Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer ( May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994 ) was an American serial killer and sex offender.

Dahmer was born in West Allis, Wisconsin, the son of Joyce Annette ( née Flint ) and Lionel Herbert Dahmer, an analytical chemist.

Dahmer began drinking in his teens and was an alcoholic by the time of his high school graduation.

Dahmer did well at first, but he was discharged after two years because of his alcoholism.

When the Army discharged Dahmer in 1981, he was provided with a plane ticket to anywhere in the country.

Dahmer later told police he could not go home to face his father, so he headed to Miami Beach, Florida, because he was " tired of the cold.

Dahmer was paroled from the work release camp two months early, and he soon moved into a new apartment.

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

In the early morning hours of May 27, 1991, 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone ( the younger brother of the boy whom Dahmer had molested in 1988 ) was discovered on the street, wandering naked, heavily under the influence of drugs and bleeding from his rectum.

Dahmer told John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish, police officers dispatched to the scene, that Sinthasomphone was his 19-year-old boyfriend, and that they had an argument while drinking.

Against the protests of the two women who had called 911, who recognized him from the neighborhood and insisted that he was a child and couldn't speak English, the officers turned him over to Dahmer.

By summer 1991, Dahmer was murdering approximately one person each week.

Dahmer got the idea that he could turn his victims into " zombies " — completely submissive, eternally youthful sexual partners – and attempted to do so by drilling holes into their skulls and injecting hydrochloric acid or boiling water into the frontal lobe area of their brains with a large syringe, usually while the victim was still alive.

Wielding a large butcher knife, Dahmer forced Edwards into the bedroom, where Edwards saw pictures of mangled bodies on the wall and noticed the terrible smell coming from a large blue barrel ; the barrel was filled with potent acid which dissolved human bodies to sludge for disposal via the apartment toilet.

However, Edwards remembered that the knife Dahmer had threatened him with was in the bedroom.

Jeffrey Dahmer was indicted on 17 murder charges, later reduced to 15.

The court found Dahmer sane and guilty on 15 counts of murder and sentenced him to 15 life terms, totaling 957 years in prison, which was the maximum penalty available as Wisconsin does not have capital punishment.

In May of that year, Dahmer was extradited to Ohio, where he entered a plea of guilty for the murder of his first victim, Stephen Hicks.

Dahmer was attacked twice in prison, the first time in July 1994.

An inmate attempted to slash Dahmer's throat with a razor blade while Dahmer was returning to his cell from a church service in the prison chapel.

The district attorney who prosecuted Dahmer cautioned against turning Scarver into a folk hero, noting that Dahmer's death was still murder.

Lionel Dahmer is an advocate for creationism, and his wife was a member of the board of the Medina County Ohio Horseman's Council.

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

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.

In January 2007, evidence surfaced potentially linking Dahmer to Adam Walsh's 1981 abduction and murder in Florida.

Ads were released in 1991 describing the deaths of the victims of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, in 2002 describing the deaths of the victims of serial killer Robert William Pickton, and in 2008 describing the murder of Tim McLean.

One such report, written in January 1966, states that Scarpa was later used as a " special " — the FBI term for a nonagent working for the Bureau in the murder of Vernon Dahmer, the head of the NAACP office in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Andrew Cunanan is again given as an example for spree killing, while Charles Whitman is mentioned in connection with mass murder, and Jeffrey Dahmer with serial killing.

Mitchell had earned renown for helping secure convictions in several other high profile Civil Rights Era murder cases, including the assassination of Medgar Evers, the Birmingham Church bombing, and the murder of Vernon Dahmer.

* Jeffrey Dahmer, arrested in Wisconsin in 1991 after killing more than a dozen men and boys, was also named as a suspect in the Walsh murder.

In January 2007, deceased serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer fell under suspicion for the murder of Adam.

Mitchell had earned renown for helping secure convictions in several other high-profile Civil Rights Era murder cases, including the assassination of Medgar Evers, the Birmingham church bombing and the murder of Vernon Dahmer.

* For Eddie Smith the murder victim, see Jeffrey Dahmer

On July 22, 1991, Dahmer lured another man, Tracy Edwards, into his home.

According to the would-be victim, Dahmer struggled with Edwards in order to handcuff him, but ultimately failed to cuff his wrists together.

Edwards punched Dahmer in the face, kicked him in the stomach, ran for the door and escaped.

Edwards led police back to Dahmer's apartment, where Dahmer at first acted friendly to the officers.

Also, some mentally ill people obsess about eating others and actually do so, such as Jeffrey Dahmer and Albert Fish.

Notable examples include Albert Fish, Issei Sagawa and Jeffrey Dahmer.

* 1991 – Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.

Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occurring between 1987 and 1991.

Joyce Dahmer reportedly had a difficult pregnancy with her elder son.

Dahmer grew increasingly withdrawn and uncommunicative between the ages of 10 and 15, showing little interest in any hobbies or social interactions.

Though fundamentally an outcast at Revere High School, Dahmer nonetheless became something of a cult figure among some students due to his impressions of his mother's interior decorator, who suffered from cerebral palsy.

In 1977, Lionel and Joyce Dahmer divorced.

Dahmer attended The Ohio State University, but dropped out after one quarter, having failed to attend most of his classes.

In 1982, Dahmer moved in with his grandmother in West Allis, where he lived for six years.

His grandmother once found a fully dressed male mannequin in his closet ; Dahmer had stolen it from a store.

Terrible smells came from the basement ; Dahmer told his father that he had brought home a dead squirrel and dissolved it with chemicals.

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.

" Dahmer buried the body in the backyard.