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Who's Going To Be Next?: Evil Killers Who've Been Murdered In Prison

(Top from left: Jeffrey Dahmer, Kyle Bevan & Donald Harvey. Bottom from left: Whitey Bulger, Robert Pickton & Ian Huntley. Picture credits: Wikipedia / IMDB / NY Times)

*Please be aware that the details shared in this post are quite disturbing. I have tried, as always, to share the details of each case in a sensitive manner without taking away from the facts. If you have any questions or comments about this post that you would like to share with me in confidence, please do so by emailing me at jocaledoniankitty@gmail.com*

Child killers, Predators, Sexual Sadists, Abusers, Necrophiliacs, Liars, Con Artists, Psychologically and Physically violent men...the list goes on, the six monsters pictured above, are the focus of my latest post. In the news recently we have learned that disgraced former rockstar, Ian Watkins was brutally murdered whilst serving 12 years into his 29 year sentence, he was 48 years old. The monster was stabbed to death on the morning of 11th of October 2025 by a fellow inmate at the notorious Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire. Due to the number of highly dangerous individuals who call this daunting place 'home', it has earned the nickname over the years 'The Monsters Mansion'.

 I have written about Ian Watkins previously on this blog. Some posts you might be interested in are: The Sick & Twisted Story of Former Rockstar, Ian Watkins and From Red Carpet To Prison Cell. You may also be interested in my post about Wakefield prison which you can find here.

As well as the death of Ian Watkins, who pretty much had a target on his back from day one (there had been attempts on his life before), we have also seen the announcement of the death of horrific child killer Ian Huntley, otherwise known as The Soham murderer who was responsible for the deaths of two 10 year old girls, Holly and Jessica. The fiend had tricked the two girls into his home, both Holly and Jessica admired his partner Maxine Carr who had worked as a teaching assistant at their school. Ian murdered the two young girls and disposed of their bodies (I go into more details about the whole case in my previous post: The Evil Crimes & Lies of Ian Huntley), he then tried to portray himself as a concerned member of the community, lied to the police and Maxine Carr covered for him. Eventually the truth was brought to light, the girls remains were found and it was heartbreaking, nobody could believe what had happened. Ian Huntley was put behind bars being given two whole life sentences. Maxine Carr got it easy, having served 21 months of a three year sentence. She is now out and about living her life under a different name. 

Ian Huntley didn't have it easy behind bars, so many people knew what he had done, it was a high profile case, had been splashed across the news and newspapers for weeks and months. Documentaries were on TV about it, books and articles published, there was no escaping what he had done and quite rightly so, he deserved to be punished. His fellow inmates were well educated on Ian Huntley's crimes and they were just waiting for their moment. 

Like Ian Watkins, he had suffered quite a few vicious attacks whilst behind bars, hospital visits were common and there was moments when it looked like he was on the brink of death but somehow managed to survive....not this time though. Just the other day (I'm writing this post in March of 2026) it was announced that Ian had been brutally attacked, he was rushed to hospital and was reported to be in a coma. After a few days his life support machine was switched off on the Friday and his death was announced officially to the public on the 7th of March 2026. On social media, when both the deaths of Ian Watkins and Ian Huntley were announced, there was jubilation, not a shred of sympathy and to be honest, nor should there have been, the sympathy should be saved for the victims of these evil individuals. 

With the sudden deaths of Watkins and Huntley together with hearing about how another monster, Wayne Couzens is currently shaking in his boots (Wayne was a disgraced former police officer who abducted Marketing Executive, Sarah Everard on the 3rd of March 2021. He sexually assaulted and murdered Sarah before disposing of her remains. I sadly wrote about the case from the moment that Sarah was first reported missing, you can follow the timeline as well as more about the case in my post: The Kidnap And Murder of Sarah Everard), he is reportedly terrified because there are a number of prisoners who are hoping to get their hands on him. 

For Wayne Couzens, not only is he hated for being a sick, cold-hearted murderer, but he was also a policeman so the hatred for him is off the scale, he's a marked man and he knows it. He is currently serving a whole life term meaning he will never leave prison alive, so he has a long time to find out if he's going to die from natural causes or at the hands of others. For such an evil individual I think of nothing better than to know that he feels like he has to constantly look over his shoulder. He took a beautiful young woman away from her family and subjected her to a horrendous ordeal before he cruelly took her life, I have no sympathy for him. 

(Kyle Bevan. Picture credit: BBC News)

Kyle Bevan not only looks like a creepy monster, he actually is one, or should I say was! He might not be a name or face that you are familiar with but this monster came to my attention when I was doing my research into killers who'd been murdered behind bars. I learned that there had been an incident at......wait until you hear the location.....yes.....Wakefield Prison! Right now this is currently under investigation but since it's the murder of an evil monster, I don't think anyone cares about justice where he's concerned, I'm more focused on what this monster did to his innocent victim who happened to a little two year old girl. I wish I could say that this guy (and all the monsters I have mentioned in this post) was murdered because people wanted some sort of justice for the victims but 9 times out of 10 it was over money, a drug debt gone wrong, something to do out of boredom or simply for someone's attempt to try and make a name for themselves. 

I have been told that a lot of these murders that are happening with high profile offenders are due to others being paid (for example: money for the prison canteen, phone calls etc for prisoners who are on a long term sentence). When a prisoner faces a long stretch or there's no sign that they will be leaving prison, they feel like they have nothing to lose so they are more likely to commit more offences behind bars. They are also in need of money especially if they don't have regular support from outside. In prison you still have to work and pay for things like snacks, calls etc. Some prisoners will offer protection in exchange for money, others will trade food and the rumours are rife that some will make attempts on someone's life for the right price. 

So Kyle Bevan was another monster with a target on his back and it was only a matter of time before he found himself at the mercy of three prisoners (allegedly). The three accused were due to stand trial in June of last year but there's been no word since so I assume the trial must have been delayed because there's no further information about it, but like I said before, I don't think anyone really cares. Kyle Bevan was serving a sentence at Wakefield Prison after being convicted of the murder of his partner's two year old daughter, Lola James. The little girl's mother was no better, she was also a waste of space who neglected and abused this little angel faced child. Lola had 101 external injuries all over her body, endless cuts and bruises from head to toe. She had catastrophic internal injuries and severe brain damage consistent with someone being thrown from a 10 storey balcony or being in the impact of a horrific high-speed car crash. He was sentenced to life with a minimum of 28 years. 

The poor and evil excuse for a mother, Sinead James, was given just 6 years. Kyle Bevan was found dead on the 5th of November 2025, the investigation into the full circumstances of his death is ongoing but knowing that three people were involved, I can't imagine that he got off lightly on the way to hell. A small bit of justice for what he had done to little Lola. 

