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- No one, no one had a clue

as to what was happening for over a decade.

[eerie music]

# #

- He became like a killing machine

out of control.

- There just seemed to be an absence

of any moral compass.

He was an evil man.

- The manager came up

and complained about the smell.

He told the manager, "Well, my fish died."

- He had a very good disguise.

- It's a process; it doesn't happen overnight

when you depersonalize another person

and view them as just an object, an object for pleasure,

instead of a living, breathing human being.

I had these obsessive desires and thoughts,

wanting to control them.

- He immediately said, "When you find out what I did,

you're gonna want to kill me."

- You love who the true human being is,

and you take that with you to your grave.

- He seemed like a very normal boy.

He covered up so much.

- Murder. - Necrophilia.

- Zombies. - Religious ritual.

- Vats of acid. - Body parts.

- Aroused. - Consuming.

- Willing. - Cooked them.

- Bad people. - [tearfully] He was our son.

- I'm Nancy Glass.

After months of phone calls and letters,

I'm sitting across from Jeffrey Dahmer

in a small prison meeting room.

And face-to-face,

I can see how he got away with his terrible crimes.

He appears completely normal.

That's what made him so frightening.

In the second half of our conversation,

he talks about the most vicious acts...

Cannibalism, murder, dismemberment...

In the most casual way.

He even says he's sorry.

He sounds thoughtful.

He sounds sincere.

But Jeffrey Dahmer was a psychopath.

When you killed these men,

afterwards, were you repulsed?

Were you upset?

- No, it... at the time, it was...

It was almost addictive.

It was almost...

a surge of energy.

I wouldn't have to worry

about any of their needs or anything.

I just had complete control of the situation.

- The right way to think of him

is as having necrophilia.

Now, usually, we think of necrophilia

as being about corpses.

I think it's more than that.

I think it is control

over the completely passive, compliant partner

that he could fondle, hug, touch, and lie with

as long as possible.

- He always said he didn't enjoy murdering people.

He said that. I don't doubt that.

But he enjoyed getting sex,

and he enjoyed getting it against their will,

and he did what he had to do to get it.

- He told me his motivating force

was to have sex with a partner who wouldn't leave him.

But more than that, he wanted to be the aggressor,

and he didn't want to be touched.

What do you want to say to the families of the victims?

- I had no intention of hurting them.

I was... I...

I was extremely selfish.

I was only thinking of myself,

my own pleasure, my own...

perverted desires.

- In the meantime, he has men dying.

To dispose of them required dismembering them.

He hated this process.

But if he drank enough,

he could lay down sheets of plastic

and begin the process of cutting

and the hard work of dismembering

and putting body parts in vats of acid.

- When the bodies were still in your apartment,

there was no time when you would see them

and say, "This is grotesque"?

"What have I done?"

- There were times. There were times.

But the compulsive obsession with doing what I was doing

overpowered any feelings of revulsion.

- In September of 1990,

Dahmer's victim count is seven,

and he would have yet more bodies to dispose of.

22-year-old Ernest Miller is a dance student

he meets outside a bookstore.

Dahmer murders the talented dancer,

stuffs his entire skeleton

in the bottom of a filing cabinet

in his apartment

and his heart and biceps in his freezer.

Three weeks later,

Dahmer brings home and strangles David Thomas,

a 22-year-old man he meets outside a mall.

He has claimed nine lives,

and his routine becomes even more twisted.

Why did you photograph them?

- It was my way of remembering their appearance,

their physical beauty.

I also wanted to keep some...

If I couldn't keep them there with me whole,

at least I felt that I could keep their skeletons.

And I even went so far

as planning on setting up an altar

with the ten different skulls and skeletons.

- And what was the purpose of the altar going to be?

- Uh, as a sort of memorial,

a point where I could...

I don't know.

It's so bizarre and strange, it's hard to describe.

A place where I could collect my thoughts

and feed my obsession.

