The Milwaukee Monster

In Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 21, 1960, Lionel and Joyce Dahmer welcomed a baby boy into their family who they named Jeffrey Dahmer. Growing up, Jeffrey had a normal and happy childhood until the age of four. Dahmer went in for surgery for a double hernia. However, recovering from the surgery did not go as planned. Jeffrey’s parents noticed a change in his personality. His mother stated, “When he was young, he liked to use acid to scrape the meat off dead animals.” In his teen years, Dahmer started to become disengaged from his family. Just months after graduating high school in 1978, Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks and took him back to his parents house in Ohio. According to Biography.com, after they arrived at his parents house, Dahmer strangled and beat Hicks to death. Later, Dahmer dismembered and disposed of Hicks body in garbage bags.

Dahmer would go on and murder two more victims, 14-year-old James Doxtator and 21-year-old Richard Guerrero, before his grandmother kicked him out of her house for bringing men home late at night. After finding his own apartment, Dahmer would later be arrested in 1989 for sexually assaulting Keison Sinthasomphone, who was just 13 years old at the time. Not even a year later, Dahmer murdered 24-year-old Anthony Sears, an aspiring model, and took him to his grandmother's basement to dismember him, in fear that the police were watching his apartment. A few months later, he was sentenced to jail for 12 months for another sexual assault charge.

Between June of 1990 and July of 1991, Dahmer would continue to kill 11 more men and boys, ranging from the ages of 14 to 27 years old. When two police officers sighted a man with handcuffs, Tracey Edwards, on the side of the road, the police were later lent to Dahmer, who confessed that he was the one who put the handcuffs on Edwards. Upon entering the house, Edwards brought up the fact that there was a knife in Dahmer's bedroom. USA TODAY mentioned that, while the officers were searching the bedroom, they spotted a dresser drawer filled with Polaroid photos of men in different stages of dismemberment. After this incident, Officer Rolf Mueller stated in an interview, “You think you have seen it all out here, and then something like this happens.” After discovering the photos, Dahmer tried to escape the scene but was arrested.