Murders of Jeffrey Dahmer
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The murders of Jeffrey Dahmer were committed in or near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and in Ohio, between June 18, 1978, and July 21, 1991, by the notorious serial killer and sex offender Jeffrey Dahmer.
Between 1978 and 1991, Dahmer killed a total of seventeen young men. Most were killed by strangulation, although some were killed through holes bored into their skulls, while others were killed through unusual means: Ernest Miller, who died in 1990, was killed by Dahmer cutting his carotid artery, resulting in blood loss. Dahmer dismembered many of his victims, including two 14-year-old boys, and he engaged in sexual intercourse with the corpses of his victims. Although the remains of some of Dahmer's victims have been found, the bodies of several of his victims—Steven Tuomi, James Doxtator, Edward Smith, and David Thomas—have yet to be found.
The Milwaukee Police Department was involved in investigating the murders. On February 17, 1992, Dahmer was sentenced to fifteen terms of life imprisonment, later sixteen terms. Dahmer would be beaten to death by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver.
Victims and investigations[edit]
Steven Mark Hicks[edit]
On the morning of June 18, 1978,[1] 18-year-old Steven Mark Hicks left his home in northeast Ohio to hitchhike to a rock concert being held at Chippewa Lake Park. The hitchhiker, who had recently graduated from Coventry High School, was picked up by Dahmer, who took Hicks back to his house.[2] Hicks agreed to let Dahmer take him to his house on the promise of "a few beers".[3] Hicks' physique aroused Dahmer, who refused to let him leave, despite his insistence.[4] While Hicks attempted to leave, Dahmer struck Hicks twice in the back of his head with a 10-pound (4.5 kg) dumbbell.[5] Dahmer then proceeded to strangle Hicks, and removed his clothes, before masturbating on his body and had sex with his corpse.[5][6] Dahmer then dragged the body into his basement, dissected it the following day, and buried the body in his backyard.[5] Dahmer would unearth the body weeks later to pare the flesh from the bones using a paring knife.[1] To hide the body, Dahmer dissolved the flesh in acid and crushed the bones with a sledgehammer, hiding it in the woods behind his family home.[3]
An investigation into the disappearance of Hicks was launched on June 24 by the Summit County Sheriff's Department, following repeated calls by Hicks' parents to several hospitals and Hicks' friends. Several months later, the case was labeled as dormant.[2]
Steven Tuomi[edit]
Following a public intoxication charge,[7] Dahmer relocated to West Allis, Wisconsin, where he lived with his grandmother.[5] On September 15, 1987, Dahmer encountered Steven Walter Tuomi at Club 219, a gay bar in Milwaukee.[8] Tuomi, who was born in Ontonagon, Michigan and graduated from Ontonagon Area High School in 1981, tended Club 219, and was described as a "gentle" and "mild-mannered young man" who was regularly beaten up in his home town.[9] Dahmer persuaded Tuomi to go to the Ambassador Hotel in Milwaukee—an establishment frequented by prostitutes—where Dahmer had rented a room. Dahmer then slipped tranquilizers into Tuomi's beverage, where he then took him to his hotel room.[4][8] Although Dahmer recounted only intending to use Tuomi's body for sexual pleasure,[10] Dahmer had awoken to find that he had caved Tuomi's chest in; his hands were "black and blue" with bruises,[8] and blood seeped from his mouth.[1]
To dispose of Tuomi's body, Dahmer purchased a large suitcase from the Grand Avenue mall and returned to the Ambassador Hotel, where he shoved Tuomi's body inside of the suitcase and hailed a taxi for his grandmother's house.[8] Dahmer hid the body in his grandmother's cold fruit cellar,[11] located in the basement of the house, where it remained for a week until Dahmer severed Tuomi's limbs and filleted the bones,[5] slicing his abdomen open and removing his organs.[8] Dahmer disposed of the flesh using plastic garbage bags, and wrapped the bones in a sheet, pounding them into splinters using a sledgehammer.[5] The process took Dahmer roughly two hours,[1] and Dahmer placed the bags in the trash, keeping Tuomi's severed head. Dahmer kept the head for two weeks, boiling it in a alkali-based household detergent[12][notes 1] known as Soilax, which Dahmer used after calling a local hardware store to consult on how to remove flesh from a rabbit skull,[11] and bleached the head; the bleach eroded the skull, forcing Dahmer to dispose of the skull. Dahmer used the head as stimulus for masturbation.[8]
No trace of Tuomi's body has been found.[8] Tuomi's older sister, Dawn, suspected he had gone missing when his clothes had remained untouched and uncollected pay checks began piling up, while his father, Walter, hired various private detectives to locate Tuomi, to no avail. Tuomi was not identified as one of Dahmer's victims until an August 1991 issue of the Ontonagon Herald carried a picture of Tuomi with the tagline, "Ontonagon Man Identified as Dahmer's 16th Victim."[9]