- This is a sketch of the altar drawn by Jeffrey Dahmer.

- The altar was not

of any religious ritual involved.

It was as a memory of the people that he had killed.

There just seemed to be an absence

of any moral compass in the man at all.

He was an evil man.

- And in Jeffrey Dahmer's mind,

this macabre ritual has a purpose,

and it's something he has no trouble describing

down to the goriest detail.

- I was branching out.

That's when the cannibalism started,

eating of the heart and the arm muscle.

It was a way of making me feel that they were a part of me.

At first, it was just curiosity,

and then it became compulsive.

- Contrary to what one might expect

of some wild frenzy of consuming raw flesh,

what he did was to cook a filet of biceps

that he'd kept in his freezer,

sit at a table, and make a meal of it

while looking at photographs of that person alive.

- Up next, Jeffrey Dahmer's most terrifying idea yet.

- I tried to keep the person alive

by inducing a zombie-like state.

- It's 1990, and Jeffrey Dahmer

is in the middle of a killing spree,

which continues uninterrupted and unnoticed for years.

He was pulled over by the police

with body parts in his car.

He had been arrested for exposing himself

and for sexual assault on a minor.

He was caught drugging men at a bathhouse.

And still he wasn't stopped.

Emboldened by these multiple close calls,

his violent compulsions begin to evolve,

intensifying and becoming more and more perverse

as he preys upon men in Milwaukee.

How did you live that double life?

How did you go to work?

How did you have

a normal relationship with your family?

- When you try to keep a terrible secret, like I was,

it warps every other aspect of your life.

But I managed to... I managed to go to work,

conduct myself just like anyone else would.

- Well, I've been surviving mostly on McDonald's food.

It's just so much easier just to pop into the restaurant.

But like I've said before, it gets too expensive,

and I have to start eating at home more.

- Even his neighbors were fooled.

- I don't know where he was getting them guys from,

but he would take them in his apartment, you know?

And there were a couple of them

that I didn't see them come out of there,

and I had asked him about that.

He said, "Oh, well, maybe you were in the bathroom

or something like that, 'cause they're gone."

- Why was it so easy, though, for you to hide it all?

- I desensitized myself to it.

I... I...

I...

[exhales]

I don't know. I went to great lengths.

I bought security systems,

installed them myself in the apartment.

I had a video camera in the corner of the room,

installed locks on the doors,

sirens and stuff

in case anyone broke in to the apartment.

- I was there,

and because I taught the boys how to clean

and take care of a home,

I went through the refrigerator, the bathroom,

behind the shower curtain.

The fridge was fine.

The bathroom was fine.

Nothing had taken place at that time.

- They said it was absolutely clean, perfect.

- Right.

- How'd you hide from them?

- Everything was locked up,

either in the freezer or in the file chest.

And so there was no evidence laying in the open.

There was nothing abnormal about the look of the apartment.

- Dahmer's father, Lionel,

is talking about his son after years of silence.

He says he wants to share his thoughts

on Jeffrey's terrible deeds one last time.

- Everything that he did was...

You know, he seemed like a very normal person.

He covered up so much.

And I wish that I had really pushed harder

to find out what he's thinking

in his... about everything.

- You need to understand at that point

in Lionel's life, he was very, very naive.

If there's no communication,

you don't know what the truth is.

- Did his father know that at times,

his son was keeping secrets?

Yes.

But could he, in his wildest dreams,

have imagined that the secret was

that he was a serial killer who had necrophilia

and had killed 17 people?

I can't imagine that's the case.

- And what's just as puzzling is the fact

that neither the authorities nor the general public

had any idea a serial killer

was systematically removing men

from the streets of Milwaukee.

- Every year, many young men disappear.

They have a fight with their girlfriend,

get fired from the job,

have a fight with the family, and leave.

And they're gone a couple weeks and come back home.

They give it very different investigative efforts

compared when a young woman disappears.

