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- Your Honor, it is over now.
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[eerie music]
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I know society will never
be able to forgive me.
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♪ ♪
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I know the families
of the victims
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will never be able
to forgive me
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for what I have done.
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- Jeffrey, I hate you,
motherf---er!
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I hate you!
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- For sexual pleasure,
he took the life
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of a human being.
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- He told us
how he cooked them,
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what they tasted like.
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- Never would I have believed
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that he was a killer, ever.
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- Well, you're looking good.
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- I have to start eating
at home more.
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♪ ♪
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- We're investigating
a homicide.
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- What would lead
a human being
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to take 17 lives?
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- He was more normal
than we want to think he was.
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- No one had a clue
as to what was happening
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for over a decade.
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- When you killed these men,
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afterwards, were you repulsed?
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Were you upset?
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- No, it--
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At the time, it was--
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it was almost addictive.
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- I don't consider myself
a victim.
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I consider myself a survivor.
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- As a 17-year-old kid,
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would you really get that out
in your unit
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that Jeff Dahmer raped you?
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- I know Jeffrey
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who used to stay
across the hall from me.
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That Dahmer guy
is somebody else.
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- You must understand
we protect our family.
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He was our son.
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- He fooled so many people
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as to his real feelings.
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- I knew I was sick or evil
or both.
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[siren wailing]
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- For years,
a serial killer
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had been preying
on the city of Milwaukee.
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Finally, in the summer of 1991,
it all comes to an end
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when a frightened man
in handcuffs
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approaches police.
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He leads them to the home
of Jeffrey Dahmer.
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- We're investigating
a homicide which occurred.
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- Obviously that there is--
has been a number
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of human specimens found.
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- The victim count?
17.
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- Police were lead there
by a man who told them
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he had been attacked
with a butcher knife.
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- The details
are shocking.
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- Sources close
to the case say
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the motive includes elements
of sexual violence
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and cannibalism.
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- Jeffrey Dahmer
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is a quiet
chocolate factory worker
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who confesses
to the most gruesome crimes.
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- Jeff Dahmer is apologetically
admitting responsibility.
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- Do you know
what started it?
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Was there any kind of incident
that you can remember?
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- To this day, I don't know
what started it.
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And the person to blame is
sitting right across from you.
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That's the only person--
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not parents, not society,
not pornography.
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I mean, those are just excuses.
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- I'm Nancy Glass.
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In 1991, I'm sitting
in a newsroom,
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and a story comes in
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that there's been
a serial killer in Milwaukee.
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He killed people,
he dismembered them,
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and, worse, he was a cannibal.
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Well, at first,
you just don't believe this.
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I mean, you got to look
at it twice.
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And then, as a journalist,
you say,
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"I really want to get
this story."
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So I started communicating
with Jeffrey Dahmer's parents
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and built a relationship
with them.
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Eventually, Jeffrey and I
started writing back and forth.
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And then,
a year and a half later,
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I found myself
sitting opposite him
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at the Columbia Correctional
Institute in Wisconsin.
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You know, people always wonder,
was I afraid of him?
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Well, I wasn't,
because by the time
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I was sitting opposite him,
his killing spree was over.
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In fact, he appeared to be
completely normal.
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That was actually
what was so unsettling.
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Were you molested?
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- Never.
Never.
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- In your childhood,
you have any memories
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of anything
that you would associate
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with what you became?
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- No, that's the strange thing.
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I can't pinpoint anything.
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- So there was nothing
in your childhood--
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- No, no abuse--
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no physical abuse,
no verbal abuse.
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It was a normal childhood
in a good home.
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Something went awry
in my thought life.
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I don't know why.
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- There's no single history
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that causes someone to become
a serial killer.
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Many of the individuals
who are serial killers,
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not all of them but many,
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have had very traumatic
early life experiences.
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In Mr. Dahmer's case,
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none of that
seemed to be present.
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- Jeffrey's father, Lionel,
now in his 80s,
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wanted to talk to us
about the boy he knew.
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But he only agreed
to an on-camera interview
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if he could wear sunglasses.
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In his mind, they make him
less identifiable.
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- He loved the place
that we lived in,
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and it was
a heavily wooded place.
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He enjoyed
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his small group of friends.
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- He was raised
in a somewhat affluent family.
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His father had a doctoral
degree in chemistry.
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The family lived on
a 1 1/4 quiet, wooded acres
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with a pond.
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- While Jeffrey indicated
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nothing in his childhood
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could have fueled
his desire to kill,
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according to Lionel
and his wife, Shari,
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who'd been part
of Jeffrey's life
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since he was 18,
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there was something
that affected him
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even before he was born.
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His mother, Joyce, struggled
with mental illness
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and took 27 pills a day when
she was pregnant with Jeffrey,
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including antidepressants,
growth hormones,
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and progesterone.
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- Doctors met with us,
and they said
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those medicines could have
affected the fetus.
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And when Jeff was born,
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the grandparents were not
allowed to hold the baby.
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Joyce didn't want anybody
touching the baby
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or breathing on it.
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She was afraid of germs.
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They virtually had no contact
with Jeff as a baby.
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- In my conversations
with Lionel,
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he told me that in infancy,
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Joyce herself
rarely touched Jeffrey
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except to change his diapers
or hold him for a photo.
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- There was so much illness
with his mother at that time.
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She was involved
with gestalt therapy
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at a local
mental health center,
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wandering around in the dark,
touching people.
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Nothing--nothing helped.
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- In the midst of this,
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Lionel
and his first wife, Joyce,
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have a second child.
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- Jeff noticed that when
his younger brother was born,
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Jeff no longer had
fairy tales from his mother,
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stories read at night,
and tucking him in.
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Jeff felt somewhat left out.
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- We were moving at the time,
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and he had to leave
his favorite kitten behind.
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And going to a new school
and being only six years old,
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he became
a little bit more shy,
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much like I was in my youth.
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- During his adolescence,
Dahmer develops a hobby
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that would raise eyebrows
in the years that followed.
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Were you obsessed
with dead animals?
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Is that true?
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- I was interested
in taxidermy in high school
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and experimented
with preserving the bones
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of dogs and things like that.
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And whether that had
anything to do
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with the escalation
of the crimes, I don't know.
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- He went into further detail
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in this interview
with a forensic psychologist.
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- There are numbers
of young people
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who might have those same kinds
of interests
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and don't end up being
serial killers.
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So in retrospect, had I spoken
with him as a teenager,
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I don't know
that either he or I
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would have predicted
at that point
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that he was gonna end up
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being the serial killer
he turned out to be.
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- Now, I lived
with this young man.
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He lived in our home.
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He had
his father's intelligence.
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And on the phone,
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you could not tell Jeff
or Lionel apart.
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Jeff was always very gentle,
very kind.
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- In high school,
friends begin to notice
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Jeffrey is becoming
a different person.
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- Jeff's behavior began
to be so strange
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that I felt very uncomfortable
being with him alone.
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He liked to act,
in his words, "crazy."
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He would just start
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shrieking,
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or he would twist himself up
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in a grotesque way
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and run with a limp,
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almost like Quasimodo.
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And I remember one time
asking him
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why he behaved this way,
and he said,
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"I just like
to shake people up."
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- I remember when we had
our senior pictures taken,
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he got into
a lot of the group photos
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that he was not a member--
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the National Honor Society
group.
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Whoever was in charge
of that in those days,
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they blacked out his face,
and it's really creepy.
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- I had a classmate who said,
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"Years ago, we thought
that photo was hilarious.
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And it's not so funny anymore."
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- His brazen behavior continues
in the classroom.
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- He was drinking beer.
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Sometimes he kept it
in his locker,
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and I guess he kept beer
in his car.
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Did teachers do anything
about it?
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Did they know about it?
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I'm sure some teachers knew
about it.
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- I remember distinctly
one morning
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sitting in class next to Jeff,
who had his cup of scotch.
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And I said, "Jeff,
what is that?"
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He just tossed his head back
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as though it was no issue
at all,
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and he said,
"It's my medicine."
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There was a collective sense
of blinders going up,
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that people didn't notice
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because they didn't want
to notice.
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- According to Dahmer,
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alcohol was a way to drown
his growing dark desires.
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- I started having
these obsessive thoughts
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when I was about 15 and 16,
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and they got worse and worse.
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- What were
your fantasies about?
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- [sighs]
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They were sexual fantasies
of control, power,
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complete dominance.
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They became reality.
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- Was there pleasure
in that fantasy?
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- There was excitement,
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fear, pleasure
all mixed together.
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- He found certain
male joggers attractive
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and sought opportunities
to watch them
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and fantasize about them
as they jogged past.
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There was one particular man
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that he would fantasize about
having sexual contact with,
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but he had no concept
of how to make a relationship
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with this or any other man.
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- He took a bat,
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sawed it off
and fashioned it as a club,
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hid in the woods,
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anticipating that he would
assault this man.
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[dramatic music]
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- Teenage Jeffrey sits
nervously,
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waiting to attack.
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But the jogger
he has his eye on
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doesn't pass that day.
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His first target
has slipped away,
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but his next
wouldn't be so lucky.
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Up next, the growing desire
to kill
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is only the beginning.
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- I had had fantasies
about picking up a hitchhiker
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and taking him back
to the house
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and having complete control
and dominance.
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In the spring of 1976,
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high school sophomore
Jeffrey Dahmer's
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first planned assault fails.
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He's 15, a time
when most teenagers
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are worried about school
and making friends.
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And he's already on a path
toward his terrible crimes.
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- I had normal friendships
in high school,
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but after that, I started in
with the alcohol, drinking,
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a lot of solitary drinking,
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and really never had any
close friendships after that,
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after high school.
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Just sort of lived
in my own thought life,
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fantasy world.
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- As high school ends,
his parents divorce,
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and his mother takes off
with her younger son,
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leaving Jeffrey alone
in the house.
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- Jeff was left behind
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with no money
and spoiled milk in the fridge.
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I came into the family
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at the tail end
of Lionel's divorce.
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They'd been separated
two years.
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Lionel was living
out of a motel.
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Jeff was detached
at that point.
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He felt somewhat abandoned.
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- The first time
anybody asked me
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about his parents,
I was struck by the fact
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that I could only answer,
"I never knew he had parents."
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He just seemed like
he was kind of a satellite
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floating alone.
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- He did not like
that feeling.
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He didn't like
his parents leaving him.
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And it's in that context
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that he committed
his first homicide.
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- You do sound, though,
like the kind of person
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who could have said
to himself,
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"This is wrong.
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I must stop."
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- I always knew
that it was wrong, but...
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after the--the first--
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The first killing
was not planned.
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I was coming back
from the shopping mall
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back in '78.
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I had had fantasies
about picking up a hitchhiker
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and taking him
back to the house
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and having complete control
and dominance over him.
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- Dahmer's violent fantasies Dahmer's violent fantasies
become reality- become reality
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when he crosses paths
with 18-year-old Steve Hicks
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looking for a ride
to a nearby rock concert.
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- He picked up a young man
that was hitchhiking
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and offered him a good time
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if he wanted to just stop
and visit with him
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for a little bit.
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Jeffrey Dahmer was attracted
specifically
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to this individual because
he wasn't wearing a shirt.
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Throughout the evening,
they drank alcohol,
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and I understand there might
have been marijuana involved.
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Finally, Steve Hicks said
that "I should be going."
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- He said, "We drank,
he wanted to leave,
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and I hit him with a barbell,
and I killed him."
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He says, "I didn't want him
to leave me."
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- For sexual pleasure,
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he took the life
of a human being.
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- All of Dahmer's victims
were men.
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His attraction to men
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is what both motivated
and repulsed him.
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- Never understood it.
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There was no use
trying to fight it,
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because I couldn't rid myself
of it.
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It was--it was too powerful
and persistent.
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- Do you dislike it?
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- Yes, it's caused
a lot of problems
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for me.
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A lot of conflicts
and unanswered questions.
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- Jerry Boyle
was Dahmer's lawyer.
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He believes
that Jeffrey's sexuality
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did not lead him to violence.
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- He was just really
very forthright with me.
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It is my first belief
that if he was a heterosexual,
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he would have killed girls.
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- After Dahmer dismembers
Steven Hicks's corpse
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and stuffs the remains
in a deep drainage pipe
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in his parents' backyard,
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he panics and decides
to dig up the body parts
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and dispose of them elsewhere.
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- He decided late at night
towards midnight
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to drive it to a local dump.
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He was so nervous
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that he was driving
erratically,
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and he was stopped
by a police officer.
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Mr. Dahmer kept
his wits about him.
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He told the police officer
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that his parents
had recently divorced.
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He said he couldn't sleep
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and wanted to take
a garbage bag
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to the garbage dump.
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The police officer
shined a flashlight inside
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and saw a green garbage bag.
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[ominous music]
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- The officer had no reason
whatsoever
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to believe that there was
anything unusual
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other than he might have been
a little bit nervous.
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But most people are nervous when
there's a traffic stop made.
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- Jeff was very good
by that point
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at convincing adults
for whatever it was
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he wanted to convince them of.
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- Jeffrey Dahmer definitely
was a manipulator.
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He was able to convince
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not only the individuals
to come to his place,
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but he was also able
to convince people
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that nothing was wrong
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when there was something
very wrong.
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- It all could have ended
at that moment.
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But in the first
of many close calls
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when he could have been
stopped,
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Dahmer's let off
with only a ticket.
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- He took him home,
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smashed him all up,
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and he spread the bones
in the woods.
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- Steven Hicks's parents
reported him missing in 1978
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but don't get any answers
until 1991,
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when Dahmer confesses.
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- That family had no idea
what had happened
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to their 18-year-old son.
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He disappeared
off the face of the Earth.
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Talk about inflicting pain
if you're a parent.
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- Later that summer,
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Lionel and Shari moved back
into the Dahmer home
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with 18-year-old Jeffrey.
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- He would come home
a time or two
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pretty well loaded.
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If he was totally drunk,
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he would forget where
he took his dad's car.
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We had to track the car down
several times,
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because Jeff just drew a blank.
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- Frustrated,
Lionel forces Jeffrey
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to enroll in college.
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00:19:47,166 --> 00:19:49,433
- I attended
Ohio State University,
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00:19:49,433 --> 00:19:51,667
and Jeff did as well.
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The last time I saw him,
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he was laying on the sidewalk,
passed out dead drunk.
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I went over to him,
and I tried
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to shake him into consciousness.
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And I kept saying,
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"Jeff, wake up.
Wake up."
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I knew then that Jeff was gone.
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00:20:15,166 --> 00:20:18,133
- We found out he was drinking
at school and failing out,
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so we brought him home.
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We took Jeff
for psychiatric care.
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We took him to institutions.
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00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,133
But as the old saying goes,
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you can lead the horse to water,
but you can't make it drink.