(Jeffrey Dahmer. Picture credit: Wikipedia)

A name you will be familiar with and who is often described as 'The Poster Boy For Serial Killers', I don't know who came up with that name but it certainly wasn't me, I am of course talking about the infamous Jeffrey Dahmer. Jeffrey has been mentioned a few times on this blog, for a long time I didn't write about him because I felt that there was nothing knew that I could add that hadn't already been said. It was my amazing supporters/readers who convinced me to write more about high profile serial killers because they wanted to hear it from me, knowing how I like to leave no stone unturned and how I tell the horrific stories in my unique way. I wrote all about the background and disturbing details of Jeffrey's case here in my two-part series: The Life & Gruesome Crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer. 

Jeffrey's case was another one of those 'stuff of nightmares' stories that was so horrible and unbelievable that you'd be forgiven if you thought it all never happened at all, it was all just too horrific, 17 (possibly more) young men and boys murdered and dismembered. Remains found in his apartment, some of the victims eaten...the whole gruesome nine yards of it was insane, I go into all the horrible details in my previous post about him but as you know, he was convicted obviously and sentenced to 16 consecutive life terms so he was never going to leave prison alive but somebody wanted to end things sooner for Jeffrey and that was Christopher Scarver. 

Christopher was an African-American man who beat Jeffrey and another inmate, with a metal bar in the gymnasium. Jeffrey died an hour after he was found and the other man had managed to hang on for two days before he passed away. With Christopher being African-American and most of Jeffrey's victims being African-American, some believed that it was some sort of karma and justice for what Jeffrey had done to those young men and boys. Jeffrey was murdered on the 28th of November 1994. He was 34 years old. 

(Whitey Bulger. Picture credit: Wikipedia)

Having just looked briefly at the horrible cases of the disturbing individuals I've just talked about, (again, I recommend that you check out my previous articles on these cases if you would like a full background of their crimes and other information) this next deceased criminal is someone who just came to my mind due to a movie I had watched months ago, based on his life and crimes. I watched the brilliant movie Black Mass starring Johnny Depp as American Mobster, Whitey Bulger. At first I thought this was just another gangster movie but then was informed that it was based on an actual real case. So of course me being me, I ended up down a rabbit hole wanting to find out everything I possibly could about this Whitey Bulger chap and what a crazy life indeed and an even crazier, unreal ending to an unbelievable life. Whitey, who's real name was James Joseph Bulger Jr was born on the 3rd of September 1929 in Everette, Massachusetts. He was a mobster who lead the infamous Winter Hill Gang, he'd been involved in everything from murders where he pulled the trigger himself, to drug trafficking, guns, extortion, robbery, money laundering, the list goes on. He became a police informant and actually went on the run from the FBI for 16 years. 

Bulger led a very dangerous life and was finally captured in 2011 at the age of 81. He was sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus five years to be spent in a federal prison. It wasn't an easy time for him in prison with the reputation he had as a police informant or as they called it 'rat'. When you're involved in that lifestyle and you are committed to it, one of the worst things you could ever do is break code and share information with the police. Whitey Bulger was notorious in his hay day as being one of the most feared gangsters, there was so many people he had done wrong in the past and for being exposed as someone who backstabbed others, he was a sitting duck no matter what age he was, his enemies didn't care that he was now just a frail old man. 

On the 30th of October 2018 just 12 hours after he had been transferred to USP Hazelton in West Virginia. 89 year old Whitey Bulger was brutally attacked as he sat helpless, frail and confined to his wheelchair. His attackers didn't hold back, they beat him to the point he was unrecognizable, with a padlock inside a sock. They also tried to gouge out his eyes. It was gruesome, blood was everywhere and it was a very horrific attack on an elderly man. There was no mercy and no sympathy, even at the age of 89, being an old man in very poor health to begin with, Whitey Bulger couldn't escape the demons of his past and the wrongs he had done to others. 

I have yet to cover the full story of Whitey Bulger and his crimes but if you would like me to talk about him in a future post, please let me know in the comments below or email me (jocaledoniankitty@gmail.com).

(Robert Pickton. Picture credit: imdb)

Robert Pickton was a horrendous individual, I don't even know how to describe him. He'd be perfect as a horror character but the terrifying fact is, that this real-life monster did exist and his unspeakable crimes were truly nightmarish. Robert was a Canadian pig-farmer so you can imagine the gruesome stuff that this guy was capable of just on that description alone, well it get's even worse. Robert frequented sex workers and targeted other vulnerable women, he was set on murdering 50 women but was convicted of killing 49 which he confessed to. The monster described in detail how he would dismember his victims and feed parts of their remains to his pigs. Various human remains were found on his farm of horrors and he was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years. He confessed to 49 murders but was charged with 26 and convicted of 6 counts of second-degree murder. Apparently he was given second-degree because they couldn't prove that the murders and disposal of the victim's remains had been planned even though he told an undercover cop that he was aiming to kill at least 50 women. 

With the amount of victims and the way Robert disposed of the remains, how can they say it was not premeditated? It seems the 'justice' system in Canada is also quite questionable. As you have probably gathered by the fact that I've included him here, Robert is no longer of this earth, he's in hell (hopefully). On the 19th of May 2024, Robert had been attacked by a fellow inmate. On hearing the commotion, a prison officer rushed to the scene and tried to separate Robert and his attacker, before anyone knew what was happening, the prisoner attacking Robert, managed to grab a broom stick, broke the handle and with such force, shoved it into Robert's face. More prison officers arrived and managed to restrain the man while other officers rushed Robert to the hospital. He was officially pronounced dead on the 31st of May 2024. 

(Donald Harvey. Picture credit: NY Times)

For my final subject in this particular (and quite long post) I end with the infamous Donald Harvey otherwise known as 'The Angel of Death'. This terrifying Serial Killer was reportedly responsible for up to 57 deaths during his time working as a hospital orderly but he claimed that he had as many as 87 victims. He carried out his heartless murders in hospitals in Ohio and Kentucky. He claimed that he first started killing as an act of mercy, because he thought he was putting people out of their misery but he enjoyed what he saw as power over deciding whether someone lived or died. His methods of killing ranged from turning of ventilators to smothering patients or giving them poison. 

Donald pleaded guilty to to 37 of the murders he was charged with (and evidence could be provided for) avoided the death penalty. His sickening murder spree of innocent hospital patients reportedly began in 1970 right up until 1987 when he was arrested. He confessed to everything and was sentenced to 28 consecutive life sentences. Donald Harvey was 64 years old when he was brutally beaten in his cell by fellow prisoner James Elliott on the 28th of March 2017. Donald was rushed to hospital but died two days later. He was officially pronounced dead on the 30th of March 2017. James Elliott was sentenced to 25 years to life, on top of the sentence he was already serving. 