No one had even a suspicion that a serial slayer was afoot.

- By the spring of 1991,

Dahmer's victim count reaches double digits.

He lures 17-year-old Curtis Straughter

from a bus stop, then strangles him to death.

Next, Dahmer would move on to a new obsession.

- Mr. Dahmer had been sexually aroused

by the idea of having sex with a dead body.

He also, at times, had fantasies

about having sex with what he referred to

as "zombies," human beings that existed

somewhere between being dead and being alive,

something he later on actually ended up acting upon.

- His experiments lead to the death

of his 11th victim, Errol Lindsey.

A month later, he fails again,

this time with 31-year-old Tony Hughes,

a deaf man who Dahmer communicates with

through written notes.

- I tried to keep the person alive

by inducing a zombie-like state...

By injecting first a dilute acid solution

into their brain or hot water.

And it never did completely work.

- Could someone like you be stopped?

Could you be helped?

- No, I was...

I was dead set on going with this compulsion.

It was the only thing that gave me any...

any satisfaction.

- He later shares the details with a forensic psychologist.

- After two failed attempts at creating zombies,

Dahmer tries for a third time in May 1991.

That would lead to his closest call yet.

- He looked like a little kid.

He had a towel around,

and it had blood,

and he had blood running down his leg.

- The boy is 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone.

Injured and drugged, he escaped

when Jeffrey Dahmer left the apartment

to buy beer.

In a terrible twist of fate, he's the younger brother

of the boy Dahmer was arrested for molesting

three years earlier.

- What had already happened

that the police couldn't possibly have known

is that Mr. Dahmer had drilled a small hole

in the skull of this young man

and poured a caustic substance into it,

thinking that he now created a zombie.

- They didn't see the drillings into the head

that he had conducted.

Apparently, it was under the hairline.

- The incoherent boy is with the police

when Dahmer returns,

but instead of fleeing the scene,

he acts as cool as ever.

- Dahmer went right up to the police and says,

"This is my lover.

"If you come, I'll take you back to my apartment.

Here's his clothes."

They were all folded on the couch.

- Mr. Dahmer did keep his wits

and persuaded them by showing some pictures

that this young lad had voluntarily taken

that these were just two consenting homosexual adults

engaging in sexual activity.

I don't think the police recognized the age

of this young man at that time.

- The body of the last victim, Tony Hughes, is still there,

but the police don't look around.

Instead, they leave the boy in the apartment with Dahmer.

- Did that play an element in it,

that there were homosexuals involved, possibly?

I can't assess that.

I think that would be a harsh judgment.

- During the incident where the police were called...

- Mm-hmm.

- And the young boy was returned to you,

that didn't wake you up at all?

The police on your doorstep?

- They were... they were in the apartment.

They were actually in the apartment,

and there was a dead young man in the bedroom

on the floor.

I couldn't believe it when...

When it turned out that they... they...

They didn't see anything.

I just... I couldn't believe it.

And yes, it did shock me but not enough to quit.

That's how strong the compulsion was.

- Any neighbors with lingering suspicions

are assured by the police

that nothing is out of the ordinary,

as you'll hear in this 911 call.

- Well, the next day, Dahmer killed him.

- Konerak Sinthasomphone was Dahmer's 13th victim.

Up next...

Did you like feeling evil? - No.

No, I didn't.

- After the close call with the police

in May of 1991,

Jeffrey Dahmer's killing accelerates

to a dizzying pace.

Within a week, he murders 20-year-old Matt Turner

and 23-year-old Jeremiah Weinberger.

Only ten days later, he strangles

24-year-old Oliver Lacy.

- Things just began to deteriorate.

He became like a killing machine out of control.

There were just body parts, at the end, all over the place.

- Before long, his neighbors report a foul stench

coming from somewhere on their floor.

- Ooh.

I can't even describe it.

It's a horrible smell.

I know me and Jeff went up and down the hallways, smelling...

You know, trying to see where it was coming from.

