Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't just one of the country's most notorious serial killers - he was one who used truly creative and horrifying ways to torture, kill, and dispose of his victims, from eating their body parts to trying to make them into "zombies" by injecting drugs directly into their brains. According to Dahmer, he was motivated by a desire to take total possession of men whom he found physically attractive, whether by photo-documenting their dead bodies or by storing their parts in this refrigerator.
The Most Twisted Things Jeffrey Dahmer Did to His Victims,
He Tried to Rip Out Steven Tuomi’s Heart
Steven Tuomi was Dahmer’s second victim. He was killed at the Ambassador Hotel and then placed in a trunk. Before this happened, Dahmer tore into Tuomi’s chest and tried to remove his heart with his bare hands. Dahmer took Tuomi’s body back to his grandmother’s house, where he proceeded to cut him up and throw his body parts away. Unlike Dahmer’s other victims, Tuomi’s remains were never found.
He Painted Raymond Smith’s Skull Gray and Then Stored It in His Refrigerator
Raymond Smith was Dahmer’s seventh victim. Smith was picked up in a bar named Club 219, when the victim accepted Dahmer’s offer of posing for a few pictures in order to make some quick cash. Instead, Dahmer drugged, strangled, and then dismembered him. After the flesh was removed from Smith’s skull, Dahmer painted it gray and then placed it on a shelf in his fridge.
According to Dahmer, “The only motive that there ever was was to completely control a person; a person I found physically attractive. And keep them with me as long as possible, even if it meant just keeping a part of them.”
He Placed Ernest Miller’s Biceps in His Freezer
Ernest Miller met Dahmer in front of a bookstore, and accepted his offer of money in exchange for sex. Instead, Miller was drugged, following Dahmer’s usual modus operandi. However, Miller wasn’t strangled - Dahmer slit his throat, took pictures of his body, and then cut him into pieces. Miller’s biceps wound up in the freezer, while his skin was dissolved in acid and his bones bleached.
the Soilex removes all the flesh, turns it into a jelly-like substance and it just rinses off. Then I laid the bones in a light bleach solution, left them there for a day and spread them out on either newspaper or cloth and let them dry for about a week in the bedroom.
He Kept Oliver Lacy’s Heart in His Refrigerator
Oliver Lacy was Dahmer’s second-to-last victim. Like the others, he was drugged and strangled, then dismembered and placed in a vat of acid. However, Dahmer kept his heart, placing it on a shelf in his refrigerator. Shortly after this, Dahmer was caught by the police. During his confession, he told them that he put it there “to eat later.”
He Befriended Tony Hughes Before Killing Him
According to reports, Tony Hughes and Dahmer were friends for about two years before Dahmer killed him. He lured Hughes to his house by writing him a letter (Hughes could not hear or speak) offering him $50 in exchange for nude pictures. Hughes showed up to pose, only to be drugged, strangled, and dismembered. His skull was stored in Dahmer’s apartment.
He Strangled Joseph Bradehoft with a Strap
Joseph Bradehoft was Dahmer’s last murder victim. He picked up Bradehoft at a bus stop, where he offered the usual exchange of sex and nude pictures for money. Bradehoft was then drugged, strangled with a strap, and chopped into pieces which were then dissolved in acid. His skull was found in Dahmer’s freezer with the others.
He Crushed Steven Hicks’s Bones with a Sledgehammer
Steven Hicks has the honor of being Dahmer’s very first victim. Dahmer was right out of high school when he picked up Hicks, a hitchhiker. Dahmer took Hicks to his home, where he got him drunk and then hit Hicks with a barbell before strangling him to death. He buried Hicks’s dismembered remains in the backyard, and then later on, dug them up, skinned them, smashed his bones to bits, and spread them throughout a ravine.
He Took Pictures While He Cut Jeremiah Weinberger’s Body Into Small Pieces
Dahmer met Jeremiah Weinberger at a club on Well Street in Milwaukee. He lured Weinberger home, spent an entire day with him, and then knocked him out with a drugged drink. Then Dahmer strangled the man who became his 15th victim and photographed the process of dismembering him. As with many other victims, Weinberger’s skull wound up in Dahmer’s freezer.
During his trial, Dahmer stated,
I was completely swept along with my own compulsion. I don't know how else to put it. It didn't satisfy me completely, so maybe I was thinking, "Maybe another one will. Maybe this one will." And the numbers started growing and growing and just got out of control, as you can see.
He Experimented on Konerak Sinthasomphone While He Was Still Alive
Konerak Sinthasomphone was a 14-year-old that Dahmer drugged in his apartment. However, rather than strangle the boy, as he did his other victims, Dahmer instead drilled a hole in the back of his head, injected hydrochloric acid into the front sections of his brain, and performed other horrifying experiments, all while trying to create a sex zombie who would do his bidding. When this didn’t work, Dahmer dismembered him and stored his body parts in acid.
He Melted James Doxater’s Flesh with Acid
James Doxater, Dahmer’s third victim, was only 14 years old when the serial killer picked him up on a street corner. Doxater was drugged, then strangled. By this time, Dahmer was honing his body disposal methods, so Doxater receives the morbid prize of being the first to have the flesh melted from his bones as his body sat in a vat of acid. His bones were later smashed and scattered, much like Tuomi’s.