556 00:27:53,128 --> 00:27:55,964 to gain companionship. 557 00:27:55,964 --> 00:27:58,634 - He'd say, here have a drink of my, whatever he'd be using. 558 00:27:58,634 --> 00:28:01,937 The guy would take the drink and pass out. 559 00:28:01,937 --> 00:28:04,706 And Dahmer would then sexually exploit him. 560 00:28:04,706 --> 00:28:06,508 - Many of the men that would go to that bath house 561 00:28:06,508 --> 00:28:07,743 were on the down low. 562 00:28:07,743 --> 00:28:09,911 Many of them had families, I am sure of it. 563 00:28:09,911 --> 00:28:13,215 So they couldn't tell anybody what happened to them. 564 00:28:13,215 --> 00:28:15,350 That's a whole 'nother level of trauma 565 00:28:15,350 --> 00:28:18,553 that Jeffrey Dahmer put upon these men. 566 00:28:18,553 --> 00:28:21,623 - NARRATOR: But then Dahmer overplays his hand. 567 00:28:23,291 --> 00:28:25,961 - The bath house operator finds a man unconscious in there, 568 00:28:25,961 --> 00:28:27,396 has to summon an ambulance. 569 00:28:27,396 --> 00:28:28,630 The guy's taken out to the hospital. 570 00:28:28,630 --> 00:28:30,198 They realized he was drugged. 571 00:28:30,198 --> 00:28:35,103 - NARRATOR: The owners soon trace the victim back to Dahmer. 572 00:28:35,103 --> 00:28:36,471 - They were able to identify Dahmer 573 00:28:36,471 --> 00:28:38,240 and said, that's it, no more in the bath house. 574 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,542 You can't come in the bath house. 575 00:28:40,542 --> 00:28:43,545 - NARRATOR: But the ban does little to stop Dahmer. 576 00:28:43,545 --> 00:28:46,915 He continues to drug men at the bars, 577 00:28:46,915 --> 00:28:49,584 then brings them back to nearby hotels 578 00:28:49,584 --> 00:28:51,953 to have his way with them. 579 00:28:51,953 --> 00:28:54,423 - He can't enjoy himself 580 00:28:54,423 --> 00:28:57,659 when the other person is conscious, 581 00:28:57,659 --> 00:29:01,296 because they'll say, you're weird, Jeffrey. 582 00:29:01,296 --> 00:29:03,365 Why are you so drunk, Jeffrey? 583 00:29:03,365 --> 00:29:05,667 He wants total control. 584 00:29:05,667 --> 00:29:07,836 - NARRATOR: Though Dahmer sedates his prey, 585 00:29:07,836 --> 00:29:12,674 some cannibals prefer their victims awake. 586 00:29:17,646 --> 00:29:20,449 - There are people who actively search out the concept 587 00:29:20,449 --> 00:29:22,818 of being consumed, and vice versa. 588 00:29:22,818 --> 00:29:27,556 People who are looking for willing dinners. 589 00:29:27,556 --> 00:29:31,460 - NARRATOR: In 2001, 40-year-old Armin Meiwes 590 00:29:31,460 --> 00:29:34,162 isn't shy about what he's looking for. 591 00:29:34,162 --> 00:29:40,068 He posts a personal ad online for a man he can cannibalize. 592 00:29:40,068 --> 00:29:43,105 - His whole thing was he wanted consensual cannibalism. 593 00:29:43,105 --> 00:29:49,044 He wanted his victim to agree to allow Armin to eat them. 594 00:29:49,044 --> 00:29:52,080 - NARRATOR: Incredibly, an engineer from Berlin 595 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:57,052 by the name of Bernd Brandes enthusiastically replies. 596 00:29:57,052 --> 00:29:59,921 - They arrived at his home. They got intoxicated. 597 00:29:59,921 --> 00:30:02,524 He chopped off his penis. He cooked it. 598 00:30:02,524 --> 00:30:04,226 They ate it together. 599 00:30:04,226 --> 00:30:07,896 His victim was then saying, I'm feeling pretty woozy. 600 00:30:07,896 --> 00:30:10,732 He then put him in a bathtub and then, uh, 601 00:30:10,732 --> 00:30:13,502 drained his blood until he was dead. 602 00:30:13,502 --> 00:30:15,337 - NARRATOR: Over the next 10 months, 603 00:30:15,337 --> 00:30:18,373 Meiwes continues to take sexual pleasure 604 00:30:18,373 --> 00:30:21,376 out of eating Brandes's flesh. 605 00:30:21,376 --> 00:30:27,015 In all, he consumes nearly 50 pounds of his victim's body. 606 00:30:27,015 --> 00:30:29,084 - It's interesting because the argument there is, 607 00:30:29,084 --> 00:30:30,552 was this really murder? 608 00:30:30,552 --> 00:30:32,154 It was cannibalism, but was it murder 609 00:30:32,154 --> 00:30:34,856 because they both agreed to it? 610 00:30:34,856 --> 00:30:37,225 - NARRATOR: But when Meiwes returns to the internet 611 00:30:37,225 --> 00:30:39,594 in search of a second victim, 612 00:30:39,594 --> 00:30:42,497 authorities are alerted to his crime 613 00:30:42,497 --> 00:30:45,567 and arrest the man who will become known 614 00:30:45,567 --> 00:30:48,069 as the Rotenberg Cannibal. 615 00:30:48,069 --> 00:30:51,406 - The idea of somebody consuming us for food 616 00:30:51,406 --> 00:30:56,178 is so far out of our grasp of reality 617 00:30:56,178 --> 00:30:58,513 that it just shocks you. 618 00:30:58,513 --> 00:31:00,148 People have to take a step back 619 00:31:00,148 --> 00:31:03,585 and recognize that human beings can indeed do that. 620 00:31:09,758 --> 00:31:13,995 - NARRATOR: By November 1987, Dahmer has not yet crossed 621 00:31:13,995 --> 00:31:18,133 into forbidden realm of cannibalism. 622 00:31:18,133 --> 00:31:21,703 But with eight years passing since his first kill, 623 00:31:21,703 --> 00:31:26,775 his need to control another living person is escalating. 624 00:31:26,775 --> 00:31:29,477 - He meets Steven Tuomi at a bar 625 00:31:29,477 --> 00:31:33,281 and goes back with him to the Ambassador Hotel. 626 00:31:33,281 --> 00:31:35,750 - Dahmer gave him the drink that rendered him unconscious, 627 00:31:35,750 --> 00:31:38,253 and then sexually abused him, set upon him sexually. 628 00:31:38,253 --> 00:31:40,655 - NARRATOR: But just when things are heating up, 629 00:31:40,655 --> 00:31:44,159 Dahmer makes a major mistake. 630 00:31:44,159 --> 00:31:46,428 - What appears to have happened is that Mr. Dahmer 631 00:31:46,428 --> 00:31:52,367 accidentally drank some of this Halcion-laced drink himself. 632 00:31:52,367 --> 00:31:55,470 - NARRATOR: Dahmer soon passes out. 633 00:31:55,470 --> 00:32:01,142 The next morning, he wakes up to find he's covered in blood. 634 00:32:02,177 --> 00:32:05,480 - So, it was while he was himself intoxicated 635 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,582 after eight years of trying not to kill 636 00:32:07,582 --> 00:32:09,818 that he killed again. 637 00:32:09,818 --> 00:32:11,887 - The slow process to cannibalism 638 00:32:11,887 --> 00:32:14,022 has now been accelerated immensely. 639 00:32:14,022 --> 00:32:16,324 After the second murder, he is back 640 00:32:16,324 --> 00:32:19,227 and he's more powerful than ever. 641 00:32:23,064 --> 00:32:25,233 - NARRATOR: Jeffrey Dahmer has spent eight years 642 00:32:25,233 --> 00:32:29,538 trying to convince himself that he will not kill again. 643 00:32:29,538 --> 00:32:32,574 Then, in November 1987, 644 00:32:32,574 --> 00:32:35,443 he wakes up to a shocking discovery 645 00:32:35,443 --> 00:32:38,914 in a Milwaukee hotel room. 646 00:32:38,914 --> 00:32:42,484 - Steven Tuomi was dead in that hotel room. 647 00:32:42,484 --> 00:32:46,554 He had been beaten to death. 648 00:32:46,554 --> 00:32:47,923 - He was black and blue. 649 00:32:47,923 --> 00:32:52,727 And Jeffrey realized that in his blackout state 650 00:32:52,727 --> 00:32:55,797 he had murdered Steven Tuomi. 651 00:32:57,399 --> 00:33:01,002 - Dahmer claims that he has no memory of it whatsoever. 652 00:33:01,002 --> 00:33:03,338 Now, I don't know how much credence to give that 653 00:33:03,338 --> 00:33:05,907 because immediately upon discovering this dead body 654 00:33:05,907 --> 00:33:08,910 Jeffrey Dahmer took action. 655 00:33:08,910 --> 00:33:10,946 - Dahmer went out and got a large suitcase, 656 00:33:10,946 --> 00:33:14,149 brought it back and packed this young man into the suitcase 657 00:33:14,149 --> 00:33:15,817 and summoned a cab. 658 00:33:15,817 --> 00:33:17,085 The cab driver came and helped him down 659 00:33:17,085 --> 00:33:19,054 with the suitcase, and actually said to him, 660 00:33:19,054 --> 00:33:22,190 what do you got, a dead body in here? 661 00:33:22,190 --> 00:33:24,993 - NARRATOR: Dahmer takes the cab to his grandmother's house 662 00:33:24,993 --> 00:33:29,364 where he gets right to work butchering the body. 663 00:33:29,364 --> 00:33:31,900 - Physically it's very difficult to cut up a body. 664 00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:34,669 It's hours and hours of work, and it's messy work, 665 00:33:34,669 --> 00:33:37,939 which takes, uh, a lot of strength. 666 00:33:37,939 --> 00:33:39,274 - NARRATOR: But this time, 667 00:33:39,274 --> 00:33:43,144 Dahmer doesn't dispose of his entire victim. 668 00:33:43,144 --> 00:33:47,449 - He keeps the skull. The skull was significant 669 00:33:47,449 --> 00:33:52,020 in Jeffrey Dahmer's progression as a serial murderer. 670 00:33:52,721 --> 00:33:55,056 - There have been some serial killers 671 00:33:55,056 --> 00:33:56,992 who've actually taken trophies 672 00:33:56,992 --> 00:33:59,894 as though this is the fruits of my, my labor. 673 00:33:59,894 --> 00:34:03,131 That really was not what was going on with Mr. Dahmer. 674 00:34:03,131 --> 00:34:07,335 This was him trying to hold on and stay close in his mind, 675 00:34:07,335 --> 00:34:09,938 to those whom he had victimized. 676 00:34:09,938 --> 00:34:12,173 - He masturbated inside of the skull. 677 00:34:12,173 --> 00:34:15,276 He would look at the skull and fantasize about the crime 678 00:34:15,276 --> 00:34:16,811 that he committed. 679 00:34:16,811 --> 00:34:20,048 Yes, maybe Tuomi is dead, but at least he has his skull. 680 00:34:20,048 --> 00:34:23,418 And with the skulls come the memories. 681 00:34:23,418 --> 00:34:26,988 - NARRATOR: It's not long before even this prized possession 682 00:34:26,988 --> 00:34:30,225 starts losing its luster for Dahmer. 683 00:34:30,225 --> 00:34:32,494 - He's worried about the consequences, 684 00:34:32,494 --> 00:34:34,429 so he's going to shatter these bones. 685 00:34:34,429 --> 00:34:36,598 He's gonna pulverize them 686 00:34:36,598 --> 00:34:40,001 - NARRATOR: Two months later, he seeks out another victim, 687 00:34:40,001 --> 00:34:43,438 14-year-old Jamie Doxtator. 688 00:34:43,438 --> 00:34:45,774 - Jeffrey approached it with a different angle this time. 689 00:34:45,774 --> 00:34:47,809 He said, listen I'll give you $50. 690 00:34:47,809 --> 00:34:49,644 Just come back to my apartment with me, 691 00:34:49,644 --> 00:34:53,148 and let me take your picture. And obviously as a 14-year-old, 692 00:34:53,148 --> 00:34:56,051 Jamie's not thinking worst-case scenario. 693 00:34:56,051 --> 00:35:00,155 - You're in downtown Milwaukee, and this white, timid guy 694 00:35:00,155 --> 00:35:02,724 come to you flashing money in your face, 695 00:35:02,724 --> 00:35:05,160 sure you're gonna go with him. 696 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:09,864 But once he gave them that drink to knock 'em out, 697 00:35:09,864 --> 00:35:14,169 then the game was over. Checkmate. 