- The landlord eventually tracks the smell

to Dahmer's apartment.

- He told the manager, "Well, my fish died."

Then he told him, "My meat spoiled."

And then the third time,

the manager came up and told him...

Complained about the smell, he told him,

"You're gonna be evicted next month."

- I went in to help him clean up,

and he told me... he said, "It's the freezer over there

"that my grandma has sent me some meat,

"and I put it in there, and I went back to her house,

and I forgot to plug it in."

I haven't been around no dead people.

I don't know anything about how they smell.

He had a very good disguise.

That's what it was.

- Jeffrey Dahmer begins to miss work

and is fired from his job at the chocolate factory.

Killing becomes his only function in life.

Two days later, 25-year-old Joseph Bradehoft

becomes Dahmer's 17th and final victim.

Three days later, Dahmer's reign of terror

comes crashing to a halt.

- Oh, Lord. [chuckles]

That was not a good night for me.

I was home by myself, and Jeff was having...

Jeff was having some company or something,

'cause I could hear music, a radio or something playing.

- The company she hears is Tracy Edwards,

a man Jeffrey Dahmer met at a mall

and convinces to come back to his apartment.

- He was out of Halcion,

so he had handcuffs,

and he persuaded Edwards to get one handcuff on,

and he said he wanted to photograph him in bondage,

so he wanted to put the other one on.

Well, Edwards says,

"You're not gonna put that second one on."

- At the trial, Edwards gives a harrowing account

of the night's events.

- He told me to lay down face down,

put both of my hands behind my back.

I kind of, like, laid on my side.

For some reason, I guess God told me not to lay flat down

and let this person handcuff me, so I didn't.

He kind of laid across me,

put his head across my chest at that point

like he was listening to my heart,

'cause at that point, he told me

he was gonna eat my heart at that point.

The "Exorcist" movie was playing at that time.

- This was part of Jeffrey Dahmer's ritual.

He would watch "Exorcist III" before every murderous outing.

- I felt so hopelessly evil and perverted

that...

that I actually derived a sort of pleasure

from watching that tape.

- Did you like feeling evil?

- No, no, I didn't.

But I had tried to overcome the thoughts,

and it worked for a while, but eventually I gave in.

- Jeffrey took him into his room.

They were both sitting on the bed.

And Dahmer was rocking back and forth

and kind of humming, making noises.

[ominous music]

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

I'm not just gonna sit here."

And then I just... For some reason, I said,

"Well, I need to go to the bathroom,"

and he didn't follow me at that point.

And I ran out.

- He goes up to a squad car, says, "Hey,

can you help me take this handcuff off?"

The police ask him what's happening.

They try. They can't.

So they head back to Dahmer's house

to get the key.

- So they went back to the apartment with Edwards.

Dahmer, of course, was drinking or drunk.

- In an open dresser drawer in plain sight

are close to 80 Polaroids documenting Dahmer's victims...

Naked, posed, and dismembered.

- Officer yelled, "Get the cuffs on him"

or something like that.

And the other one came out in the hallway,

and I was running down that way to get out of the way,

'cause I said, "I don't know what they're doing.

I don't know what they found."

- We're investigating a homicide that's occurred

in the apartment building

in the 900 block of North 25th Street.

- It's obvious that there is... Has been a number

of human specimens found within the apartment.

- The evidence collected

is straight out of a horror film:

severed heads, bleached skulls,

a 57-gallon vat of acid used to dissolve human flesh.

And inside the refrigerator,

neatly packaged body parts ready for consumption.

What was the turning point for you

that made you suddenly realize

that you had done something terribly wrong,

something you should be sorry for?

- It was the night of the arrest.

I have no memory of what happened

during the s durirs

before the last victim ran out of the apartment.

I heard a knock on the door, and the police were there

with the last victim.

They asked me where the key was to the handcuffs.

I was... my mind was in a haze.

