Bardsley, Marilyn. "Jeffrey Dahmer– Serial Killer and Cannibal– More Murders, More Arrests". TruTV.com. TruTV Crime Library. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009 . Retrieved July 26, 2010. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link) March 24: Richard Guerrero, 22. Drugged and strangled in Dahmer's bedroom at West Allis. Dahmer dismembered Guerrero's corpse in the basement, dissolved the flesh in acid and disposed of the bones in the trash. He bleached and retained the skull for several months before disposing of it. [338] No remains were ever found. Worthington, Rogers (February 10, 1992). "Dahmer Case Comes Down to Will Vs. Impulse". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on November 26, 2021 . Retrieved January 22, 2021. Dahmer Killer Charged". Time. Meredith Corporation. December 15, 1994. Archived from the original on October 1, 2019 . Retrieved October 1, 2019. According to Dahmer, Tuomi's murder was a pivotal incident after which he did not try to control his compulsions. [124] He began to actively seek victims, most of whom he encountered in or around gay bars and would typically lure them to his grandmother's home. He would drug his victim with triazolam or temazepam before or shortly after engaging in sexual activity with them. Once his victim was unconscious, he strangled them to death. [125] [126]

By late 1985, Dahmer had begun to regularly frequent the bathhouses, which he later described as being "relaxing places", but during his sexual encounters, he became frustrated at his partners' moving during the act. Following his arrest, he stated: "I trained myself to view people as objects of pleasure instead of [as] people". [106] For this reason, beginning in June 1986, he administered sleeping pills to his partners, giving them liquor laced with sedatives. He then waited for his partner to fall asleep before performing various sexual acts. [107] To maintain an adequate supply of this medication, Dahmer informed doctors he worked nights and required the tablets to adjust to that schedule. [108] After approximately 12 such instances, the bathhouses' administration revoked Dahmer's membership, and he began to use hotel rooms to continue this practice. [109] On May 24, 1991, Dahmer encountered 31-year-old aspiring model Tony Hughes at a nightclub. He was lured to Dahmer's apartment with an offer of money to pose for photographs. [n 11] Hughes was drugged into unconsciousness before Dahmer injected hydrochloric acid into his skull in an effort to disable his will and render him submissive, although on this occasion, the drilling and injection proved fatal. [176] Konerak Sinthasomphone The Netflix dark tourism documentary series Dark Tourist has broadcast an episode which features Dahmer's crimes. This 40-minute documentary was first broadcast on July 20, 2018. [371] Jeffrey Dahmer's Inferno". Vanity Fair. November 1, 1991. Archived from the original on March 29, 2022 . Retrieved April 28, 2022. Berry-Dee, Christopher (2022). Inside the Mind of Jeffrey Dahmer: The Cannibal Killer. London: Ad Lib Publishers Limited. ISBN 978-1-913-54331-0.Stingl, Jim (February 12, 1992). "Dahmer Knew What He Was Doing, Expert Says". The Milwaukee Journal . Retrieved December 5, 2013– via Google News. [ permanent dead link] Most of Dahmer's victims had been rendered unconscious prior to their murder, although some had died as a result of having acid or boiling water injected into their brain. As he had no memory of the killing of his second victim, Steven Tuomi, he was unsure whether he was unconscious when beaten to death, although he did concede it was possible that his viewing the exposed chest of Tuomi while in a drunken stupor may have led him to unsuccessfully attempt to tear Tuomi's heart from his chest. [239] Almost all the murders Dahmer committed after moving into the Oxford Apartments had involved a ritual of posing the victims' bodies in suggestive positions—typically with the chest thrust outwards—prior to dismemberment. [240]