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- I was just thinking
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of normal-type,
everyday things
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that I could encourage him on
to do.
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And the Army was
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the logical place, I thought.
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- During this time,
Jeffrey claims
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his violent impulses
remained quiet.
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00:20:51,467 --> 00:20:54,467
What happened to you
in the nine years in between
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that you were able to stop,
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that you were able
to control yourself?
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- Just wasn't an opportunity
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to fully express
what I wanted to do.
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There was not just
the physical opportunity
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to do it then.
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00:21:09,767 --> 00:21:11,700
- While investigators
never had any reason
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00:21:11,734 --> 00:21:13,734
to doubt Dahmer's claim,
435
00:21:13,767 --> 00:21:17,333
for the first time,
two of his fellow servicemen
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00:21:17,367 --> 00:21:19,200
are making accusations
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00:21:19,233 --> 00:21:22,333
the public has never heard
before.
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00:21:22,367 --> 00:21:24,233
Up next...
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- As a 17-year-old kid,
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would you really get that out
in your unit
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that Jeff Dahmer raped you?
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After one failed semester
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After one failed semester
in college,
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Jeffrey Dahmer's dad
implores his son
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to find a direction in life.
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00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:49,633
He decides to enlist
in the Army.
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Jeffrey says his evil urges
were quieted
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00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,633
while in the service
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and he hoped
it would remain that way.
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But according to those
he served with,
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they did not.
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00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:02,200
We've uncovered two victims
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who've agreed to speak
for the first time.
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00:22:08,266 --> 00:22:09,400
- You know, you really
don't know someone
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00:22:09,433 --> 00:22:11,300
until you live with them.
456
00:22:11,333 --> 00:22:14,533
- Billy Joe Capshaw
was Dahmer's roommate
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for 15 months while stationed
in Baumholder, Germany.
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He arrived to replace
someone else in Dahmer's unit,
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Preston Davis.
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00:22:22,734 --> 00:22:24,400
- We were out
on a field exercise.
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It was a two-week exercise.
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And the last three or four days
of the exercise,
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our vehicle broke down.
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During that timeframe,
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I was drugged and
sexually assaulted by Jeff.
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- Preston says
the attack haunted him,
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and he eventually unraveled.
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- My career went downhill
after this.
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00:22:44,033 --> 00:22:51,000
I got a DWI
in 1985 in the military.
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I had a rocky marriage
with my first wife.
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00:22:53,633 --> 00:22:56,333
I wound up getting out
of the military in '86,
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divorcing her,
became estranged from my son.
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00:22:59,734 --> 00:23:02,300
Substance abuse.
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Alcohol abuse.
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That's what a lot of victims do
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00:23:09,767 --> 00:23:12,133
to try to suppress that pain.
477
00:23:13,633 --> 00:23:17,033
- But Preston wasn't
the only victim.
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00:23:17,066 --> 00:23:18,700
Billy Capshaw
shared a room with Dahmer
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for over a year
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and says he faced
an even more intense ordeal.
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00:23:24,333 --> 00:23:29,467
- He had me tied up, naked,
to a bunk, you know,
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and was...
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beside me, naked hisself,
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00:23:35,767 --> 00:23:38,633
and holding me
like I would hold a woman.
485
00:23:38,667 --> 00:23:42,066
He raped me,
sexually molested me.
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He tortured me.
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00:23:44,533 --> 00:23:47,100
The attacks,
the things like that,
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00:23:47,100 --> 00:23:50,467
were continuous
and almost every day.
489
00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:54,500
- Billy told us his shame
over what was happening to him
490
00:23:54,533 --> 00:23:56,367
kept him quiet.
491
00:23:56,367 --> 00:23:57,633
- There's guys in there
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00:23:57,667 --> 00:23:59,500
and they got guns,
and they're mean.
493
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They've been to Vietnam.
494
00:24:01,100 --> 00:24:03,500
As a 17-year-old kid,
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00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:06,100
would you really get that out
in your unit
496
00:24:06,100 --> 00:24:09,333
that someone raped you?
497
00:24:10,667 --> 00:24:12,767
- The fact that Dahmer
would be so open
498
00:24:12,767 --> 00:24:14,600
about all of his crimes
499
00:24:14,633 --> 00:24:17,400
yet never address
these allegations
500
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,633
only creates more questions.
501
00:24:19,667 --> 00:24:21,667
Why did he leave this out?
502
00:24:21,667 --> 00:24:25,533
And what else could there be
that we don't know about?
503
00:24:25,533 --> 00:24:27,400
- The fact
that he didn't disclose
504
00:24:27,433 --> 00:24:31,133
the incidents in the military
505
00:24:31,133 --> 00:24:32,633
just doesn't surprise me.
506
00:24:32,667 --> 00:24:34,767
Jeffrey Dahmer wanted
to talk about
507
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,667
what he wanted to talk about.
508
00:24:36,667 --> 00:24:38,500
- In March of 1981,
509
00:24:38,533 --> 00:24:40,400
Dahmer is discharged
from the Army
510
00:24:40,433 --> 00:24:44,133
not for violent behavior
but for excessive drinking.
511
00:24:44,133 --> 00:24:48,667
- Was I disappointed in--
of course.
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00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:52,133
I was disappointed
in his inability
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to achieve something,
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00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:02,433
you know, in normal working
or living.
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00:25:04,567 --> 00:25:07,166
- That fall, 21-year-old
Jeffrey Dahmer
516
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moves back
into his parents' home
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in Bath, Ohio.
518
00:25:12,700 --> 00:25:16,033
Directionless,
he continues to drink heavily.
519
00:25:16,033 --> 00:25:17,700
His father and stepmother
push him
520
00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:20,033
to get professional help.
521
00:25:20,033 --> 00:25:23,033
- I did as much
as I thought I could.
522
00:25:23,033 --> 00:25:24,667
He seemed to be
523
00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:25,767
an alcoholic,
524
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,533
so we got help that way
525
00:25:28,567 --> 00:25:30,433
and that sort of thing.
526
00:25:30,467 --> 00:25:32,533
- Lionel would drop him off,
527
00:25:32,567 --> 00:25:34,533
and Jeff would go
out the back door.
528
00:25:34,567 --> 00:25:36,767
So he wasn't going
for counseling.
529
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,633
And we reached a point
where we said,
530
00:25:39,667 --> 00:25:43,066
"We're going to send you up
to Grandma's house for a while
531
00:25:43,066 --> 00:25:45,700
and see if you can get
your life together."
532
00:25:45,734 --> 00:25:48,734
- Dahmer's grandmother believes
that through God,
533
00:25:48,734 --> 00:25:51,600
Jeffrey will change
his sexuality.
534
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,600
So he attends church
535
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,600
and gets a job drawing blood
at a local blood bank.
536
00:25:56,633 --> 00:25:59,467
But at this point,
his depraved urges
537
00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:01,600
become harder and harder
to control,
538
00:26:01,633 --> 00:26:04,600
and he acts out.
539
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,600
He exposes himself to a group
of women and children
540
00:26:07,633 --> 00:26:11,467
at the Wisconsin State Fair
and is arrested.
541
00:26:11,467 --> 00:26:14,066
In court, he appears
remorseful,
542
00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:16,166
which will become a routine
for him,
543
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,066
and all he gets is a fine,
$50 plus court fees.
544
00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:25,100
At this point, Dahmer tries to
find a substitute for killing,
545
00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:29,500
and what he settles on
is truly disturbing.
546
00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:33,100
- His goal was finding
the partner
547
00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:35,100
who would lie there all night
548
00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:38,633
so that he could have
the illusion
549
00:26:38,633 --> 00:26:42,633
of all the time in the world
to be close to that person.
550
00:26:42,633 --> 00:26:46,233
And his strategies
for finding that partner
551
00:26:46,233 --> 00:26:48,467
were creative and varied
552
00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:51,100
but mostly ineffective.
553
00:26:51,133 --> 00:26:54,500
They included
scanning obituaries,
554
00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:56,767
going to the funeral
if there was a viewing
555
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,467
to see if it was someone
he'd find attractive,
556
00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:01,767
and then trying to dig up
the grave.
557
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:03,600
[ominous music]
558
00:27:03,633 --> 00:27:05,667
On the two occasions
that he did that,
559
00:27:05,700 --> 00:27:07,667
the ground was too frozen.
560
00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:10,500
He couldn't get anywhere
trying to dig it up.
561
00:27:10,533 --> 00:27:16,667
He found an attractive
store mannequin.
562
00:27:16,667 --> 00:27:19,133
He hid in a restroom
in the department store
563
00:27:19,133 --> 00:27:21,667
till after closing,
stole the mannequin,
564
00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:23,667
managed to get out
of the building,
565
00:27:23,667 --> 00:27:27,233
took the mannequin home
to his grandmother's house,
566
00:27:27,266 --> 00:27:31,633
and for some period of time
was satisfied
567
00:27:31,667 --> 00:27:35,000
lying next to
the attractive mannequin.
568
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,633
♪ ♪
569
00:27:37,667 --> 00:27:39,533
His grandmother found
the mannequin
570
00:27:39,533 --> 00:27:41,133
and disposed of it.
571
00:27:44,033 --> 00:27:46,166
- He spent a number of months,
572
00:27:46,166 --> 00:27:48,567
if not longer,
going to gay bath houses
573
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,300
in both Chicago and Milwaukee.
574
00:27:50,300 --> 00:27:52,567
He would slip Halcion
into the drinks
575
00:27:52,567 --> 00:27:54,033
of men
that he would meet there.
576
00:27:54,066 --> 00:27:56,033
They would fall asleep.
577
00:27:56,033 --> 00:27:57,700
He would fondle them,
pretending in his own mind
578
00:27:57,734 --> 00:27:59,533
that they were dead.
579
00:27:59,567 --> 00:28:02,033
- That was satisfying to him
for a time.
580
00:28:02,033 --> 00:28:06,567
But he gave too much of the drug
to one of the men.
581
00:28:06,567 --> 00:28:08,133
- The bath house operator
582
00:28:08,166 --> 00:28:09,266
couldn't wake
one of these fellows,
583
00:28:09,300 --> 00:28:10,700
had to call to get medical help.
584
00:28:10,734 --> 00:28:12,433
They realize
that Dahmer's doing this,
585
00:28:12,467 --> 00:28:14,266
so they banned him
from the bath houses.
586
00:28:14,300 --> 00:28:17,033
- Once again,
he could have been stopped,
587
00:28:17,033 --> 00:28:19,567
and once again,
he wasn't.
588
00:28:22,333 --> 00:28:27,200
- When I moved to Milwaukee
in '81,
589
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,734
I started reading pornography,
590
00:28:30,734 --> 00:28:35,333
going to the bookstores.
591
00:28:35,333 --> 00:28:39,200
Eventually, that lead to
592
00:28:39,233 --> 00:28:41,200
frequenting the gay bars.
593
00:28:41,233 --> 00:28:44,333
And then I--
594
00:28:44,333 --> 00:28:46,333
One time, I brought
this young man
595
00:28:46,367 --> 00:28:50,333
back to the hotel room,
the Ambassador Hotel,
596
00:28:50,333 --> 00:28:52,300
was just planning
on drugging him
597
00:28:52,333 --> 00:28:55,600
and spending the night with him.
598
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,567
I had no intention
of hurting him.
599
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,600
When I woke up in the morning,
he had a broken rib here.
600
00:29:01,633 --> 00:29:03,600
It was heavily bruised.
601
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,333
Apparently, I had beaten him
to death with my fists.
602
00:29:07,367 --> 00:29:10,100
- And you have no memory of it.
- I have no memory of it.
603
00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:14,066
But that's what started
the whole spree all over again.
604
00:29:17,100 --> 00:29:20,100
- He tells me
it wasn't premeditated
605
00:29:20,133 --> 00:29:22,767
and that he then needed
to find more time
606
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,233
in order to dispose of the body.
607
00:29:25,233 --> 00:29:28,600
- It has been nine years
since his last kill.
608
00:29:28,633 --> 00:29:31,367
And in what seems like
an instant,
609
00:29:31,367 --> 00:29:34,233
he goes into a mode
that is familiar to him:
610
00:29:34,233 --> 00:29:36,633
the cover-up.
611
00:29:36,633 --> 00:29:39,633
Up next,
Dahmer's crimes escalate,
612
00:29:39,633 --> 00:29:41,767
and the bodies are piling up.
613
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,100
- I was saving body parts
614
00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:49,200
such as skulls and skeletons.
615
00:29:55,533 --> 00:29:56,033
In the fall of 1987,
616
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,133
Jeffrey Dahmer wakes up
in a hotel room in Milwaukee.
617
00:30:01,166 --> 00:30:03,667
He is in bed
with the bludgeoned body
618
00:30:03,667 --> 00:30:05,400
of his second victim.
619
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,100
He says he has no memory
of killing the man.
620
00:30:08,133 --> 00:30:10,000
- He had to sign in
621
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,633
for a second night
622
00:30:11,667 --> 00:30:14,133
in order to now have time
to get rid of the body
623
00:30:14,133 --> 00:30:15,667
by stuffing it into a suitcase
624
00:30:15,667 --> 00:30:18,266
and ultimately removing it.
625
00:30:18,266 --> 00:30:21,266
- He took it
to his grandmother's house
626
00:30:21,266 --> 00:30:23,133
to put it in the basement
627
00:30:23,166 --> 00:30:26,400
until he was able to cut it up
and get it in the garbage.
628
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,400
And he knew the routine
of the garbage men,
629
00:30:28,433 --> 00:30:33,033
so he'd cut it up Sundays
while Grandma went to church,
630
00:30:33,066 --> 00:30:34,300
have it in the garbage
by Monday,
631
00:30:34,333 --> 00:30:36,433
and it would be gone.
632
00:30:36,433 --> 00:30:38,300
- Police would later determine
633
00:30:38,300 --> 00:30:42,300
the victim was 24-year-old
Steven Tuomi.
634
00:30:42,333 --> 00:30:44,700
He'd recently moved
to Milwaukee
635
00:30:44,700 --> 00:30:46,433
from northern Michigan
636
00:30:46,433 --> 00:30:48,266
and met Dahmer
after he finished his shift
637
00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:51,433
at a local restaurant.
638
00:30:51,433 --> 00:30:57,133
- I had these obsessive
desires and thoughts,
639
00:30:57,166 --> 00:31:02,667
wanting to control them,
to...
640
00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:05,433
I don't know how to put it.
641
00:31:05,433 --> 00:31:06,700
Possess them permanently.
642
00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:08,133
- And that's why
you killed them.