So, this was quite a long post and I appreciate it you have made it this far. I hope that you found this post informative and as I mentioned before with some of the cases that I haven't written a stand alone article on, please let me know if you would like me to cover that particular case. 

Each Individual that I have mentioned in this post has a horrific story behind them and it just goes to show that if you go around hurting people, taking people's lives, being a heartless and sick monster, it doesn't matter if you're 34 or 89, karma will come back around. Donald Harvey was 64 when he was murdered, Ian Huntley was 52 and Whitey Bulger was 89, nobody cares about the ages or vulnerability of these monsters and that is something that people like them should bare in mind. If they are lucky enough not to face the death penalty and are handed a life sentence it should not be a walk in the park for them. In my opinion they should spend the rest of their lives uncomfortable, anxious, always looking over their shoulder and thinking about what they've done to people, what evil they have caused. These monsters are behind bars for a reason and whatever befalls them whilst they serve these sentences it's just tough, no sympathy, like I said before.....sympathy is only for the innocent people and children they murdered and harmed. 

My heart goes out to all of the victims of the monsters mentioned in this post, to which there is sadly so many but they are never forgotten and the sadness for what they went through and the fact that they are no longer with us, never fades. I also think of the families and friends of all of the victims, to lose someone close to you is always difficult but to know they died in horrific circumstances is something that I could never imagine, it must be one of the most horrendous things to ever deal with and I admire their strength.

Further Reading & Sources:  

- Bevan & James Sentencing | Judiciary Court Documents

- Kyle Bevan: Article | BBC News

- Kyle Bevan: Article | DYFED Police

- Kyle Bevan: Article | The Guardian

- Kyle Bevan: Article | Sky News

- The Life & Gruesome Crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer: Part One | True Crime With Caledonian Kitty

- The Life & Gruesome Crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer: Part Two | True Crime With Caledonian Kitty

- Jeffrey Dahmer | Wikipedia

- Inside The Mind of Jeffrey Dahmer | Book by Christopher Berry-Dee 

- Serial Killer Groupies | True Crime With Caledonian Kitty

- Whitey Bulger | The Mob Museum

- Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, The FBI & A Devil's Deal | Book by Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neil

- James 'Whitey' Bulger | FBI Most Wanted Files (Archive)

- Whitey Bulger: Article | BBC News

- Whitey Bulger | Wikipedia

- Robert Pickton | IMDB

- Serial Killers (Archives) | True Crime With Caledonian Kitty

- Robert Pickton | Court Documents

- Robert Pickton: Article | The Guardian

- On The Farm: Robert William Pickton | Book by Erin Moon & Stevie Cameron

- Donald Harvey: Article | NY Times

- Donald Harvey | Wikipedia

- Donald Harvey | Murderpedia

- Wayne Couzens: Article | BBC News

- The Sarah Everard Case | True Crime With Caledonian Kitty

- Sarah Everard | Wikipedia

- Wayne Couzens | Met Police

- The Legacy of Sarah Everard | Centre For Women's Justice

- Wakefield Prison | Wikipedia 

- Beyond Evil: Inside The Twisted Mind of Ian Huntley | Book by Nathan Yates

- The Evil Crimes & Lies of Ian Huntley | True Crime With Caledonian Kitty

- The Sick & Twisted Story of Former Rockstar Ian Watkins | True Crime With Caledonian Kitty

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10 Facts You May Not Know About Serial Killer....Jeffrey Dahmer | #TrueCrime With @Caledoniankitty

(Jeffrey Dahmer. Picture credit: imdb)

In this fourth instalment of this series, the focus is going to be on notorious serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer. As you may know, I have written about the shocking case of Jeffrey Dahmer in recent times, you can find the posts here (part one) and here (part two). In this post however, you will find some facts about Dahmer that you may not have come across before. So, before we get into it, please don't forget the other serial killers that have been covered so far in this series:

- Ted Bundy

- John Wayne Gacy

- Richard Ramirez

Now let's get into 10 facts about Jeffrey Dahmer....

1) Whilst Jeffrey Dahmer was in prison he was sent endless letters as well as $12,000 from his obsessed fans.

2) Jeffrey faced his karma in prison when he was murdered by a fellow inmate named Christopher Scarver. The majority of Dahmer's victims were African-American and Christopher himself was an African-American man so it seemed like some form of justice came around for Jeffrey. According to Christopher, Jeffrey didn't even put up a fight. 

3) Jeffrey Dahmer was 34 years old when he died. His brain was removed for medical science and the rest of his remains were cremated. 

4) In regards to Jeffrey's brain which was supposed to be studied and analyzed, there was a lot of back and forth between authorities and Jeffrey's parents. The brain had been kept in a jar for some time but it was eventually decided that the brain would be destroyed without any proper investigations taking place. 

5) Jeffrey Dahmer's last words were reported to have been ''I don't care if I live or die. Go ahead and kill me.''

6) Jeffrey Dahmer's father Lionel wrote a memoir about his son which was released in 1994. You can find the book here

7) When the series on Netflix about Jeffrey's crimes was released and went viral, his victim's relatives were disgusted and spoke publicly about the trauma they had to relive through, for what they viewed as entertainment purposes and making money off of suffering. 

8) Jeffrey Dahmer's father, Lionel died in a hospice at the age of 87 in December of 2023. His mother Joyce had passed away in 2000. 

9) A gruesome fact: Jeffrey Dahmer would say that his victims tasted like 'filet mignon'. 

10) Jeffrey once tried to steal a human corpse after seeing a young man's obituary in a local newspaper. He apparently went to the young man's grave after the funeral service and attempted to dig up his remains but soon gave up and went home. 

So, a disturbing individual all round and even though he has been deceased for such a long time, people are still left wondering how all of these horrific things could have happened. Why was Jeffrey Dahmer the way that he was, why did he do those things? The answer to these questions we may never know and it's a chilling thought. 

Further reading & sources:


R.I.P to the known victims of Jeffrey Dahmer:
 
Steven Hicks.
Steven Tuomi.
James Doxtator.
Richard Guerrero.
Anthony Sears.
Raymond Smith.
Edward Smith.
Ernest Miller.
David Thomas.
Curtis Straughter.
Errol Lindsey.
Tony Hughes.
Konerak Sinthasomphone.
Matt Turner. 
Jeremiah Weinberger.
Oliver Lacy.
Joseph Bradechoft. 

Thank you for taking the time to check out this fourth instalment, I hope you will join me again next time when we will be looking over more disturbing facts of notorious serial killers. 