698 00:35:14,169 --> 00:35:17,038 - NARRATOR: Dahmer follows the same pattern with the teen 699 00:35:17,038 --> 00:35:19,340 as his previous two victims. 700 00:35:19,340 --> 00:35:23,478 He roofies, rapes, and strangles his prey 701 00:35:23,478 --> 00:35:27,649 before dismembering him and keeping a memento. 702 00:35:27,649 --> 00:35:30,385 Once again, the skull. 703 00:35:30,385 --> 00:35:33,988 - Dahmer killed this boy in his grandmother's house. 704 00:35:33,988 --> 00:35:36,825 He realized that he could get away with this stuff anywhere. 705 00:35:39,461 --> 00:35:41,863 - NARRATOR: Dahmer hasn't crossed into the realm 706 00:35:41,863 --> 00:35:44,566 of cannibalism just yet. 707 00:35:44,566 --> 00:35:47,936 Still, his hunger grows stronger. 708 00:35:47,936 --> 00:35:50,939 Dahmer actively begins searching for prey 709 00:35:50,939 --> 00:35:53,942 within Milwaukee's gay bars. 710 00:35:53,942 --> 00:35:56,344 - There becomes a point of no return. 711 00:35:56,344 --> 00:35:58,346 He's like a shark that's had a taste of blood. 712 00:35:58,346 --> 00:36:01,316 There really is no going back for Dahmer. 713 00:36:01,316 --> 00:36:04,052 - NARRATOR: Just three months after killing the teen, 714 00:36:04,052 --> 00:36:08,356 Dahmer homes in on 22-year-old Richard Guerrero. 715 00:36:10,158 --> 00:36:13,361 - Richard was a young man, got into a lot of the bars. 716 00:36:13,361 --> 00:36:15,396 I would do shows. He'd come and watch them. 717 00:36:15,396 --> 00:36:16,931 We became friends that way. 718 00:36:16,931 --> 00:36:18,199 He had that aura about him 719 00:36:18,199 --> 00:36:21,336 where, you know, he was a good kid. 720 00:36:22,270 --> 00:36:24,005 - Jeffrey Dahmer brought Richard Guerrero 721 00:36:24,005 --> 00:36:25,840 back over to his grandma's house. 722 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,543 He got him inebriated. He drugged his drink. 723 00:36:28,543 --> 00:36:30,812 While he was, uh, out of it, 724 00:36:30,812 --> 00:36:32,914 Jeffrey Dahmer strangled him to death. 725 00:36:34,482 --> 00:36:35,750 But this is where Jeffrey Dahmer 726 00:36:35,750 --> 00:36:37,585 starts to take things up to the next level. 727 00:36:39,220 --> 00:36:43,791 - Here we have the beginning of a whole new path 728 00:36:43,791 --> 00:36:47,262 that Jeffrey Dahmer opened up for himself. 729 00:36:48,062 --> 00:36:50,798 - Necrophilia is the desire to have sex 730 00:36:50,798 --> 00:36:53,768 with a dead person's corpse. 731 00:36:53,768 --> 00:36:57,839 When we start describing having sex with a person's dead body, 732 00:36:57,839 --> 00:36:59,974 we are now objectifying a human. 733 00:36:59,974 --> 00:37:04,145 A dead person cannot give consent. 734 00:37:04,145 --> 00:37:06,881 - Necrophilia's about power and control. 735 00:37:06,881 --> 00:37:08,950 If you think your sexual desires are so perverse 736 00:37:08,950 --> 00:37:11,352 that nobody would relate to them or understand them, 737 00:37:11,352 --> 00:37:14,789 then having sex with a dead body is a way to, uh, 738 00:37:14,789 --> 00:37:17,959 have that sexual relationship without somebody fighting back 739 00:37:17,959 --> 00:37:20,929 or speaking against it. 740 00:37:20,929 --> 00:37:23,631 - Jeffrey Dahmer thought, I'll kill someone 741 00:37:23,631 --> 00:37:25,366 and I'll feel better. 742 00:37:25,366 --> 00:37:28,136 I'll dismember them and I'll feel better. 743 00:37:28,136 --> 00:37:30,371 Then he thought, that didn't work, 744 00:37:30,371 --> 00:37:32,974 so he would have sex with the corpse. 745 00:37:32,974 --> 00:37:36,945 It just kept getting worse and worse and worse. 746 00:37:41,249 --> 00:37:43,718 - NARRATOR: Friends in Milwaukee's gay scene 747 00:37:43,718 --> 00:37:46,721 soon notice Guerrero's absence. 748 00:37:46,721 --> 00:37:48,489 - We were wondering what was going on 749 00:37:48,489 --> 00:37:50,325 because there was a few people disappearing. 750 00:37:50,325 --> 00:37:53,127 But Richard told us that he was gonna get a job. 751 00:37:53,127 --> 00:37:56,698 And a lot of us figured that he, he's doing good at his job. 752 00:37:56,698 --> 00:38:00,368 He's working and, you know, helping his parents out. 753 00:38:00,368 --> 00:38:02,070 We were all happy for him, you know, 754 00:38:02,070 --> 00:38:06,140 but we never realized that he was actually gone. 755 00:38:07,542 --> 00:38:08,910 - NARRATOR: It's not long 756 00:38:08,910 --> 00:38:11,746 before Dahmer returns to his hunting grounds, 757 00:38:11,746 --> 00:38:15,350 secretly searching for his next victim. 758 00:38:16,985 --> 00:38:20,054 And on April 23, 1988, 759 00:38:20,054 --> 00:38:23,358 he finds it in a stranded motorist, 760 00:38:23,358 --> 00:38:26,094 Ronald Flowers. 761 00:38:26,094 --> 00:38:27,528 - His car wouldn't start. 762 00:38:27,528 --> 00:38:29,831 So Jeffery Dahmer wanted to help him get his car started. 763 00:38:29,831 --> 00:38:31,532 So he invited Ronald Flowers 764 00:38:31,532 --> 00:38:33,701 back to his grandma's house for some coffee. 765 00:38:33,701 --> 00:38:36,170 And what do we know about coffee with Jeffrey Dahmer? 766 00:38:36,170 --> 00:38:38,239 Uh, it does the opposite at Jeffrey Dahmer's house. 767 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:39,907 It puts you to sleep, right? 768 00:38:39,907 --> 00:38:43,611 So, he laced it with Halcion, gave it to him. 769 00:38:43,611 --> 00:38:46,881 - NARRATOR: But just as his victim's passing out, 770 00:38:46,881 --> 00:38:51,419 Dahmer receives an unexpected visitor. 771 00:38:53,354 --> 00:38:55,923 - He hears, Jeffrey, is that you? 772 00:38:55,923 --> 00:38:58,326 His grandmother was still home. 773 00:38:58,326 --> 00:39:02,263 And his grandmother was asking what the noise was all about. 774 00:39:02,263 --> 00:39:05,733 His grandmother had been home the entire time. 775 00:39:06,934 --> 00:39:08,403 - That ended it. He couldn't go ahead. 776 00:39:08,403 --> 00:39:10,204 The risk the grandmother would ask, 777 00:39:10,204 --> 00:39:13,374 what happened to that young man? So he didn't kill that guy. 778 00:39:13,374 --> 00:39:16,778 - NARRATOR: Dahmer waits for Flowers to lose consciousness. 779 00:39:16,778 --> 00:39:21,015 Then drops his would-be victim off at the county hospital. 780 00:39:21,015 --> 00:39:22,317 - In the hospital, Ronald Flowers 781 00:39:22,317 --> 00:39:24,118 told the police what happened. 782 00:39:24,118 --> 00:39:26,187 They arrested Jeffrey Dahmer, 783 00:39:26,187 --> 00:39:30,892 and once again he talked his way out of it. 784 00:39:30,892 --> 00:39:33,561 Ronald Flowers was the only victim 785 00:39:33,561 --> 00:39:35,897 who escaped and survived, 786 00:39:35,897 --> 00:39:39,067 and could have gotten Dahmer arrested 787 00:39:39,067 --> 00:39:42,670 if the authorities had believed him. 788 00:39:42,670 --> 00:39:44,939 - You find out later on that you survived Jeffrey Dahmer, 789 00:39:44,939 --> 00:39:46,374 it's the ultimate nightmare come true. 790 00:39:46,374 --> 00:39:48,943 There was a little bit of a trust built. 791 00:39:48,943 --> 00:39:51,079 You hope we're looking out for each other. 792 00:39:51,079 --> 00:39:54,349 And Jeffrey Dahmer manipulated that trust. 793 00:39:54,349 --> 00:39:58,052 - NARRATOR: The Flowers incident also breaks Dahmer's trust 794 00:39:58,052 --> 00:40:02,023 with someone else, his grandmother. 795 00:40:02,023 --> 00:40:03,758 - Tensions are escalating. 796 00:40:03,758 --> 00:40:06,094 She knows he's bringing guys home. 797 00:40:06,094 --> 00:40:09,797 She knows that something smells terrible, 798 00:40:09,797 --> 00:40:11,933 but every time she asks him 799 00:40:11,933 --> 00:40:13,935 she doesn't get a straight answer. 800 00:40:13,935 --> 00:40:16,537 And on top of that, worst of all, 801 00:40:16,537 --> 00:40:19,273 he won't go to church. 802 00:40:19,273 --> 00:40:22,009 - He realized that if he was going to keep going 803 00:40:22,009 --> 00:40:23,444 the way that he was, 804 00:40:23,444 --> 00:40:25,513 he needed to do it in the privacy of his own home. 805 00:40:25,513 --> 00:40:27,482 So, he ended up moving into his own apartment 806 00:40:27,482 --> 00:40:29,117 living by himself. 807 00:40:29,117 --> 00:40:31,652 - Mr. Dahmer's moving out of his grandmother's house 808 00:40:31,652 --> 00:40:34,522 and into a place of his own was certainly a setup 809 00:40:34,522 --> 00:40:38,192 that was gonna enable him to spiral out of control. 810 00:40:41,462 --> 00:40:43,998 - NARRATOR: It's September 1988, 811 00:40:43,998 --> 00:40:46,367 and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer 812 00:40:46,367 --> 00:40:51,372 has already stolen the lives of four men. 813 00:40:51,372 --> 00:40:54,675 Though he has not eaten any victims yet, 814 00:40:54,675 --> 00:40:58,045 when he leaves the confines of his grandmother's home 815 00:40:58,045 --> 00:41:01,549 for his own apartment in downtown Milwaukee, 816 00:41:01,549 --> 00:41:06,254 he takes his bloodlust to a new level. 817 00:41:06,254 --> 00:41:07,488 - Every decision that he made 818 00:41:07,488 --> 00:41:09,357 whether conscious or subconscious 819 00:41:09,357 --> 00:41:13,528 was to at one point give himself the opportunity 820 00:41:13,528 --> 00:41:17,865 to fulfill his darkest sexual fantasies. 821 00:41:22,537 --> 00:41:25,506 - NARRATOR: Just one day after his move, 822 00:41:25,506 --> 00:41:31,212 Dahmer once again gives into his macabre desires 823 00:41:31,212 --> 00:41:34,682 when he approaches a 13-year-old boy. 824 00:41:36,250 --> 00:41:39,220 - Jeffrey Dahmer lured him to his apartment by saying 825 00:41:39,220 --> 00:41:42,523 he would pay him $50 if 826 00:41:42,523 --> 00:41:45,393 he would pose for pictures in the nude. 827 00:41:47,361 --> 00:41:49,097 - And so, the two of them ended up going back 828 00:41:49,097 --> 00:41:50,998 to Jeffrey's apartment together. 829 00:41:50,998 --> 00:41:52,467 Jeffrey made him coffee, 830 00:41:52,467 --> 00:41:56,304 tried to make him feel as comfortable as possible. 831 00:41:56,304 --> 00:41:58,739 - NARRATOR: The teen knows he's in too deep 832 00:41:58,739 --> 00:42:03,444 when Dahmer suddenly asks if he can listen to his stomach. 833 00:42:03,444 --> 00:42:06,581 - And this boy saw an opportunity to run 834 00:42:06,581 --> 00:42:07,715 and he took it. 835 00:42:07,715 --> 00:42:11,853 So he grabs his backpack and he runs out the door. 836 00:42:12,553 --> 00:42:15,423 - He gets out. He runs away. 837 00:42:15,423 --> 00:42:19,794 He goes to the police. He's obviously in bad shape. 838 00:42:19,794 --> 00:42:23,331 - Luckily, this boy remembers where he was with Jeffrey. 839 00:42:23,331 --> 00:42:24,632 So he points police 840 00:42:24,632 --> 00:42:26,968 into the direction of Jeffrey's apartment. 841 00:42:26,968 --> 00:42:28,402 Police go and knock on the door. 842 00:42:28,402 --> 00:42:31,839 Jeffrey was there and he was arrested. 843 00:42:33,307 --> 00:42:34,609 - Dahmer was charged by our office 844 00:42:34,609 --> 00:42:36,177 with sexual assault on this child, 845 00:42:36,177 --> 00:42:37,578 on this 13-year-old boy, 846 00:42:37,578 --> 00:42:40,181 and was found guilty by the judge. 