643
00:31:08,166 --> 00:31:09,700
- Right, right,
644
00:31:09,734 --> 00:31:11,400
not because I was angry
with them,
645
00:31:11,433 --> 00:31:13,333
not because I hated them
646
00:31:13,333 --> 00:31:17,734
but because I wanted
to keep them with me.
647
00:31:17,734 --> 00:31:23,200
And as my obsession grew,
648
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,467
I was saving body parts
649
00:31:25,467 --> 00:31:30,300
such as skulls and skeletons.
650
00:31:30,333 --> 00:31:32,333
- At his grandmother's,
651
00:31:32,333 --> 00:31:36,066
Dahmer's desire to kill
escalates.
652
00:31:36,066 --> 00:31:39,734
He takes two more lives
in the winter of 1988,
653
00:31:39,734 --> 00:31:43,066
raising his victim count
to four.
654
00:31:43,066 --> 00:31:46,700
James Doxtator
is only 14 years old
655
00:31:46,734 --> 00:31:49,734
when Dahmer lures him
with the promise of $50
656
00:31:49,767 --> 00:31:51,200
to take a few pictures.
657
00:31:51,233 --> 00:31:53,200
And six weeks later,
658
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,100
it's 23-year-old
Richard Guerrero.
659
00:31:56,133 --> 00:31:59,467
Both face the same fate:
660
00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:03,100
drugged, strangled,
dismembered.
661
00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:06,367
It's at this time
Dahmer hones his craft
662
00:32:06,367 --> 00:32:08,200
in disposing of bodies,
663
00:32:08,233 --> 00:32:11,100
learning how flesh dissolves
in acid
664
00:32:11,133 --> 00:32:12,767
and bones would need to be
crushed up
665
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,767
and tossed in the trash.
666
00:32:14,767 --> 00:32:18,100
According to Lionel,
his grandmother objects
667
00:32:18,133 --> 00:32:20,333
to the smells
coming from the basement
668
00:32:20,367 --> 00:32:24,066
but apparently doesn't
figure out what's going on.
669
00:32:24,100 --> 00:32:27,467
Or maybe
she just doesn't want to.
670
00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:31,500
- I would send Lionel up
to his mother's house
671
00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:33,367
to deal with problems,
672
00:32:33,367 --> 00:32:36,500
but I really wasn't aware
at that time
673
00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:41,133
that Lionel was too naive
to handle the situation.
674
00:32:41,166 --> 00:32:44,367
Lionel didn't believe his son
was doing anything wrong.
675
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:50,367
- He was doing strange things.
676
00:32:52,033 --> 00:32:55,400
We thought it was
with roadkill.
677
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,233
That's what he told us,
678
00:32:57,266 --> 00:33:00,100
and I--I believed him.
679
00:33:00,133 --> 00:33:03,000
But I said, "Jeff,"
you know,
680
00:33:03,033 --> 00:33:07,133
"your grandma just can't take
this sort of thing.
681
00:33:07,133 --> 00:33:09,333
You really need to move out."
682
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,533
- Now on his own,
683
00:33:16,533 --> 00:33:19,567
Jeffrey Dahmer's free
to give in to his urges.
684
00:33:19,567 --> 00:33:22,433
Just one day after moving
into his own apartment,
685
00:33:22,433 --> 00:33:25,433
Dahmer brings home
a 13-year-old boy,
686
00:33:25,467 --> 00:33:27,433
drugs and fondles him.
687
00:33:27,433 --> 00:33:29,166
Dahmer is arrested
688
00:33:29,166 --> 00:33:31,533
for sexual assault
against a minor.
689
00:33:31,567 --> 00:33:34,000
This is the boy's testimony.
690
00:33:34,033 --> 00:33:37,100
We should warn you
it's shocking and disturbing.
691
00:33:45,266 --> 00:33:48,133
- How did the authorities
find out about this?
692
00:33:48,166 --> 00:33:51,166
Well, for some reason,
when the boy wanted to leave,
693
00:33:51,166 --> 00:33:53,233
Dahmer let him go.
694
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:07,200
- We talked about the incident
that he was involved in.
695
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:08,467
It was pretty clear to me
696
00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:12,033
that he was
a little bit different.
697
00:34:12,066 --> 00:34:15,333
- Jerry Boyle is hired
by Lionel and Shari Dahmer
698
00:34:15,367 --> 00:34:18,033
to represent Jeffrey
in this case.
699
00:34:18,066 --> 00:34:21,467
- I think my son was
a freshman in high school
700
00:34:21,500 --> 00:34:23,433
at the time.
701
00:34:23,467 --> 00:34:25,300
I think he could have
whipped Dahmer in a minute.
702
00:34:25,333 --> 00:34:27,200
Never would I have believed
703
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,333
that he was a killer, ever,
704
00:34:29,367 --> 00:34:31,300
because there was nothing
to indicate to me
705
00:34:31,333 --> 00:34:32,467
that he was that way.
706
00:34:32,467 --> 00:34:35,066
I mean, it just wasn't there.
707
00:34:35,066 --> 00:34:37,600
- Dahmer's ability to deceive
708
00:34:37,633 --> 00:34:41,066
is only matched
by his desire to kill.
709
00:34:41,066 --> 00:34:44,233
Between his conviction
in January of 1989
710
00:34:44,266 --> 00:34:48,467
and his sentencing in May,
he is not deterred.
711
00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:50,467
Dahmer takes his fifth life,
712
00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:54,467
24-year-old Anthony Sears,
on March 25th.
713
00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:57,233
This murder marks
a depraved turning point
714
00:34:57,233 --> 00:34:59,233
in Dahmer's process.
715
00:34:59,233 --> 00:35:05,633
- I kept the mummified head
and skull
716
00:35:05,633 --> 00:35:07,467
of one of the victims
717
00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:11,200
in a carrying case
in my locker at work.
718
00:35:11,233 --> 00:35:13,100
- Were you almost
flaunting it?
719
00:35:13,133 --> 00:35:15,600
- Yes, but that's how strong
the compulsion was.
720
00:35:15,633 --> 00:35:18,333
That's how bizarre
the desire was.
721
00:35:18,367 --> 00:35:23,400
I wanted to keep something
of the person with me.
722
00:35:23,433 --> 00:35:25,633
- But during
the sexual assault trial,
723
00:35:25,667 --> 00:35:28,367
no one had any knowledge
of that,
724
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:33,100
which is why Jerry Boyle fought
to keep Dahmer a free man.
725
00:35:33,133 --> 00:35:35,400
- The outcome in the case was,
726
00:35:35,433 --> 00:35:39,667
Jeffrey admitted
to everything he was accused of,
727
00:35:39,667 --> 00:35:42,133
except he was vehement
in saying
728
00:35:42,166 --> 00:35:44,667
that he never touched a child.
729
00:35:44,667 --> 00:35:47,133
I didn't believe
what he was telling me,
730
00:35:47,133 --> 00:35:51,667
but my job is to try
and figure out what do for him
731
00:35:51,667 --> 00:35:53,533
and for society
732
00:35:53,533 --> 00:35:56,266
by getting him a sentence
that made sense,
733
00:35:56,266 --> 00:35:59,133
and I think we did that.
734
00:35:59,133 --> 00:36:00,667
- He fooled his attorney
735
00:36:00,667 --> 00:36:03,533
that was representing him.
736
00:36:03,533 --> 00:36:08,166
He fooled so many people
as to his real feelings.
737
00:36:08,166 --> 00:36:11,700
Unfortunately,
I didn't realize it at the time.
738
00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:14,300
- Dahmer avoids jail time.
739
00:36:14,300 --> 00:36:17,133
Instead,
he's given work release
740
00:36:17,166 --> 00:36:20,433
and mandatory time with
a mental health professional.
741
00:36:20,433 --> 00:36:22,533
Another close call,
742
00:36:22,567 --> 00:36:25,433
another opportunity where
he could have been stopped.
743
00:36:25,467 --> 00:36:28,433
And once again,
he acts remorseful.
744
00:36:28,467 --> 00:36:30,367
He writes to the judge.
745
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,266
"What I did was deplorable.
746
00:36:32,300 --> 00:36:34,300
"The world has
enough misery in it
747
00:36:34,300 --> 00:36:36,667
"without my adding more to it.
748
00:36:36,700 --> 00:36:38,533
"Sir, I can assure you
749
00:36:38,567 --> 00:36:41,367
that it will never happen
again."
750
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:45,567
We now know nothing could be
further from the truth.
751
00:36:45,567 --> 00:36:47,333
- He would go see
a psychiatrist
752
00:36:47,333 --> 00:36:49,567
and not say a word
for ten sessions,
753
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,300
and they'd let him walk
out the door.
754
00:36:52,333 --> 00:36:54,467
Probation officer, he'd say,
755
00:36:54,467 --> 00:36:56,433
"You have these feelings
of, you know,
756
00:36:56,467 --> 00:36:58,734
sexual perversion
and all that?"
757
00:36:58,734 --> 00:37:02,700
He says, "No, I read books
and masturbate to that."
758
00:37:02,734 --> 00:37:05,433
He's out there killing people.
759
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:09,600
- Up next...
760
00:37:09,633 --> 00:37:11,333
Do you ever think
about your victims?
761
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:18,300
- Uh, I've often wondered
why I haven't had
762
00:37:18,333 --> 00:37:23,300
more dreams or nightmares
about what I've done.
763
00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:29,367
By May of 1989,
764
00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:34,233
Jeffrey Dahmer's body count
is at five.
765
00:37:34,233 --> 00:37:35,734
Then he is sentenced
766
00:37:35,767 --> 00:37:38,367
to one year
in a work release program
767
00:37:38,367 --> 00:37:41,734
for the drugging and fondling
of a 13-year-old boy.
768
00:37:41,767 --> 00:37:44,700
He claims during that time,
there were no killings.
769
00:37:44,734 --> 00:37:48,233
After he's released
and on probation,
770
00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:53,266
he finds a new place to live,
somewhere off the beaten path.
771
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,233
- I had asked him
772
00:37:57,233 --> 00:38:00,600
a number of times,
"Why are you down here,
773
00:38:00,633 --> 00:38:03,333
"you know, when you can go
somewhere else
774
00:38:03,367 --> 00:38:07,233
"and stay, like, in West Alice
at your grandmother's house
775
00:38:07,233 --> 00:38:08,467
"or something like that?
776
00:38:08,500 --> 00:38:11,066
"And you would rather be here,
777
00:38:11,100 --> 00:38:13,600
where you're surrounded
by blacks."
778
00:38:13,633 --> 00:38:15,600
And that's all that
was over there,
779
00:38:15,633 --> 00:38:20,133
was black people
and some Asian people.
780
00:38:20,133 --> 00:38:22,200
He was like, "I like it better
down here,
781
00:38:22,233 --> 00:38:24,533
'cause I can keep more
to myself."
782
00:38:24,533 --> 00:38:28,266
- Pamela Bass, who lives
across the hall from Dahmer
783
00:38:28,300 --> 00:38:29,367
in the Oxford Apartments,
784
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,533
develops a soft spot
785
00:38:31,533 --> 00:38:35,767
for the man she would describe
as an unassuming bachelor.
786
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,667
- You know, me and my husband
at that time
787
00:38:38,700 --> 00:38:41,467
were trying to get him
a girlfriend,
788
00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:44,133
because we thought that,
you know,
789
00:38:44,133 --> 00:38:46,266
he was over there by hisself,
and he didn't get out much,
790
00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:47,734
and all this here kind of stuff.
791
00:38:47,767 --> 00:38:50,200
So he said, "No, no, I'm fine.
792
00:38:50,233 --> 00:38:52,433
I just want to work
and be left alone."
793
00:38:52,433 --> 00:38:54,433
[ominous music]
794
00:38:54,467 --> 00:38:58,700
- Within a week of settling in
to apartment 213,
795
00:38:58,700 --> 00:39:02,000
Dahmer lures 32-year-old
Raymond Smith
796
00:39:02,033 --> 00:39:03,700
home for a drink,
797
00:39:03,700 --> 00:39:07,033
laces it with drugs,
strangles him to death,
798
00:39:07,066 --> 00:39:09,700
and dismembers his body.
799
00:39:09,734 --> 00:39:12,700
A month later,
Dahmer repeats the process
800
00:39:12,734 --> 00:39:17,767
on a 27-year-old acquaintance,
Edward Smith,
801
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,700
raising his victim count
to seven.
802
00:39:21,734 --> 00:39:24,700
Before you went out
to pick up a man,
803
00:39:24,700 --> 00:39:28,033
was there any kind of ritual
you went through?
804
00:39:28,033 --> 00:39:31,300
- I'd go to the nightclubs,
drink,
805
00:39:31,300 --> 00:39:36,033
watch the strip tease shows.
806
00:39:36,066 --> 00:39:39,200
And if I didn't meet anyone
at the bars,
807
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,467
I'd go to the Bath clubs
808
00:39:42,500 --> 00:39:44,567
and meet someone there,
809
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,066
offer them money,
810
00:39:47,066 --> 00:39:51,066
and we'd go back
to the apartment,
811
00:39:51,066 --> 00:39:52,400
have a few drinks.
812
00:39:52,433 --> 00:39:56,600
I'd have
the sleeping pill mixture
813
00:39:56,633 --> 00:39:58,734
already prepared.
814
00:39:58,767 --> 00:40:02,000
The person would drink it,
fall asleep.
815
00:40:02,033 --> 00:40:05,767
And that's when they would be
strangled.
816
00:40:08,166 --> 00:40:10,734
- The question of how
Mr. Dahmer chose his victims
817
00:40:10,767 --> 00:40:13,033
I don't think
is a complicated one.
818
00:40:13,066 --> 00:40:15,767
He tried to find people
that were attractive to him
819
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,100
and who were willing
820
00:40:17,133 --> 00:40:19,367
to go with him voluntarily.
821
00:40:19,367 --> 00:40:22,767
He wasn't jumping out of cars
and attacking people and so on.
822
00:40:22,767 --> 00:40:26,367
- The men he's inviting back
823
00:40:26,367 --> 00:40:28,467
don't want to just lie there.
824
00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:31,333
They want to get it on,
get it over with,
825
00:40:31,367 --> 00:40:33,300
and get going.
826
00:40:33,333 --> 00:40:35,633
He found that
enormously frustrating.
827
00:40:35,633 --> 00:40:37,433
Some of them rolled him.
828
00:40:37,467 --> 00:40:39,600
Some of them were nasty
to him.
829
00:40:39,633 --> 00:40:41,700
He didn't want to get
into an argument
830
00:40:41,734 --> 00:40:45,233
or get into a fight
or get robbed.
831
00:40:45,233 --> 00:40:47,500
He wanted somebody to lie there
with him.
832
00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:49,700
But he was picking
the wrong guys
833
00:40:49,734 --> 00:40:51,500
to try to achieve that,
834
00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:55,633
so he began drugging them
at his apartment.