I sort of pointed to the bedroom,

and that's where they found the pictures.

And they yelled, "Cuff him."

I was handcuffed.

And it was just the realization

that there was no point in trying to hide...

Hide my actions anymore.

The best route was to help, help the police

identify all the victims

and just make a complete confession.

- Well, at 3:00, I got a phone call.

They had a subject in custody

that had skulls in his apartment

and body parts, at which time

I immediately said, "You're screwing with me."

I went in and introduced myself to Jeff,

and he immediately said,

"When you find out what I did, you're gonna want to kill me."

Then we says, "Well, let's start from the beginning."

And he said, "Well, that was a long time ago."

And we said, "What... what year?"

And he says, "'78."

- Starting with the disappearance

of Steven Hicks back in Bath, Ohio,

Dahmer describes every murder in detail

all the way up to Joseph Bradehoft

just days before the arrest.

It starts to become clear that Dahmer had a type.

- Interestingly enough, disproportionately,

Dahmer's victims were African-American.

- 10 of your 17 victims were black.

Were they racially motivated crimes?

- It was not racially motivated.

It was not sexual preference.

It was just to find... An obsession

with the best-looking young man I could find.

- The only time I saw Dahmer get mad

is when he was accused of being biased against blacks.

It wasn't true.

He just was crazy sick.

- Everyone in the law enforcement,

ranging from the policemen who arrested him

to the attorney,

thought he covered up everything

so extremely well

that they had no idea of what was going on in his mind.

- We didn't hear about the extent

till it came out in the papers and he was in jail.

It's not a pleasant experience to go through.

But my concern was taking care of my husband.

- But Lionel's main concern was his mother,

who lived in the house

where murders three, four, and five were committed.

- All the four newspapers,

they were camped out across the street,

and it was just endless.

- She just couldn't imagine.

She just... it didn't register how bad it was.

We kept it from her, but when she finally was told,

she finally succumbed to dementia.

- Despite the terrible effect

the discovery of Jeffrey's crimes had on the family,

they wanted to go to trial.

- At that time, I was thinking

that the mystery could be solved as to why he did these things

by being examined by a psychologist.

As it turned out, it...

It seemed to me a useless exercise.

I know the real reason:

there was a lack of connection with our creator.

- Up next...

How should you be punished?

- Well, there's no question

that I deserve the death penalty.

- In early 1992,

serial killer Jefferey Dahmer is about to stand trial

for 15 of his 17 murders.

But this trial isn't to establish guilt.

That has been weighed.

This is to determine sanity.

His family wants him declared insane

so he can be treated by mental health professionals.

- All rise. [gavel bangs]

- Despite the pain of hearing the details

of their son's crimes,

the Dahmers never miss a day in court.

- If you look at the early films of Jeff in court,

you'll see him in this striped shirt,

looking somewhat like a vagabond.

Well, I took Lionel's suit in, and we gave it to Jeff.

He went to court looking like a gentleman.

[tearfully] Because he was our son.

- Hearing about the crimes was just horrible.

I mean, it was just overwhelming.

And all we could do was sit there and listen

with the hope that the psychologists that were involved

could find out what caused him to do these things.

But I think, in the end, the reason

that caused him to do what he did...

He just wasn't with God.

- Jeffrey Dahmer told me he never wanted to go to trial.

He just wanted to go to prison and take his punishment.

But that didn't happen.

You're wearing glasses now.

- Right.

- You didn't during the trial.

Why not?

- I... I didn't want to...

I felt uncomfortable looking anyone in the face.

I didn't want to...

see anyone's face clearly.

It helped me dissociate myself from what was happening.

- Dahmer didn't have to look, but he did have to listen.

- He tried tasting the flesh and the heart.

He reported that it had a beef-like flavor.

- Do you still feel

those same urges?

Do you still feel that compulsion, that obsession?

- I wish I could say that it just left completely,

but no, there are times when I still do...

Still do have the old compulsion.

