Jeffrey Dahmer

Apartment 213 & Jeffrey Dahmer Mugshot

Early Life

Jeffrey Dahmer was born in West Allis, Wisconsin to Joyce Annette and Lionel Herbert Dahmer.

Lionel, Jeffrey’s father was an analytical chemist.

Jeffrey was reported to be a normal young boy, who had no real tendencies toward violence until he’s brother was born when Jeffrey was seven years old.

At the age of eight Jeffrey moved with his parents to Bath, Ohio.

Between the ages of eight and fifteen years old Jeffery became more and more withdrawn from society and showed little interest in things that a normal boy his age would seem interested in.

Jeffrey would ride around his neighborhood looking for dead animals to dissect.

Jeffrey began drinking alcohol in his early teens and was an alcoholic by the time he graduated high school.

Jeffrey attended The Ohio state university, but dropped out after missing the majority of his classes.

After dropping out of university Jeffrey’s father forced Jeffrey to enlist in the army.

After 2 years in the army Jeffrey was discharged due to alcoholism, Jeffrey then moved to Miami Beach, Florida.

Early suspicious behavior

In 1982, Jeffrey moved in with his grand mother in West Allis, Wisconsin.

Jeffrey’s grandmother noticed very strange behavior from Jeffrey which included, dressing up a mannequin he stole from a clothing store, hiding a .356 Magnum under his pillow and spending allot of time in the basement.

In 1988 Jeffrey’s grandmother asked him to move out due to the terrible stench that always seem to come from the basement whenever Jeffrey spent time in there.

Jeffrey then moved to Milwaukee’s Westside where he also worked at the Ambrosia Chocolate Factory.

The Ambrosia Chocolate Factory Site

 Earlier Crimes

While in Miami Beach, Florida in 1981, Jeffrey was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct.

While living with his Grandmother in West Allis, Wisconsin he was arrested twice for indecent exposure, once in 1982 and again in 1986.

He’s second indecent exposure arrest was for masturbating in front of two teenage boys.

First Murder

Jeffrey Dahmer committed his first murder in the summer of 1978, at the age of 18. His father was away on business and his mother had moved out, taking his brother with her. In middle June Jeffrey picked up a hitchhiker named Stephen Hicks and proposed a social at his father's house, Jeffrey actually wanted to get Stephen drunk and have sex with him. When Stephen started to get uncomfortable and tried to leave, Jeffrey Struck Stephen in the back of the head with a 10 lb. exercise weight (dumbbell). Jeffrey then buried the body in the backyard. Jeffrey said he killed Stephen because he did not want him to leave.

Murder Spree

Only 9Years after Jeffrey killed Stephen Hicks, did Jeffrey commit another murder.

Late 1987 around September, Jeffrey met Steven Tuomi at a gay bar and murdered him but Jeffrey later claimed that he could not remember killing Steven.

After the murder of Steven, Jeffrey committed 2 more murders in the year of 1988 and another late in 1989.

Jeffrey would go to gay bars and take his victims home have sex with them and then murder them.

Early in May 1990 Jeffrey moved to the now infamous Apartment 213, 924 North 25th Street, Milwaukee.

This was the privacy that Jeffrey needed and started to commit murders more frequently.

Jeffrey committed 4 more murders before the end of 1990, 3 more in 1991 spanning over 4 months.

By the summer of 1991, Jeffrey was murdering approximately one person each week. He killed Matt Turner on June 30, Jeremiah Weinberger on July 5, Oliver Lacy on July 12, and finally Joseph Brandehoft on July 19.

Inside Apartment 213

 Zombie Lovers

Jeffrey got the idea that he could turn his victims into "zombies" completely submissive, eternally youthful sexual partners, and attempted to do so by drilling holes into their skulls and injecting hydrochloric acid or boiling water into the frontal lobe area of their brains with a large syringe, usually while the victim was still alive. Other residents of the Oxford Apartments complex noticed terrible smells coming from Apartment 213, as well as the thumps of falling objects and the occasional buzzing of a power saw.