835
00:40:55,633 --> 00:40:59,767
- He wanted his victims
to be still and quiet
836
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,767
so he didn't have to face
their humanity.
837
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,467
- It's a process.
It doesn't happen overnight.
838
00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:11,467
When you depersonalize
another person
839
00:41:11,500 --> 00:41:14,266
and view them as just an object,
840
00:41:14,300 --> 00:41:16,400
an object for pleasure
841
00:41:16,433 --> 00:41:21,400
instead of a living, breathing
human being,
842
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:25,400
it seems to make it easier
843
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,367
to...
844
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,367
do things you shouldn't do.
845
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,133
- It struck me
that classifying murder
846
00:41:34,166 --> 00:41:36,233
as a "thing you shouldn't do"
847
00:41:36,266 --> 00:41:38,600
minimizes the horror
and brutality
848
00:41:38,633 --> 00:41:41,033
of Jeffrey Dahmer's actions.
849
00:41:41,066 --> 00:41:42,567
- Dahmer drugged his victims,
850
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,033
so they weren't pleading
for their lives.
851
00:41:45,066 --> 00:41:47,033
They weren't crying out
in pain
852
00:41:47,033 --> 00:41:48,367
as he inflicted a torture
on them.
853
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,266
So he was in many ways
different,
854
00:41:50,300 --> 00:41:53,000
frighteningly different.
855
00:41:53,033 --> 00:41:55,633
- Do you ever think
about your victims?
856
00:41:58,700 --> 00:42:03,400
- Uh, I've often wondered
why I haven't had
857
00:42:03,433 --> 00:42:08,266
more dreams or nightmares
about what I've done.
858
00:42:08,300 --> 00:42:11,433
For some reason, it's like
it's blocked off
859
00:42:11,433 --> 00:42:13,233
from part of my mind.
860
00:42:13,266 --> 00:42:15,433
If I dwelled on the subject
all the time,
861
00:42:15,433 --> 00:42:18,166
I would...
862
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,166
I wouldn't be able to function.
863
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,066
- In talking to Jeffrey Dahmer,
864
00:42:23,066 --> 00:42:26,333
I realized that one of
his most peculiar traits was,
865
00:42:26,333 --> 00:42:28,400
no matter how well
he knew his victims,
866
00:42:28,433 --> 00:42:30,600
he didn't view them as people.
867
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:34,066
That's why,
in his 160-page confession,
868
00:42:34,066 --> 00:42:36,734
he could describe
everything he did to them
869
00:42:36,734 --> 00:42:38,734
in excruciating detail
870
00:42:38,734 --> 00:42:41,600
but he couldn't
remember their names.
871
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:43,200
Up next.
872
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:44,467
- Told us how he
cooked them.
873
00:42:44,467 --> 00:42:46,333
What they tasted like.
874
00:42:46,333 --> 00:42:49,600
- He seemed like a
very normal person.
875
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,200
He covered up so much.
876
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,300
I was branching out
that's when
877
00:42:54,300 --> 00:42:56,700
the cannibalism started.
878
00:42:56,700 --> 00:42:59,467
He just was crazy sick.
879
00:42:59,467 --> 00:43:01,066
Things just began to
deteriorate.
880
00:43:01,066 --> 00:43:04,100
He became like a killing
machine out of control.
881
00:43:04,100 --> 00:43:05,500
It just seemed
to be an absence
882
00:43:05,500 --> 00:43:07,233
of any moral compass
in the man at all.
883
00:43:07,233 --> 00:43:11,033
- I didn t believe in
the concept of evil.
884
00:43:11,033 --> 00:43:11,767
And, now I do.
885
00:43:22,233 --> 00:43:22,600
No one, no one had a clue
886
00:43:24,500 --> 00:43:27,767
as to what was happening
for over a decade.
887
00:43:27,767 --> 00:43:30,734
[eerie music]
888
00:43:30,767 --> 00:43:33,700
♪ ♪
889
00:43:33,734 --> 00:43:35,467
- He became
like a killing machine
890
00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:37,233
out of control.
891
00:43:37,233 --> 00:43:38,700
- There just seemed to be
an absence
892
00:43:38,734 --> 00:43:40,166
of any moral compass.
893
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:41,467
He was an evil man.
894
00:43:44,767 --> 00:43:46,000
- The manager came up
895
00:43:46,033 --> 00:43:47,734
and complained about the smell.
896
00:43:47,767 --> 00:43:51,100
He told the manager,
"Well, my fish died."
897
00:43:52,533 --> 00:43:55,467
- He had a very good disguise.
898
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,266
- It's a process;
it doesn't happen overnight
899
00:44:08,266 --> 00:44:12,767
when you depersonalize
another person
900
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:18,200
and view them as just an object,
an object for pleasure,
901
00:44:18,233 --> 00:44:21,066
instead of a living, breathing
human being.
902
00:44:24,133 --> 00:44:30,033
I had these obsessive desires
and thoughts,
903
00:44:30,033 --> 00:44:32,233
wanting to control them.
904
00:44:34,166 --> 00:44:37,166
- He immediately said,
"When you find out what I did,
905
00:44:37,166 --> 00:44:38,500
you're gonna want to kill me."
906
00:44:40,266 --> 00:44:43,300
- You love
who the true human being is,
907
00:44:43,300 --> 00:44:45,467
and you take that with you
to your grave.
908
00:44:48,166 --> 00:44:51,500
- He seemed like
a very normal boy.
909
00:44:51,533 --> 00:44:54,100
He covered up so much.
910
00:44:54,133 --> 00:44:56,100
- Murder.
- Necrophilia.
911
00:44:56,133 --> 00:44:57,767
- Zombies.
- Religious ritual.
912
00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,500
- Vats of acid.
- Body parts.
913
00:44:59,533 --> 00:45:01,033
- Aroused.
- Consuming.
914
00:45:01,033 --> 00:45:02,500
- Willing.
- Cooked them.
915
00:45:02,533 --> 00:45:07,600
- Bad people.
- [tearfully] He was our son.
916
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,333
from Jeffrey Dahmer
tting across
917
00:45:10,333 --> 00:45:12,533
in a small prison
meeting room.
918
00:45:12,567 --> 00:45:14,533
And face-to-face,
919
00:45:14,567 --> 00:45:17,266
I can see how he got away
with his terrible crimes.
920
00:45:17,300 --> 00:45:20,200
He appears completely normal.
921
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:22,200
That's what made him
so frightening.
922
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,200
In the second half
of our conversation,
923
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,266
he talks about
the most vicious acts--
924
00:45:26,300 --> 00:45:29,266
cannibalism, murder,
dismemberment--
925
00:45:29,300 --> 00:45:31,133
in the most casual way.
926
00:45:31,166 --> 00:45:32,600
He even says he's sorry.
927
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,266
He sounds thoughtful.
928
00:45:34,300 --> 00:45:36,266
He sounds sincere.
929
00:45:36,300 --> 00:45:40,133
But Jeffrey Dahmer was
a psychopath.
930
00:45:40,166 --> 00:45:42,200
When you killed these men,
931
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,200
afterwards,
were you repulsed?
932
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:46,533
Were you upset?
933
00:45:46,567 --> 00:45:50,500
- No, it--at the time,
it was--
934
00:45:50,500 --> 00:45:52,233
it was almost addictive.
935
00:45:52,233 --> 00:45:56,367
It was almost...
936
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,166
a surge of energy.
937
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:02,567
I wouldn't have to worry
938
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,433
about any of their needs
or anything.
939
00:46:06,467 --> 00:46:09,767
I just had complete control
of the situation.
940
00:46:09,767 --> 00:46:12,367
- The right way to think of him
941
00:46:12,367 --> 00:46:15,600
is as having necrophilia.
942
00:46:15,633 --> 00:46:17,433
Now, usually, we think
of necrophilia
943
00:46:17,467 --> 00:46:19,367
as being about corpses.
944
00:46:19,367 --> 00:46:21,367
I think it's more than that.
945
00:46:21,367 --> 00:46:23,166
I think it is control
946
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,500
over the completely passive,
compliant partner
947
00:46:26,533 --> 00:46:30,367
that he could fondle, hug,
touch, and lie with
948
00:46:30,367 --> 00:46:32,500
as long as possible.
949
00:46:32,533 --> 00:46:35,467
- He always said he didn't enjoy
murdering people.
950
00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:37,400
He said that.
I don't doubt that.
951
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,133
But he enjoyed getting sex,
952
00:46:39,133 --> 00:46:40,667
and he enjoyed getting it
against their will,
953
00:46:40,667 --> 00:46:42,667
and he did what he had to do
to get it.
954
00:46:42,667 --> 00:46:45,333
- He told me
his motivating force
955
00:46:45,367 --> 00:46:48,533
was to have sex with a partner
who wouldn't leave him.
956
00:46:48,533 --> 00:46:51,734
But more than that,
he wanted to be the aggressor,
957
00:46:51,767 --> 00:46:54,200
and he didn't want
to be touched.
958
00:46:54,233 --> 00:46:57,367
What do you want to say to
the families of the victims?
959
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,600
- I had no intention
of hurting them.
960
00:47:00,633 --> 00:47:04,500
I was--I--
961
00:47:04,533 --> 00:47:05,767
I was extremely selfish.
962
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,400
I was only thinking of myself,
963
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:12,433
my own pleasure, my own...
964
00:47:12,433 --> 00:47:15,633
perverted desires.
965
00:47:15,667 --> 00:47:19,367
- In the meantime,
he has men dying.
966
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:23,400
To dispose of them
required dismembering them.
967
00:47:23,433 --> 00:47:25,000
He hated this process.
968
00:47:26,567 --> 00:47:28,433
But if he drank enough,
969
00:47:28,433 --> 00:47:30,000
he could lay down
sheets of plastic
970
00:47:30,033 --> 00:47:31,567
and begin the process
of cutting
971
00:47:31,567 --> 00:47:34,433
and the hard work
of dismembering
972
00:47:34,433 --> 00:47:38,533
and putting body parts
in vats of acid.
973
00:47:42,700 --> 00:47:47,567
- When the bodies were
still in your apartment,
974
00:47:47,567 --> 00:47:50,667
there was no time
when you would see them
975
00:47:50,700 --> 00:47:53,667
and say, "This is grotesque"?
976
00:47:53,700 --> 00:47:55,400
"What have I done?"
977
00:47:55,433 --> 00:47:58,066
- There were times.
There were times.
978
00:47:58,066 --> 00:48:03,734
But the compulsive obsession
with doing what I was doing
979
00:48:03,734 --> 00:48:06,734
overpowered any feelings
of revulsion.
980
00:48:06,734 --> 00:48:09,667
- In September of 1990,
981
00:48:09,700 --> 00:48:12,266
Dahmer's victim count
is seven,
982
00:48:12,300 --> 00:48:15,567
and he would have
yet more bodies to dispose of.
983
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:18,734
22-year-old Ernest Miller
is a dance student
984
00:48:18,734 --> 00:48:20,600
he meets outside a bookstore.
985
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:23,300
Dahmer murders
the talented dancer,
986
00:48:23,333 --> 00:48:25,000
stuffs his entire skeleton
987
00:48:25,033 --> 00:48:27,266
in the bottom
of a filing cabinet
988
00:48:27,300 --> 00:48:28,667
in his apartment
989
00:48:28,700 --> 00:48:32,467
and his heart and biceps
in his freezer.
990
00:48:32,467 --> 00:48:34,400
Three weeks later,
991
00:48:34,433 --> 00:48:36,567
Dahmer brings home
and strangles David Thomas,
992
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:40,500
a 22-year-old man
he meets outside a mall.
993
00:48:40,500 --> 00:48:42,367
He has claimed nine lives,
994
00:48:42,367 --> 00:48:46,700
and his routine becomes
even more twisted.
995
00:48:46,734 --> 00:48:50,367
Why did you photograph them?
996
00:48:50,367 --> 00:48:55,333
- It was my way of remembering
their appearance,
997
00:48:55,367 --> 00:48:59,500
their physical beauty.
998
00:48:59,500 --> 00:49:03,500
I also wanted to keep some--
999
00:49:03,533 --> 00:49:06,433
If I couldn't keep them there
with me whole,
1000
00:49:06,467 --> 00:49:12,333
at least I felt that
I could keep their skeletons.
1001
00:49:12,367 --> 00:49:14,300
And I even went so far
1002
00:49:14,333 --> 00:49:18,066
as planning on setting up
an altar
1003
00:49:18,100 --> 00:49:22,767
with the ten different skulls
and skeletons.
1004
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,667
- And what was the purpose
of the altar going to be?
1005
00:49:25,667 --> 00:49:31,667
- Uh, as a sort of memorial,
1006
00:49:31,667 --> 00:49:35,100
a point where I could...
1007
00:49:35,133 --> 00:49:37,066
I don't know.
1008
00:49:37,100 --> 00:49:40,600
It's so bizarre and strange,
it's hard to describe.
1009
00:49:40,633 --> 00:49:44,767
A place where I could collect
my thoughts
1010
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:48,000
and feed my obsession.
1011
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:51,667
- This is a sketch of the altar
drawn by Jeffrey Dahmer.
1012
00:49:51,667 --> 00:49:53,533
- The altar was not
1013
00:49:53,533 --> 00:49:55,600
of any religious ritual
involved.
1014
00:49:55,633 --> 00:49:58,533
It was as a memory of the people
that he had killed.
1015
00:49:58,567 --> 00:50:00,633
There just seemed to be
an absence
1016
00:50:00,667 --> 00:50:02,533
of any moral compass
in the man at all.
1017
00:50:02,567 --> 00:50:04,633
He was an evil man.
1018
00:50:04,667 --> 00:50:07,133
- And in Jeffrey Dahmer's mind,
1019
00:50:07,166 --> 00:50:10,567
this macabre ritual
has a purpose,
1020
00:50:10,567 --> 00:50:13,367
and it's something he has
no trouble describing
1021
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:15,667
down to the goriest detail.
1022
00:50:15,700 --> 00:50:17,700
- I was branching out.
1023
00:50:17,734 --> 00:50:20,433
That's when
the cannibalism started,
1024
00:50:20,433 --> 00:50:25,367
eating of the heart
and the arm muscle.
1025
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:32,100
It was a way of making me feel
that they were a part of me.
1026
00:50:32,133 --> 00:50:35,500
At first,
it was just curiosity,
1027
00:50:35,533 --> 00:50:38,734
and then it became compulsive.
1028
00:50:41,700 --> 00:50:44,533
- Contrary
to what one might expect
1029
00:50:44,567 --> 00:50:49,400
of some wild frenzy
of consuming raw flesh,
1030
00:50:49,433 --> 00:50:54,600
what he did was to cook
a filet of biceps
1031
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:57,166
that he'd kept in his freezer,
1032
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:00,600
sit at a table,
and make a meal of it
1033
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:06,667
while looking at photographs
of that person alive.
