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Jeffrey Dahmer committed his first murder in the summer of 1978, at the age of 18.

His father was away on business and his mother had moved out, taking his brother with her ; Dahmer was left behind, alone.

That June, Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker named Stephen Hicks and offered to drink beer with him back at his father's house, planning to eventually have sex with him.

When Hicks tried to leave, Dahmer bludgeoned Hicks to death with a 10 lb.

dumbbell, striking the back of his head, later saying he had committed the crime because " the guy wanted to leave and didn't want him to.

" Dahmer buried the body in the backyard.

Nine years passed before he killed again ; in September 1987, Dahmer picked up 26-year-old Steven Tuomi at a bar and killed him on impulse ; he later said he had no memory of committing the crime.

After the Tuomi murder, Dahmer continued to kill sporadically: two more murders in 1988, and another in early 1989, usually picking up his victims in gay bars and having sex with them before killing them.

He kept the skull of one of his victims, Anthony Sears, until he was caught.