Prud'Homme, Alex (August 5, 1991). "The Little Flat of Horrors". Time. Meredith Corporation. Archived from the original on September 26, 2013 . Retrieved August 19, 2012. Land, Olivia (January 17, 2023). "Jeffrey Dahmer's Stepmother Shari Dead at 81". The New York Post . Retrieved January 26, 2023. Dahmer Belongings Destroyed". Lawrence Journal-World. Lawrence, Kansas: Ogden Newspapers, Inc. June 28, 1996. Archived from the original on November 22, 2021 . Retrieved November 24, 2018– via Google News. Inside Edition conducted an interview with Dahmer in January 1993. Conducted by reporter Nancy Glass, this 30-minute interview was broadcast in February 1993. [361]Bardsley, Marilyn. "Jeffrey Dahmer– Serial Killer and Cannibal– End of the Road". TruTV.com. TruTV Crime Library. Archived from the original on May 19, 2011 . Retrieved July 26, 2010. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link) Lambe, Stacy (October 11, 2022). "Mother of Jeffrey Dahmer Victim Tony Hughes Speaks Out Against Netflix Limited Series". CBS . Retrieved November 8, 2022. Several of Dahmer's possessions unrelated to his crimes such as items of furniture were retrieved by his father shortly after Dahmer's sentencing. [325] Initially, Dahmer's living arrangements with his grandmother were harmonious: he accompanied her to church, willingly undertook chores, actively sought work and abided by most of her house rules (although he continued to drink and smoke). [98] In early 1982, he found employment as a phlebotomist at the Milwaukee Blood Plasma Center. He held this job for a total of ten months before being laid off. [95] Dahmer remained unemployed for over two years, during which he lived upon whatever money his grandmother gave him. [99]

Dahmer Responsible for Sixteen Deaths". Green Bay Press-Gazette. July 15, 2001 . Retrieved September 26, 2022. By 1977, Dahmer's grades had declined. [54] His parents hired a private tutor, with limited success. The same year, in an attempt to save their marriage, his parents attended counseling sessions. They continued to quarrel frequently. When Lionel discovered Joyce had engaged in a brief affair in September 1977, they decided to divorce, telling their sons they wished to do so amicably. The process of their divorce soon became increasingly bitter and acrimonious, and Lionel moved out of the house in early 1978, [55] temporarily residing in a motel on North Cleveland Massillon Road. [56] [57] Walsh, Edward (August 30, 1991). "Officers in Dahmer Case Are Cleared". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 24, 2021 . Retrieved January 24, 2021.

July 19: Joseph Arthur Bradehoft, 25. Dahmer's last victim. Bradehoft was a father of three children from Minnesota who was looking for work in Milwaukee at the time of his murder. [351] [352] He was left on Dahmer's bed for two days following his murder before, on July 21, being decapitated. His head was placed in the refrigerator and his torso in the 57-gallon drum.

ABC News has commissioned a one-hour episode focusing upon Dahmer's crimes as part of their television news magazine series Day One. This episode features interviews with forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz and psychiatrist Fred Berlin and was first broadcast in April 1993. [362] He Killed Them So They Wouldn't Leave' ". Quad City Times. August 11, 1991. Archived from the original on November 5, 2021 . Retrieved November 5, 2021. Less than two months later, on April 7, Dahmer encountered a 19-year-old named Errol Lindsey [167] [168] walking to get a key cut. Dahmer lured Lindsey to his apartment where he drugged him, then drilled a hole in his skull through which he injected hydrochloric acid with a baster. [169] According to Dahmer, Lindsey awoke after this experiment (which Dahmer had conceived in the hope of inducing a permanent, unresistant, submissive state), saying: "I have a headache. What time is it?" [170] [171] In response to this, Dahmer again drugged Lindsey, then strangled him. He decapitated Lindsey and retained his skull. [172] He then flayed Lindsey's body, placing the skin in a solution of cold water and salt for several weeks in the hope of permanently retaining it. Reluctantly, he disposed of Lindsey's skin when he noted it had become too frayed and brittle. [172] Dahmer, Lionel (1994). A Father's Story. Internet Archive. New York: W. Morrow & Co. p.16. ISBN 978-0-688-12156-3. a b Estate of Sinthasomphone v. City of Milwaukee, 838Federal Supplement1320, 1324(E.D. Wis.November 23, 1993).Jeffrey Dahmer: Guilty but Insane (2013). Written and performed by Joshua Hitchens and directed by Ryan Walter. [377] On July 15, Dahmer encountered 24-year-old [206] Oliver Lacy at the corner of 27th and Kilbourn. [207] Lacy agreed to Dahmer's ruse of posing nude for photographs and accompanied him to his apartment, where the pair engaged in tentative sexual activity before Dahmer drugged Lacy. On this occasion, Dahmer intended to prolong the time he spent with Lacy while alive. After unsuccessfully attempting to render Lacy unconscious with chloroform, [208] he phoned his workplace to request a day's absence; this was granted, although the next day, he was suspended. [206] Dahmer Enters Insanity Plea". The Southeast Missourian. January 14, 1992. Archived from the original on April 24, 2022 . Retrieved February 19, 2021. Smith, Jerry (February 11, 1992). "Officer Says He Noticed Nothing Unusual About Dahmer". United Press International. Archived from the original on January 20, 2021 . Retrieved January 20, 2021.