Born in 1960 in Miwaukee, Jeffrey Dahmer was a lonely. insecure child who studied chemistry, mutilated animals, and was reportedly molested by a neighbor boy at age eight. He later confessed that he had committed his first murder in 1978, shortly after his parents divorced but that crime went unsolved at the time. He joined the Army in 1979 and while he was stationed in Germany, there were three unsolved mutilation-murders near his base. Discharged for alcoholism in 1981.He returned to Milwaukee in 1986, where he was soon arrested for exhibitionisn. In 1988, he served 10 months for fondling a minor. Upon his release he rented a small apartment and got a job at a local candy factory. Dahmer's neighbors complained of noxious odors and the whine of a power saw 'My refrigerator broke and the meat spoiled," he fold them. "I am building book-cases." In 1991, police responding to a neighbor's call found a 14-year-old Asian boy bleeding and naked. who had escaped from Dahmer The officers laughingly called this incident "a homosexual lovers' spat' and returned the child to his death. Four more men and boys died before another victim escaped and flagged down a police car. Officers followed him to Dahmer's unit and discovered a charnel house. After getting hem drunk or drugging them, Dahmer had photographed, strangled, and dismembered his victims. mostly young Asian and African-American men. He confessed to murder necrphilia, and cannibalism. Charged with 17 kllings, he pled insanity but in 1992 was convicted of all counts and received life sentences. The officers responsible for mishandling the case were suspended.

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