Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer, was born May 21, 1960, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. When young, he impaled the heads of animals he killed on stakes in his yard. As an adolescent, he had fantasies of killing and mutilating men. His first murder was in Bath Township, Ohio, in 1978. A second murder followed in 1987. He killed another 15 young men, most of them in Milwaukee, over the next five years. Dahmer's gruesome crimes involved cannibalism and necrophilia. Some claimed Dahmer escaped detection for so long was because police attached a low priority to investigating the disappearance of homosexual or racial minority victims.

Arrested in 1991, in February 1992, Dahmer was sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms. In the following May, a 16th consecutive life sentence was added for a murder in 1978. Dahmer admitted to his crimes, and declined to shift blame.

Dahmer was murdered by another inmate on November 28, 1994, in a Portage, Wisconsin prison in 1994.
Dahmer’s gruesome actions place him among the most notorious serial murderers in history.