Who is the Killer?: Capturing The Milwaukee Cannibal

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer

He was born on May 21st, 1960, at the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Joyce Annette and Lionel Herbert Dahmer.

His mother worked as a teletype machine instructor,and his father was a chemistry student at Marquette University.

As Dahmer entered the first grade,  his mom spend increasing amount of her time in bed recovering from weakness.
She also attempted suicide from an overdose of Eqanil pills.
This led her to become and addict.
His dad's university studies kept him away from home much of the time.
Consequently, neither parent devoted much time to their son.

Dahmer was an energetic and happy child until he became underwent a double hernia surgery, which was performed shortly before his fourth birthday.

His parents were always arguing with each other.

On his first grade report card, one teacher described Dahmer as a reserved child whom she sensed felt neglected.

He collected animal carcasses from the roadside.

He dismembered these animals either at home or in an expanse of woodland behind the family home. 

He stored the parts in jars in the family's wooden tool shed.

In High School, Dahmer was considered an outcast, and a class clown.

His pranks were called "doing a Dahmer."

He also discovered he was homosexual and was always drinking alcohol at school.

By 1977, Dahmer's grades had declined.

His parents decided to divorce and his dad moved out of the house.

When the officers and Edwards arrived at Apartment 213, Dahmer invited the them inside.

He admitted that he  handcuffed Edwards. although he offered no explanation as to why. 

In the bedroom, an officer found a large knife beneath the bed.

He also saw an open drawer which, upon closer inspection, contained  Polaroid pictures.

Many of the pictures were of human bodies in various stages of dismemberment. 

He walked into the living room to show them to his partner.

When Dahmer saw that the officer was holding several of his Polaroids, he fought with the officers in an effort to resist arrest. The officers quickly overpowered him, cuffed his hands behind his back.

One of the officers opened the refrigerator to reveal the freshly severed head of a black male on the bottom shelf.

As Dahmer lay pinned on the floor beneath the other officer, he turned his head and muttered the words:

 "For what I did I should be dead."

There were four severed heads in Dahmer's kitchen. 

Seven skulls were found in Dahmer's bedroom and inside a closet.

Investigators discovered collected blood drippings upon a tray at the bottom of Dahmer's refrigerator, plus two human hearts and a portion of arm muscle, each wrapped inside plastic bags upon the shelves. 

In Dahmer's freezer, investigators discovered an entire torso, plus a bag of human organs and flesh stuck to the ice at the bottom.

Investigators discovered two entire skeletons, a pair of severed hands, two severed and preserved penises, a mummified scalp and, in the 57-gallon drum, three further dismembered torsos dissolving in the acid solution. 

A total of 74 Polaroid pictures detailing the dismemberment of Dahmer's victims were found.