Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (pronounced /ˈdɑːmər/; May 21, 1960-November 28, 1994), also known as theCannibal of Milwaukee or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sexual offender who committed the murder and dismemberment of seventeen men and teenagers between 1978 and 1991. Many of his murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism and the permanent preservation of body parts, usually all or part of the skeleton.

Although he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, and psychotic disorder, Dahmer was deemed legally sane at his trial. He was convicted of fifteen of the sixteen murders he had committed in Wisconsin and was sentenced to fifteen life sentences on February 17, 1992. Dahmer was later sentenced to a sixteenth life sentence for an additional murder committed in Ohio in 1978.

On November 28, 1994, Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver, a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin.

Early years

Childhood

Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the first of two children of Joyce Annette (née Flint; February 7, 1936 – November 27, 2000), a machine instructor. ticker, and Lionel Herbert Dahmer (born July 29, 1936), a chemistry student at Marquette University and later a research chemist. Lionel Dahmer is of German and Welsh descent, and Joyce Dahmer was of Norwegian and Welsh descent. Irish.

Some sources report that Dahmer was deprived of attention as a baby. Other sources, however, suggest that Dahmer was generally pampered by both parents as an infant and toddler, although his mother was known to be tense, eager for attention and compassion, and argumentative with her husband and neighbors.

When Dahmer entered the first grade, Lionel's university studies kept him away from home most of the time; When he was at home, his wife, a hypochondriac and depressed, demanded constant attention and spent more and more time in bed. In addition, it is known that on one occasion she attempted suicide with meprobamate. Consequently, neither of the parents spent a lot of time to his son, who would later recall that, from a very young age, he felt "insecure about the solidity of the family", recalling the extreme tension and numerous arguments between his parents during his early years.

Dahmer had been an "energetic and cheerful child", but became noticeably dull after a double hernia operation shortly before his tenth birthday. In elementary school, Dahmer was considered quiet and shy; A teacher later recalled that she detected early signs of neglect in Dahmer due to her father's absence and her mother's illnesses, the symptoms of which increased when she became pregnant with her second child. However, in elementary school, Dahmer He had a small number of friends.

In October 1966, the family moved to Doylestown, Ohio. When Joyce gave birth in December, Jeffrey was able to choose his little brother's name, so he named him David. That same year, Lionel graduated and began working as an analytical chemist in nearby Akron.

From an early age, Dahmer expressed an interest in dead animals, a fascination that may have begun when, at the age of four, he saw his father removing animal bones from under the family home. According to Lionel, Dahmer was excited by the sound the bones made, and he began to worry about them. He would occasionally look for more bones under and around the family home, and explore the bodies of living animals to discover where their bones were located.

In 1968, the family moved to a home in Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, the third in two years, and the Dahmers' sixth since they were married. The house was It was located on an acre and a half of woodland, with a small cabin a short distance away, where Dahmer began collecting large insects, such as dragonflies and moths, and skeletons of small animals, such as squirrels and tamias. Some of these remains were found. They were preserved in formaldehyde jars and kept in the cabin.

Two years later, during a dinner where the family was having chicken, Dahmer asked Lionel what would happen if his bones were put in lye. Lionel, pleased by what he thought was curiosity her son's scientist, showed him how to safely whiten and preserve animal and human bones. Dahmer incorporated these conservation techniques into his bone collection, and also began collecting dead animals—even roadkill— which he dissected and buried next to the cabin, occasionally placing the skulls on makeshift crosses. According to a friend, Dahmer explained who was curious to know how animals became "stuck." On one occasion, in 1975, Dahmer decapitated the carcass of a dog before nailing the body to a tree and impaling the skull on a stick in the woods behind his house., and later, "as a joke", inviting a friend to see the exhibition while claiming that he had discovered the remains by chance.

The same year Lionel taught her son to preserve animal bones, Joyce began increasing her daily intake of meprobamate, laxatives, and sleeping pills, further minimizing her tangible contact with her husband and children.

Adolescence and high school

From his freshman year at Revere High School, Dahmer was seen as an outcast. By the age of 14, he had begun drinking beer and strong alcohol during daylight hours, which he frequently hid inside his jacket. which he took to school. It is known that he mentioned to a classmate, who asked him why he was drinking whiskey in a morning history class, that the alcohol he consumed was "his medicine." Although uncommunicative, as a freshman, Dahmer was seen by the staff as polite and very intelligent, but with average grades. In addition, he was a great tennis player and briefly played in the school band.