1034
00:51:10,033 --> 00:51:14,734
- Up next, Jeffrey Dahmer's
most terrifying idea yet.
1035
00:51:14,734 --> 00:51:18,600
- I tried
to keep the person alive
1036
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:22,433
by inducing
a zombie-like state.
1037
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:29,467
It's 1990, and Jeffrey Dahmer
1038
00:51:31,500 --> 00:51:33,500
is in the middle
of a killing spree,
1039
00:51:33,500 --> 00:51:37,567
which continues uninterrupted
and unnoticed for years.
1040
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:39,633
He was pulled over
by the police
1041
00:51:39,633 --> 00:51:42,066
with body parts in his car.
1042
00:51:42,100 --> 00:51:44,100
He had been arrested
for exposing himself
1043
00:51:44,100 --> 00:51:46,767
and for sexual assault
on a minor.
1044
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,500
He was caught drugging men
at a bathhouse.
1045
00:51:50,533 --> 00:51:54,367
And still he wasn't stopped.
1046
00:51:54,367 --> 00:51:57,100
Emboldened
by these multiple close calls,
1047
00:51:57,100 --> 00:51:59,467
his violent compulsions
begin to evolve,
1048
00:51:59,500 --> 00:52:02,633
intensifying and becoming
more and more perverse
1049
00:52:02,667 --> 00:52:06,033
as he preys upon men
in Milwaukee.
1050
00:52:08,533 --> 00:52:10,533
How did you live
that double life?
1051
00:52:10,567 --> 00:52:12,000
How did you go to work?
1052
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:13,533
How did you have
1053
00:52:13,567 --> 00:52:16,066
a normal relationship
with your family?
1054
00:52:16,100 --> 00:52:18,667
- When you try to keep
a terrible secret, like I was,
1055
00:52:18,667 --> 00:52:22,133
it warps every other aspect
of your life.
1056
00:52:22,133 --> 00:52:27,667
But I managed to--
I managed to go to work,
1057
00:52:27,667 --> 00:52:30,600
conduct myself
just like anyone else would.
1058
00:52:38,433 --> 00:52:41,767
- Well, I've been surviving
mostly on McDonald's food.
1059
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,767
It's just so much easier just
to pop into the restaurant.
1060
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:48,100
But like I've said before,
it gets too expensive,
1061
00:52:48,133 --> 00:52:51,500
and I have to start eating
at home more.
1062
00:52:53,033 --> 00:52:56,000
- Even his neighbors
were fooled.
1063
00:52:56,033 --> 00:52:57,700
- I don't know where he was
getting them guys from,
1064
00:52:57,734 --> 00:53:00,433
but he would take them
in his apartment, you know?
1065
00:53:00,433 --> 00:53:02,033
And there were a couple of them
1066
00:53:02,033 --> 00:53:04,166
that I didn't see them
come out of there,
1067
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:06,166
and I had asked him about that.
1068
00:53:06,166 --> 00:53:08,033
He said, "Oh, well, maybe
you were in the bathroom
1069
00:53:08,033 --> 00:53:11,233
or something like that,
'cause they're gone."
1070
00:53:11,266 --> 00:53:15,166
- Why was it so easy, though,
for you to hide it all?
1071
00:53:15,166 --> 00:53:17,133
- I desensitized myself to it.
1072
00:53:17,166 --> 00:53:18,567
I--I--
1073
00:53:18,567 --> 00:53:21,567
I...
1074
00:53:21,567 --> 00:53:23,433
[exhales]
1075
00:53:23,433 --> 00:53:25,700
I don't know.
I went to great lengths.
1076
00:53:25,700 --> 00:53:28,600
I bought security systems,
1077
00:53:28,633 --> 00:53:30,467
installed them myself
in the apartment.
1078
00:53:30,500 --> 00:53:36,200
I had a video camera
in the corner of the room,
1079
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:40,200
installed locks on the doors,
1080
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:41,734
sirens and stuff
1081
00:53:41,734 --> 00:53:44,266
in case anyone broke in
to the apartment.
1082
00:53:44,300 --> 00:53:46,066
- I was there,
1083
00:53:46,066 --> 00:53:49,133
and because I taught the boys
how to clean
1084
00:53:49,166 --> 00:53:50,700
and take care of a home,
1085
00:53:50,734 --> 00:53:52,700
I went through the refrigerator,
the bathroom,
1086
00:53:52,734 --> 00:53:54,200
behind the shower curtain.
1087
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:55,200
The fridge was fine.
1088
00:53:55,233 --> 00:53:56,734
The bathroom was fine.
1089
00:53:56,767 --> 00:54:00,000
Nothing had taken place
at that time.
1090
00:54:00,033 --> 00:54:03,066
- They said it was
absolutely clean, perfect.
1091
00:54:03,100 --> 00:54:04,433
- Right.
1092
00:54:04,467 --> 00:54:05,667
- How'd you hide from them?
1093
00:54:05,700 --> 00:54:07,667
- Everything was locked up,
1094
00:54:07,700 --> 00:54:14,500
either in the freezer
or in the file chest.
1095
00:54:14,500 --> 00:54:19,767
And so there was no evidence
laying in the open.
1096
00:54:19,767 --> 00:54:22,734
There was nothing abnormal
about the look of the apartment.
1097
00:54:22,767 --> 00:54:24,633
- Dahmer's father, Lionel,
1098
00:54:24,667 --> 00:54:28,300
is talking about his son
after years of silence.
1099
00:54:28,333 --> 00:54:30,600
He says he wants to share
his thoughts
1100
00:54:30,633 --> 00:54:34,200
on Jeffrey's terrible deeds
one last time.
1101
00:54:34,233 --> 00:54:37,233
- Everything that he did was...
1102
00:54:37,266 --> 00:54:41,233
You know, he seemed like
a very normal person.
1103
00:54:41,233 --> 00:54:45,633
He covered up so much.
1104
00:54:45,633 --> 00:54:52,133
And I wish that I had
really pushed harder
1105
00:54:52,133 --> 00:54:55,233
to find out what he's thinking
1106
00:54:55,266 --> 00:54:59,533
in his--about everything.
1107
00:55:01,266 --> 00:55:03,000
- You need to understand
at that point
1108
00:55:03,033 --> 00:55:06,133
in Lionel's life,
he was very, very naive.
1109
00:55:06,133 --> 00:55:07,767
If there's no communication,
1110
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,066
you don't know
what the truth is.
1111
00:55:10,100 --> 00:55:12,333
- Did his father know
that at times,
1112
00:55:12,367 --> 00:55:14,266
his son was keeping secrets?
1113
00:55:14,266 --> 00:55:16,000
Yes.
1114
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:17,734
But could he,
in his wildest dreams,
1115
00:55:17,767 --> 00:55:19,600
have imagined
that the secret was
1116
00:55:19,633 --> 00:55:22,000
that he was a serial killer
who had necrophilia
1117
00:55:22,033 --> 00:55:23,533
and had killed 17 people?
1118
00:55:23,533 --> 00:55:26,600
I can't imagine
that's the case.
1119
00:55:26,633 --> 00:55:29,734
- And what's just as puzzling
is the fact
1120
00:55:29,767 --> 00:55:32,500
that neither the authorities
nor the general public
1121
00:55:32,533 --> 00:55:35,100
had any idea a serial killer
1122
00:55:35,133 --> 00:55:37,567
was systematically
removing men
1123
00:55:37,567 --> 00:55:39,633
from the streets of Milwaukee.
1124
00:55:39,667 --> 00:55:42,300
- Every year,
many young men disappear.
1125
00:55:42,300 --> 00:55:44,166
They have a fight
with their girlfriend,
1126
00:55:44,166 --> 00:55:45,700
get fired from the job,
1127
00:55:45,734 --> 00:55:47,667
have a fight with the family,
and leave.
1128
00:55:47,700 --> 00:55:49,567
And they're gone a couple weeks
and come back home.
1129
00:55:49,567 --> 00:55:51,367
They give it very different
investigative efforts
1130
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:53,633
compared when a young woman
disappears.
1131
00:55:53,667 --> 00:55:57,633
No one had even a suspicion
that a serial slayer was afoot.
1132
00:55:57,667 --> 00:56:00,700
- By the spring of 1991,
1133
00:56:00,700 --> 00:56:03,667
Dahmer's victim count
reaches double digits.
1134
00:56:03,700 --> 00:56:06,367
He lures 17-year-old
Curtis Straughter
1135
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:10,266
from a bus stop,
then strangles him to death.
1136
00:56:10,300 --> 00:56:15,233
Next, Dahmer would move on
to a new obsession.
1137
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:21,066
- Mr. Dahmer had been
sexually aroused
1138
00:56:21,100 --> 00:56:25,200
by the idea of having sex
with a dead body.
1139
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:27,400
He also, at times,
had fantasies
1140
00:56:27,433 --> 00:56:29,734
about having sex
with what he referred to
1141
00:56:29,734 --> 00:56:32,300
as "zombies,"
human beings that existed
1142
00:56:32,333 --> 00:56:35,734
somewhere between being dead
and being alive,
1143
00:56:35,767 --> 00:56:39,600
something he later on
actually ended up acting upon.
1144
00:56:39,633 --> 00:56:42,133
- His experiments lead
to the death
1145
00:56:42,166 --> 00:56:45,200
of his 11th victim,
Errol Lindsey.
1146
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:47,166
A month later, he fails again,
1147
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:50,066
this time
with 31-year-old Tony Hughes,
1148
00:56:50,066 --> 00:56:52,600
a deaf man
who Dahmer communicates with
1149
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:55,066
through written notes.
1150
00:56:55,100 --> 00:56:59,767
- I tried
to keep the person alive
1151
00:56:59,767 --> 00:57:03,333
by inducing
a zombie-like state...
1152
00:57:06,633 --> 00:57:13,066
By injecting first
a dilute acid solution
1153
00:57:13,100 --> 00:57:16,767
into their brain
or hot water.
1154
00:57:16,767 --> 00:57:20,333
And it never did
completely work.
1155
00:57:20,367 --> 00:57:22,767
- Could someone like you
be stopped?
1156
00:57:22,767 --> 00:57:24,100
Could you be helped?
1157
00:57:24,133 --> 00:57:26,367
- No, I was--
1158
00:57:26,367 --> 00:57:31,233
I was dead set on going
with this compulsion.
1159
00:57:31,233 --> 00:57:36,100
It was the only thing
that gave me any...
1160
00:57:36,133 --> 00:57:38,400
any satisfaction.
1161
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:44,233
- He later shares the details
with a forensic psychologist.
1162
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:56,667
- After two failed attempts
at creating zombies,
1163
00:57:56,667 --> 00:58:00,400
Dahmer tries for a third time
in May 1991.
1164
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:04,033
That would lead
to his closest call yet.
1165
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:18,667
- He looked like a little kid.
1166
00:58:18,667 --> 00:58:20,433
He had a towel around,
1167
00:58:20,433 --> 00:58:22,033
and it had blood,
1168
00:58:22,033 --> 00:58:24,033
and he had blood running
down his leg.
1169
00:58:24,066 --> 00:58:29,300
- The boy is 14-year-old
Konerak Sinthasomphone.
1170
00:58:29,333 --> 00:58:31,500
Injured and drugged,
he escaped
1171
00:58:31,533 --> 00:58:33,166
when Jeffrey Dahmer
left the apartment
1172
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:35,166
to buy beer.
1173
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:38,433
In a terrible twist of fate,
he's the younger brother
1174
00:58:38,433 --> 00:58:41,767
of the boy Dahmer was arrested
for molesting
1175
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:43,700
three years earlier.
1176
00:58:43,700 --> 00:58:45,300
- What had already happened
1177
00:58:45,333 --> 00:58:47,433
that the police
couldn't possibly have known
1178
00:58:47,467 --> 00:58:50,033
is that Mr. Dahmer
had drilled a small hole
1179
00:58:50,033 --> 00:58:51,433
in the skull of this young man
1180
00:58:51,467 --> 00:58:53,300
and poured a caustic substance
into it,
1181
00:58:53,300 --> 00:58:57,667
thinking that he now created
a zombie.
1182
00:58:57,700 --> 00:58:59,700
- They didn't see the drillings
into the head
1183
00:58:59,700 --> 00:59:01,233
that he had conducted.
1184
00:59:01,266 --> 00:59:04,133
Apparently, it was under
the hairline.
1185
00:59:04,166 --> 00:59:07,133
- The incoherent boy
is with the police
1186
00:59:07,166 --> 00:59:08,533
when Dahmer returns,
1187
00:59:08,567 --> 00:59:10,467
but instead of fleeing
the scene,
1188
00:59:10,500 --> 00:59:13,333
he acts as cool as ever.
1189
00:59:13,367 --> 00:59:15,433
- Dahmer went right up
to the police and says,
1190
00:59:15,467 --> 00:59:17,200
"This is my lover.
1191
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,066
"If you come, I'll take you back
to my apartment.
1192
00:59:19,066 --> 00:59:20,333
Here's his clothes."
1193
00:59:20,367 --> 00:59:23,000
They were all folded
on the couch.
1194
00:59:23,033 --> 00:59:25,734
- Mr. Dahmer did keep his wits
1195
00:59:25,767 --> 00:59:28,066
and persuaded them by showing
some pictures
1196
00:59:28,066 --> 00:59:30,333
that this young lad
had voluntarily taken
1197
00:59:30,333 --> 00:59:33,433
that these were just two
consenting homosexual adults
1198
00:59:33,467 --> 00:59:36,066
engaging in sexual activity.
1199
00:59:36,100 --> 00:59:37,734
I don't think the police
recognized the age
1200
00:59:37,734 --> 00:59:40,300
of this young man
at that time.
1201
00:59:40,333 --> 00:59:44,767
- The body of the last victim,
Tony Hughes, is still there,
1202
00:59:44,767 --> 00:59:47,433
but the police
don't look around.
1203
00:59:47,467 --> 00:59:52,400
Instead, they leave the boy
in the apartment with Dahmer.
1204
01:00:01,100 --> 01:00:03,033
- Did that play an element
in it,
1205
01:00:03,066 --> 01:00:05,033
that there were homosexuals
involved, possibly?
1206
01:00:05,066 --> 01:00:06,367
I can't assess that.
1207
01:00:06,367 --> 01:00:08,433
I think that would be
a harsh judgment.
1208
01:00:08,467 --> 01:00:11,100
- During the incident
where the police were called...
1209
01:00:11,100 --> 01:00:12,433
- Mm-hmm.
1210
01:00:12,467 --> 01:00:14,734
- And the young boy
was returned to you,
1211
01:00:14,767 --> 01:00:16,500
that didn't wake you up
at all?
