The site is mostly overgrown with grass and a tall chain link fence surrounding the perimeter of the property and is generally considered to be in a poor neighborhood of Milwaukee. At the time the apartments were demolished there were plans to turn the site into a memorial garden, but no garden exists on the site today. On November 28th, 1994, Dahmer (who himself had murdered 10 African African American males) and another inmate were brutally beaten and killed by African American inmate Christopher Scarver.Īfter Dahmer's death and subsequent legal proceedings regarding the study of his brain were over, his remains were cremated and divided in half between his birth mother Joyce and his father Lionel and stepmother Shari.Īfter the murders, the Oxford Apartments were razed and the site is now a vacant lot. Raymond Smith aka Ricky Beeks - May, 1990ĭahmer served his time at the Columbia Correctional Institute in Portage, Wisconsin.Matt Turner was killed on June 30th, Jeremiah Weinberger on July 5th, Oliver Lacyon July 12th, and finally Joseph Brandehoft on July 19th, just three days before Dahmer was finally arrested. They were named officers of the year by the police union for fighting a "righteous" battleto regain their jobs.īy summer 1991, Dahmer was murdering around one person every week. The two officers appealed this termination and were reinstated with back pay. John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish, the two police officers who returned Sinthasomphone to Dahmer, were terminated from the Milwaukee Police Department after their actions were widely publicized.
Konerak Sinthasomphone was the younger brother of the boy Dahmer was convicted of molesting in 1988. After being returned against his will by the Police, later that night Dahmer dismembered Sinthasomphone and would keep his skull as a souvenir. He was discovered on the street bleeding from the anus and with a hole drilled in the back of his head wandering around nude. This happened shortly after Konerak had escaped from Dahmer during the early morning hours of May 27, 1991. Many people were outraged to learn that Milwaukee police returned Laotian teenager Konerak Sinthasomphone, 14, to Dahmer after he (Dahmer) convinced police that Sinthasomphone was his 19 year-old lover. Dahmer admitted to eating the biceps of his eighth victim, Ernest Miller, whose skeleton he also kept, noting that human flesh "tasted like beef" to him. Accusations soon surfaced that Dahmer had practiced necrophilia and cannibalism. Severed heads were found in his refrigerator and plans for an altar of candles and human skulls were found in his closet. He achieved notoriety after his arrest following the discovery of several decaying bodies in acid vats in his apartment. Shortly thereafter, he began the string of murders that would end with his arrest in 1991. He convinced the judge that he only needed psychological help, and he was released with a 5 year probation on good behavior. In 1988 he was arrested for sexually fondling a 13-year-old boy, for which he served one year in a work release camp and was required to registeras a sex offender. This time he was sentenced to a year in prison, of which he served 10 months. Four years later, he was charged again with public exposure after two boys accused him of masturbating in public. The August that he moved in with his grandmother, 1982, he was arrested for exposing himself at a state fair. There were many signs of Dahmer's increasingly unhinged frame of mind, however. In 1982, he moved in with his grandmother in WestĪllis, Wisconsin where he would live for six years. He signed up for a six-year stint in the Army, he was released after only two years because of his excessive drinking. Dahmer's father then made him sign up with the Army. Dahmer had invited Hicks over to his house after picking up the 19 year-old hitchhiker, and after drinks, he killed him because he "didn't want him to leave".ĭahmer attended Ohio State University, but dropped out after one term. In fact, Dahmer committed his first murder at the age of 18, killing Steven Hicks. His parents underwent a divorce when Jeffrey was 18 (1978). He struggled with substance abuse and suffered from extremely low self-esteem. He did not commit acts of cruelty to animals but reportedly dissected already dead animals. From his earliest youth he was extremely shy. At age eight, his family moved to Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, near Akron. Dahmer was born in Milwaukee to Christian fundamentalist parents.
0 kommentar(er)