James Doxtator[edit]
On January 16, 1988, Dahmer lured a 14-year-old Native American male prostitute[13] named James Edward Doxtator to his grandmother's house, on the premise that Doxtator would pose for nude photographs for fifty dollars.[11] Doxtator, whom Dahmer had found outside of Club 219,[8] stated that he needed to go home first.[11] During that time, Dahmer prepared a cup of coffee with Baileys Irish Cream and crushed some Halcion sleeping pills; Dahmer gave this concoction to Doxtator, who promptly fell asleep on Dahmer's lap. Dahmer then proceeded to caress Doxtator's body and had anal sex with it, before strangling the body.[11][5]
Dahmer's grandmother complained of a "foul odor" emanating from the basement; Dahmer explained to her that it was a litter box that would be taken care of soon.[11] Doxtator's body was disposed of in much the same way as Tuomi's body, including keeping the skull.[5] Dahmer kept the skull for two weeks, until the issue of the skull's brittleness reemerged.[5]
Richard Guerrero[edit]
On March 24, 1988, Dahmer encountered a 22-year-old bisexual man named Richard Guerrero outside The Phoenix, another gay bar.[1] Dahmer lured Guerrero, who had only a few dollars in his pocket, to his grandmother's house, and assured him $50; in exchange, Dahmer would watch videos and take photographs together.[14] Guerrero agreed, and Dahmer proceeded to render him unconscious with a drink laced with sedatives[14] and strangled him with a leather strap, having oral sex with the corpse. Dahmer disposed of the body within 24 hours, using the same technique that he had used on Tuomi's and Doxtator's bodies.[5]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Local police misidentified the product used as "Soilex", a detergent produced in Kenya. Photographs confirm the use of "Soilax" instead.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Norris, Joel (1992). Jeffrey Dahmer. London, England: Constable & Robinson. ISBN 978-0-09-472060-2. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tabor, Mary (August 12, 1991). "Sorrow and Frustration On Trails of the Missing". The New York Times. Retrieved October 23, 2022.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dvorchak, Robert J.; Holewa, Lisa (1992). Milwaukee Massacre: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Milwaukee Murders. New York City: Dell Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7090-5003-2. Search this book on
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Purcell, Catherine E.; A. Arrigo, Bruce (2006). "5". The Psychology of Lust Murder: Paraphilia, Sexual Killing, and Serial Homicide. New York City: Academic Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-12-370510-5. Archived from the original on July 15, 2022. Retrieved October 23, 2022. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 Masters, Brian (1993). The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer. London, England: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-340-59194-9. Search this book on
- ↑ "Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts: Subject: Jeffrey Dahmer (Part 3 of 19)". Federal Bureau of Investigation. September 11, 1992. Archived from the original on September 19, 2015. Retrieved October 23, 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Dahmer, Lionel (1994). A Father's Story. New York City: William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-688-12156-3. Search this book on
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 Kissel, Ben; Parks, Marcus; Zebrowski, Henry (2020). The Last Book On The Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History's Most Notorious Serial Killers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9781328566317. Search this book on
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Distel, Dave; Lynn, Distel (2005). Hunt to Kill. New York City: Kensington Publishing Corporation. ISBN 9780786017256. Search this book on
- ↑ Bardsley, Marilyn. "Jeffrey Dahmer – Serial Killer and Cannibal – Lust, Booze & Murder". TruTV.com. TruTV Crime Library. Archived from the original on December 15, 2011. Retrieved July 26, 2010. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 Vronsky, Peter (2021). American Serial Killers: The Deadliest Years 1950-2000. London: Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 9780593198957. Search this book on
- ↑ Hayden, Aly (November 9, 2017). "Jeffrey Dahmer Crime Scene Photographs". oxygen.com. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
- ↑ Wilson, Colin; Wilson, Damon (2006). The World's Most Evil Murderers: Real-Life Stories of Infamous Killers. Bath, England: Parragon Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-405-48828-0. Search this book on
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Keppel, Robert; Birnes, William (1997). Signature Killers. New York CIty: Pocket Books. ISBN 978-0-09-472060-2. Search this book on
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