Jeffrey Dahmer: The Terrifying True Story of The Milwaukee Cannibal, Real Serial Killer
Jeffrey Dahmer’s story has shocked the press and America, anyone who has come across newspapers detailing his actions. Known as The Cannibal of Milwaukee (his story was also told in a film with Jeremy Renner of the same title), Jeffrey Dahmer was an American serial killer who committed 17 murders between 1978 and 1991. The story of him is the subject of the new Netflix series created by Ryan Murphy who has chosen an actor dear to him in the role of the protagonist: Evan Peters. The series reconstructs the life and then the terrifying murders committed by the man and also tries to analyze the work of the other party involved in these cases: the police. Along with this, there is also an in-depth study on human victims and their stories. Let’s try to retrace what happened in those years.
Jeffrey Dahmer: Who Was The Monster From Milwaukee?
Born in 1960, the son of a chemistry student and an instructor, Dahmer did not have a particularly unhappy childhood at least until he was 6 when he moved with his family to Ohio. Here his character began to change, transforming him into a very closed boy; in addition, the long absences of his father and the depression of his mother contributed to his loneliness and did not make him feel safe, deprived of the attention he needed instead. In 1968 the first unusual behaviors began as the child began to collect bones of dead animals and asked his father how to bleach and preserve them with chemical agents. The period of adolescence is then the most complicated as the boy realized he was gay hiding him from his parents and began to abuse alcohol.
On June 18, 1978, he committed his first murder, killing the hitchhiker Steve Hicks whom he lured into his home, with whom he had sex and then killed, maimed and raped his body. After the first murder, Dahmer enrolled in Ohio University only to leave it 3 months later; he volunteered in the United States Army from 1979 to 1981 when he returned to the United States to live with his grandmother. And it was the woman’s house that was another scene of the murders that he would commit in the following years. Since September 1987 he always met several guys in gay bars that he lured to have sex and then killed, among them, Steven Tuomi, Jamie Doxtator and Richard Guerrero.
The following year he moved to Milwaukee and here he lured Somsak Sinthasomphone by promising him money for a photo shoot; the boy escaped and Dahmer was arrested and charged with sexual assault receiving a ten-month sentence in a psychiatric hospital. Once he left, he went back to the woman’s house and continued his murders of her: in just over a year – from June 1990 to July 1991 he killed twelve people. On July 22, 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer invited Tracy Edward to his home with the intention of turning him into his next victim. The boy, however, managed to escape after noticing photos of corpses and meeting the police led her to Dahmer’s house. By searching the house, the agents made a gruesome discovery by finding frozen and embalmed human remains.
Dahmer’s trial began on January 30, 1992, in Milwaukee and 15 counts were recognized, definitively sentencing him to life imprisonment on July 13, 1992, for a total of 957 years in prison. Transferred to prison he was attacked by an inmate and then transferred in conditions of greater safety but on November 28 he was attacked by Christopher Scarver who hit him with the rod of a dumbbell stolen from the gym, causing his death from head trauma. The case of Dahmer, as chilling as it was, was the subject of study, showing how the man chose his victims – only gay, black and of Asian origin – and the modus operandi hid the urge to want to control and dominate his victims. Recall that his story of him will be told in the new Netflix series out today.