1212
01:00:16,500 --> 01:00:18,500
The police on your doorstep?
1213
01:00:18,500 --> 01:00:21,300
- They were--they were
in the apartment.
1214
01:00:21,333 --> 01:00:23,367
They were actually in
the apartment,
1215
01:00:23,367 --> 01:00:27,100
and there was a dead young man
in the bedroom
1216
01:00:27,133 --> 01:00:29,133
on the floor.
1217
01:00:29,133 --> 01:00:32,000
I couldn't believe it when--
1218
01:00:32,033 --> 01:00:34,100
when it turned out
that they--they--
1219
01:00:34,133 --> 01:00:36,133
they didn't see anything.
1220
01:00:36,133 --> 01:00:37,600
I just--I couldn't believe it.
1221
01:00:37,633 --> 01:00:40,233
And yes, it did shock me
but not enough to quit.
1222
01:00:40,266 --> 01:00:43,233
That's how strong
the compulsion was.
1223
01:00:43,266 --> 01:00:45,500
- Any neighbors
with lingering suspicions
1224
01:00:45,533 --> 01:00:47,367
are assured by the police
1225
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:49,400
that nothing
is out of the ordinary,
1226
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:52,367
as you'll hear
in this 911 call.
1227
01:01:05,233 --> 01:01:08,433
- Well, the next day,
Dahmer killed him.
1228
01:01:10,667 --> 01:01:15,600
- Konerak Sinthasomphone
was Dahmer's 13th victim.
1229
01:01:17,133 --> 01:01:18,567
Up next...
1230
01:01:18,567 --> 01:01:21,133
Did you like feeling evil?
- No.
1231
01:01:21,166 --> 01:01:23,066
No, I didn't.
1232
01:01:29,567 --> 01:01:30,133
After the close call
1233
01:01:30,133 --> 01:01:30,400
After the close call
with the police
1234
01:01:32,033 --> 01:01:33,433
in May of 1991,
1235
01:01:33,433 --> 01:01:35,367
Jeffrey Dahmer's killing
accelerates
1236
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:37,300
to a dizzying pace.
1237
01:01:37,333 --> 01:01:40,567
Within a week, he murders
20-year-old Matt Turner
1238
01:01:40,567 --> 01:01:44,100
and 23-year-old
Jeremiah Weinberger.
1239
01:01:44,133 --> 01:01:46,033
Only ten days later,
he strangles
1240
01:01:46,033 --> 01:01:49,066
24-year-old Oliver Lacy.
1241
01:01:49,066 --> 01:01:50,467
- Things just began
to deteriorate.
1242
01:01:50,500 --> 01:01:53,300
He became like a killing machine
out of control.
1243
01:01:53,333 --> 01:01:57,600
There were just body parts,
at the end, all over the place.
1244
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:01,600
- Before long, his neighbors
report a foul stench
1245
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:04,266
coming from somewhere
on their floor.
1246
01:02:04,300 --> 01:02:06,033
- Ooh.
1247
01:02:06,066 --> 01:02:07,467
I can't even describe it.
1248
01:02:07,500 --> 01:02:09,567
It's a horrible smell.
1249
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:14,166
I know me and Jeff went up and
down the hallways, smelling--
1250
01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:16,600
you know, trying to see
where it was coming from.
1251
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:20,333
- The landlord eventually
tracks the smell
1252
01:02:20,333 --> 01:02:22,333
to Dahmer's apartment.
1253
01:02:22,333 --> 01:02:25,433
- He told the manager,
"Well, my fish died."
1254
01:02:25,467 --> 01:02:27,467
Then he told him,
"My meat spoiled."
1255
01:02:27,467 --> 01:02:29,133
And then the third time,
1256
01:02:29,166 --> 01:02:31,233
the manager came up
and told him--
1257
01:02:31,233 --> 01:02:33,100
complained about the smell,
he told him,
1258
01:02:33,133 --> 01:02:35,467
"You're gonna be evicted
next month."
1259
01:02:35,500 --> 01:02:37,500
- I went in
to help him clean up,
1260
01:02:37,500 --> 01:02:40,333
and he told me--he said,
"It's the freezer over there
1261
01:02:40,367 --> 01:02:43,100
"that my grandma has sent me
some meat,
1262
01:02:43,133 --> 01:02:46,100
"and I put it in there,
and I went back to her house,
1263
01:02:46,100 --> 01:02:47,633
and I forgot to plug it in."
1264
01:02:47,633 --> 01:02:50,500
I haven't been around
no dead people.
1265
01:02:50,500 --> 01:02:52,734
I don't know anything
about how they smell.
1266
01:02:55,100 --> 01:02:57,233
He had a very good disguise.
1267
01:02:57,266 --> 01:02:59,100
That's what it was.
1268
01:02:59,100 --> 01:03:01,433
- Jeffrey Dahmer begins
to miss work
1269
01:03:01,467 --> 01:03:05,100
and is fired from his job
at the chocolate factory.
1270
01:03:05,133 --> 01:03:08,433
Killing becomes
his only function in life.
1271
01:03:08,467 --> 01:03:11,500
Two days later,
25-year-old Joseph Bradehoft
1272
01:03:11,500 --> 01:03:15,266
becomes Dahmer's 17th
and final victim.
1273
01:03:15,266 --> 01:03:18,467
Three days later,
Dahmer's reign of terror
1274
01:03:18,500 --> 01:03:21,266
comes crashing to a halt.
1275
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:25,633
- Oh, Lord.
[chuckles]
1276
01:03:25,667 --> 01:03:28,467
That was not a good night
for me.
1277
01:03:28,500 --> 01:03:32,233
I was home by myself,
and Jeff was having--
1278
01:03:32,266 --> 01:03:34,533
Jeff was having some company
or something,
1279
01:03:34,533 --> 01:03:38,633
'cause I could hear music,
a radio or something playing.
1280
01:03:38,667 --> 01:03:42,233
- The company she hears
is Tracy Edwards,
1281
01:03:42,266 --> 01:03:44,667
a man Jeffrey Dahmer met
at a mall
1282
01:03:44,667 --> 01:03:47,400
and convinces to come back
to his apartment.
1283
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:49,667
- He was out of Halcion,
1284
01:03:49,667 --> 01:03:52,200
so he had handcuffs,
1285
01:03:52,233 --> 01:03:56,133
and he persuaded Edwards
to get one handcuff on,
1286
01:03:56,166 --> 01:04:00,300
and he said he wanted
to photograph him in bondage,
1287
01:04:00,300 --> 01:04:01,533
so he wanted to put
the other one on.
1288
01:04:01,567 --> 01:04:03,433
Well, Edwards says,
1289
01:04:03,467 --> 01:04:06,567
"You're not gonna put
that second one on."
1290
01:04:06,567 --> 01:04:10,266
- At the trial, Edwards gives
a harrowing account
1291
01:04:10,300 --> 01:04:12,300
of the night's events.
1292
01:04:12,300 --> 01:04:14,767
- He told me
to lay down face down,
1293
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:17,567
put both of my hands
behind my back.
1294
01:04:17,567 --> 01:04:19,400
I kind of, like,
laid on my side.
1295
01:04:19,433 --> 01:04:22,533
For some reason, I guess
God told me not to lay flat down
1296
01:04:22,567 --> 01:04:24,567
and let this person handcuff me,
so I didn't.
1297
01:04:24,567 --> 01:04:26,433
He kind of laid across me,
1298
01:04:26,433 --> 01:04:28,667
put his head across my chest
at that point
1299
01:04:28,700 --> 01:04:30,533
like he was listening
to my heart,
1300
01:04:30,567 --> 01:04:32,233
'cause at that point,
he told me
1301
01:04:32,266 --> 01:04:34,166
he was gonna eat my heart
at that point.
1302
01:04:34,166 --> 01:04:37,266
The "Exorcist" movie
was playing at that time.
1303
01:04:37,300 --> 01:04:40,166
- This was part
of Jeffrey Dahmer's ritual.
1304
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:44,467
He would watch "Exorcist III"
before every murderous outing.
1305
01:04:44,467 --> 01:04:49,734
- I felt so hopelessly evil
and perverted
1306
01:04:49,767 --> 01:04:53,734
that...
1307
01:04:53,734 --> 01:04:58,333
that I actually derived
a sort of pleasure
1308
01:04:58,333 --> 01:04:59,600
from watching that tape.
1309
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:01,467
- Did you like feeling evil?
1310
01:05:01,500 --> 01:05:03,433
- No, no, I didn't.
1311
01:05:03,467 --> 01:05:08,600
But I had tried to overcome
the thoughts,
1312
01:05:08,600 --> 01:05:14,333
and it worked for a while,
but eventually I gave in.
1313
01:05:14,333 --> 01:05:17,367
- Jeffrey took him
into his room.
1314
01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:19,767
They were both sitting
on the bed.
1315
01:05:19,767 --> 01:05:23,333
And Dahmer was rocking
back and forth
1316
01:05:23,367 --> 01:05:26,567
and kind of humming,
making noises.
1317
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:28,500
[ominous music]
1318
01:05:28,533 --> 01:05:30,300
- I said, "Well, at least
I'm gonna die trying.
1319
01:05:30,333 --> 01:05:31,633
I'm not just gonna sit here."
1320
01:05:31,633 --> 01:05:33,500
And then I just--
for some reason, I said,
1321
01:05:33,500 --> 01:05:35,233
"Well, I need to go
to the bathroom,"
1322
01:05:35,266 --> 01:05:37,333
and he didn't follow me
at that point.
1323
01:05:37,367 --> 01:05:41,233
And I ran out.
1324
01:05:41,233 --> 01:05:43,233
- He goes up to a squad car,
says, "Hey,
1325
01:05:43,233 --> 01:05:44,767
can you help me
take this handcuff off?"
1326
01:05:44,767 --> 01:05:46,433
The police ask him
what's happening.
1327
01:05:46,467 --> 01:05:48,367
They try.
They can't.
1328
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:49,767
So they head back
to Dahmer's house
1329
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:52,567
to get the key.
1330
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:55,600
- So they went back
to the apartment with Edwards.
1331
01:05:55,633 --> 01:05:59,734
Dahmer, of course,
was drinking or drunk.
1332
01:05:59,767 --> 01:06:03,734
- In an open dresser drawer
in plain sight
1333
01:06:03,767 --> 01:06:07,633
are close to 80 Polaroids
documenting Dahmer's victims--
1334
01:06:07,667 --> 01:06:12,000
naked, posed, and dismembered.
1335
01:06:12,033 --> 01:06:16,000
- Officer yelled,
"Get the cuffs on him"
1336
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:18,000
or something like that.
1337
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:20,633
And the other one came out
in the hallway,
1338
01:06:20,667 --> 01:06:24,266
and I was running down that way
to get out of the way,
1339
01:06:24,266 --> 01:06:26,066
'cause I said, "I don't know
what they're doing.
1340
01:06:26,100 --> 01:06:29,367
I don't know what they found."
1341
01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:31,500
- We're investigating
a homicide that's occurred
1342
01:06:31,533 --> 01:06:33,000
in the apartment building
1343
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:35,000
in the 900 block
of North 25th Street.
1344
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:37,266
- It's obvious that there is--
has been a number
1345
01:06:37,266 --> 01:06:41,100
of human specimens found
within the apartment.
1346
01:06:41,133 --> 01:06:43,433
- The evidence collected
1347
01:06:43,467 --> 01:06:47,100
is straight out of
a horror film:
1348
01:06:47,133 --> 01:06:50,300
severed heads,
bleached skulls,
1349
01:06:50,300 --> 01:06:56,433
a 57-gallon vat of acid
used to dissolve human flesh.
1350
01:06:56,433 --> 01:06:58,433
And inside the refrigerator,
1351
01:06:58,433 --> 01:07:04,433
neatly packaged body parts
ready for consumption.
1352
01:07:04,467 --> 01:07:06,433
What was the turning point
for you
1353
01:07:06,433 --> 01:07:08,300
that made you suddenly realize
1354
01:07:08,300 --> 01:07:10,533
that you had done something
terribly wrong,
1355
01:07:10,567 --> 01:07:12,300
something you should be
sorry for?
1356
01:07:12,300 --> 01:07:14,767
- It was the night
of the arrest.
1357
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:19,300
I have no memory
of what happened
1358
01:07:19,300 --> 01:07:21,000
during the s the srs
1359
01:07:21,033 --> 01:07:25,033
before the last victim ran
out of the apartment.
1360
01:07:25,066 --> 01:07:29,600
I heard a knock on the door,
and the police were there
1361
01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:34,133
with the last victim.
1362
01:07:34,166 --> 01:07:37,333
They asked me where the key was
to the handcuffs.
1363
01:07:37,333 --> 01:07:40,700
I was--my mind was in a haze.
1364
01:07:40,734 --> 01:07:43,333
I sort of pointed
to the bedroom,
1365
01:07:43,333 --> 01:07:46,333
and that's where they found
the pictures.
1366
01:07:46,333 --> 01:07:48,467
And they yelled, "Cuff him."
1367
01:07:48,467 --> 01:07:50,600
I was handcuffed.
1368
01:07:50,633 --> 01:07:54,333
And it was just the realization
1369
01:07:54,367 --> 01:07:58,600
that there was no point
in trying to hide--
1370
01:07:58,600 --> 01:08:01,433
hide my actions anymore.
1371
01:08:01,467 --> 01:08:06,033
The best route was to help,
help the police
1372
01:08:06,066 --> 01:08:08,166
identify all the victims
1373
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:10,700
and just make
a complete confession.
1374
01:08:14,133 --> 01:08:17,166
- Well, at 3:00,
I got a phone call.
1375
01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:18,734
They had a subject in custody
1376
01:08:18,767 --> 01:08:21,433
that had skulls
in his apartment
1377
01:08:21,467 --> 01:08:23,567
and body parts,
at which time
1378
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:27,633
I immediately said,
"You're screwing with me."
1379
01:08:27,633 --> 01:08:30,367
I went in
and introduced myself to Jeff,
1380
01:08:30,367 --> 01:08:32,367
and he immediately said,
1381
01:08:32,367 --> 01:08:35,700
"When you find out what I did,
you're gonna want to kill me."
1382
01:08:35,734 --> 01:08:38,767
Then we says, "Well, let's
start from the beginning."
1383
01:08:38,767 --> 01:08:42,467
And he said, "Well, that was
a long time ago."
1384
01:08:42,500 --> 01:08:45,000
And we said, "What--what year?"
1385
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:48,400
And he says, "'78."