- Could someone like you be stopped?

Could you be helped?

- No, I was...

I was dead set on going with this compulsion.

It was the only thing that gave me any...

Any satisfaction.

- Jerry Boyle argued

that Dahmer was like a locomotive out of control,

speeding down the track as he killed more people,

lost any sensitivity to it.

That would come under the hypothesis, then,

that he was insane,

'cause he couldn't control what he was doing.

I can understand that someone might say,

"He must be crazy."

I can understand that.

He was not.

- Did the defendant, Jeffrey L. Dahmer,

have a mental disease?

Answer: no.

[people cheer]

- Ultimately, the jury finds Dahmer guilty

and legally sane at the time of the murders.

After the verdict, the families of the victims

are allowed to address the killer.

- Jeffrey, I hate you, motherf... er!

I hate you!

This is out of control!

- One woman in particular really got angry.

What did you think when she was doing that?

- I couldn't blame her a bit.

I'm surprised there wasn't more of that.

- You know, there's nothing that you can say to someone

who is extremely distraught

except to give them empathy

and try to convince them

that you really do care very, very much.

And I do.

- [yelling]

- Mr. Dahmer, you do have the right

to address the court at this time.

- Your Honor, I know that you are about to sentence me.

I ask for no consideration.

Thank you, Your Honor,

and I am prepared for your sentence,

which I know will be the maximum.

- The court will impose the mandatory life sentence...

[dramatic music]

Plus an additional ten years

on the habitual criminality.

- With the death penalty not an option in Wisconsin,

Dahmer is given more than 15 life sentences

equaling 936 years.

Soon after, he's extradited to Ohio...

- To the charge of aggravated murder...

- Where he's convicted for the murder

of his first victim, Steven Hicks.

Dahmer is never charged with the 1987 murder

of Steven Tuomi.

Although he claimed responsibility,

Dahmer says he was blacked out during the act,

and there was no further evidence

linking him to the crime.

It was the only murder he confessed to

that he was not convicted of.

Regardless, the sentences are more than enough

to put minds at rest.

Jeffrey Dahmer would spend the rest of his life

behind bars.

- When he had first gotten locked up down there,

he wanted me to come down there and see him.

But by then, I was terrified of him.

I know Jeffrey who used to stay across the hall from me.

That Dahmer guy is somebody else.

No.

- He confided that he stayed up all night

and slept all day

because he couldn't face the daylight

and the memories of the brutal crimes

that defined his life.

- Usually wake up at 6:30 in the morning,

go eat breakfast,

and then sleep until noon,

wake up for lunch,

and sleep until about 4:00 in the afternoon,

eat dinner,

and then spend the greater portion of the night

watching TV.

- But how does a family even attempt

to reconcile the thought

that a man who is their own flesh and blood

is also the most evil criminal imaginable?

- I had these many, many discussions with him

on the phone.

It was always Shari and I

who would visit him at the prison,

and Shari was extremely instrumental

in bringing Jeff and I and her together

into a very loving relationship.

- He was very embarrassed about being in prison.

He would try to hide his handcuffs.

He was embarrassed.

He apologized, but you have to understand

he's not...

He's not going to sit there and bleed about his crimes.

- It really was irrelevant, at that point,

to talk about.

- No, no.

What would it serve to be angry with him?

- I try not to think too deeply about anything,

because then I get depressed.

I try to figure out why this happened,

what started these thoughts in my head

at such a young age,

whether this has any... Any meaning to it

or whether this is all just a horrible coincidence,

you know, all the events in my life.

I feel that I'm better off here

than I was on the outside, doing what I was doing.

- You're glad you're in prison.

- I think it's best for everyone, right.

- As prisoners often do,

Dahmer turns to God while behind bars.

- Got a phone call.

It was from a minister friend of mine in Milwaukee

who said that there was an inmate

who wanted to be baptized.

I said, "Okay, I've never done this before, but sure.