Konerak Sinthasomphone

In the early morning hours of May 27, 1991, 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone was discovered on the street, wandering naked, heavily under the influence of drugs and bleeding from his rectum. Two young women from the neighborhood found the dazed boy and called 911. Jeffrey chased his victim down and tried to take him away, but the women stopped him. Jeffrey told John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish, police officers dispatched to the scene, that Konerak was his 19-year-old boyfriend, and that they had an argument while drinking. Against the protests of the two women who had called 911, who recognized him from the neighborhood and insisted that he was a child and couldn't speak English, the officers turned him over to Jeffrey. They later reported smelling a strange scent while inside Jeffrey's apartment, but did not investigate it. The smell was the body of Tony Hughes, Jeffrey's previous victim, decomposing in the bedroom. The officers did not make any attempt to verify Konerak's age or identity, nor locate someone who could communicate with him, and failed to run a background check that would have revealed Jeffrey being a convicted child molester still under probation. Later that night, Jeffrey killed and dismembered Konerak, keeping his skull as a souvenir.

Konerak Sinthasomphone

 Arrest and Trail

On July 22, 1991, Jeffrey lured another man, Tracy, into his home. According to the would-be victim, Jeffrey struggled with Tracy in order to handcuff him, but ultimately failed to cuff his wrists together. Wielding a large butcher knife, Jeffrey forced Tracy into the bedroom, where Tracy saw pictures of mangled bodies on the wall and noticed the terrible smell coming from a large blue barrel. Tracy punched Jeffrey in the face, kicked him in the stomach, ran for the door and escaped. Running through the streets with handcuffs still hanging from one hand, Tracy waved for help to a police car driven by Robert Rauth and Rolf Mueller of the Milwaukee police department. Tracy led police back to Jeffrey's apartment, where Jeffrey at first acted friendly to the officers. However, Tracy remembered that the knife Jeffrey had threatened him with was in the bedroom. When one of the officers checked the bedroom, he saw the photographs of mangled bodies and called for his partner to arrest Jeffrey. As one officer subdued Jeffrey, the other opened the refrigerator and found a human head. Further investigation of the apartment revealed three more severed heads, multiple photographs of murdered victims and human remains, severed hands and penises, and photographs of dismembered victims and human remains in his refrigerator.

Jeffrey was indicted on 17 murder charges, later reduced to 15. Jeffrey was not charged in the attempted murder of Edwards. His trial began on January 30, 1992.With evidence overwhelmingly against him, Jeffrey pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. The trial lasted two weeks. The court found Jeffrey sane and guilty on 15 counts of murder and sentenced him to 15 life terms, totaling 957 years in prison, which was the maximum penalty available as Wisconsin does not have capital punishment. At his sentencing hearing, Jeffrey expressed remorse for his actions, and said that he wished for his own death. In May of that year, Jeffrey was extradited to Ohio, where he entered a plea of guilty for the murder of his first victim, Stephen Hicks.

Jeffrey was sent to Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin.

Tracy Edwards

Born Again Christian

After his imprisonment, Jeffrey became a born again Christian after reading religious documentation that his father sent him.

On a TV interview with Jeffrey he had the following to say.

“If you don't ... if a person doesn't think that there is a God to be accountable to, then ... then what's ... what's the point of ... of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges? That's how I thought anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth that we all just came from the slime. When we ... when we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing, and I've since come to believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is truly God, and I believe that I, as well as everyone else, will be accountable to him.”

Jeffrey Dahmer while in a Interview Session

Death

Jeffrey was attacked twice in prison, the first time in July 1994. An inmate attempted to slash Jeffrey's throat with a razor blade while Jeffrey was returning to his cell from a church service in the prison chapel. Jeffrey escaped the incident with superficial wounds. While doing janitorial work in the prison gym, Jeffrey and another inmate, Jesse Anderson, were severely beaten by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver with a broomstick handle on November 28, 1994. Jeffrey died of severe head trauma while on his way to the hospital in an ambulance. Anderson died two days later from his wounds.


List of Known Victims (Name, Age, Date of Death)

Stephen Hicks

19

Jun 6, 1978

Steven Tuomi

26

Sep 15, 1987

James "Jamie" Doxtator

14

Jan 1988

Richard Guerrero

25

Mar 24, 1988

Anthony Sears

26

Mar 25, 1989

Eddie Smith

36

Jun 1990

Ricky Beeks

27

Jul 1990

Ernest Miller

22

Sep 1990

David Thomas

23

Sep 1990

Curtis Straughter

19

Feb 1991

Errol Lindsey

19

Apr 1991

Tony Hughes

31

May 24, 1991

Konerak Sinthasomphone

14

May 27, 1991

Matt Turner

20

Jun 30, 1991

Jeremiah Weinberger

23

Jul 5, 1991

Oliver Lacy

23

Jul 12, 1991

Joseph Bradehoft

25

Jul 19, 1991