When he reached puberty, Dahmer discovered that he was homosexual; he did not tell his parents. In her early teens, she had a brief relationship with another teenager, although they never had sexual relations. By Dahmer's later admission, she began fantasizing about dominating and controlling a completely submissive male partner in her early to mid-teens, and her fantasies Masturbatory techniques gradually evolved to focus on the breasts and torsos as the focus of his fantasies, which became intertwined with dissection. When he was about 16, Dahmer conceived a fantasy of knocking out a young jogger he found attractive, and then doing sexual use of your body. On one occasion, Dahmer hid in the bushes with a baseball bat to stalk this man; However, that day he specifically did not pass by. Dahmer later admitted that this was his first attempt to attack and subdue an individual.

Among his RHS classmates, Dahmer became something of a class clown who often organized pranks, which became known as "Pulling a Dahmer"; These included dancing and simulating epileptic seizures or cerebral palsy at school and in local stores. Dahmer sometimes performed these antics for money to buy alcohol.

In 1977, Dahmer's grades declined, so his parents opted to hire a private tutor, with limited success. That same year, in an attempt to save his marriage, his parents attended counseling sessions, however, they continued to argue frequently. When Lionel discovered that Joyce had had a brief affair in September 1977, they both decided to divorce, so they told their children who wanted to do it amicably. Lionel left the house in early 1978, and consequently temporarily moved to a motel on North Cleveland Massillon Road.

In May 1978, Dahmer graduated from high school. A few weeks before his graduation, one of his teachers observed Dahmer sitting near the school parking lot, drinking several cans of beer. When the teacher threatened to report the matter, Dahmer informed him that he was having "a lot of problems" at home. and that the school counselor was aware of them. That spring, Joyce and David moved out of the family home to live with relatives in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, although Dahmer, just turned 18, stayed in the house. Dahmer's parents' divorce was finalized on the 24th. July 1978, and as a result Joyce was granted custody of her youngest son and payment of alimony.

Late teens and early 20s: first murder

Murder of Steven Hicks

Dahmer committed his first murder in 1978, three weeks after his graduation. On June 18, Dahmer picked up an almost 19-year-old hitchhiker named Steven Mark Hicks. Dahmer lured the young man to his house under the pretense of drinking. Hicks, who had hitchhiked to go to a rock concert in Chippewa Lake Park, agreed to accompany Dahmer home with the promise of having "a few beers" with Dahmer, who had the chance. house for himself.

According to Dahmer, the sight of Hicks standing bare-chested on the side of the road aroused his sexual feelings, although when Hicks began talking about girls, he knew that any sexual advances he made would be rejected. After several hours of talking, drinking, and listening to music, Hicks "wanted to leave and I didn't want him to leave," so she hit him with a 10-pound (4.5 kg) dumbbell. He later stated that he hit Hicks twice from behind while Hicks was sitting in a chair. When Hicks fell unconscious, Dahmer strangled him to death with the dumbbell bar, then stripped Hicks' clothing from his body before exploring his chest with his hands, then masturbating while he lay over the body.

The next day, Dahmer dissected Hicks' body in his basement, later burying the remains in a shallow grave in his backyard. Several weeks later, he dug up the remains and separated the flesh from the bones, to dissolve it in acid and then flush the solution down the toilet. Regarding the bones, he crushed them with a mallet and scattered them in the forest behind his house.

University and military service

Six weeks after Hicks' murder, Dahmer's father and his fiancée returned home, where they discovered that Jeffrey was living alone. That August, Dahmer enrolled at Ohio State University (OSU), hoping to major in business. Dahmer's only term at OSU was completely unproductive, largely due to his persistent alcohol abuse throughout most of his life. part of his stay. He received failing grades in introduction to anthropology, classical civilizations, and administrative sciences, with rifle practice being the only subject in which he was successful, in which he obtained a grade of B-. His GPA was 0.45/4.0. On one occasion, Lionel made a surprise visit to his son, only to find his room filled with empty liquor bottles. Even though his father had prepaid for the second quarter, Dahmer dropped out of OSU after just three months.

In January 1979, at the urging of his father, Dahmer enlisted in the United States Army. He completed basic training at Fort McClellan in Anniston, Alabama, before training as a medical specialist at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, where he was occasionally reprimanded for intoxication. On one occasion, a case of insubordination caused his entire platoon to be punished, earning Dahmer a severe beating from his fellow recruits.