What's his name?"

He said, "You better sit down for this one.

It's Jeffrey Dahmer."

- Up next...

What do you think happens after you die?

- Right. That's the big unknown.

- Sentenced to almost a millennium in prison,

convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer

embraces religion.

He asks Roy Ratcliff,

then a minister in the Church of Christ,

to baptize him.

- He'd begun to think more deeply,

and that was primarily to save his soul,

to get his soul right with God.

- Dahmer's father, Lionel,

by now a devout Christian himself,

uses this opportunity to bond with his son.

- I told him that there are

many, many, many people in this world

who think that Genesis, the first book of the Bible,

is some type of a myth instead of actual history.

And he ordered roughly 13 books

on the evolution-creation controversy,

and he became convinced,

and then he attempted to follow through

and live as holy a life as he could.

- But at the same time, Dahmer told me

he never conquered his deadly impulses.

If you were out on the street now,

would you still be committing the crimes?

- Probably.

If this hadn't happened,

there's no doubt I probably would be.

I can't think of anything that would have stopped me.

- Jeff told us when he was in prison

that he should never be turned loose,

because he would do the same thing again.

Now, that requires a great deal

of soul-searching and honesty.

- You know the families of the victims

don't believe in your conversion

or your sorrow.

- Oh, right.

And if I was on the... On their end of the table,

I wouldn't either.

Ultimately, I'm accountable to the Lord Jesus Christ.

He'll be my final judge.

- Can your sins be forgiven?

- The Lord Jesus Christ's shed blood

is powerful enough to wipe out even my sins.

- One of the most beautiful things that occurred

when Jeff was in prison, if you can call it beautiful...

I made friends with one of the victims' sisters,

and I was able to get her in to visit Jeff.

As nervous as Jeff was,

he was able to tell her how her brother died.

And she needed that for closure.

- And she ended up saying that she forgave Jeff,

because she knew that it was something

that was completely overpowering Jeff.

- How should you be punished?

- Well, there's no question

that I deserve the death penalty.

I've wondered myself

why I don't have the death penalty.

That's what I deserve; I deserve death.

- What do you think happens after you die?

- Right. That's the big unknown.

I've thought of... I've had thoughts of suicide.

But I just haven't been able to carry them through.

So I don't know what the future will hold.

- Mr. Dahmer was the subject of an attack

at the Columbia Correctional Institution.

- He was beaten to death in prison yesterday.

- The slaying ended a life of sadism, serial murder,

and cannibalism.

- Dahmer is beaten to death by a fellow inmate.

Ironically, he's killed by a barbell,

the same object he'd used on Steven Hicks

16 years earlier.

For the first time, Jeffrey's father talks

about his son's death.

- How did his death affect me?

- It...

I was brought into a room

where he was lying

after being bludgeoned.

And it struck me so emotionally

that I touched him and I said, "Oh, Jeff.

"Jeff.

Jeff."

It was extremely emotionally devastating

just to see him.

Disregarding all of the horrible things

that his demented state caused him to do,

I was at least very, very glad

that he had done what we believers believe.

- Lionel said that his son didn't put up a fight

when he was attacked.

Well, when I talked to Jeffrey, it was clear

that he wanted to die.

He said he even considered suicide.

But after embracing Christianity,

he felt that, of all things, would be too great a sin.

- I love the human beings

who have been in my life and who may have failed.

I have failed.

But the important thing is,

you love who the true human being is,

and you take that with you to your grave.

- I'm very, very proud that in the end,

he did everything that was required

for the initial salvation.

I believe he's with God.

He forgave Jeff

according to what's said in the Scriptures,

and therefore I forgive Jeff.

- Originally, I didn't believe in the concept

of evil, but now I do.

I'm talking about someone who exhibits

unbelievable cruelty on others

simply for their own purposes,

I think is a pretty good definition of evil.

And I think it's a pretty good understanding

of Jeffrey Dahmer.

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