847 00:42:40,181 --> 00:42:42,016 - It's almost this sigh of relief 848 00:42:42,016 --> 00:42:44,118 of like, yes, he's finally been caught. 849 00:42:44,118 --> 00:42:46,454 He's finally off of the street. 850 00:42:46,454 --> 00:42:50,391 - NARRATOR: But it's only Dahmer's first known offense. 851 00:42:50,391 --> 00:42:55,363 - He had a very slick, smooth-talking lawyer. 852 00:42:56,297 --> 00:42:59,133 He went to trial. The lawyer helped him out. 853 00:42:59,133 --> 00:43:01,269 - The judge gave him one year work release 854 00:43:01,269 --> 00:43:03,471 and five years probation. Certainly, Dahmer did not 855 00:43:03,471 --> 00:43:06,908 unburden himself to any psychologist or social worker 856 00:43:06,908 --> 00:43:08,376 about what he had been doing, 857 00:43:08,376 --> 00:43:10,077 and whatever examination was conducted 858 00:43:10,077 --> 00:43:13,614 did not give rise to belief that he was a serial killer. 859 00:43:13,614 --> 00:43:16,250 - NARRATOR: But before he starts serving his time, 860 00:43:16,250 --> 00:43:19,954 Dahmer's determined to get one more fix. 861 00:43:19,954 --> 00:43:23,357 - You think that Jeffrey Dahmer might be scared 862 00:43:23,357 --> 00:43:27,628 or chastened by the fact that he was sentenced to a year, 863 00:43:27,628 --> 00:43:32,199 but instead, before he goes to prison, 864 00:43:32,199 --> 00:43:35,436 he acts again. 865 00:43:35,937 --> 00:43:38,539 - NARRATOR: After meeting 24-year-old Anthony Sears 866 00:43:38,539 --> 00:43:41,509 at a club, Dahmer takes him home 867 00:43:41,509 --> 00:43:47,048 and subjects the aspiring model to his usual routine. 868 00:43:47,048 --> 00:43:51,419 - He thought Sears was the hottest man he has ever seen. 869 00:43:51,419 --> 00:43:52,853 Usually when someone says you're attractive, 870 00:43:52,853 --> 00:43:53,988 you take it as a compliment, 871 00:43:53,988 --> 00:43:55,523 but if Jeffrey Dahmer says you're attractive, 872 00:43:55,523 --> 00:43:58,359 you gotta take it as a threat. 873 00:43:58,359 --> 00:44:01,462 - They drank. He kills him. 874 00:44:01,462 --> 00:44:06,000 He dismembers him. And he saves some body parts. 875 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,136 - NARRATOR: But when it comes time to get rid of the body, 876 00:44:09,136 --> 00:44:13,441 Dahmer finds it harder to let go. 877 00:44:13,441 --> 00:44:15,176 - With the murder of Anthony Sears, 878 00:44:15,176 --> 00:44:17,612 that's when necrophilia wasn't enough. 879 00:44:17,612 --> 00:44:20,915 So, he would keep Anthony Sears' skull, 880 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. 881 00:44:25,286 --> 00:44:26,554 - Keeping some of the body parts 882 00:44:26,554 --> 00:44:28,990 and carrying them around to work, 883 00:44:28,990 --> 00:44:30,558 Dahmer's able to keep it with him 884 00:44:30,558 --> 00:44:33,361 as a kind of security blanket. 885 00:44:33,361 --> 00:44:36,163 The only thing Dahmer finds satisfaction from 886 00:44:36,163 --> 00:44:38,566 is the mutilation, and the murder, 887 00:44:38,566 --> 00:44:40,701 and the rape of his victims. 888 00:44:40,701 --> 00:44:43,871 And by keeping a piece of them, he can keep some of that high 889 00:44:43,871 --> 00:44:46,073 until he can go back out into the streets to do 890 00:44:46,073 --> 00:44:49,810 what he really wants to do. 891 00:44:49,810 --> 00:44:53,714 - NARRATOR: Dahmer stores the skull inside his work locker. 892 00:44:53,714 --> 00:44:55,683 And in May 1989, 893 00:44:55,683 --> 00:44:58,853 when he begins his one-year work release sentence, 894 00:44:58,853 --> 00:45:03,591 Dahmer takes comfort having access to the skull every day. 895 00:45:04,892 --> 00:45:07,595 - He would go into the locker room at work-- 896 00:45:07,595 --> 00:45:09,530 and this is completely real. 897 00:45:09,530 --> 00:45:13,701 He would open up the bag that held Anthony Sears' head, 898 00:45:13,701 --> 00:45:16,337 he would kiss it, and make out with it, 899 00:45:16,337 --> 00:45:17,972 and talk to it. 900 00:45:17,972 --> 00:45:19,740 He would put it back in the bag, 901 00:45:19,740 --> 00:45:21,575 and then he'd go make chocolate 902 00:45:21,575 --> 00:45:25,112 with fresh corpse grime 903 00:45:25,112 --> 00:45:27,615 on his lips. 904 00:45:27,615 --> 00:45:28,949 - That's interesting. 905 00:45:28,949 --> 00:45:30,551 I looked at the, uh, mental health records 906 00:45:30,551 --> 00:45:33,888 of Mr. Dahmer during the period when he was on probation. 907 00:45:33,888 --> 00:45:36,724 They weren't treating him as someone who had necrophilia 908 00:45:36,724 --> 00:45:38,926 because he was not able to bring himself to talk 909 00:45:38,926 --> 00:45:41,696 about that at the time. 910 00:45:41,696 --> 00:45:43,664 - Even the most serious paraphilias 911 00:45:43,664 --> 00:45:45,466 can be counseled out of it. 912 00:45:45,466 --> 00:45:48,402 I think it's very difficult, uh, but it can be done. 913 00:45:48,402 --> 00:45:50,971 If Dahmer said, I want to change. 914 00:45:50,971 --> 00:45:53,607 I believe that with professional help, 915 00:45:53,607 --> 00:45:54,942 it could have been done 916 00:45:54,942 --> 00:45:56,744 even after he'd done a number of slayings. 917 00:45:56,744 --> 00:45:59,947 But he has to wanna do it. That didn't happen with Dahmer. 918 00:46:01,015 --> 00:46:04,452 - NARRATOR: Instead, Dahmer lets his thoughts fester. 919 00:46:04,452 --> 00:46:05,886 And each new day, 920 00:46:05,886 --> 00:46:09,390 his fantasies grow even more frightening. 921 00:46:09,390 --> 00:46:14,028 Soon, he crosses an even more twisted threshold, 922 00:46:14,028 --> 00:46:17,298 fantasizing about cannibalism. 923 00:46:17,298 --> 00:46:18,799 - Somebody like Jeffrey Dahmer 924 00:46:18,799 --> 00:46:21,202 wants to have absolute control over their victims. 925 00:46:21,202 --> 00:46:24,772 Dahmer realizes if you eat them, they'll always be with you. 926 00:46:24,772 --> 00:46:28,876 And that provides a satisfaction and even sometimes 927 00:46:28,876 --> 00:46:33,047 a sexual component to the psychopath 928 00:46:33,047 --> 00:46:35,216 that, you'll never leave me. 929 00:46:35,216 --> 00:46:38,085 - NARRATOR: But while Dahmer prefers to dine alone, 930 00:46:38,085 --> 00:46:43,524 some cannibals believe it's a meal that's best shared. 931 00:46:44,959 --> 00:46:47,928 - ♪ 932 00:46:52,500 --> 00:46:55,770 - Natalia and Dmitry Baksheevy claimed that they had 933 00:46:55,770 --> 00:47:00,141 killed 30 people over the course of 18 years. 934 00:47:00,141 --> 00:47:02,376 And not only did they kill them, 935 00:47:02,376 --> 00:47:04,979 they kept them in pickled containers 936 00:47:04,979 --> 00:47:05,946 in their kitchen. 937 00:47:05,946 --> 00:47:07,915 They were seasoning their body parts. 938 00:47:07,915 --> 00:47:10,418 At one point they had decapitated a head, 939 00:47:10,418 --> 00:47:11,652 and decorated it, 940 00:47:11,652 --> 00:47:14,021 and served it as a Christmas dinner. 941 00:47:15,556 --> 00:47:17,658 - NARRATOR: For years, the married couple 942 00:47:17,658 --> 00:47:20,628 lives under the radar, feeding their frightening 943 00:47:20,628 --> 00:47:24,598 culinary creations to unsuspecting guests. 944 00:47:24,598 --> 00:47:26,567 - It was their secret that they had, 945 00:47:26,567 --> 00:47:28,769 and this is the difference that we see with them, 946 00:47:28,769 --> 00:47:31,939 is typically cannibals tend to be selfish 947 00:47:31,939 --> 00:47:33,507 and they like to commit these crimes 948 00:47:33,507 --> 00:47:35,409 for their own gratification, 949 00:47:35,409 --> 00:47:37,445 but part of Dmitry and Natalia's thing 950 00:47:37,445 --> 00:47:41,148 was giving this to other people. 951 00:47:41,148 --> 00:47:43,918 - NARRATOR: But when they invite 35-year-old neighbor 952 00:47:43,918 --> 00:47:46,754 Elena Vashrusheva over for a meal, 953 00:47:46,754 --> 00:47:50,090 things don't go according to plan. 954 00:47:50,090 --> 00:47:53,961 - Natalia had assumed that Elena was flirting with Dmitry 955 00:47:53,961 --> 00:47:56,063 and she got really angry about it, 956 00:47:56,063 --> 00:48:00,067 and she ordered Dmitry to kill Elena. 957 00:48:00,067 --> 00:48:03,137 And he basically followed Natalia's orders. 958 00:48:03,137 --> 00:48:06,106 - NARRATOR: But just days after killing Elena, 959 00:48:06,106 --> 00:48:08,676 Dmitry loses his phone. 960 00:48:08,676 --> 00:48:11,679 It's found by an unsuspecting Samaritan 961 00:48:11,679 --> 00:48:14,682 who stumbles across the grisly photos, 962 00:48:14,682 --> 00:48:17,318 and immediately turns them over to police. 963 00:48:17,318 --> 00:48:20,287 When the phone's eventually traced back to Dmitry, 964 00:48:20,287 --> 00:48:23,924 it links he and Natalia to their neighbor's murder, 965 00:48:23,924 --> 00:48:24,792 bringing an end 966 00:48:24,792 --> 00:48:28,963 to their 18-year reign of terror. 967 00:48:28,963 --> 00:48:31,065 Like the Russians, Dahmer's been able 968 00:48:31,065 --> 00:48:34,869 to live under the radar for more than a decade. 969 00:48:34,869 --> 00:48:38,939 But his taste for human flesh is only beginning. 970 00:48:38,939 --> 00:48:43,043 In the spring of 1990, he's released on parole 971 00:48:43,043 --> 00:48:47,982 and finally ready to act out on his darkest desires. 972 00:48:47,982 --> 00:48:50,584 - He got a cheap-as-possible apartment. 973 00:48:50,584 --> 00:48:52,720 He was in walking distance from his job. 974 00:48:52,720 --> 00:48:56,156 Jeffrey Dahmer simplified his life 975 00:48:56,156 --> 00:49:00,327 to make it easier for him to be a serial killer. 976 00:49:04,098 --> 00:49:07,801 - NARRATOR: By 1990, serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer 977 00:49:07,801 --> 00:49:09,904 has rented an apartment 978 00:49:09,904 --> 00:49:13,173 right inside his preferred kill zone, 979 00:49:13,173 --> 00:49:16,877 Milwaukee's Walker Point neighborhood. 980 00:49:16,877 --> 00:49:21,849 No one knows Dahmer already has five kills under his belt. 981 00:49:21,849 --> 00:49:26,287 Or that he's beginning to fantasize about cannibalism. 982 00:49:27,221 --> 00:49:29,056 - We lived in apartment 214 983 00:49:29,056 --> 00:49:33,460 and Dahmer lived in apartment 213. 984 00:49:33,460 --> 00:49:37,097 Jeff seemed to be a lonely person. 985 00:49:37,097 --> 00:49:38,232 Very alone. 986 00:49:38,232 --> 00:49:40,234 Seemed like the only highlight in his life 987 00:49:40,234 --> 00:49:43,504 was him going to work at the chocolate factory. 988 00:49:43,504 --> 00:49:46,040 He worked third shift, 989 00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:49,109 meaning that when he got home from work, 990 00:49:49,109 --> 00:49:52,780 I had already left my apartment to go to work. 991 00:49:52,780 --> 00:49:54,548 - Jeffrey Dahmer just sounds like a 992 00:49:54,548 --> 00:49:57,117 relatively shy Midwestern guy. 993 00:49:57,117 --> 00:49:59,987 You can't even think that he would be fantasizing 994 00:49:59,987 --> 00:50:04,625 about cutting people up and eating them. 995 00:50:04,625 --> 00:50:06,593 - NARRATOR: But there are a few signs 996 00:50:06,593 --> 00:50:10,698 that something is off with this new neighbor. 