Jeffrey Dahmer
On July 22nd 1991, police in Milwaukee Wisconsin came across a young man named Tracy Edwards running down he street with a pair of handcuffs attached to one wrist. Edwards told the police that he had been held captive in the apartment of Jeffrey Dahmer, who had threatened to kill Edwards. When the police interviewed Dahmer, he tried to pass off the incident as a simple misunderstanding, but when the police discovered some photos of dismembered body parts, they immediately arrested him. Upon a further search, police discovered photo albums of dismembered victims, as well as body parts littered throughout the apartment. "Several heads were in the refrigerator and freezer; two skulls were on top of the computer; and a 57-gallon drum containing several bodies decomposing in chemicals was found in the corner of bedroom." ("Cannibal and Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer is Caught.") The Milwaukee police had stumbled upon the site of an orgy of killing where Dahmer had had murdered 11 victims; he would eventually confess to the murders of 17 young men over a period of more than a decade. But the most disturbing aspect of this killing spree was the fact that this monster was not only a serial killer, "Dahmer was a cannibal." (Berry-Dee 120)
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer "was born on May 21, 1960, in Milwaukee's Evangelical Deaconess Hospital." (Davis 20) He grew up in Milwaukee, a quiet, strange child who spent much of his time alone dissecting dead animals he found in the woods. After...
.. The next day, I whipped his bare behind till the blood ran from his legs. I cut off his ears, his nose, slit his mouth... gouged his eyes out... I then stuck a knife in his belly and drank his blood... I put strips of bacon on each cheek of his behind and put them in the oven. At certain intervals, I basted his ass cheeks with a wooden
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