On July 13, 1979, Dahmer was deployed to Baumholder, West Germany, where he served as a combat medic with the 2nd Battalion, 68th Armored Regiment, 8th Infantry Division. According to reports published, in the first year of service, Dahmer was an "average or slightly above average" soldier.

Due to Dahmer's alcohol abuse, his performance deteriorated and, in March 1981, he was deemed unsuitable for military service and was subsequently discharged from the Army. He received an honorable discharge, as his superiors did not They believed that the problems Dahmer had in the army were applicable to civilian life.

On March 24, 1981, Dahmer was sent to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, for interrogation and was provided with a plane ticket to travel anywhere in the country. Dahmer later told police that he felt he could not return home to face his father, so he chose to travel to Miami Beach, Florida, both because he was "tired of the cold," and in an attempt to live. by their own means. In Florida, Dahmer found a job at a delicatessen and rented a room at a nearby motel, however, he spent most of his salary on alcohol, causing him to soon be evicted for nonpayment. At first, he spent his afternoons at the beach while continuing to work at the sandwich shop, until he called his father and asked to return to Ohio in September of that same year.

Return to Ohio and transfer to West Allis, Wisconsin

Upon returning to Ohio, Dahmer initially lived with his father and stepmother and insisted that they delegate numerous tasks to him to occupy his time while he looked for work. He continued to drink excessively and, two weeks after his return, he was arrested for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and was fined sixty dollars and given a ten-day suspended jail sentence. de Dahmer tried unsuccessfully to detoxify his son from alcohol. In December 1981, he and Dahmer's stepmother sent him to live in West Allis, Wisconsin, with his grandmother, the only member of his family to whom he showed any affection. They hoped that his influence, in addition to the change of location, could persuade Dahmer to stop drinking, find a job, and live responsibly.

At first, Dahmer's relationship with his grandmother was harmonious: he accompanied her to church, willingly performed household chores, actively looked for work, and abided by most of the house rules, although he continued to drink and smoke. In early 1982, Dahmer found employment as a phlebotomist at the Milwaukee Blood Plasma Center, where he held this job for a total of ten months before being laid off. Dahmer remained unemployed for more than two years, during which He lived with the money his grandmother gave him.

Shortly before losing his job, Dahmer was arrested for indecent exposure. On August 8, 1982, at the Wisconsin State Fair Park, he was observed exposing himself "on the south side of the Coliseum where twenty-five people were present, including women and children." For this incident, he was convicted and fined fifty dollars plus court costs.

In January 1985, Dahmer was hired as a mixer at Milwaukee's Ambrosia Chocolate Factory, where he worked from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m., six nights a week, with Saturdays off. Little After Dahmer found this job, an incident occurred in which another man propositioned him while he was sitting reading in the West Allis Public Library. The stranger threw Dahmer a note in which he offered to perform fellatio on him. Although Dahmer did not respond to this proposition, the incident awakened in his mind the fantasies of control and dominance that he had developed as a teenager, and he began to familiarize himself with the gay bars, bathrooms, and bookstores of Milwaukee. He is also known to have stolen a male mannequin from a store, which he briefly used for sexual stimulation, until his grandmother discovered the object kept in a closet and demanded that he get rid of it.

In late 1985, Dahmer had begun regularly frequenting bathhouses, which he later described as "relaxing places," but during his sexual encounters he became frustrated when his partners moved during the act. After his arrest, he declared: "I trained myself to see people as objects of pleasure instead of [as] people." Therefore, starting in June 1986, he administered sleeping pills to his partners, which he gave them through liquor with sedatives, and then waited until they fell asleep to perform various sexual acts. To maintain an adequate supply of this medication, Dahmer informed the doctors that he worked nights and required the pills to fit that schedule. After a few In twelve such cases, the bath administration revoked Dahmer's membership, and he consequently began using hotel rooms to continue this practice.

Shortly after his bathhouse membership was revoked, Dahmer read a newspaper report about an 18-year-old man's upcoming funeral, so he conceived the idea of stealing the newly buried corpse and take it home. According to Dahmer, he attempted to dig the coffin out of the ground, but found the ground too hard and abandoned the plan.