997 00:50:10,698 --> 00:50:14,234 - Whenever I would want a cigarette 998 00:50:14,234 --> 00:50:16,437 and didn't feel like going to the store, 999 00:50:16,437 --> 00:50:22,042 I would go and knock on his door and he invited me in. 1000 00:50:23,811 --> 00:50:26,714 He always had a lock on his bedroom door. 1001 00:50:26,714 --> 00:50:30,851 I assumed that he was protecting his TV, 1002 00:50:30,851 --> 00:50:33,988 you know, things of value. And he had a camera 1003 00:50:33,988 --> 00:50:36,824 mounted in the corner of his living room. 1004 00:50:38,125 --> 00:50:40,260 - NARRATOR: Vernell doesn't know that cameras 1005 00:50:40,260 --> 00:50:44,064 have become a big part of Dahmer's grisly fun. 1006 00:50:44,064 --> 00:50:47,601 One week after moving into the Oxford Apartments, 1007 00:50:47,601 --> 00:50:51,405 Dahmer brings home 33-year-old Raymond Smith. 1008 00:50:57,011 --> 00:51:01,782 Dahmer drugs and kills his unsuspecting victim. 1009 00:51:01,782 --> 00:51:05,919 But this time, Dahmer's increasingly macabre behavior 1010 00:51:05,919 --> 00:51:08,055 takes an even darker turn. 1011 00:51:10,324 --> 00:51:13,027 - He would pose the bodies in intricate, 1012 00:51:13,027 --> 00:51:15,963 oftentimes very graphic positions, 1013 00:51:15,963 --> 00:51:18,098 and take pictures of them. 1014 00:51:18,098 --> 00:51:21,668 - Photographs wind up having two-fold representation. 1015 00:51:21,668 --> 00:51:24,805 One, it's a souvenir that I can look at and reminisce later, 1016 00:51:24,805 --> 00:51:27,641 but two, it is a visual representation 1017 00:51:27,641 --> 00:51:29,910 of my murder design. 1018 00:51:29,910 --> 00:51:31,712 After I have had my way with them, 1019 00:51:31,712 --> 00:51:34,314 I have created them into what I want them to be. 1020 00:51:34,314 --> 00:51:37,151 I have put them into position. I've killed them. 1021 00:51:37,151 --> 00:51:39,720 I have submission and control over them. 1022 00:51:39,720 --> 00:51:42,256 - Everything that he felt on the inside 1023 00:51:42,256 --> 00:51:46,760 began to manifest itself inside of his tiny Milwaukee apartment, 1024 00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:50,664 the Polaroids, the flesh, the bones, uh, 1025 00:51:50,664 --> 00:51:53,801 in some cases there were just bodies there still. 1026 00:51:53,801 --> 00:51:56,503 And all of these things really brought home 1027 00:51:56,503 --> 00:51:58,705 a sexual arousal, uh, 1028 00:51:58,705 --> 00:52:01,809 that he perhaps wasn't getting it any longer. 1029 00:52:04,378 --> 00:52:07,181 - NARRATOR: When he's finished, Dahmer saves Smith's skull 1030 00:52:07,181 --> 00:52:10,651 and places it inside a filing cabinet. 1031 00:52:10,651 --> 00:52:13,253 Over the next four months, he does the same 1032 00:52:13,253 --> 00:52:16,857 with two more victims, his seventh and eighth. 1033 00:52:16,857 --> 00:52:20,427 Still, he stops short of eating them. 1034 00:52:21,528 --> 00:52:25,699 - At this point in time, Jeffrey has killed eight people. 1035 00:52:25,699 --> 00:52:29,002 And he is still getting away with it. 1036 00:52:29,002 --> 00:52:33,540 So Jeffrey's ego kept getting boosted after each kill. 1037 00:52:34,441 --> 00:52:36,610 - Many of these men were reported missing, 1038 00:52:36,610 --> 00:52:38,011 but because of their color 1039 00:52:38,011 --> 00:52:40,080 and because of their sexual orientation, 1040 00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:42,015 police said, oh okay, thanks. 1041 00:52:42,015 --> 00:52:44,218 What are we supposed to do about that? 1042 00:52:44,218 --> 00:52:47,855 - Milwaukee had its growing pains in the '80s. 1043 00:52:47,855 --> 00:52:49,556 We had a police chief at the time 1044 00:52:49,556 --> 00:52:51,191 that he didn't get along 1045 00:52:51,191 --> 00:52:53,994 with the gay community whatsoever. 1046 00:52:53,994 --> 00:52:56,230 - It was an obvious bias that the police had. 1047 00:52:56,230 --> 00:52:57,764 They did not look into these crimes 1048 00:52:57,764 --> 00:52:58,966 as deeply as they should. 1049 00:52:58,966 --> 00:53:01,101 Well, they should change their lifestyle 1050 00:53:01,101 --> 00:53:04,438 if they don't wanna get murdered. 1051 00:53:06,173 --> 00:53:10,144 - NARRATOR: 27-year-old Edward Smith is no exception. 1052 00:53:10,144 --> 00:53:12,146 - I met Eddie at a house party. 1053 00:53:12,146 --> 00:53:15,349 And um, we almost hit it off immediately. 1054 00:53:15,349 --> 00:53:19,286 He always wore a sheik, so we nicknamed him the Sheik. 1055 00:53:19,286 --> 00:53:22,823 There was one time that Eddie saw Jeffrey. 1056 00:53:25,192 --> 00:53:28,562 And he was like, oh he's hot. I said, I can introduce you. 1057 00:53:28,562 --> 00:53:32,199 You know, and unfortunately, I introduced them. 1058 00:53:33,333 --> 00:53:35,235 When you're out there all the time doing shows 1059 00:53:35,235 --> 00:53:37,471 and, you know, having fun, you know, 1060 00:53:37,471 --> 00:53:41,875 you don't really realize how very vulnerable you are. 1061 00:53:41,875 --> 00:53:46,780 I mean, how can you tell a serial killer? 1062 00:53:46,780 --> 00:53:49,116 You know? 1063 00:53:49,883 --> 00:53:52,252 After that, they were hanging around for a good, 1064 00:53:52,252 --> 00:53:55,222 I would say three, four or five weeks. 1065 00:53:56,456 --> 00:53:58,192 And Eddie was with Jeff. 1066 00:53:59,593 --> 00:54:04,498 And then after that, um, no one really seen Eddie again. 1067 00:54:05,365 --> 00:54:06,967 - NARRATOR: Eddie's family and friends 1068 00:54:06,967 --> 00:54:08,602 come looking for him, 1069 00:54:08,602 --> 00:54:12,539 canvassing the bars where he is known to hang out. 1070 00:54:12,539 --> 00:54:15,709 - I was like, where's Eddie? You know, where's Sheik? 1071 00:54:15,709 --> 00:54:17,211 Like, we haven't seen him. 1072 00:54:17,211 --> 00:54:18,412 - NARRATOR: Word on the street 1073 00:54:18,412 --> 00:54:23,050 is Eddie was last seen with Jeff Dahmer. 1074 00:54:23,050 --> 00:54:25,219 - Jeff was drunk one night, and we're like, 1075 00:54:25,219 --> 00:54:27,888 Jeff, where's Eddie? You know, we're looking for him. 1076 00:54:27,888 --> 00:54:29,389 His sisters are here looking for him. 1077 00:54:29,389 --> 00:54:30,424 Have you seen Eddie? 1078 00:54:30,424 --> 00:54:32,292 And he said something real stupid like, 1079 00:54:32,292 --> 00:54:35,295 yeah, they found him in Racine in three pieces. 1080 00:54:35,295 --> 00:54:39,666 - NARRATOR: But Dahmer knows very well where Eddie is. 1081 00:54:39,666 --> 00:54:41,435 - He removed Eddie's head 1082 00:54:41,435 --> 00:54:43,036 and tried to dry it out in the oven, 1083 00:54:43,036 --> 00:54:44,204 and it shattered the skull. 1084 00:54:44,204 --> 00:54:46,039 And according to Jeffrey, he had never felt 1085 00:54:46,039 --> 00:54:48,208 so much remorse in his life. 1086 00:54:48,208 --> 00:54:50,877 And I really do think it's because 1087 00:54:50,877 --> 00:54:53,046 he had slipped so fully 1088 00:54:53,046 --> 00:54:57,751 into his fantasy that, that was, 1089 00:54:57,751 --> 00:55:00,320 that was Eddie to him. 1090 00:55:02,356 --> 00:55:03,824 - NARRATOR: Dahmer's heartbreak 1091 00:55:03,824 --> 00:55:07,461 only propels him to find his next victim. 1092 00:55:07,461 --> 00:55:08,862 And the next. 1093 00:55:08,862 --> 00:55:12,032 And people are starting to notice. 1094 00:55:12,032 --> 00:55:14,901 - He is keeping their bodies in his apartment. 1095 00:55:14,901 --> 00:55:17,070 He is preserving them. And they're stacking up. 1096 00:55:17,070 --> 00:55:18,972 You can only imagine the smell 1097 00:55:18,972 --> 00:55:22,242 that was coming from Jeffrey's apartment. 1098 00:55:22,242 --> 00:55:23,944 - Perhaps there was a much darker reason 1099 00:55:23,944 --> 00:55:27,281 to keep those body parts as well. 1100 00:55:35,622 --> 00:55:39,259 - NARRATOR: By 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer has lost touch 1101 00:55:39,259 --> 00:55:42,396 with his family and childhood friends. 1102 00:55:42,396 --> 00:55:44,097 - I mean, we never thought of Jeff Dahmer 1103 00:55:44,097 --> 00:55:46,566 after high school, hardly. He was out of the picture. 1104 00:55:46,566 --> 00:55:50,137 He wasn't like a close friend. He wasn't like somebody 1105 00:55:50,137 --> 00:55:53,674 that you were thinking about all the time at all. 1106 00:55:53,674 --> 00:55:55,909 At our 10-year class reunion, 1107 00:55:55,909 --> 00:55:58,145 we were sitting around at a table 1108 00:55:58,145 --> 00:56:00,180 and talking about people that didn't show up, 1109 00:56:00,180 --> 00:56:02,316 and Jeff Dahmer's name came up. 1110 00:56:02,316 --> 00:56:04,751 We're like, yeah, whatever happened to that guy? 1111 00:56:04,751 --> 00:56:06,253 And somebody at our table said, 1112 00:56:06,253 --> 00:56:09,389 oh, he's probably a serial killer. 1113 00:56:10,657 --> 00:56:14,628 - NARRATOR: Little do they know Dahmer's created new friends. 1114 00:56:14,628 --> 00:56:19,199 A macabre collection of skulls and body parts. 1115 00:56:19,199 --> 00:56:22,803 - There is some connection between collecting skulls 1116 00:56:22,803 --> 00:56:25,972 and body parts, and cannibalism. 1117 00:56:25,972 --> 00:56:28,775 Wanting that person to be with you forever, 1118 00:56:28,775 --> 00:56:31,278 and again, wanting that power 1119 00:56:31,278 --> 00:56:34,481 and that immense desire for control. 1120 00:56:35,515 --> 00:56:37,417 - NARRATOR: And it's with his next victim 1121 00:56:37,417 --> 00:56:40,187 that Dahmer forever sears his place 1122 00:56:40,187 --> 00:56:44,057 as the monster in our collective nightmares. 1123 00:56:46,493 --> 00:56:49,830 - Ernest Miller represented the next step 1124 00:56:49,830 --> 00:56:52,199 in his depraved behavior 1125 00:56:52,199 --> 00:56:55,168 because after he killed him and dismembered him, 1126 00:56:55,168 --> 00:56:58,438 he cooked him, and he ate him. 1127 00:56:59,973 --> 00:57:02,342 - That's when the cannibalism started. 1128 00:57:02,342 --> 00:57:07,180 The keeping of the body meat for his consumption was new. 1129 00:57:07,180 --> 00:57:10,484 And it shows the natural escalation of his crimes. 1130 00:57:10,484 --> 00:57:13,153 And it became a part of his sexual act 1131 00:57:13,153 --> 00:57:14,821 where he spent a long time 1132 00:57:14,821 --> 00:57:16,757 like cooking it and seasoning it. 1133 00:57:16,757 --> 00:57:21,395 And he would eat a chunk of it. And then the act of him doing it 1134 00:57:21,395 --> 00:57:24,664 would then make him sexually aroused again. 1135 00:57:24,664 --> 00:57:26,600 - Something like this that is so taboo, 1136 00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:29,236 it makes you sit there and go, why did he do this? 1137 00:57:29,236 --> 00:57:32,672 Like, what drives a person to that point? 