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''It Took Me Nine Days To Eat Her Entire Body.'' | Shocking Quotes By 4 Infamous Serial Killers: Part Two

 
(Anthony Allen Shore. Picture credit: abc13)

I wasn't expecting my first post on Quotes by Infamous Serial Killers to have been as popular as it was so I thought I'd publish a part two this week. You may be familiar with all of the individuals mentioned here or it might be your first time reading about them? either way, I hope you find the post interesting and don't read it before bed!


Albert Fish


(Albert Fish. Picture credit: filmdaily)

I've been asked quite a few times to cover the story of this horrible monster and he is on my list but the more you research the guy, the most dark, depraved, evil and sickening details emerge and there's a whole lot of information to get through about Albert Fish. He may even be the worst Serial Killer we have ever known? His evilness and depravity knew no bounds. 

He may look like a fragile old man but this man was responsible for the murder, rape and cannibalism of nobody knows how many people exactly. He was a predatory paedophile who once boasted in a letter to the mother of his 10 year old victim: 

''It took me nine days to eat her entire body . I did not f**k her tho I could have had if I wished. She died a virgin.''- Albert Fish. 

Just reading one quote by this evil man is enough to give you the idea of what a cold hearted monster he really was. Despite looking like he was in his 70s, Albert was actually just 65 when he died in prison. He was sent to the electric chair on the 16th of January 1936 at the infamous Sing Sing prison. 

I will be going more deeply into the Albert Fish story in a future post. 


Leonard Lake


(Leonard Lake. Picture credit: murderpedia)

Leonard Lake and his accomplice, Charles Ng were responsible for the horrendous rape, torture and murder of more than twenty five people, again, nobody knows the exact number of victims but the evil pair carried out their sickening acts at a cabin in Wilseyville, California during the early to mid 1980s. A truly shocking and horrendous case which I will be delving into in more detail in a future post.

Leonard took his own life by cyanide poisoning. Ng was sentenced to death in 1999 but a new Governor of California came into office in 2019 and signed an executive order placing a suspension on the death penalty meaning that Ng will still remain in prison but will die a natural death behind bars and not by execution. 

''God meant women for cooking, cleaning, house and sex. And when they are not in use they should be locked up.'' - Leonard lake 


Anthony Allen Shore 


(Anthony Allen Shore: Picture credit: abc13)

The horrendous Anthony Allen shore, otherwise known as 'The Tourniquet Killer' may be familiar to you. He was reportedly responsible for the murder of one woman and three girls but knowing his methods and sickening lust for rape and murder, his victims are probably way more than suspected. This monster even drugged, raped and beat his own daughters. Some of his victims were able to escape him but he is forever known as one of the most sickening and evil of murderers ever to have walked the earth. He was sentenced to death in 2004 and spend time using up tax payers money until he finally faced the lethal injection on the 18th of January 2018, aged 55. 

All he had to say as his last words were: 

''I've made my peace'' and ''Ooh-ee. I can feel that.'' - Anthony Allen Shore 

I will be covering this story in a future post so keep your eyes peeled for that. I think it will make for disturbing reading. 


Jeffrey Dahmer 


(Jeffrey Dahmer. Picture credit: hollywoodreporter)

He's been mentioned a few times on my blog now and will no doubt crop up again at some point but I did cover the Jeffrey Dahmer case here previously. Probably the most notorious Serial Killer next to Ted Bundy, we've seen the numerous movies, books and documentaries made about him. He was responsible for the deaths and mutilation of seventeen men and boys. I went into depth about the gruesome story in two long posts (part one & part two) about Jeffrey Dahmer so you may already be aware of the case and sickening details. 

Jeffrey was sentenced to 16 life terms but didn't get to live out his time fully in prison as he was beaten to death on the 28th of November 1994. 

''I really, really screwed up this time.'' - Jeffrey Dahmer (confessing about his crimes to his father.) 

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Further Reading & Sources: 

- The Big Book of Serial killers by Jack Rosewood

- The Big Book of Serial Killers - Volume 2: by Jack Rosewood

- The Killer Book of Serial Killers by Michael & Tom Philbin

- The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Michael Newton


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''I'm Going To Eat Your Heart'' | The Life & Gruesome Crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer (& Other Details You May Not Know) | Serial Killer Series | Part Two

(Jeffrey Dahmer at his trial. Picture credit: britannica)

Please note, as mentioned in part one, I will be sharing some very disturbing details in this post so please be aware. 

Just a year after the horrific murder and dismemberment of 18 year old hitchhiker, Steven Hicks, Jeffrey had a short stint at university which was a disaster. He became very withdrawn and didn't get on with his fellow students. He drank continuously and stole from the other boys. There was an incident where his flatmates went on a night out but didn't invite him, he took revenge by throwing pizza and furniture all over the room, his flatmates were sick of him. His parents were at a loss at what to do with him so they surprisingly enlisted him in the U.S Army. He trained as a medical specialist. He soon found himself in Germany and when he spoke later of this period in his life he said he enjoyed it. He claimed that he enjoyed the routine of it all and it kept his disturbing fantasies under control. His role in the Army was to be short lived though as his drinking got in the way and he was relieved of his duties. 


A lot of people don't know about this part of Jeffrey's history, that he served in the U.S Army and although he claimed that his sick fantasies has calmed down during this period, some of his fellow soldiers would later claim that he was notorious was drugging and raping boys at the camps. One man claimed that he had been raped and tortured repeatedly by Jeffrey Dahmer over a period of 17 months. 

When Jeffrey was let go from the Army it seemed that his life had no direction. He was very intelligent but couldn't seem to do anything right when it came to going to University and maintaining an Army career. His addiction to alcohol putting the hems on both of these opportunities. 

When he left the Army and returned home, he was still plagued by memories of what he had done to Steven Hicks. He decided to go to the location where he had put some of the remains and found that they had rotted away to just bones. He smashed the bones up as much as he could and proceeded to scatter the fragments around the woods. 

By the late 1980s he found that his fantasies had once again taken full control. There were various previous attempts for Jeffrey Dahmer to have been caught, the time in 1978 when the police stopped his car and saw the bags in the back seat, a further inspection of these bags could have prevented the horrific murders that were to come. There was also an opportunity for something to have been done about his horrendous conduct in the Army but alas he'd gotten away with his actions again. 

In between the dates of his first killing in 1978 right up until the late 1980s. Jeffrey had spent some time in the Army but was then back on the streets in America and frequenting bath houses and gay bars. He was notorious for drugging and raping men at these establishments, months would go by where he would do this and would get banned from various places. He'd been caught, fined and received suspended sentences for exposing himself. His murder of Steven Hicks was unknown at the time or that he was a murderer but it was definitely known that Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial rapist.