On September 8, 1986, Dahmer was arrested on a charge of lewd and lascivious conduct for masturbating in the presence of two 12-year-old boys while near the Kinnickinnic River. At first he claimed he had only been urinating, unaware that there were witnesses, but he soon admitted to the crime. The charge was changed to disorderly conduct and, on March 10, 1987, he was sentenced to one year of probation, with additional instructions to undergo therapy.

Finals of the 1980s and early 1990s: subsequent killings

Ambassador Hotel

On November 20, 1987, Dahmer, who at the time was residing with his grandmother in West Allis, met a 25-year-old man from Ontonagon, Michigan, Steven Tuomi, at a bar and convinced him to go with him to the Ambassador Hotel in Milwaukee, where Dahmer had rented a room for the night. According to the latter, he had no intention of murdering Tuomi, but simply intended to drug him and lie next to him while he explored his body. The next morning, however, Dahmer woke up to find Tuomi lying beneath him in bed, his chest "crushed" and bruised "black and blue." Additionally, blood was coming out of the corner of his mouth, and Dahmer's fists and one forearm were badly bruised. He later stated that he did not remember killing Tuomi, and later informed investigators that he "couldn't believe this had happened."

To dispose of Tuomi's body, Dahmer bought a large suitcase in which he transported the body to his grandmother's residence. There, a week later, he separated the head, arms and legs from the torso, then filleted the bones from the body before cutting the meat into pieces small enough to handle. Dahmer then placed the meat in plastic garbage bags, wrapped the bones in a sheet, and smashed them into chips with a mallet. The entire dismemberment process took Dahmer approximately two hours, and he later disposed of all his remains, except the head, in the trash.

For two weeks following Tuomi's murder, Dahmer kept the victim's head wrapped in a blanket, then boiled it in a mixture of Soilex, a basicity-based industrial detergent, and bleach in an effort to preserve the skull, which he later used as a stimulus for masturbation. Eventually, the skull became too fragile from this bleaching process, so Dahmer pulverized it and disposed of it.

Intermediate incidents

After Tuomi's murder, Dahmer began actively searching for victims, most of whom he found in or near gay bars, and whom he used to lure to his grandmother's house, then drug them with triazolam or temazepam before or shortly after having sexual relations with them. Once he rendered his victim unconscious with sleeping pills, he would kill her by strangulation.

Two months after Tuomi's murder, Dahmer encountered a 14-year-old Native American prostitute named James Doxtator. Dahmer lured the young man to his home by offering him fifty dollars to pose naked for photos. At their West Allis residence, the couple had sex before Dahmer drugged Doxtator and strangled him on the basement floor, leaving him there for a week before dismembering him much like he did with Tuomi. To dispose of the remains of the corpse, he moved them to a garbage container, except for the skull, which he boiled and cleaned in lye before he noticed that it had become too brittle with this process, so he ended up pulverizing it two weeks later..

On March 24, 1988, Dahmer met a 22-year-old bisexual man named Richard Guerrero outside a gay bar called The Phoenix. Dahmer lured the young man to his grandmother's residence, although the incentive on this occasion was fifty dollars so that he could simply spend the rest of the night with him. He then drugged Guerrero with sleeping pills and strangled him with a leather strap, and later performed oral sex on the corpse. Dahmer dismembered the body within 24 hours. After murdering him, he threw the remains in the trash again and kept the skull before pulverizing it several months later.

On April 23, Dahmer lured another young man to his home; However, after giving the victim a drugged coffee, the couple heard Dahmer's grandmother call, "Is that you, Jeff?" Although her grandson responded in a way that made his grandmother believe he was alone, She observed that it really wasn't. Therefore, Dahmer chose not to kill this particular victim, but instead waited until she was unconscious before taking her to County General Hospital.

In September 1988, Dahmer's grandmother asked him to move, largely because of his drinking, his habit of bringing young men to her home late at night, and the occasional foul odors. They emanated from both the basement and the garage. Dahmer found a one-bedroom apartment at 808 North 24th Street, and moved into his new residence on September 25. Two days later, he was arrested for drugging and sexually fondling a 13-year-old boy whom he had lured. to his house under the pretext of posing naked for photographs.

Dahmer's father hired a lawyer named Gerald Boyle to defend his son. At Boyle's request, Dahmer underwent a series of psychological evaluations before his upcoming court hearings, which revealed that he harbored deep feelings of alienation. A second evaluation two months later revealed that Dahmer was an impulsive individual, distrustful of others, and dismayed by his lack of achievements in life. His probation officer also referenced a 1987 diagnosis that Dahmer suffered from schizoid personality disorder to present to the court.