1138 00:57:33,607 --> 00:57:36,610 - There are songs we listen to every day that talk about like, 1139 00:57:36,610 --> 00:57:39,413 I could eat you to pieces. We say that to children. 1140 00:57:39,413 --> 00:57:44,151 And this is so common, there's even a name for it. 1141 00:57:44,151 --> 00:57:47,421 Vorarephilia. Vorarephilia is the fantasy 1142 00:57:47,421 --> 00:57:52,225 and the desire to be consumed or to consume others. 1143 00:57:52,225 --> 00:57:55,061 - NARRATOR: But those who truly practice vorarephilia 1144 00:57:55,061 --> 00:57:58,765 know there's one key distinction from cannibalism. 1145 00:57:58,765 --> 00:58:00,934 It's all fantasy. 1146 00:58:00,934 --> 00:58:05,505 - Once it crosses that line of fantasy and it actually becomes 1147 00:58:05,505 --> 00:58:09,743 a place of violence or harm to the folks that are involved, 1148 00:58:09,743 --> 00:58:11,478 it is no longer vorarephilia. 1149 00:58:11,478 --> 00:58:15,615 Violence against someone else, that is the taboo. 1150 00:58:15,615 --> 00:58:18,251 - Jeffrey is doing this because he wants to 1151 00:58:18,251 --> 00:58:19,619 not feel alone anymore. 1152 00:58:19,619 --> 00:58:21,655 He wants to feel like he has control. 1153 00:58:21,655 --> 00:58:24,291 He doesn't wanna feel rejected. He wants to feel like 1154 00:58:24,291 --> 00:58:27,427 his victims are going to stay with him forever. 1155 00:58:29,863 --> 00:58:33,700 - I assumed that he was lonely and was in need of a friend. 1156 00:58:33,700 --> 00:58:37,737 On one occasion, his apartment door was open, 1157 00:58:37,737 --> 00:58:39,272 and I could see inside. 1158 00:58:39,272 --> 00:58:44,511 And I saw a tall, black guy sitting in Jeff's apartment 1159 00:58:44,511 --> 00:58:47,247 and they were drinking beer. 1160 00:58:53,053 --> 00:58:54,287 - NARRATOR: Later that night, 1161 00:58:54,287 --> 00:58:56,723 Vernell recalls seeing that same man 1162 00:58:56,723 --> 00:58:59,960 disappear with Dahmer down the hall. 1163 00:58:59,960 --> 00:59:03,964 - I remember tellin' my wife. Well, hey, he got a friend. 1164 00:59:03,964 --> 00:59:07,200 You know, but it did turn out that, 1165 00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:10,403 that was one of his victims. 1166 00:59:10,403 --> 00:59:16,009 - NARRATOR: His ninth. 22-year-old David Thomas. 1167 00:59:16,610 --> 00:59:20,580 This time, Dahmer changes up his routine. 1168 00:59:20,580 --> 00:59:26,019 He takes Thomas' body, and for the first time in years, 1169 00:59:26,019 --> 00:59:28,455 simply discards it. 1170 00:59:29,890 --> 00:59:32,492 - It is just so unbelievable 1171 00:59:32,492 --> 00:59:35,762 to think that somebody in an apartment 1172 00:59:35,762 --> 00:59:40,333 in Milwaukee would have the gall to murder this many people 1173 00:59:40,333 --> 00:59:44,638 and throw the human body away like it was rotten meat. 1174 00:59:44,638 --> 00:59:47,307 It just shows you how inhumane Dahmer was, 1175 00:59:47,307 --> 00:59:50,644 how little he respected human life, 1176 00:59:50,644 --> 00:59:52,746 of how often he's been murdering, 1177 00:59:52,746 --> 00:59:55,549 of how normalized he's made murdering, 1178 00:59:55,549 --> 00:59:58,251 and just how purposeful he acts. 1179 00:59:58,251 --> 01:00:00,954 - NARRATOR: Dahmer's not the only serial killer 1180 01:00:00,954 --> 01:00:03,990 to go down this morbid path. 1181 01:00:09,496 --> 01:00:12,532 Ed Gein, the Butcher of Plainfield, 1182 01:00:12,532 --> 01:00:14,467 was the king of the macabre 1183 01:00:14,467 --> 01:00:17,470 back in his Wisconsin hometown. 1184 01:00:17,470 --> 01:00:20,440 - Ed Gein was a grave-robbing serial killer. 1185 01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:22,208 And he's the famous inspiration for 1186 01:00:22,208 --> 01:00:24,711 "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Psycho". 1187 01:00:24,711 --> 01:00:27,547 Of all of the characters that you'd cover in true crime, 1188 01:00:27,547 --> 01:00:29,516 Ed Gein could be, very accurately, 1189 01:00:29,516 --> 01:00:31,117 described as a ghoul. 1190 01:00:31,117 --> 01:00:35,388 And he was an all-around weird guy. 1191 01:00:35,388 --> 01:00:37,023 - NARRATOR: Driven by loneliness, 1192 01:00:37,023 --> 01:00:42,729 Gein began stealing body parts from graves at the age of 41, 1193 01:00:42,729 --> 01:00:46,633 the first of which belongs to his own mother. 1194 01:00:46,633 --> 01:00:49,703 - He wore his mother's body. 1195 01:00:49,703 --> 01:00:52,439 Like he dug her up and he turned it into a suit, 1196 01:00:52,439 --> 01:00:55,342 and he wore it for fun. 1197 01:00:56,543 --> 01:00:59,613 - He finds ways to act out his sexual compulsions 1198 01:00:59,613 --> 01:01:03,049 for human mutilation, and power and control. 1199 01:01:03,049 --> 01:01:04,851 And he keeps these souvenirs 1200 01:01:04,851 --> 01:01:07,220 and these body parts, and these skins. 1201 01:01:07,220 --> 01:01:12,626 - NARRATOR: But it's not until 10 years laterin November 1957 1202 01:01:12,626 --> 01:01:17,430 that the people of Plainville catch on to his crimes. 1203 01:01:17,430 --> 01:01:20,667 After the disappearance of a local hardware store owner 1204 01:01:20,667 --> 01:01:24,070 leads police to Gein, he is arrested 1205 01:01:24,070 --> 01:01:28,908 and his 195-acre farm is searched. 1206 01:01:28,908 --> 01:01:33,480 There, police not only find the headless, gutted corpse 1207 01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:37,450 of their missing woman, but also the body parts 1208 01:01:37,450 --> 01:01:40,420 of at least 15 other women 1209 01:01:40,420 --> 01:01:43,056 that had been fashioned into clothing, 1210 01:01:43,056 --> 01:01:48,028 furniture, and other pieces of frightening decor. 1211 01:01:51,965 --> 01:01:55,535 - Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer are both similar in that. 1212 01:01:55,535 --> 01:01:59,339 'Cause in a way they had a childlike curiosity 1213 01:01:59,339 --> 01:02:01,708 about the human body. 1214 01:02:01,708 --> 01:02:05,478 Dahmer made his entire apartment a trophy case. 1215 01:02:05,478 --> 01:02:08,848 When he went into that home, he could experience 1216 01:02:08,848 --> 01:02:11,117 every single moment of every murder 1217 01:02:11,117 --> 01:02:12,952 again and again and again 1218 01:02:12,952 --> 01:02:14,821 just sittin' on the couch. 1219 01:02:20,060 --> 01:02:22,228 - NARRATOR: By 1990, 1220 01:02:22,228 --> 01:02:25,732 Dahmer's brazen behavior becomes reckless. 1221 01:02:25,732 --> 01:02:29,669 And neighbors are getting suspicious. 1222 01:02:29,669 --> 01:02:35,308 - This one particular evening on a Tuesday, I had gotten in, 1223 01:02:35,308 --> 01:02:38,378 and as I was entering the building, 1224 01:02:38,378 --> 01:02:42,982 I heard a hand tool running in Jeff's apartment. 1225 01:02:42,982 --> 01:02:46,519 I couldn't distinguish if it was a saw 1226 01:02:46,519 --> 01:02:50,824 or if it was, um, a drill. 1227 01:02:50,824 --> 01:02:53,193 I said, man, what is he building over there? 1228 01:02:53,193 --> 01:02:58,331 As I was entering the apartment, coming into the door, 1229 01:02:58,331 --> 01:03:02,102 I could hear Jeff very clearly 1230 01:03:02,102 --> 01:03:05,739 stating, see what you made me do! 1231 01:03:10,043 --> 01:03:12,045 - ♪ 1232 01:03:14,347 --> 01:03:16,583 - NARRATOR: Over the last three decades, 1233 01:03:16,583 --> 01:03:18,718 serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer 1234 01:03:18,718 --> 01:03:22,021 has left a trail of death and destruction 1235 01:03:22,021 --> 01:03:23,590 wherever he's gone, 1236 01:03:23,590 --> 01:03:28,328 and has even started eating his victims. 1237 01:03:28,328 --> 01:03:30,530 But the disappearances of these men 1238 01:03:30,530 --> 01:03:34,501 within Milwaukee's gay community don't go unnoticed. 1239 01:03:36,669 --> 01:03:38,505 - Everyone was speculating 1240 01:03:38,505 --> 01:03:39,939 'cause there were a few people disappearing. 1241 01:03:39,939 --> 01:03:42,375 They were coming from Madison to look for people. 1242 01:03:42,375 --> 01:03:45,078 I mean, they were in the bars every week. 1243 01:03:45,078 --> 01:03:50,316 You know, passing out fliers. Cops were nowhere to be found. 1244 01:03:50,316 --> 01:03:51,618 - And that's what allowed Jeffrey Dahmer 1245 01:03:51,618 --> 01:03:53,586 to operate in secrecy for so long, 1246 01:03:53,586 --> 01:03:56,556 because one thing about the gay scene at the time, too 1247 01:03:56,556 --> 01:03:59,159 was that guys used to kinda disappear all the time. 1248 01:03:59,159 --> 01:04:02,529 Because guys would have to go to another city to a gay bar, 1249 01:04:02,529 --> 01:04:04,330 so they could be gay in that city 1250 01:04:04,330 --> 01:04:07,100 and not be seen in their hometown. 1251 01:04:07,100 --> 01:04:10,003 And so nobody asked these questions about them. 1252 01:04:11,805 --> 01:04:14,541 - NARRATOR: Dahmer continues cruising the clubs. 1253 01:04:14,541 --> 01:04:18,011 But his behavior's becoming increasingly erratic. 1254 01:04:18,011 --> 01:04:20,146 - Jeffrey got a little bit too drunk once in a while 1255 01:04:20,146 --> 01:04:24,184 and he was asked to leave the bar a couple of times. 1256 01:04:24,184 --> 01:04:27,353 - NARRATOR: So Dahmer turns to the streets. 1257 01:04:27,353 --> 01:04:28,955 There, he propositions 1258 01:04:28,955 --> 01:04:32,125 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone 1259 01:04:32,125 --> 01:04:34,527 with money to pose nude. 1260 01:04:34,527 --> 01:04:38,264 Konerak is the older brother of the boy 1261 01:04:38,264 --> 01:04:39,566 Dahmer was sentenced to jail 1262 01:04:39,566 --> 01:04:42,702 for sexually assaulting three years ago, 1263 01:04:42,702 --> 01:04:46,639 making the boys the only members of the same family 1264 01:04:46,639 --> 01:04:48,975 targeted by the serial killer. 1265 01:04:52,011 --> 01:04:55,582 - This boy comes back to his apartment. 1266 01:04:55,582 --> 01:04:59,452 Dahmer takes pictures of him. And he injects him. 1267 01:04:59,452 --> 01:05:01,855 He rapes him. 1268 01:05:01,855 --> 01:05:03,423 - This is when the Jeffrey Dahmer story 1269 01:05:03,423 --> 01:05:05,058 really jumps the shark. 1270 01:05:05,058 --> 01:05:09,495 Jeffrey Dahmer says to himself, this is just not working for me. 1271 01:05:09,495 --> 01:05:11,664 I'm not getting what I want out of this. 1272 01:05:11,664 --> 01:05:13,700 I'm not feeling any less lonely. 1273 01:05:13,700 --> 01:05:17,136 Um, as a matter of fact, my apartment stinks. 1274 01:05:17,136 --> 01:05:20,406 I need to figure out a way to make a permanent partner. 1275 01:05:20,406 --> 01:05:23,843 He wants someone silent, like a mannequin. 1276 01:05:23,843 --> 01:05:25,879 - Dahmer comes up with this idea 1277 01:05:25,879 --> 01:05:28,715 that if he can turn these men into zombies, 1278 01:05:28,715 --> 01:05:31,384 then he can keep them under his control, 1279 01:05:31,384 --> 01:05:33,920 and they'll stay with him. 1280 01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:37,323 - NARRATOR: What he does next is right out of "Frankenstein." 