1386
01:08:48,433 --> 01:08:50,467
- Starting
with the disappearance
1387
01:08:50,500 --> 01:08:53,133
of Steven Hicks
back in Bath, Ohio,
1388
01:08:53,166 --> 01:08:56,133
Dahmer describes every murder
in detail
1389
01:08:56,133 --> 01:08:58,600
all the way up
to Joseph Bradehoft
1390
01:08:58,633 --> 01:09:01,400
just days before the arrest.
1391
01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:06,533
It starts to become clear
that Dahmer had a type.
1392
01:09:06,533 --> 01:09:08,734
- Interestingly enough,
disproportionately,
1393
01:09:08,767 --> 01:09:11,400
Dahmer's victims
were African-American.
1394
01:09:11,433 --> 01:09:14,467
- 10 of your 17 victims
were black.
1395
01:09:14,500 --> 01:09:16,066
Were they racially motivated
crimes?
1396
01:09:16,100 --> 01:09:17,667
- It was not
racially motivated.
1397
01:09:17,700 --> 01:09:20,066
It was not sexual preference.
1398
01:09:20,100 --> 01:09:23,133
It was just to find--
an obsession
1399
01:09:23,133 --> 01:09:28,166
with the best-looking
young man I could find.
1400
01:09:28,166 --> 01:09:31,233
- The only time I saw Dahmer
get mad
1401
01:09:31,266 --> 01:09:35,133
is when he was accused
of being biased against blacks.
1402
01:09:35,166 --> 01:09:36,533
It wasn't true.
1403
01:09:36,567 --> 01:09:41,033
He just was crazy sick.
1404
01:09:44,166 --> 01:09:46,166
- Everyone
in the law enforcement,
1405
01:09:46,200 --> 01:09:49,433
ranging from the policemen
who arrested him
1406
01:09:49,433 --> 01:09:51,033
to the attorney,
1407
01:09:51,033 --> 01:09:54,000
thought he covered up
everything
1408
01:09:54,033 --> 01:09:56,166
so extremely well
1409
01:09:56,166 --> 01:10:00,433
that they had no idea of what
was going on in his mind.
1410
01:10:00,433 --> 01:10:03,000
- We didn't hear
about the extent
1411
01:10:03,033 --> 01:10:07,166
till it came out in the papers
and he was in jail.
1412
01:10:07,166 --> 01:10:10,433
It's not a pleasant experience
to go through.
1413
01:10:10,467 --> 01:10:14,700
But my concern was taking care
of my husband.
1414
01:10:14,734 --> 01:10:17,600
- But Lionel's main concern
was his mother,
1415
01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:19,533
who lived in the house
1416
01:10:19,567 --> 01:10:23,166
where murders three, four,
and five were committed.
1417
01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:25,467
- All the four newspapers,
1418
01:10:25,500 --> 01:10:28,166
they were camped out
across the street,
1419
01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:31,600
and it was just endless.
1420
01:10:37,066 --> 01:10:38,667
- She just couldn't imagine.
1421
01:10:38,700 --> 01:10:41,600
She just--it didn't register
how bad it was.
1422
01:10:41,600 --> 01:10:47,066
We kept it from her,
but when she finally was told,
1423
01:10:47,066 --> 01:10:52,133
she finally succumbed
to dementia.
1424
01:10:55,533 --> 01:10:57,567
- Despite the terrible effect
1425
01:10:57,600 --> 01:11:00,500
the discovery of Jeffrey's
crimes had on the family,
1426
01:11:00,533 --> 01:11:02,767
they wanted to go to trial.
1427
01:11:02,767 --> 01:11:04,767
- At that time, I was thinking
1428
01:11:04,767 --> 01:11:09,200
that the mystery could be solved
as to why he did these things
1429
01:11:09,233 --> 01:11:12,500
by being examined
by a psychologist.
1430
01:11:12,533 --> 01:11:14,767
As it turned out, it--
1431
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:21,200
it seemed to me
a useless exercise.
1432
01:11:21,233 --> 01:11:23,300
I know the real reason:
1433
01:11:23,333 --> 01:11:27,734
there was a lack of connection
with our creator.
1434
01:11:29,633 --> 01:11:31,100
- Up next...
1435
01:11:31,133 --> 01:11:33,266
How should you be punished?
1436
01:11:33,300 --> 01:11:35,133
- Well, there's no question
1437
01:11:35,133 --> 01:11:37,367
that I deserve
the death penalty.
1438
01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:46,633
In early 1992,
1439
01:11:49,100 --> 01:11:51,266
serial killer Jefferey Dahmer
is about to stand trial
1440
01:11:51,266 --> 01:11:55,133
for 15 of his 17 murders.
1441
01:11:55,166 --> 01:11:58,667
But this trial
isn't to establish guilt.
1442
01:11:58,700 --> 01:12:00,133
That has been weighed.
1443
01:12:00,133 --> 01:12:03,233
This is to determine sanity.
1444
01:12:03,266 --> 01:12:05,533
His family wants him
declared insane
1445
01:12:05,567 --> 01:12:10,066
so he can be treated by
mental health professionals.
1446
01:12:13,033 --> 01:12:17,100
- All rise.
[gavel bangs]
1447
01:12:17,133 --> 01:12:19,567
- Despite the pain
of hearing the details
1448
01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:21,633
of their son's crimes,
1449
01:12:21,667 --> 01:12:24,300
the Dahmers never miss
a day in court.
1450
01:12:24,333 --> 01:12:27,567
- If you look at the early films
of Jeff in court,
1451
01:12:27,567 --> 01:12:30,567
you'll see him
in this striped shirt,
1452
01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:33,033
looking somewhat like
a vagabond.
1453
01:12:33,066 --> 01:12:37,000
Well, I took Lionel's suit in,
and we gave it to Jeff.
1454
01:12:37,033 --> 01:12:40,233
He went to court
looking like a gentleman.
1455
01:12:40,266 --> 01:12:43,734
[tearfully]
Because he was our son.
1456
01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:49,033
- Hearing about the crimes
was just horrible.
1457
01:12:49,066 --> 01:12:51,700
I mean, it was just
overwhelming.
1458
01:12:51,734 --> 01:12:55,166
And all we could do
was sit there and listen
1459
01:12:55,166 --> 01:12:59,166
with the hope that the
psychologists that were involved
1460
01:12:59,200 --> 01:13:02,600
could find out what caused him
to do these things.
1461
01:13:02,633 --> 01:13:05,266
But I think, in the end,
the reason
1462
01:13:05,300 --> 01:13:08,600
that caused him to do
what he did--
1463
01:13:08,633 --> 01:13:11,734
he just wasn't with God.
1464
01:13:11,767 --> 01:13:15,667
- Jeffrey Dahmer told me he
never wanted to go to trial.
1465
01:13:15,700 --> 01:13:19,200
He just wanted to go to prison
and take his punishment.
1466
01:13:19,233 --> 01:13:21,667
But that didn't happen.
1467
01:13:21,700 --> 01:13:23,066
You're wearing glasses now.
1468
01:13:23,100 --> 01:13:24,667
- Right.
1469
01:13:24,700 --> 01:13:26,200
- You didn't
during the trial.
1470
01:13:26,233 --> 01:13:27,433
Why not?
1471
01:13:27,467 --> 01:13:30,066
- I--I didn't want to--
1472
01:13:30,100 --> 01:13:33,000
I felt uncomfortable
looking anyone in the face.
1473
01:13:33,033 --> 01:13:35,600
I didn't want to...
1474
01:13:35,633 --> 01:13:37,767
see anyone's face clearly.
1475
01:13:37,767 --> 01:13:40,767
It helped me dissociate myself
from what was happening.
1476
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:46,200
- Dahmer didn't have to look,
but he did have to listen.
1477
01:13:46,233 --> 01:13:48,633
- He tried tasting
the flesh and the heart.
1478
01:13:48,667 --> 01:13:51,367
He reported that it had
a beef-like flavor.
1479
01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:53,333
- Do you still feel
1480
01:13:53,367 --> 01:13:55,166
those same urges?
1481
01:13:55,200 --> 01:13:58,233
Do you still feel
that compulsion, that obsession?
1482
01:13:58,266 --> 01:14:02,333
- I wish I could say
that it just left completely,
1483
01:14:02,367 --> 01:14:06,233
but no, there are times
when I still do--
1484
01:14:06,233 --> 01:14:09,100
still do have
the old compulsion.
1485
01:14:09,100 --> 01:14:11,100
- Could someone like you
be stopped?
1486
01:14:11,133 --> 01:14:12,300
Could you be helped?
1487
01:14:12,333 --> 01:14:15,367
- No, I was--
1488
01:14:15,367 --> 01:14:19,367
I was dead set
on going with this compulsion.
1489
01:14:19,400 --> 01:14:24,266
It was the only thing
that gave me any--
1490
01:14:24,300 --> 01:14:27,100
any satisfaction.
1491
01:14:29,133 --> 01:14:31,100
- Jerry Boyle argued
1492
01:14:31,133 --> 01:14:32,734
that Dahmer was like
a locomotive out of control,
1493
01:14:32,767 --> 01:14:34,467
speeding down the track
as he killed more people,
1494
01:14:34,500 --> 01:14:36,266
lost any sensitivity to it.
1495
01:14:36,300 --> 01:14:37,667
That would come under
the hypothesis, then,
1496
01:14:37,700 --> 01:14:39,367
that he was insane,
1497
01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:41,133
'cause he couldn't control
what he was doing.
1498
01:14:41,133 --> 01:14:43,266
I can understand
that someone might say,
1499
01:14:43,300 --> 01:14:44,400
"He must be crazy."
1500
01:14:44,433 --> 01:14:46,000
I can understand that.
1501
01:14:46,033 --> 01:14:48,066
He was not.
1502
01:14:48,100 --> 01:14:50,667
- Did the defendant,
Jeffrey L. Dahmer,
1503
01:14:50,667 --> 01:14:54,066
have a mental disease?
1504
01:14:54,100 --> 01:14:56,333
Answer: no.
1505
01:14:56,367 --> 01:14:58,467
[people cheer]
1506
01:14:58,500 --> 01:15:02,033
- Ultimately, the jury
finds Dahmer guilty
1507
01:15:02,066 --> 01:15:06,000
and legally sane
at the time of the murders.
1508
01:15:06,033 --> 01:15:09,100
After the verdict,
the families of the victims
1509
01:15:09,133 --> 01:15:12,300
are allowed to address
the killer.
1510
01:15:12,333 --> 01:15:15,166
- Jeffrey, I hate you,
motherf---er!
1511
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:16,433
I hate you!
1512
01:15:16,433 --> 01:15:18,367
This is out of control!
1513
01:15:18,400 --> 01:15:22,367
- One woman in particular
really got angry.
1514
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:24,300
What did you think
when she was doing that?
1515
01:15:24,333 --> 01:15:26,367
- I couldn't blame her
a bit.
1516
01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:29,500
I'm surprised
there wasn't more of that.
1517
01:15:29,533 --> 01:15:33,300
- You know, there's nothing
that you can say to someone
1518
01:15:33,300 --> 01:15:36,033
who is extremely distraught
1519
01:15:36,033 --> 01:15:37,500
except to give them empathy
1520
01:15:37,533 --> 01:15:40,300
and try to convince them
1521
01:15:40,300 --> 01:15:44,033
that you really do care
very, very much.
1522
01:15:44,066 --> 01:15:45,467
And I do.
1523
01:15:45,467 --> 01:15:47,266
- [yelling]
1524
01:15:49,066 --> 01:15:51,066
- Mr. Dahmer,
you do have the right
1525
01:15:51,066 --> 01:15:52,700
to address the court
at this time.
1526
01:15:52,734 --> 01:15:55,433
- Your Honor, I know that you
are about to sentence me.
1527
01:15:55,467 --> 01:15:58,133
I ask for no consideration.
1528
01:15:58,166 --> 01:15:59,433
Thank you, Your Honor,
1529
01:15:59,467 --> 01:16:01,066
and I am prepared
for your sentence,
1530
01:16:01,066 --> 01:16:03,266
which I know will be
the maximum.
1531
01:16:05,367 --> 01:16:09,467
- The court will impose
the mandatory life sentence...
1532
01:16:09,500 --> 01:16:11,166
[dramatic music]
1533
01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:13,266
Plus an additional ten years
1534
01:16:13,300 --> 01:16:15,200
on the habitual criminality.
1535
01:16:15,233 --> 01:16:19,467
- With the death penalty
not an option in Wisconsin,
1536
01:16:19,500 --> 01:16:23,066
Dahmer is given
more than 15 life sentences
1537
01:16:23,100 --> 01:16:26,567
equaling 936 years.
1538
01:16:26,600 --> 01:16:29,767
Soon after, he's extradited
to Ohio...
1539
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:32,166
- To the charge
of aggravated murder...
1540
01:16:32,200 --> 01:16:34,066
- Where he's convicted
for the murder
1541
01:16:34,100 --> 01:16:36,367
of his first victim,
Steven Hicks.
1542
01:16:36,367 --> 01:16:39,500
Dahmer is never charged
with the 1987 murder
1543
01:16:39,500 --> 01:16:41,300
of Steven Tuomi.
1544
01:16:41,333 --> 01:16:43,767
Although he claimed
responsibility,
1545
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:46,100
Dahmer says he was blacked out
during the act,
1546
01:16:46,133 --> 01:16:48,066
and there was
no further evidence
1547
01:16:48,100 --> 01:16:49,500
linking him to the crime.
1548
01:16:49,500 --> 01:16:52,500
It was the only murder
he confessed to
1549
01:16:52,500 --> 01:16:54,500
that he was not convicted of.
1550
01:16:54,500 --> 01:16:58,200
Regardless, the sentences
are more than enough
1551
01:16:58,233 --> 01:17:00,100
to put minds at rest.
1552
01:17:00,133 --> 01:17:02,367
Jeffrey Dahmer would spend
the rest of his life
1553
01:17:02,400 --> 01:17:06,066
behind bars.
1554
01:17:06,100 --> 01:17:09,133
- When he had first gotten
locked up down there,
1555
01:17:09,166 --> 01:17:11,266
he wanted me to come down there
and see him.
1556
01:17:11,266 --> 01:17:15,100
But by then, I was terrified
of him.
1557
01:17:15,133 --> 01:17:17,400
I know Jeffrey who used to stay
across the hall from me.
1558
01:17:17,433 --> 01:17:22,266
That Dahmer guy
is somebody else.
1559
01:17:22,266 --> 01:17:24,233
No.
1560
01:17:24,266 --> 01:17:26,533
- He confided
that he stayed up all night
1561
01:17:26,567 --> 01:17:28,333
and slept all day
1562
01:17:28,367 --> 01:17:30,400
because he couldn't face
the daylight
1563
01:17:30,433 --> 01:17:32,633
and the memories
of the brutal crimes
1564
01:17:32,667 --> 01:17:34,533
that defined his life.