His parents thought it would be a good idea for him to go and stay with his grandmother in Milwaukee. This didn't make a difference for Jeffrey in regards to the evilness that was continuing to grow within him. 

He was still trying to control his urge to kill by going to bath houses to drug and rape men and he even stole a mannequin which he took home and would masturbate over, pretending it was a real body. Jeffery was mostly living with his grandmother at the time and she didn't like the idea of the mannequin being in the house so he got rid of it and again focused of a real life scenario. 

Jeffrey later claimed, when discussing his crimes, that he did not enjoy anal sex, he found it uncomfortable plus he didn't like the feeling of not being in control. He always had to be in charge when it came to sex. He enjoyed penetrating other men but not having it done to him. He also said that he found it difficult to maintain an erection when his sexual partner was awake, he claimed that he could only get a full erection when the other person was passed out or deceased. He would drug his sexual partners or victims with sleeping pills and they would be passed out for up to 8 hours enabling him to do whatever he wanted. He claims that he would just masturbate, sometimes up to 3 times whilst the other person was passed out. 

Jeffrey also have a fixation with the movies 'Return of The Jedi' and 'The Exorcist III', apparently he would show some of the scenes of these movies to his victims before he murdered them 

In November of 1987 he went to a hotel with a 25 year old man by the name of Steven Tuomi who he met at a bus stop. Jeffrey already had the hotel room booked beforehand on the chance that he would meet someone to take back for a sexual encounter or in his case, drug and rape an unsuspecting victim. Jeffrey claimed that the pair had been drinking. He'd put the pills in Steven's drink and saw that he had passed out but Jeffrey carried on drinking and claimed to have woken up some time later to find that Steven was deceased. He noticed injuries on Steven's chest and there was some bruising on his own arms indicating there must have been some sort of struggle with Steven trying to defend himself. 

He said he never meant to murder Steven and went into a panic over what he had done. He said that he had flashbacks of what he had done to Steven Hicks. He left the hotel room to buy a suitcase and took Steven's body back to his grandmother's house where he kept Steven's body in his grandmother's cellar for 9 days. 

After 9 days he took Steven's body out of the cellar whilst his grandmother was out of the house and proceeded to cut the corpse open. In doing so, he was sexually aroused and proceeded to masturbate. After he was finished with Steven's body he dismembered his remains and put them into the trash. 

He later told a psychiatrist that the murder of Steven Tuomi was a turning point that he no longer wanted to fight against his urges. He said that he realised that going to a public hotel to rape his victims was too much of a risk as well as being too much trouble for him so he took the other risk of taking men back to his grandmother's house because he felt he could have more privacy there. 

His next victim James Doxtator, was just 15 years old who he met outside of a gay bar. Jeffrey took the young boy back to his grandmother's house whilst she was asleep. He promised the young boy $50 for some nude photographs and the boy agreed. Once at the house they both engaged in sexual contact and drank alcohol. At one point, James announced that he would have to leave to which Jeffrey began to panic and wanted to keep the boy at the house so he strangled him.  

After the boy was quite clearly deceased, Jeffery laid beside him for a period of time before performing anal penetration on the decedent. He kept the boy's body for a week and would take the corpse out at certain times when his grandmother was not around, he would lay next to the corpse and masturbate. After a week when the body was becoming too decomposed and the odour becoming too strong, he removed the skin from the body, dismembered him and put the remains in the trash. 

His fourth victim was 22 year old Richard Guerrero, same situation with taking Richard back to the house, drugging him and performing sexual acts before killing him. He used a different method of disposing of the remains by dismembering the corpse and dissolving the skin in acid. He kept Richard's skull for a period of a time before throwing it in the trash along with the rest of his remains. 

24 year old Anthony Sears was the last victim to be murdered at Jeffrey's grandmother's house, he was also Jeffrey's 5th known victim. Anthony was drugged, murdered and dismembered. Jeffery kept some of his remains and took them with him to his new apartment when he moved out of his grandmother's house. 

Jeffrey realised that he could no longer keep bringing men back to his grandmother's house, it was too much of a risk and too much hard work trying to disguise the smell and get rid of the remains. For once, he was only too happy to be by himself because having his own apartment meant that he could do what he wanted with the bodies for as long as he wanted without fear of getting caught. 

His notorious address at Oxford Apartments at North 25th Street in Milwaukee was the location for what was to be a unimaginable and sickening killing factory, controlled and operated by Jeffrey Dahmer. His evil and sickening rape and murders before had been too much to bare but the things that he did in that Apartment is too horrendous, too sick that no modern day horror movie could match it. During this time he managed to get a steady job working at a chocolate factory and would go to the bath houses and bars at weekends.

Once he was at that apartment he had free reign to do what he wanted and he let his disturbing and sickening fantasies run wild. More young men were to be drugged, dismembered and sexually assaulted before and after death. He bought a huge refrigerator to store dismembered body parts in. He put remains in acid so he could keep the bones and skulls. He painted the skulls and had them on display in his apartment. He kept full skeletons of some of his victims and froze their hearts and other remains so he could cook and eat them later. He also kept the genitals of some of his victims. 

(Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment: Picture credit: Murderpedia)

Jeffrey had also found a new habit of drilling holes into his victims skulls and injecting acid or boiling hot water to incapacitate them so they would be like zombies whilst he carried out his sickening sexual acts. 

The neighbours complained about the terrible smell that was coming from the trash cans outside of the block. The landlord did some investigating and realised the smell was also coming from Jeffrey's apartment. The landlord confronted Jeffrey and was told that it was due to Jeffrey's freezer breaking down. The landlord accepted this excuse because he believed Jeffrey to be a nice, quiet man who kept himself to himself and was no trouble. 

Jeffrey continued his horrendous routine and on one occasion a 14 year old boy by the name of Konerak Sinthasomphone who had been drugged and had his skull drilled appeared to be in a zombie like state so Jeffrey felt confident enough to leave the apartment to buy some more alcohol. He was surprised to see the boy sitting on the sidewalk naked, covered in blood and disorientated, when he returned. There was two women beside him trying to talk to him and help him. Jeffrey tried to convince the two women that the young man was his friend but they didn't believe him and the police were called. 

When the police arrived, they saw how disorientated the boy was and Jeffrey explained this away as the boy being drunk. Jeffrey told the officers that the boy had been 20 years old (not 14) and gave them a false name. He said that the boy was his friend and had been staying with him for few weeks and they'd been drinking, Amazingly, the police bought the story and sent the young man back up to Jeffrey's apartment.