1281 01:05:38,858 --> 01:05:43,529 He gives Konerak a homemade lobotomy. 1282 01:05:43,529 --> 01:05:45,665 - You just imagine being these poor victims, 1283 01:05:45,665 --> 01:05:49,202 and you have someone drilling in your skull, 1284 01:05:49,202 --> 01:05:53,106 and then dumping hydrochloric acid in your brain. 1285 01:05:53,106 --> 01:05:55,975 And the whole point is to make a sex zombie out of you. 1286 01:05:55,975 --> 01:05:59,879 And it's just... It is so beyond. 1287 01:06:01,147 --> 01:06:04,150 He thought he was actually improving in some ways 1288 01:06:04,150 --> 01:06:06,319 by saying well, I'm not gonna kill 'em. 1289 01:06:06,319 --> 01:06:08,221 I'm just gonna try to make a zombie out of them 1290 01:06:08,221 --> 01:06:10,623 so we can have sex. 1291 01:06:10,623 --> 01:06:13,326 - You would think on face value, oh my god, 1292 01:06:13,326 --> 01:06:14,928 you are a sadist 1293 01:06:14,928 --> 01:06:17,830 because you are drilling holes into somebody's head, right? 1294 01:06:17,830 --> 01:06:20,566 But for Dahmer, that's a means to an end. 1295 01:06:20,566 --> 01:06:24,003 Dahmer wants to create an intimate partner 1296 01:06:24,003 --> 01:06:26,205 that won't leave and abandon him. 1297 01:06:26,205 --> 01:06:29,575 Somebody that's a, a willing, complaint companion 1298 01:06:29,575 --> 01:06:31,711 that he can have absolute control over. 1299 01:06:31,711 --> 01:06:34,614 An ultimate submissive. 1300 01:06:38,084 --> 01:06:41,354 - NARRATOR: But Dahmer can't do this work sober. 1301 01:06:41,354 --> 01:06:43,756 An alcoholic since age 14, 1302 01:06:43,756 --> 01:06:47,593 he must get drunk to perform his unspeakable acts. 1303 01:06:47,593 --> 01:06:49,696 So halfway through the process, 1304 01:06:49,696 --> 01:06:52,198 he decides to step out for some beer. 1305 01:06:53,366 --> 01:06:54,667 - So Dahmer left the apartment, 1306 01:06:54,667 --> 01:06:56,569 went to a liquor store several blocks away. 1307 01:06:56,569 --> 01:06:59,439 This young Asian boy got out onto the street 1308 01:06:59,439 --> 01:07:01,007 with no clothes on. 1309 01:07:02,542 --> 01:07:08,281 - I noticed a image from afar. And I thought I was trippin'. 1310 01:07:08,281 --> 01:07:12,452 It was a person that looked completely naked. 1311 01:07:12,452 --> 01:07:15,755 When I got up close, I was able to tell, you know, 1312 01:07:15,755 --> 01:07:19,525 it was a male and that he was pretty young. 1313 01:07:19,525 --> 01:07:22,962 He was falling. He was staggering. 1314 01:07:22,962 --> 01:07:25,164 He couldn't talk. I'm askin' him, 1315 01:07:25,164 --> 01:07:27,934 like what happened to you? Are you ok? 1316 01:07:27,934 --> 01:07:29,068 Like where are your clothes? 1317 01:07:29,068 --> 01:07:30,903 And he just, he couldn't say anything. 1318 01:07:30,903 --> 01:07:35,775 He just kept reaching for me, you know, like a baby. 1319 01:07:35,775 --> 01:07:37,677 Clearly he got away from somewhere. 1320 01:07:37,677 --> 01:07:41,414 He was bruised up and he was bleedin'. 1321 01:07:41,414 --> 01:07:43,182 He needed help. 1322 01:07:43,182 --> 01:07:47,220 And so, I decided that I would go and dial 911. 1323 01:07:48,221 --> 01:07:50,523 He's been beaten up real bad and he's fell down. 1324 01:07:50,523 --> 01:07:52,558 And people was tryin' to help him stand, and he can't stand. 1325 01:07:52,558 --> 01:07:53,760 He's butt-naked. He has no clothes on. 1326 01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:56,029 He is very hurt. 1327 01:07:56,029 --> 01:07:58,865 As I was speaking to them, they was asking me questions. 1328 01:07:58,865 --> 01:08:02,635 Then there was this man who appeared. 1329 01:08:02,635 --> 01:08:06,105 And I didn't know, um, who he was. 1330 01:08:06,105 --> 01:08:08,374 He just immediately grabbed the boy 1331 01:08:08,374 --> 01:08:12,912 and was trying to just take him. 1332 01:08:12,912 --> 01:08:15,148 I actually mentioned that on the 911 call. 1333 01:08:15,148 --> 01:08:17,016 I said, well, uh, a guy has come up 1334 01:08:17,016 --> 01:08:18,284 and he's trying to take him. 1335 01:08:18,284 --> 01:08:19,986 And they said, well, help is on the way. 1336 01:08:19,986 --> 01:08:21,888 Don't let him take him. 1337 01:08:26,492 --> 01:08:27,493 I went back. 1338 01:08:28,694 --> 01:08:33,332 I'm listening to the man talk to the boy 1339 01:08:33,332 --> 01:08:35,802 and he was saying, pull yourself together. 1340 01:08:35,802 --> 01:08:38,304 And I told him, I said, I just called 911. 1341 01:08:38,304 --> 01:08:40,206 Help is on the way. 1342 01:08:40,206 --> 01:08:44,243 And he was literally trying to drag him. 1343 01:08:44,243 --> 01:08:46,012 And I'm like, why are you taking him? 1344 01:08:46,012 --> 01:08:48,548 Like help is on the way. I'm like, do you know him? 1345 01:08:48,548 --> 01:08:51,084 And he was like, you know, you need to stay out of this. 1346 01:08:51,084 --> 01:08:53,686 This has nothing to do with you. 1347 01:08:53,686 --> 01:08:56,055 We was like doing a, like a tug a war. 1348 01:08:56,055 --> 01:08:58,224 I just felt like something wasn't right. 1349 01:08:58,224 --> 01:09:01,360 I just felt like I shouldn't let him take him. 1350 01:09:02,795 --> 01:09:04,564 - NARRATOR: But when police arrive, 1351 01:09:04,564 --> 01:09:07,934 they don't share Cola's concerns. 1352 01:09:07,934 --> 01:09:10,336 - The 14-year-old victim, he's already had a hole 1353 01:09:10,336 --> 01:09:13,005 halfway drilled into the top of his head. 1354 01:09:13,005 --> 01:09:16,342 He was bleeding, screaming. 1355 01:09:16,342 --> 01:09:18,811 Jeffrey Dahmer is like, yeah, he looks young, 1356 01:09:18,811 --> 01:09:20,613 but this is my 20-year-old boyfriend. 1357 01:09:20,613 --> 01:09:23,082 We were having some BDSM sex. 1358 01:09:23,082 --> 01:09:25,017 That's why he's bleeding. 1359 01:09:26,752 --> 01:09:29,222 - I butted in and I tapped one of their arms, 1360 01:09:29,222 --> 01:09:30,323 I said, excuse me, 1361 01:09:30,323 --> 01:09:31,791 I don't think he knew him because... 1362 01:09:31,791 --> 01:09:32,892 And they was like. 1363 01:09:34,160 --> 01:09:35,862 And this one officer told me 1364 01:09:35,862 --> 01:09:38,197 that he had been investigating eight years 1365 01:09:38,197 --> 01:09:41,834 and he didn't need an amateur pokin' in his business. 1366 01:09:41,834 --> 01:09:44,203 I even saw one of the officers 1367 01:09:44,203 --> 01:09:46,906 pat Jeffrey Dahmer on his back. 1368 01:09:56,249 --> 01:09:58,251 - Dahmer brings the cops back to his apartment 1369 01:09:58,251 --> 01:10:00,620 and shows the officers Polaroid pictures 1370 01:10:00,620 --> 01:10:04,490 of this 14-year-old boy nude to prove to the officers 1371 01:10:04,490 --> 01:10:08,294 that they were indeed in a sexual relationship. 1372 01:10:08,294 --> 01:10:10,329 As Dahmer showed them the Polaroids, 1373 01:10:10,329 --> 01:10:15,101 he also had a corpse on his bed rotting. 1374 01:10:16,135 --> 01:10:17,870 - The cops commented that it smelled like 1375 01:10:17,870 --> 01:10:21,340 someone took a shit on the living room floor. 1376 01:10:21,340 --> 01:10:25,878 The cops essentially give the victim back to Jeffrey Dahmer 1377 01:10:25,878 --> 01:10:29,248 and then they left. They did not care. 1378 01:10:30,216 --> 01:10:33,119 - Here you have a young man bleeding from his behind, 1379 01:10:33,119 --> 01:10:36,088 beat up a little bit, and you're giving him back 1380 01:10:36,088 --> 01:10:39,559 to his lover who just probably beat him up? 1381 01:10:39,559 --> 01:10:41,561 I don't get that. 1382 01:10:44,130 --> 01:10:47,934 - The intoxicated Asian naked male 1383 01:10:47,934 --> 01:10:51,337 was returned to his sober boyfriend. 1384 01:10:53,406 --> 01:10:55,308 - You would think any rational officer would say, 1385 01:10:55,308 --> 01:10:57,043 well, number one, that's child pornography, 1386 01:10:57,043 --> 01:10:58,945 and number two, you're coming with us. 1387 01:10:58,945 --> 01:11:01,514 But instead they said, oh, I guess that proves it. 1388 01:11:01,514 --> 01:11:05,818 You guys must be lovers. And they simply left. 1389 01:11:05,818 --> 01:11:07,053 - The Milwaukee Police Department, 1390 01:11:07,053 --> 01:11:08,554 they weren't looking hard enough 1391 01:11:08,554 --> 01:11:10,156 because he was gay 1392 01:11:10,156 --> 01:11:13,125 and I think the police wanted to stay as far away 1393 01:11:13,125 --> 01:11:14,760 as they could at that time 1394 01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:18,164 from the gayness aspect of it. 1395 01:11:18,164 --> 01:11:21,767 - I'm thinking like, this is crazy 1396 01:11:21,767 --> 01:11:23,302 why they don't wanna listen to me? 1397 01:11:23,302 --> 01:11:28,341 This boy is in trouble. He is with the wrong person. 1398 01:11:28,341 --> 01:11:30,977 If they would've just did a check, you know, 1399 01:11:30,977 --> 01:11:32,245 how they run people name 1400 01:11:32,245 --> 01:11:34,714 constantly all the time, procedure, 1401 01:11:34,714 --> 01:11:39,485 they would of noticed like, oh my, this is a pedophile 1402 01:11:39,485 --> 01:11:42,888 who was on probation because he had molested 1403 01:11:42,888 --> 01:11:45,825 Konerak Sinthasomphone's brother. 1404 01:11:45,825 --> 01:11:49,762 It's just so many things that didn't happen 1405 01:11:49,762 --> 01:11:53,165 that should have happened that night. 1406 01:11:53,165 --> 01:11:55,134 - The way that justice is handed down 1407 01:11:55,134 --> 01:11:57,069 is oftentimes reflective of the way 1408 01:11:57,069 --> 01:11:58,871 that we look at marginalized folks. 1409 01:11:58,871 --> 01:12:00,640 We start to hear the stereotypes, 1410 01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:02,041 sex workers, black people, 1411 01:12:02,041 --> 01:12:04,010 Asian people. They can't be believed. 1412 01:12:04,010 --> 01:12:06,445 They're dramatic. They're over exaggerating. 1413 01:12:06,445 --> 01:12:09,215 And uphold the stereotype of a white man. 1414 01:12:09,215 --> 01:12:12,885 Safe, good, not causing any trouble. 1415 01:12:12,885 --> 01:12:16,522 I was only trying to help them. 1416 01:12:16,522 --> 01:12:22,061 You know, it was their idea. Um, I'll take it from here. 1417 01:12:22,962 --> 01:12:28,167 - So many times, Jeffrey Dahmer was an inch away 1418 01:12:28,167 --> 01:12:33,072 from being stopped and yet he never was. 1419 01:12:33,072 --> 01:12:35,908 - NARRATOR: Unchecked, Dahmer continues his quest 1420 01:12:35,908 --> 01:12:39,545 to transform Konerak into a sex zombie, 1421 01:12:39,545 --> 01:12:42,782 drilling another hole in the boy's head. 1422 01:12:42,782 --> 01:12:47,620 But the second attempt simply kills the 14-year-old 1423 01:12:47,620 --> 01:12:51,657 and further emboldens the killer cannibal. 1424 01:12:51,657 --> 01:12:55,127 - He was just becoming more and more out of control. 