1565
01:17:34,533 --> 01:17:38,133
- Usually wake up
at 6:30 in the morning,
1566
01:17:38,133 --> 01:17:40,100
go eat breakfast,
1567
01:17:40,133 --> 01:17:45,467
and then sleep until noon,
1568
01:17:45,500 --> 01:17:47,600
wake up for lunch,
1569
01:17:47,633 --> 01:17:50,633
and sleep until about 4:00
in the afternoon,
1570
01:17:50,667 --> 01:17:52,433
eat dinner,
1571
01:17:52,433 --> 01:17:55,266
and then spend
the greater portion of the night
1572
01:17:55,300 --> 01:17:57,166
watching TV.
1573
01:17:57,166 --> 01:17:59,233
- But how does a family
even attempt
1574
01:17:59,266 --> 01:18:01,166
to reconcile the thought
1575
01:18:01,166 --> 01:18:04,100
that a man who is
their own flesh and blood
1576
01:18:04,133 --> 01:18:08,233
is also the most evil criminal
imaginable?
1577
01:18:08,266 --> 01:18:11,166
- I had these many, many
discussions with him
1578
01:18:11,166 --> 01:18:12,500
on the phone.
1579
01:18:12,533 --> 01:18:14,567
It was always Shari and I
1580
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:17,533
who would visit him
at the prison,
1581
01:18:17,567 --> 01:18:23,567
and Shari was extremely
instrumental
1582
01:18:23,600 --> 01:18:29,266
in bringing Jeff and I
and her together
1583
01:18:29,300 --> 01:18:33,333
into a very loving relationship.
1584
01:18:33,367 --> 01:18:36,200
- He was very embarrassed
about being in prison.
1585
01:18:36,233 --> 01:18:38,200
He would try to hide
his handcuffs.
1586
01:18:38,233 --> 01:18:40,567
He was embarrassed.
1587
01:18:40,600 --> 01:18:43,533
He apologized,
but you have to understand
1588
01:18:43,567 --> 01:18:46,066
he's not--
1589
01:18:46,100 --> 01:18:50,700
he's not going to sit there
and bleed about his crimes.
1590
01:18:52,333 --> 01:18:55,300
- It really was irrelevant,
at that point,
1591
01:18:55,333 --> 01:18:57,133
to talk about.
1592
01:18:59,200 --> 01:19:01,066
- No, no.
1593
01:19:01,100 --> 01:19:04,333
What would it serve
to be angry with him?
1594
01:19:04,333 --> 01:19:09,467
- I try not to think too deeply
about anything,
1595
01:19:09,467 --> 01:19:13,367
because then I get depressed.
1596
01:19:13,400 --> 01:19:15,633
I try to figure out
why this happened,
1597
01:19:15,667 --> 01:19:17,600
what started these thoughts
in my head
1598
01:19:17,633 --> 01:19:21,233
at such a young age,
1599
01:19:21,266 --> 01:19:25,200
whether this has any--
any meaning to it
1600
01:19:25,233 --> 01:19:28,233
or whether this is all
just a horrible coincidence,
1601
01:19:28,233 --> 01:19:30,467
you know, all the events
in my life.
1602
01:19:30,500 --> 01:19:33,500
I feel that I'm better off here
1603
01:19:33,500 --> 01:19:37,367
than I was on the outside,
doing what I was doing.
1604
01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:39,200
- You're glad
you're in prison.
1605
01:19:39,233 --> 01:19:42,200
- I think it's best
for everyone, right.
1606
01:19:42,233 --> 01:19:44,633
- As prisoners often do,
1607
01:19:44,667 --> 01:19:47,734
Dahmer turns to God
while behind bars.
1608
01:19:47,767 --> 01:19:49,633
- Got a phone call.
1609
01:19:49,633 --> 01:19:52,367
It was from a minister friend
of mine in Milwaukee
1610
01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:53,600
who said that there was
an inmate
1611
01:19:53,633 --> 01:19:55,533
who wanted to be baptized.
1612
01:19:55,567 --> 01:19:57,500
I said, "Okay, I've never
done this before, but sure.
1613
01:19:57,533 --> 01:19:59,266
What's his name?"
1614
01:19:59,300 --> 01:20:00,500
He said, "You better sit down
for this one.
1615
01:20:00,533 --> 01:20:03,133
It's Jeffrey Dahmer."
1616
01:20:03,166 --> 01:20:04,600
- Up next...
1617
01:20:04,633 --> 01:20:06,500
What do you think happens
after you die?
1618
01:20:08,266 --> 01:20:11,333
- Right.
That's the big unknown.
1619
01:20:17,333 --> 01:20:17,667
- Sentenced to almost
1620
01:20:17,667 --> 01:20:18,266
- Sentenced to almost
a millennium in prison,
1621
01:20:20,433 --> 01:20:21,667
convicted serial killer
Jeffrey Dahmer
1622
01:20:21,667 --> 01:20:23,200
embraces religion.
1623
01:20:23,233 --> 01:20:24,600
He asks Roy Ratcliff,
1624
01:20:24,633 --> 01:20:27,233
then a minister
in the Church of Christ,
1625
01:20:27,266 --> 01:20:28,533
to baptize him.
1626
01:20:28,567 --> 01:20:30,533
- He'd begun to think
more deeply,
1627
01:20:30,533 --> 01:20:32,266
and that was primarily
to save his soul,
1628
01:20:32,300 --> 01:20:34,433
to get his soul right with God.
1629
01:20:34,467 --> 01:20:36,400
- Dahmer's father, Lionel,
1630
01:20:36,433 --> 01:20:38,500
by now a devout Christian
himself,
1631
01:20:38,533 --> 01:20:43,367
uses this opportunity
to bond with his son.
1632
01:20:43,400 --> 01:20:45,433
- I told him that there are
1633
01:20:45,433 --> 01:20:48,433
many, many, many people
in this world
1634
01:20:48,467 --> 01:20:52,433
who think that Genesis,
the first book of the Bible,
1635
01:20:52,433 --> 01:20:57,633
is some type of a myth
instead of actual history.
1636
01:20:57,667 --> 01:21:01,033
And he ordered roughly 13 books
1637
01:21:01,033 --> 01:21:04,300
on the evolution-creation
controversy,
1638
01:21:04,333 --> 01:21:07,300
and he became convinced,
1639
01:21:07,333 --> 01:21:10,767
and then he attempted
to follow through
1640
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:14,533
and live as holy a life
as he could.
1641
01:21:14,567 --> 01:21:17,333
- But at the same time,
Dahmer told me
1642
01:21:17,333 --> 01:21:20,467
he never conquered
his deadly impulses.
1643
01:21:20,500 --> 01:21:23,266
If you were out
on the street now,
1644
01:21:23,300 --> 01:21:25,333
would you still be
committing the crimes?
1645
01:21:25,333 --> 01:21:26,400
- Probably.
1646
01:21:26,433 --> 01:21:28,066
If this hadn't happened,
1647
01:21:28,066 --> 01:21:30,066
there's no doubt
I probably would be.
1648
01:21:30,066 --> 01:21:34,200
I can't think of anything
that would have stopped me.
1649
01:21:34,200 --> 01:21:37,200
- Jeff told us
when he was in prison
1650
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:39,734
that he should never be
turned loose,
1651
01:21:39,734 --> 01:21:42,200
because he would do
the same thing again.
1652
01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:43,433
Now, that requires
a great deal
1653
01:21:43,467 --> 01:21:46,133
of soul-searching and honesty.
1654
01:21:46,166 --> 01:21:48,667
- You know the families
of the victims
1655
01:21:48,700 --> 01:21:51,734
don't believe
in your conversion
1656
01:21:51,767 --> 01:21:53,066
or your sorrow.
1657
01:21:53,100 --> 01:21:54,600
- Oh, right.
1658
01:21:54,600 --> 01:22:00,367
And if I was on the--
on their end of the table,
1659
01:22:00,367 --> 01:22:02,633
I wouldn't either.
1660
01:22:02,633 --> 01:22:07,367
Ultimately, I'm accountable
to the Lord Jesus Christ.
1661
01:22:07,367 --> 01:22:09,600
He'll be my final judge.
1662
01:22:09,633 --> 01:22:11,700
- Can your sins
be forgiven?
1663
01:22:11,734 --> 01:22:13,333
- The Lord Jesus Christ's
shed blood
1664
01:22:13,367 --> 01:22:18,233
is powerful enough
to wipe out even my sins.
1665
01:22:18,233 --> 01:22:22,100
- One of the most beautiful
things that occurred
1666
01:22:22,133 --> 01:22:24,500
when Jeff was in prison,
if you can call it beautiful--
1667
01:22:24,500 --> 01:22:29,500
I made friends with one of
the victims' sisters,
1668
01:22:29,533 --> 01:22:33,100
and I was able to get her in
to visit Jeff.
1669
01:22:33,100 --> 01:22:36,767
As nervous as Jeff was,
1670
01:22:36,767 --> 01:22:41,100
he was able to tell her
how her brother died.
1671
01:22:41,133 --> 01:22:43,600
And she needed that for closure.
1672
01:22:43,633 --> 01:22:47,500
- And she ended up saying
that she forgave Jeff,
1673
01:22:47,533 --> 01:22:50,500
because she knew
that it was something
1674
01:22:50,533 --> 01:22:54,000
that was completely
overpowering Jeff.
1675
01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:56,133
- How should you be punished?
1676
01:22:56,133 --> 01:22:58,000
- Well, there's no question
1677
01:22:58,000 --> 01:22:59,667
that I deserve
the death penalty.
1678
01:22:59,667 --> 01:23:02,133
I've wondered myself
1679
01:23:02,133 --> 01:23:08,667
why I don't have
the death penalty.
1680
01:23:08,667 --> 01:23:11,667
That's what I deserve;
I deserve death.
1681
01:23:11,667 --> 01:23:15,066
- What do you think happens
after you die?
1682
01:23:15,100 --> 01:23:18,333
- Right.
That's the big unknown.
1683
01:23:18,367 --> 01:23:23,133
I've thought of--I've had
thoughts of suicide.
1684
01:23:23,166 --> 01:23:30,000
But I just haven't been able
to carry them through.
1685
01:23:30,033 --> 01:23:33,000
So I don't know
what the future will hold.
1686
01:23:35,033 --> 01:23:38,300
- Mr. Dahmer was the subject
of an attack
1687
01:23:38,300 --> 01:23:40,033
at the Columbia
Correctional Institution.
1688
01:23:40,033 --> 01:23:42,033
- He was beaten to death
in prison yesterday.
1689
01:23:42,033 --> 01:23:44,367
- The slaying ended a life
of sadism, serial murder,
1690
01:23:44,400 --> 01:23:47,300
and cannibalism.
1691
01:23:47,300 --> 01:23:50,633
- Dahmer is beaten to death
by a fellow inmate.
1692
01:23:50,667 --> 01:23:53,533
Ironically, he's killed
by a barbell,
1693
01:23:53,567 --> 01:23:56,700
the same object he'd used
on Steven Hicks
1694
01:23:56,700 --> 01:23:59,300
16 years earlier.
1695
01:23:59,300 --> 01:24:02,500
For the first time,
Jeffrey's father talks
1696
01:24:02,533 --> 01:24:04,467
about his son's death.
1697
01:24:04,467 --> 01:24:07,734
- How did his death
affect me?
1698
01:24:07,734 --> 01:24:11,300
- It--
1699
01:24:11,333 --> 01:24:14,433
I was brought into a room
1700
01:24:14,467 --> 01:24:17,266
where he was lying
1701
01:24:17,300 --> 01:24:19,467
after being bludgeoned.
1702
01:24:19,500 --> 01:24:24,600
And it struck me so emotionally
1703
01:24:24,600 --> 01:24:30,166
that I touched him
and I said, "Oh, Jeff.
1704
01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:32,200
"Jeff.
1705
01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:34,200
Jeff."
1706
01:24:34,233 --> 01:24:39,433
It was extremely
emotionally devastating
1707
01:24:39,467 --> 01:24:41,333
just to see him.
1708
01:24:41,367 --> 01:24:44,734
Disregarding
all of the horrible things
1709
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:50,500
that his demented state
caused him to do,
1710
01:24:50,533 --> 01:24:56,300
I was at least very, very glad
1711
01:24:56,333 --> 01:25:03,066
that he had done
what we believers believe.
1712
01:25:06,100 --> 01:25:08,734
- Lionel said that his son
didn't put up a fight
1713
01:25:08,767 --> 01:25:10,467
when he was attacked.
1714
01:25:10,500 --> 01:25:13,333
Well, when I talked to Jeffrey,
it was clear
1715
01:25:13,367 --> 01:25:15,734
that he wanted to die.
1716
01:25:15,767 --> 01:25:18,033
He said
he even considered suicide.
1717
01:25:18,066 --> 01:25:20,100
But after embracing
Christianity,
1718
01:25:20,100 --> 01:25:24,300
he felt that, of all things,
would be too great a sin.
1719
01:25:24,333 --> 01:25:26,767
- I love the human beings
1720
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:29,133
who have been in my life
and who may have failed.
1721
01:25:29,133 --> 01:25:30,233
I have failed.
1722
01:25:30,266 --> 01:25:31,767
But the important thing is,
1723
01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:34,667
you love
who the true human being is,
1724
01:25:34,700 --> 01:25:38,767
and you take that with you
to your grave.
1725
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:42,100
- I'm very, very proud
that in the end,
1726
01:25:42,133 --> 01:25:45,066
he did everything
that was required
1727
01:25:45,100 --> 01:25:47,667
for the initial salvation.
1728
01:25:47,667 --> 01:25:50,667
I believe he's with God.
1729
01:25:50,700 --> 01:25:53,533
He forgave Jeff
1730
01:25:53,567 --> 01:25:57,266
according to what's said
in the Scriptures,
1731
01:25:57,266 --> 01:25:59,767
and therefore I forgive Jeff.
1732
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:04,533
- Originally, I didn't believe
in the concept
1733
01:26:04,533 --> 01:26:08,233
of evil,
but now I do.
1734
01:26:08,266 --> 01:26:13,133
I'm talking about someone
who exhibits
1735
01:26:13,166 --> 01:26:15,567
unbelievable cruelty on others
1736
01:26:15,567 --> 01:26:18,100
simply for their own purposes,
1737
01:26:18,133 --> 01:26:21,233
I think is a pretty good
definition of evil.
1738
01:26:21,266 --> 01:26:24,567
And I think
it's a pretty good understanding
1739
01:26:24,600 --> 01:26:26,700
of Jeffrey Dahmer.
1740
01:26:26,734 --> 01:26:28,133
- For more
about "Dahmer on Dahmer,"
1741
01:26:28,166 --> 01:26:30,600
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