Once Konerak was back in the apartment he was subjected to another injection of acid through the hole in his skull. Jeffrey murdered him, dismembered his body, disposed of the remains apart from the skull which he kept in his freezer. The two officers responsible for sending the naked, blood covered young boy back up to Jeffrey's apartment, were later dismissed from their roles. 

Finally the whole sickening nightmare was to come to an end when Jeffrey approached a group of three men with his usual routine of asking if anyone would like to pose for some pictures for some money. One of them agreed to go back to his apartment to shoot the pictures. 

On the 22nd of July 1991, Jeffrey and Tracy Edwards went back to his apartment to shoot the pictures (obviously, Jeffrey had other sickening plans in mind), they took some pictures and drank some alcohol. Tracy noticed the terrible smell and boxes of acid. At one point during a conversation, Tracy turned his head to look at Jeffrey's fish tank to find himself being handcuffed by Jeffrey. Tracy struggled with him and Jeffrey was unable to handcuff both wrists. Knowing he was in trouble and in fear for his life, Tracy tried his best to remain calm as not to get Jeffrey enraged. He agreed to go back into the livingroom with him to to take more photos. At one point Jeffrey laid his head on Tracy's chest to listen to his heartbeat, he then told Tracy that he wanted to eat his heart. Tracy who was quite obviously more terrified as this saga continued, managed to convince Jeffrey to have some more drinks with him. Jeffrey agreed and they both sat in the livingroom and continued to talk, all the while Tracy was thinking about how he was going to get out of his apartment. At one point Jeffrey appeared to become more relaxed and was no longer holding onto the handcuffs or the knife he had been threatening Tracy with. 

Tracy saw an opportunity and quick as a flash he got up from the sofa claiming that he needed to go to the bathroom and suddenly punched Jeffrey in the face and ran out of the apartment. he was able to flag down a police car and told them what happened. 

The police tried to remove the handcuffs from Tracy's wrist but were unable to do so and the three of them returned to Jeffrey's apartment. Once at the apartment they found Jeffrey who tried to fight the police officers, there was endless pictures of dismembered bodies found in Jeffrey's bedroom. He was arrested, Tracy was taken to safety and the apartment was sealed off to be searched. 

What investigators found was unbelievable. This is this list of evidence found:

- Photographs of dismembered bodies (74 in total) 
- Boxes of acid for the purpose of dissolving human flesh.
- Refrigerator with human blood and human remains inside.
- A bag of organs and flesh
- Two human skeletons
- Two human hands
- Seven human skulls 
- A human scalp
- A human torso
- Two preserved penises

Once arrested, Jeffrey claimed that he was relieved that the nightmare had come to an end because he wanted it be stopped. He claimed the purpose of keeping the skeletons was so that he could create a shrine for himself. He said that he ate some of his victims because he felt that by eating them that they would become a part of him and that would mean that they would never be able to leave him. His confession made for gruesome and horrific reading, it was 200 pages long. 

He pleaded guilty to all the murders and co-operated fully with investigators. He reportedly sat for hours determined to have each of the photographs found in his apartment fully identified. 

He was placed on trial for the purpose of determining whether he was sane or insane. If he was declared insane it would mean that he would spend the rest of his life in a secure psychiatric hospital. If declared sane, then he would simply go to prison. There was no death penalty in Wisconsin at that time. 

He was declared sane and was sentenced on the 15th of February 1992 to 15 terms of life imprisonment. He was later convicted of a 16th murder and another life sentence was added on. One of the murders he didn't receive a sentence due to lack of evidence. 

Not long into his sentence, things took another dramatic turn on the 28th of November 1994, when he and another inmate were found unconscious on the bathroom floor of the gymnasium in the prison. Both men had been severely beaten with a metal bar by a man named Christopher Scarver. Both men died of their injuries, Jeffrey died an hour after he was found and the other man, Jesse Anderson, died two days later in hospital. Jeffrey was 34 years old. 

The man who murdered Jeffrey was an African-American man which for some would seem like some small work of karma considering that most of Jeffrey's victims were African-American. 

Jeffrey's body was cremated but his brain was preserved for some time at his mother's request. Her thought was that the brain could be donated to medical science. A Judge ruled that the brain be destroyed and all of the ashes were split between Jeffrey's parents. 

In 1992, the Apartment where Jeffrey carried out his sickening crimes, was demolished.

(Some of Jeffrey Dahmer's Victims. Picture credit: Daily Mail)

The poor young men who lost their lives at the evil hands of Jeffrey Dahmer were not his only victims, there are numerous men out there who were drugged, raped and tortured by him but were able to escape. Every boy or man that he took back to his apartment was not murdered, some he lost the nerve with. others he was too drunk himself to do anything and on one occasion he'd taken a young man back to his home with plans to kill him but had passed out drunk, waking up the next morning to find that the man had gone and had taken some money from him. 

The story of Jeffrey Dahmer will forever haunt and horrify anyone who has researched the case or followed the headlines in the newspapers at the time. People are still fascinated by him, they don't condone what he did in the slightest but people want to know how can someone be so cold, so evil? How could someone take another human being and treat them like that and who could have sexual thoughts about having sex with corpses and acting upon it? It really is the stuff of nightmares and none of us, even the criminologists, psychologists and investigators who worked on the case and dealt with Jeffery personally will ever understand what he was and why he was driven to do the things he did. 

I think of the victims, the survivors and the families. During Jeffrey's trial, there was a moment when the friends and relatives of the victims were given a chance to speak and a lady stepped forward by the name of Rita Isbell (sister of Errol Lindsey). Jeffrey sat at his table surrounded by lawyers and cops as Rita called him 'Satan' and proceeded to walk towards his table shouting: 

''JEFFREY! I HATE YOU MOTHERF*****! I HATE YOU! DON'T F*** WITH ME JEFFREY I WILL KILL YOU GOD DAMN IT! LOOK AT ME MOTHERF*****! I WANT TO KILL YOU! 

I think anyone who has watched that piece of footage will agree, your heart just goes out to Rita and you can feel her pain. I've watched many trials and been to some court cases myself and there's always been a level of restraint. There is so much the people want to say and do, the urge to just jump over the table and grab Jeffrey is totally understandable. The fact he just sat there without a tear in his eye at any point of the trial and didn't even flinch when Rita (who I felt was incredibly brave and an amazing woman) confronted him just added to the anger. Even people who were not related to the victims, people like myself who have researched and written about this case know of the suffering these young men went through, the ordeals the survivors went through and the pain that the families went through and no doubt continue to go through today. It's a horrible case and Jeffrey Dahmer was pure evil, very manipulative and that's what makes him even more frightening. He just appeared to be a quiet, well spoken guy but behind the scenes was a complete monster. 

