The security surrounding the trial of Jeff Dahmer was unique in Milwaukee's
history. He slaughtered his victims in secret for more than three years,
decorating his apartment with the remains. He even took photographs of their
corpses so he could later look back and relive the experience of murder. He
would find young teenagers and guys at bus stops, bars, and streets where he
would then lure them back to his home by promising drinks, pornographic videos,
and even money in exchange for sex. Once they set foot in his home, he would
slip a very strong sedative in their drinks, strangle them, and then dismember
the bodies with an electric saw. Sometimes he would eat their flesh too.
On July 22, 1991 however, two police officers from Milwaukee spoke with a
man named Tracy Edwards. This man told them that he had been held hostage and
threatened with a knife. The man who did this was Jeffrey Dahmer.
The police were lead to the apartment where Dahmer lived. He came to the
door, and as soon as it opened the officers could smell an awful stench.
Edwards told them to look in the bedroom for the knife. When an officer went
inside the room, he found photographs of human remains. The other officer opened
the refrigerator and quickly slammed the door shut when he saw a human head
inside. Later seven skulls, four heads, body parts and photos of naked and
dismembered victims were found inside the apartment. Human remains were found
preserved in formaldehyde, and heads had been boiled. Dahmer told police how he
had poured acid over flesh to dissolve remains. He had kept strips of flesh in
his freezer for later consumption.
And in one day, he had become one of the world's most notorious serial
killers. He gave the police a 160 page detailed account of each killing he had
"It's hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I've
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