1425 01:12:55,127 --> 01:12:58,164 More and more disturbed in his, his thinking. 1426 01:12:58,164 --> 01:13:00,166 After the police had come into his apartment, 1427 01:13:00,166 --> 01:13:01,600 you'd think he'd have left that apartment. 1428 01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:04,370 He still stays there. 1429 01:13:04,370 --> 01:13:07,907 - He was actively eating people. And it'd become a habit for him. 1430 01:13:07,907 --> 01:13:10,076 He had put together meals 1431 01:13:10,076 --> 01:13:12,144 that were inside of his refrigerator. 1432 01:13:12,144 --> 01:13:16,782 But then also like he made that whole pot of penises. 1433 01:13:16,782 --> 01:13:18,250 That's real. 1434 01:13:18,250 --> 01:13:21,854 He did cook up a bunch of severed penises in a pot. 1435 01:13:21,854 --> 01:13:23,989 - He has no indication of being busted. 1436 01:13:23,989 --> 01:13:27,093 He doesn't particularly fear law enforcement. 1437 01:13:27,093 --> 01:13:29,862 Obviously he would, he just simply goes up to them 1438 01:13:29,862 --> 01:13:31,497 and talks to them. 1439 01:13:31,497 --> 01:13:35,901 If you're Dahmer at this point, why would you stop? 1440 01:13:35,901 --> 01:13:37,670 - This isn't a madman out of control. 1441 01:13:37,670 --> 01:13:39,972 This isn't a man that doesn't know what he's doing. 1442 01:13:39,972 --> 01:13:41,841 This is a man that knew it was wrong, 1443 01:13:41,841 --> 01:13:43,376 knew he had to be under stress 1444 01:13:43,376 --> 01:13:46,379 and he performed superbly under stress. 1445 01:13:49,081 --> 01:13:51,050 - NARRATOR: But as the months go by, 1446 01:13:51,050 --> 01:13:54,153 Dahmer's starting to get sloppy. 1447 01:13:54,153 --> 01:13:57,123 - The smell in the hallway, it was a smell 1448 01:13:57,123 --> 01:13:59,525 that you could not ignore it. 1449 01:13:59,525 --> 01:14:01,994 It was atrocious. 1450 01:14:01,994 --> 01:14:05,364 The smell was coming from Jeff's apartment. 1451 01:14:05,364 --> 01:14:09,969 He had been warned about the smell twice. 1452 01:14:09,969 --> 01:14:11,570 - At one point he started falling asleep 1453 01:14:11,570 --> 01:14:12,772 at the chocolate factory 1454 01:14:12,772 --> 01:14:15,207 and that was because of his nighttime activities, 1455 01:14:15,207 --> 01:14:17,977 his nocturnal depravity, he couldn't stay awake. 1456 01:14:17,977 --> 01:14:21,147 And they fired him for sleeping on the job. 1457 01:14:21,147 --> 01:14:23,082 - NARRATOR: With his world falling apart, 1458 01:14:23,082 --> 01:14:26,852 Dahmer slips deeper into fantasy. 1459 01:14:26,852 --> 01:14:30,089 - He had began taking victims, spray painted skulls. 1460 01:14:30,089 --> 01:14:32,057 And that was the beginning of what would become 1461 01:14:32,057 --> 01:14:33,426 a shrine to his victims, 1462 01:14:33,426 --> 01:14:36,061 of course for his own sick pleasure. 1463 01:14:36,061 --> 01:14:38,497 The murder museum Jeffrey Dahmer was creating 1464 01:14:38,497 --> 01:14:42,601 was just another reminder of how much he demanded control. 1465 01:14:42,601 --> 01:14:45,171 He never wanted the memories to go away. 1466 01:14:45,171 --> 01:14:48,207 That's why he has the pictures. He has the skulls. 1467 01:14:48,207 --> 01:14:50,342 - Think of somebody who's addicted to drugs, who, 1468 01:14:50,342 --> 01:14:51,544 yes, they're chasing the high. 1469 01:14:51,544 --> 01:14:53,279 Yes, they're doing the drugs every day, 1470 01:14:53,279 --> 01:14:54,980 but on another level, they just want it 1471 01:14:54,980 --> 01:14:57,249 to all be over. They want it to end. 1472 01:14:57,249 --> 01:15:01,387 They don't wanna keep running on this treadmill anymore. 1473 01:15:01,387 --> 01:15:04,890 - You almost wonder if at some point, 1474 01:15:04,890 --> 01:15:07,726 do you wanna be caught? 1475 01:15:12,164 --> 01:15:15,434 - NARRATOR: By May of 1991, 1476 01:15:15,434 --> 01:15:17,603 serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer 1477 01:15:17,603 --> 01:15:21,373 has murdered at least 17 men and boys 1478 01:15:21,373 --> 01:15:24,643 over the course of 13 years. 1479 01:15:24,643 --> 01:15:28,981 And eaten several of his victim's body parts. 1480 01:15:28,981 --> 01:15:35,020 To commemorate his achievement, he builds a horrific shrine. 1481 01:15:35,020 --> 01:15:37,857 - Jeffrey Dahmer had a ritualistic altar, 1482 01:15:37,857 --> 01:15:41,627 what he viewed as a throne that he would sit on 1483 01:15:41,627 --> 01:15:44,964 like as an emperor of his one-bedroom apartment. 1484 01:15:44,964 --> 01:15:48,501 He was submerged in his crimes. 1485 01:15:48,501 --> 01:15:51,837 - A shrine of skulls is almost a museum. 1486 01:15:51,837 --> 01:15:56,208 It's a way to kinda look back on your career of murder and mayhem 1487 01:15:56,208 --> 01:15:59,745 and take measure of it and appreciation. 1488 01:15:59,745 --> 01:16:02,348 And I'm not just looking at one murder and one thing I've done, 1489 01:16:02,348 --> 01:16:05,818 I'm looking at it in it's entirety. 1490 01:16:08,020 --> 01:16:11,123 - NARRATOR: On July 22, 1991, 1491 01:16:11,123 --> 01:16:14,326 Dahmer attempts to add one more skull 1492 01:16:14,326 --> 01:16:16,529 to his collection. 1493 01:16:16,529 --> 01:16:19,899 - Dahmer encountered a man named Tracy Edwards. 1494 01:16:19,899 --> 01:16:22,468 They picked up alcohol and he took Edwards with himself. 1495 01:16:22,468 --> 01:16:24,136 They went back to Dahmer's apartment. 1496 01:16:24,136 --> 01:16:26,238 That was obviously gonna be his next victim. 1497 01:16:28,107 --> 01:16:29,842 - He comes into the apartment. 1498 01:16:29,842 --> 01:16:33,345 He smells an awful smell, which smells like rotting meat. 1499 01:16:33,345 --> 01:16:36,081 He's like, somethin's goin' on here. 1500 01:16:36,081 --> 01:16:38,284 He's backin' his way out of the house. 1501 01:16:39,685 --> 01:16:41,720 - NARRATOR: But the cannibal is determined 1502 01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:43,622 to not let him leave. 1503 01:16:43,622 --> 01:16:48,627 Edwards tries to escape and the men struggle. 1504 01:16:48,627 --> 01:16:50,596 - He had the wherewithal to know 1505 01:16:50,596 --> 01:16:52,598 that trouble was right around the corner, 1506 01:16:52,598 --> 01:16:55,935 to realize that he was looking at, at the face of evil, 1507 01:16:55,935 --> 01:16:57,770 and to do something about it. 1508 01:16:57,770 --> 01:17:01,574 Edwards knew he had to get out of there as fast as possible. 1509 01:17:01,574 --> 01:17:05,511 - NARRATOR: Then Edwards sees his chance. 1510 01:17:05,511 --> 01:17:08,147 - Tracy Edwards was a street-savvy guy 1511 01:17:08,147 --> 01:17:09,982 and was able to escape. 1512 01:17:11,283 --> 01:17:12,851 He went down the street. 1513 01:17:12,851 --> 01:17:16,555 He had a handcuff hanging, and he stopped to a police car. 1514 01:17:16,555 --> 01:17:21,293 - NARRATOR: Edwards tells police a freak was holding him captive. 1515 01:17:21,293 --> 01:17:23,329 - Before I knew it he threw a handcuff on me, 1516 01:17:23,329 --> 01:17:25,130 and had a big blade up under my heart, you know, 1517 01:17:25,130 --> 01:17:27,032 tellin' me if I don't do what he says 1518 01:17:27,032 --> 01:17:28,567 he's gonna kill me, you know? 1519 01:17:28,567 --> 01:17:31,337 He took his mind, and the blade, off me for a moment, you know. 1520 01:17:31,337 --> 01:17:32,571 And then I knew then 1521 01:17:32,571 --> 01:17:34,607 it was my time to make my move, you know? 1522 01:17:34,607 --> 01:17:36,475 That if I didn't take my chance 1523 01:17:36,475 --> 01:17:39,712 then I would never get out this place, you know? 1524 01:17:39,712 --> 01:17:41,347 - NARRATOR: He then leads authorities 1525 01:17:41,347 --> 01:17:43,882 back to the Oxford Apartments. 1526 01:17:43,882 --> 01:17:45,384 - Dahmer opens the door. 1527 01:17:45,384 --> 01:17:47,186 They say, do you have a key to these handcuffs? 1528 01:17:47,186 --> 01:17:49,488 He says, yeah, they're in the bedroom. 1529 01:17:49,488 --> 01:17:52,358 - Jeffrey Dahmer assumes, I can get away with anything. 1530 01:17:52,358 --> 01:17:53,926 I can't be caught in my universe. 1531 01:17:53,926 --> 01:17:56,495 The cops, they're like, this place reeks. 1532 01:17:56,495 --> 01:17:57,796 And they look and see 1533 01:17:57,796 --> 01:18:00,099 a series of Polaroids that he had pinned up 1534 01:18:00,099 --> 01:18:01,667 like it was from his vacation 1535 01:18:01,667 --> 01:18:07,172 of a bunch of posed, nude, decapitated bodies. 1536 01:18:07,172 --> 01:18:09,208 The cop just looks around. 1537 01:18:09,208 --> 01:18:11,477 He gets his walkie talkie. And he's like, 1538 01:18:11,477 --> 01:18:12,911 I need some backup. 1539 01:18:14,113 --> 01:18:15,547 - NARRATOR: Dahmer knows 1540 01:18:15,547 --> 01:18:20,185 there's no talking his way out of things this time. 1541 01:18:20,185 --> 01:18:23,555 - Finally, Dahmer is arrested. 1542 01:18:23,555 --> 01:18:28,827 He says to the police, for what I did I should be dead. 1543 01:18:32,765 --> 01:18:36,435 - NARRATOR: As officers file into the one-bedroom apartment, 1544 01:18:36,435 --> 01:18:39,571 no amount of training can prepare them 1545 01:18:39,571 --> 01:18:43,308 for the chamber of terror they discover. 1546 01:18:43,308 --> 01:18:45,244 - They found severed lips in the apartment. 1547 01:18:45,244 --> 01:18:48,547 They found detached penises, uh, in jars. 1548 01:18:48,547 --> 01:18:51,350 Uh, obviously they found numerous skulls. 1549 01:18:51,350 --> 01:18:53,318 They found numerous bones. 1550 01:18:53,318 --> 01:18:55,421 Uh, they found brain matter. 1551 01:18:55,421 --> 01:18:58,190 Uh, they found a full human head. 1552 01:18:58,190 --> 01:19:01,460 The amount of murder memorabilia 1553 01:19:01,460 --> 01:19:04,697 that was crammed into this small Milwaukee apartment, 1554 01:19:04,697 --> 01:19:08,600 it is just unreal to think about. 1555 01:19:08,600 --> 01:19:12,738 - NARRATOR: Especially for those living right next door. 1556 01:19:13,806 --> 01:19:16,809 - I could see that it was a lot of activity going on 1557 01:19:16,809 --> 01:19:18,143 at his apartment. 1558 01:19:18,143 --> 01:19:20,713 And one of the officers told us 1559 01:19:20,713 --> 01:19:24,583 that we have to evacuate our apartment. 1560 01:19:24,583 --> 01:19:29,188 And I immediately asked the officer 1561 01:19:29,188 --> 01:19:31,690 if Jeff was ok. 1562 01:19:31,690 --> 01:19:35,427 And he responded, yeah, that fucker's ok. 1563 01:19:35,427 --> 01:19:37,629 And that's when he started to tell me 1564 01:19:37,629 --> 01:19:41,734 about the activity inside apartment 213. 1565 01:19:43,402 --> 01:19:46,438 I was more shocked than anything. 1566 01:19:46,438 --> 01:19:48,874 And then it went, it went, 1567 01:19:48,874 --> 01:19:54,980 it went from shock to embarrassment, 1568 01:19:54,980 --> 01:19:57,850 because we were duped. 