I just want to say as I close this post that I appreciate you taking the time to read my first subject in my Serial Killer Series, I know it must have been a harrowing read. I hope you will join me next Sunday for my next subject. 

I welcome any comments here or on my Socials


R.I.P to the known victims of Jeffrey Dahmer:
 
Steven Hicks.
Steven Tuomi.
James Doxtator.
Richard Guerrero.
Anthony Sears.
Raymond Smith.
Edward Smith.
Ernest Miller.
David Thomas.
Curtis Straughter.
Errol Lindsey.
Tony Hughes.
Konerak Sinthasomphone.
Matt Turner. 
Jeremiah Weinberger.
Oliver Lacy.
Joseph Bradechoft. 


The victims were aged between 14 -32. 



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 Thank you for joining me for these first two posts in my serial killer series, I hope you will join me again next Sunday, Hope to see you on socials x

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The Life & Gruesome Crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer (& Other Details You May Not Know) | Serial Killer Series | Part One

 

(Jeffrey Dahmer. Picture credit: Milwaukee Police Department) 

As mentioned in my last post, I am now on to my new series which is focused solely on serial killers. If you are a regular reader of my work, you will know that I have covered a vast number of serial killers in my previous posts. I would list them here but it would be too many to mention, so please check out my 
Archives page where you will find individuals such as Levi Bellfield, Bobby Joe Long and Richard Trenton Chase amongst others. 

It's also important to mention a reminder that in my previous posts as well as this one and the upcoming posts, to bare in mind that I will be sharing some disturbing details, some things might be quite graphic but I will try as always to be as sensitive as I can without shying away from the facts. 

So my serial killer series starts with the infamous Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer. Some may think that he or Ted Bundy would have been obvious choices and the truth is, that I have had those individuals requested many times but I've refused to write about them because (in my opinion) there is a numerous amount of books, documentaries and films about them that I couldn't see myself bringing anything new to the table that people hadn't read or heard of before. 

What I found however is that my readers love my style of writing and my ability to go down the 'rabbit hole' and really delve into these cases bringing details that they may have not heard of before. I was persuaded to write about Jeffrey Dahmer by my fabulous subscriber and incredibly talented musician Shilo who wanted to hear my take on the case and in my style, so here we are. Thank you Shilo for the request and for the amazing support (be sure to check out his music on social media)

You may or may not know that my style of research is very old-school, like the fact that I write a blog instead of having just a podcast or YouTube channel. I'm currently working on my first true crime book as I continue with my blog. I don't listen to other true crime podcasts, on a very rare occasion I will listen to one if I haven't heard about a particular case but I never listen for research purposes. Everything I do is very retro, such as the endless stack of true crime books, encyclopedias of crime and serial killers, law books etc that I have. I read A LOT! I I use the books, newspaper articles, court documents and trial footage as my references in doing my research on a case. I know my blog is referenced many times in podcasts, YouTube channels and other blogs. I also know there is times when my work has been stolen. 

But anyway, that's just a little bit about the background of my research and work leading into this. I went down a very dark hole with Jeffrey Dahmer (it was to be expected if you know anything about his crimes, it's not at all pretty or pleasant in the slightest) and because of how highly publicised (and some would say, as in the case of Ted Bundy, over-glamourised) basically half the books in my bookcase featured him in one way or another so I had a lot of material to work with. 

I will list the books I have been reading and my sources at the end of the post if you are interested in delving even more deeply into the crimes and life of Jeffrey Dahmer but let's begin...

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer came into the world on the 21st of May 1960 to parents Annette Joyce Flint (known as 'Joyce' but she preferred to be called 'Rocky') and Lionel Herbert Dahmer. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA and both of his parents were said to have been quite a good looking couple. The couple had a combined mix of German, Welsh, Norwegian and Irish ancestry so that did a lot to explain Jeffrey's striking looks of auburn hair and blue eyes when he was younger. 

It wasn't just the looks that Jeffrey inherited from his parents, he was very intelligent too (experts would later say that he was somewhat on a 'genius' level). His father had a brilliant mind and studied chemistry and his mother was a teletype machine instructor. So in terms of looks, intelligence and a financial foundation, Jeffrey looked all set but unfortunately, he inherited some of their bad traits too. 

The question of nature or nurture often comes up in the discussion of serial killers, were they born to kill? or was it their upbringing that made them that way? I will leave you to be the judge. All I know is that in my research into his background I found that his parents were reportedly very self-centred. I'm not saying they are responsible for the monster he was to become or for what he did but everyone's brains are wired differently and I think (in my opinion) his childhood relationships with his parents may have played a small part and also with the psychological history of his mother. 

His parents were focused on themselves, his father was 100% dedicated to his career and was often away from home studying. His mother was very over-emotional and suffered mood swings. Even before Jeffrey was born and she was carrying him in pregnancy she went out of her way to manipulate and play emotional games with Lionel to get his attention. His mother wanted to be the sole focus of everything and would play games such as stomping out of the house (fully pregnant with Jeffrey at the time) in the middle of an argument with no boots on in the snow. She walked a few blocks putting her health and that of her unborn child, at risk whilst Lionel frantically searched and finally found her. It seemed she enjoyed the attention, taking Lionel away from his work and making him worry and fuss over her. Both of them displayed narcissistic traits. 

Things weren't any better when Jeffrey was born, Lionel was still busy and his mother often complained of feeling ill and depressed, she spent a lot of time in bed and reportedly had a breakdown. In the beginning she was breast feeding Jeffrey but she felt very uncomfortable doing it so she taped up her breasts and bottle fed him. Experts would later say that this could have played a small factor in his abandonment issues, the child being denied the mother's milk from the breast, breaking that bond. When Lionel argued with her over not breast feeding Jeffrey, she left the house in a bad mood wearing her night dress and laid down in a field. Lionel had to go looking for her again, found her and brought her home.  Young Jeffrey was witness to his father's absence and his mother's strange behaviour and began to believe that he was the sole cause of it all.
 

Jeffrey had his own problems too, as well as witnessing the constant arguments between his parents when his father was at home, he had to wear braces on his legs until he was four years old and had developed a hernia which he had to have surgery for. The trauma of having to undergo a medial procedure at such a young age had a profound affect on Jeffrey which he would talk about many years later. he spoke of the tremendous pain and as a child believing that someone had taken his penis away because of how painful certain areas of his body was. 

Despite the problems at home and the constant upheaval (Lionel moved around due to studies) Joyce fell pregnant again and soon another baby boy was born. Jeffrey was given the honour of naming his baby brother and he called him 'David'. 

At school Jeffrey was said to be quiet but he did have his own group of friends. He did grow to be more private as time went on and nobody really knew what he was feeling or thinking. A trait which he would go on to carry for the rest of his life, his poker face, no expression. He felt more and more abandoned by his parents and rejected. Joyce seemed to be more focused on David and his father was always busy as usual so Jeffrey wasn't quite sure where he fitted in, he felt lonely and did spend a considerable amount of time alone. 

 At school he became fond of a teacher and as a gift he brought her a box full of tadpoles which she put next to the window in the classroom. Seeing the gift he gave her displayed for all to see made him feel wanted, appreciated and special. One day he went into the class and noticed the box of tadpoles had gone. 

He was confused wondering where they were, maybe she took them home? He finally got his answer when he went to visit one of his school friends and noticed the exact same box with tadpoles in his bedroom. Jeffrey was hurt. In his mind she had rejected him and given his gift away to someone else. He felt abandoned again and in a horrible and cruel manner, he poured motor oil into the box, killing the tadpoles.

The incident with the tadpoles was a huge sign of things to come, his complete disregard for life and the attitude of 'If I don't get my way or what I want, then someone is going to pay' and the fact he did this as a child speaks volumes. 

More red flags in his childhood were present especially when he became fixated with animal bones that he found. He asked Lionel how to go about bleaching animal bones and Lionel, thinking his son was taking an interest in Chemistry and Biology was only too happy to show him. 

(Jeffrey Dahmer as a child and into his teenage years. Picture credits: Wikipedia) 

As Jeffrey grew up, he found himself more and more alone at home. He was pretty much left to his own devices. Some young people would enjoy having time to themselves but Jeffrey struggled, he felt out of place and not wanted. When looking into his mother's background, her father was an alcoholic who neglected her and had some strange behaviour and thoughts of his own. The man reportedly drank heavily due to not being able to cope with the thoughts that were in his head. His mother grew up feeling lonely and abandoned and once she got into a relationship with Lionel it seemed as if she was looking for a father figure with the immature behaviour of mood swings and running off for attention. 

Again it brings one back to the thought of there being some sort of genetic factor with Jeffrey's behaviour. 

By the time Jeffrey was 18 he had a full blown 'hobby' of collecting dead animals off the road that had been hit by cars and random deceased ones that he had found in the woods. He was fascinated with how they were put together but this wasn't in some sort of educational manner, he wanted to cut them open and take out their insides, examine them, play with them, bleach their bones and keep them in jars. Apart from the incident I mentioned earlier with the tadpoles, there's no record of Jeffrey being cruel towards animals, he was only interested in animals who had already been killed so that he could examine them. 

Jeffery claimed that he had known since he was a child that he was homosexual as he never really had an interest in girls. As well as his 'hobby' of collecting dead animal remains, he was still able to have his friends although he was growing more and more apart from them. He kept his strange thoughts and activities out of school, private. He also began drinking heavily at a young age in an attempt to help with the loneliness, depression and the fantasies that he was having. He always had strange, macabre thoughts since about the age of 15 but he was able to control them to some extent and using the dead animals helped curb this for a while but what he really hungered for was a human body, a male human body. 

His fantasies revolved around men who were either unconscious or deceased. He imagined himself having complete control over their bodies in a sexual manner. He was particularly fixated on the male torso. He wanted to be able to do what he wanted with the men, lay with them, sleep with them and use them for his own sexual gratification for a long as he wanted. He could only maintain an erection at the thought of these men being 'human zombies', he was never turned on by the thought of an active sexual partner. He had to be in complete control at all times. 

He began to fantasise about a male jogger he would see running near his home every day. He would think about having complete control over this man in a sexual manner. His obsession got to the point where he planned to 'knock-out' this man somehow with a use of a weapon so that the man would be unconscious and he could have sex with him for as long as he wanted. 

He put this horrible plan to action and hid in the bushes with a weapon waiting for the man to run by so that he could attack him and satisfy his sexual perversions. Fortunately the man didn't run past that day and Jeffrey didn't see him again so gave up his plan. One wonders what this poor jogger must have thought, years later, hearing that he could have become a victim of Jeffrey Dahmer. 

Jeffrey's thirst for his fantasy to come to life didn't leave him. He tried his best to control it by drinking. 

It was 1978 and Jeffrey's horrific fantasy was to come to life when he, at the age of just 18, picked up a hitchhiker by the name of Steven Hicks. Steven was on his way to see his girlfriend but agreed to go back to Jeffrey's house for a few drinks and to smoke some weed. At the house the boys talked, smoked and drank but Jeffrey soon realised that Steven wasn't homosexual which disappointed him as he found the 18 year old attractive and enjoyed his company. He didn't feel alone with Steven being there but soon began to fear that it would be time for him to leave and he didn't want to let him go. As Steven was sitting on the bed with his back towards him, Jeffrey picked up a barbell and struck him violently over the head and proceeded to strangle the boy with it. There was a struggle but Jeffrey managed to overpower Steven. 

He then dragged Steven's lifeless body to a crawlspace and the next morning purchased a hunting knife. When he came home he retrieved Steven's body and began to cut it open and examined the remains, cutting off the arms, legs and head. He wrapped the remains in bags and planned to take them to a garbage disposal. On his journey there he was stopped by a police car and questioned, the policeman shone a torch to the backseat and saw the bags, noticed a foul odour but let Jeffrey carry on about his business. That same police officer actually interviewed Jeffrey many years later and the man carried around an enormous amount of guilt at the thought that he was responsible for letting Jeffrey go that night.


Jeffrey passed on the idea of going to the garbage disposal and went straight back home (probably realising what a lucky escape he had but in some ways it must have given him some sort of thrill, to have almost been caught). He went back to the crawlspace with the bags but took out the decapitated, decomposing head and took it to his bedroom where he masturbated in front of it. After he was finished with the remains he dumped them in a wooded area behind his house and got rid of Steven's belongings and the knife by disposing of them in a river and burning his clothes. 

After he had carried out this gruesome murder, he later said that the whole experience was quite traumatic and out of all the names of the people he would go on to drug, rape, torture, dismember and eat, he never forgot about Steven Hicks because he said ''You always remember your first one''. 

The murder of Steven Hicks was the only murder that troubled Jeffrey, years later he would have moments where he would cry when memories of the killing would come flooding back. 

This was a horrifying murder of a young man of 18 by a boy of the same age. Looking back on Jeffrey's past it is as if everything was building up to that point, like the strange and gruesome hobby of collecting dead animal remains, it was like that was just practice for what he really wanted to do to a human being. 

If things weren't already utterly sick and twisted in Jeffrey Dahmer's world, they were about to get much worse, much, much worse...

Continued in part two

(Further reading & sources are shared in my concluding post) 

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