1569 01:19:57,850 --> 01:19:59,918 When you think that you know someone, 1570 01:19:59,918 --> 01:20:04,590 and then you come to find out that you really don't. 1571 01:20:04,590 --> 01:20:08,460 - The bags and the barrels of human flesh 1572 01:20:08,460 --> 01:20:11,697 and all of the instruments that Dahmer had used to, 1573 01:20:11,697 --> 01:20:16,435 to dismember corpses, it was just coming out in droves. 1574 01:20:16,435 --> 01:20:18,337 Like you couldn't even imagine 1575 01:20:18,337 --> 01:20:20,639 that someone could commit this act 1576 01:20:20,639 --> 01:20:22,174 in such a tiny place, 1577 01:20:22,174 --> 01:20:24,209 and then all of this 1578 01:20:24,209 --> 01:20:26,812 unbelievably graphic, gory stuff. 1579 01:20:26,812 --> 01:20:28,814 - NARRATOR: News quickly spreads 1580 01:20:28,814 --> 01:20:34,019 that a serial killer cannibal has been caught in Milwaukee. 1581 01:20:34,019 --> 01:20:35,621 - REPORTER: Inside a second floor apartment, 1582 01:20:35,621 --> 01:20:38,557 police found a grisly scene. 1583 01:20:38,557 --> 01:20:41,827 - After about maybe a half hour 1584 01:20:41,827 --> 01:20:45,230 watching them through the glass 1585 01:20:45,230 --> 01:20:50,202 taking out the boxes, the smell was leaving as well. 1586 01:20:50,202 --> 01:20:53,639 And by that morning, 1587 01:20:53,639 --> 01:20:56,475 they had gotten out all of the boxes. 1588 01:20:58,243 --> 01:21:01,847 And the smell was totally gone. 1589 01:21:01,847 --> 01:21:05,217 - NARRATOR: The next day, police question Jeffrey Dahmer, 1590 01:21:05,217 --> 01:21:07,419 knowing he's the only person 1591 01:21:07,419 --> 01:21:10,756 who can explain the horrors inside his home. 1592 01:21:10,756 --> 01:21:12,558 - Dahmer started talking right away. 1593 01:21:12,558 --> 01:21:14,326 He was fully cooperative with the police. 1594 01:21:14,326 --> 01:21:16,862 He gave full confession. 1595 01:21:16,862 --> 01:21:19,698 - NARRATOR: Even though police only discover various parts 1596 01:21:19,698 --> 01:21:23,068 of 11 different victims inside his apartment, 1597 01:21:23,068 --> 01:21:27,973 Dahmer confesses to murdering 17 men and boys, 1598 01:21:27,973 --> 01:21:32,344 dating back to 1978, when he killed his first victim, 1599 01:21:32,344 --> 01:21:35,314 Steven Hicks, in Bath, Ohio. 1600 01:21:35,314 --> 01:21:36,582 - As you can imagine, 1601 01:21:36,582 --> 01:21:38,617 the parents whose children had disappeared. 1602 01:21:38,617 --> 01:21:40,652 The first family, the slaying in Ohio, 1603 01:21:40,652 --> 01:21:43,489 that family waited 13 years. 1604 01:21:43,489 --> 01:21:45,557 Where is our son? 1605 01:21:45,557 --> 01:21:47,693 For those families, if you try to add up 1606 01:21:47,693 --> 01:21:50,729 the pain that's involved, it's enormous. 1607 01:21:53,198 --> 01:21:55,834 - After the names came out, police at the time 1608 01:21:55,834 --> 01:21:59,671 asked me to look at some pictures 1609 01:21:59,671 --> 01:22:02,608 and, um, there was one picture, 1610 01:22:02,608 --> 01:22:04,142 it was definitely Eddie. 1611 01:22:06,812 --> 01:22:08,514 And I found out it was Jeffrey Dahmer 1612 01:22:08,514 --> 01:22:11,950 when they showed his face and said his name. 1613 01:22:11,950 --> 01:22:14,753 He killed Eddie. He really did kill him. 1614 01:22:14,753 --> 01:22:19,057 Um, I, oh my God, I introduced them. 1615 01:22:19,625 --> 01:22:21,159 You know, I... 1616 01:22:28,433 --> 01:22:30,669 I lost it from there. 1617 01:22:30,669 --> 01:22:34,206 You know, I blame myself. 1618 01:22:34,206 --> 01:22:35,507 For a long time I did, 1619 01:22:35,507 --> 01:22:38,644 but I finally realized it wasn't my fault. 1620 01:22:38,644 --> 01:22:40,512 Who would have known what brings a human being 1621 01:22:40,512 --> 01:22:42,814 to do something like this to somebody else? 1622 01:22:44,950 --> 01:22:46,852 - NARRATOR: For Dahmer's defense attorneys, 1623 01:22:46,852 --> 01:22:49,821 this is a clear case of insanity. 1624 01:22:49,821 --> 01:22:52,558 And in January 1992, 1625 01:22:52,558 --> 01:22:55,627 that's exactly how they encourage him to plead 1626 01:22:55,627 --> 01:22:57,896 as Jeffrey Dahmer goes to trial 1627 01:22:57,896 --> 01:23:02,067 for 15 counts of first-degree murder. 1628 01:23:02,067 --> 01:23:04,670 - When the defendant enters a plea of insanity, 1629 01:23:04,670 --> 01:23:06,104 there are two phases to the trial. 1630 01:23:06,104 --> 01:23:08,206 The first trial is, was the crime committed? 1631 01:23:08,206 --> 01:23:09,341 Did he commit the murder? 1632 01:23:09,341 --> 01:23:12,110 The second phase, was he insane when he did it? 1633 01:23:12,110 --> 01:23:14,346 - NARRATOR: Proving the first is easy, 1634 01:23:14,346 --> 01:23:18,817 especially since Dahmer left so many witnesses behind. 1635 01:23:18,817 --> 01:23:21,019 - Like, he was listening to my heart, because at a point, 1636 01:23:21,019 --> 01:23:24,690 he told me he was gonna eat my heart. 1637 01:23:24,690 --> 01:23:28,060 - Hearing from people who had been victimized 1638 01:23:28,060 --> 01:23:31,463 by Jeffrey Dahmer was horrible. 1639 01:23:31,463 --> 01:23:34,666 The details were unbearable. 1640 01:23:36,034 --> 01:23:39,338 - NARRATOR: But proving that Dahmer was insane 1641 01:23:39,338 --> 01:23:42,007 is not as simple. 1642 01:23:42,007 --> 01:23:46,612 - If you can commit an organized and premediated crime 1643 01:23:46,612 --> 01:23:49,848 knowing what you're doing, you're not insane. 1644 01:23:49,848 --> 01:23:51,984 And that is what Jeffrey continued to do 1645 01:23:51,984 --> 01:23:54,353 time and time again with each of his murders. 1646 01:23:56,154 --> 01:23:57,856 - MALE REPORTER: The lawyers have delivered 1647 01:23:57,856 --> 01:23:59,491 their final argument. 1648 01:23:59,491 --> 01:24:02,094 It's up to the jury to say what will happen to Jeffrey Dahmer. 1649 01:24:02,094 --> 01:24:04,162 He was pleading guilty, but insane 1650 01:24:04,162 --> 01:24:06,932 in the killing 15 young men and boys. 1651 01:24:06,932 --> 01:24:09,935 Jacqueline Adams reports from Milwaukee. 1652 01:24:09,935 --> 01:24:11,870 - JACQUELINE: Jeffrey Dahmer never took the stand. 1653 01:24:11,870 --> 01:24:15,007 - NARRATOR: But the prosecution doesn't buy it. 1654 01:24:15,007 --> 01:24:17,309 - Dahmer told him that at the time he killed 1655 01:24:17,309 --> 01:24:19,911 each of these vic--15 victims, 1656 01:24:19,911 --> 01:24:23,649 he appreciated that it was wrong to kill the victim. 1657 01:24:24,216 --> 01:24:28,754 Your life, your life, your life for my sexual satisfaction. 1658 01:24:28,754 --> 01:24:31,657 - He's fooled a lot of people. 1659 01:24:31,657 --> 01:24:34,259 Please, don't let this 1660 01:24:34,259 --> 01:24:37,963 murderous killer fool you. 1661 01:24:37,963 --> 01:24:40,732 - When I finally got to interview Jeffrey, 1662 01:24:40,732 --> 01:24:43,001 he told me that if he was on the outside 1663 01:24:43,001 --> 01:24:45,070 he would have kept killing. 1664 01:24:45,070 --> 01:24:47,472 Nothing would have stopped him. 1665 01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:51,610 Do I think Jeffrey Dahmer was sane? 1666 01:24:51,610 --> 01:24:56,815 Well, not by your or my definition of sanity, 1667 01:24:56,815 --> 01:25:00,285 but the court found him to be sane. 1668 01:25:00,285 --> 01:25:02,354 - NARRATOR: After a two-week trial, 1669 01:25:02,354 --> 01:25:05,924 Dahmer is found guilty. 1670 01:25:08,260 --> 01:25:11,496 He's convicted of 15 counts of murder 1671 01:25:11,496 --> 01:25:16,902 and sentenced to 15 consecutive terms of life imprisonment. 1672 01:25:17,736 --> 01:25:22,207 - The sorrow and anger of the victims' families 1673 01:25:22,207 --> 01:25:24,810 was heartbreaking. 1674 01:25:24,810 --> 01:25:27,646 - You took my mother's oldest grandchild from her. 1675 01:25:27,646 --> 01:25:29,981 And for that I can never forgive you. 1676 01:25:29,981 --> 01:25:33,985 I hope you, I hope you can deal with what you done. 1677 01:25:33,985 --> 01:25:39,925 - You are a diablo... [speaks Spanish] 1678 01:25:39,925 --> 01:25:41,626 That means, the devil, the pure devil, 1679 01:25:41,626 --> 01:25:43,328 that walked our streets and was loose. 1680 01:25:43,328 --> 01:25:47,132 - The pain that you caused my family, 1681 01:25:47,132 --> 01:25:50,068 that was my baby boy that you took away from me. 1682 01:25:50,068 --> 01:25:53,438 - My mother gave five beautiful kids. 1683 01:25:53,438 --> 01:25:56,741 We lost, you destroyed the baby of the family. 1684 01:25:56,741 --> 01:26:01,279 - Why? You know, why would it be my son? 1685 01:26:01,279 --> 01:26:03,115 - The last family that got up was a young woman 1686 01:26:03,115 --> 01:26:05,016 and she lost control of herself. 1687 01:26:05,016 --> 01:26:09,421 - Jeffrey, I hate you, motherfucker! I hate you! 1688 01:26:09,421 --> 01:26:11,389 This is outta control. 1689 01:26:11,389 --> 01:26:13,692 Don't fuck with me, Jeffrey, I'll kill you! 1690 01:26:13,692 --> 01:26:16,394 Goddammit, look at me motherfucker! 1691 01:26:16,394 --> 01:26:18,897 I could kill you! 1692 01:26:18,897 --> 01:26:20,632 - He didn't react at all. 1693 01:26:20,632 --> 01:26:22,701 - How could you blame them 1694 01:26:22,701 --> 01:26:26,972 for being angry by what this monster did? 1695 01:26:28,106 --> 01:26:30,242 - NARRATOR: But the story of Jeffrey Dahmer 1696 01:26:30,242 --> 01:26:33,745 doesn't end with his prison sentence. 1697 01:26:33,745 --> 01:26:37,382 Two years later, in November 1994, 1698 01:26:37,382 --> 01:26:42,287 the most depraved serial killer cannibal in American history 1699 01:26:42,287 --> 01:26:47,058 is beaten to death by a fellow inmate. 1700 01:26:47,058 --> 01:26:50,395 - He was smashed over the head with a barbell, 1701 01:26:50,395 --> 01:26:52,130 and that's how he died. 1702 01:26:52,130 --> 01:26:55,267 And interestingly enough, 1703 01:26:55,267 --> 01:26:58,036 that's how he killed his first victim. 1704 01:26:58,036 --> 01:27:01,840 So maybe his death was just revenge. 1705 01:27:03,809 --> 01:27:05,510 - NARRATOR: But even in death, 1706 01:27:05,510 --> 01:27:11,016 Jeffrey Dahmer still haunts our collective psyche. 1707 01:27:11,016 --> 01:27:14,152 - Not only did Jeffrey Dahmer kill 17 people, 1708 01:27:14,152 --> 01:27:18,623 he ate some of those people. He is a necrophile. 1709 01:27:18,623 --> 01:27:22,661 This man committed the worst crimes 1710 01:27:22,661 --> 01:27:25,463 that a human being can commit. 1711 01:27:29,835 --> 01:27:31,603 - The whole idea of cannibalism 1712 01:27:31,603 --> 01:27:33,972 is something that is so grotesque 1713 01:27:33,972 --> 01:27:36,041 that people can't wrap their head around it. 1714 01:27:36,041 --> 01:27:37,976 People are fascinated by things 1715 01:27:37,976 --> 01:27:40,245 that they can't quite seem to understand. 1716 01:27:43,148 --> 01:27:45,116 - Jeffrey Dahmer viewed us 1717 01:27:45,116 --> 01:27:48,286 as a series of body parts just walkin' around. 1718 01:27:49,187 --> 01:27:51,289 We were not people to him. 1719 01:27:53,458 --> 01:27:55,894 We are just meat. 1720 01:28:05,370 --> 01:28:08,440 - ♪