On January 30, 1989, Dahmer pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree sexual assault and seducing a child for immoral purposes, although the sentence was suspended until May. On March 20, Dahmer He was absent from work for ten days during the week, during which he moved to his grandmother's house.

Two months after his conviction and two months before his sentencing for the sexual assault, Dahmer murdered his fifth victim, a 24-year-old aspiring mixed-race model named Anthony Sears, whom he met at a gay bar on March 25. March 1989. According to Dahmer, on this particular occasion, he was not looking to commit a crime; However, shortly before closing time that night, Sears "just started talking to me." Dahmer lured the latter to his grandmother's house, where the two performed oral sex before drugging and strangling him.

The next morning, Dahmer placed the body in his grandmother's bathtub, where he decapitated it before attempting to skin it. He stripped the flesh from the body and pulverized the bones, which he threw in the trash. According to Dahmer, he found Sears "exceptionally attractive", and was the first victim whose body part was permanently preserved: he preserved his head and genitals in acetone and kept them in a wooden box, which he then placed in his locker. work. When he moved to a new address the following year, he took the remains there.

On May 23, 1989, Dahmer was sentenced to five years of probation and one year of confinement in a prison, with permission to work so that he could keep his job. He was also required to register as a sex offender.

Two months before his scheduled release from the labor camp, Dahmer was released from this regime due to the start of his five-year probation. Upon his release, he temporarily moved to his grandmother's home in West Allis. In May 1990, he moved to the Oxford Apartments, located on North 25th Street in Milwaukee. Although it was located in a high-crime area, the apartment was close to his workplace, was furnished, and at three hundred dollars a month, including all bills except electricity, was affordable.

Victims

Jeffrey Dahmer killed seventeen young people between 1978 and 1991. Of these victims, twelve were murdered in his apartment on North 25th Street. Three other victims were murdered and dismembered at his grandmother's residence in West Allis, his first victim was murdered at his parents' home in Ohio and the second at the Ambassador Hotel in Milwaukee. A total of fourteen of Dahmer's victims were from various ethnic minorities, and nine of them were black. Dahmer insisted that the race of his victims was incidental to him and that what caught his attention was the shape of the body of a potential victim. These claims have been supported by a study by independent forensic specialists into Dahmer's victim selection, whose anthropological analysis revealed that his victims shared a "morphological similarity" and suggested that Dahmer was "psychologically attracted to a certain type of anthropometric body.

Most of Dahmer's victims were killed by strangulation after being drugged with sedatives, although his first victim was killed by a combination of bludgeoning and strangulation and his second victim was beaten to death, with another victim killed in 1990, Ernest Miller, who died from a combination of shock and blood loss due to a severed carotid artery. Four of Dahmer's victims, murdered in 1991, had holes drilled in their skulls through which Dahmer He injected hydrochloric acid or, later, boiling water, into the frontal lobes, in an attempt to induce a permanent, submissive and irreversible state. This proved fatal, although it was not his intention on all occasions.

Arrest and conviction

On July 22, 1991, Tracy Edwards, his last victim, managed to escape in handcuffs. The police saw him and this time they decided to investigate. They went to the apartment of the man who had handcuffed him and, upon searching the room, discovered several photographs of bodies. Dahmer tried to flee, but was detained.^{[citation needed]}

In their house they found a human head in the refrigerator, two bags in the freezer containing a human heart and male genitals. In the bedroom, five skulls and various objects such as knives, saws and hammers were found, as well as photos detailing processes of dismemberment of human bodies. In another drawer, a complete skeleton was found with bones cleaned with chlorine, a dissected scalp and a 260-liter drum filled with acid with three torsos and other human parts. Traces of blood were also found on the walls. Days later, Dahmer's neighbors shot at the doors of his house due to the horror caused by his crimes.

The psychiatrists who treated him told him that he was sick, so he pleaded guilty with a mitigating circumstance of mental insanity, to be sentenced to a special prison for the mentally ill, but the mitigating circumstance was finally rejected. Initially, he had pleaded innocent, but he changed his statement due to the large amount of evidence found against him. The jury then declared him mentally sound and, as a result, he was ultimately sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences.

He was sent to the Columbia Correctional Institute in Portage, Wisconsin, where he was interviewed by FBI criminal profiler Robert K. Ressler. This famous expert agreed that, for the defense of society, the condemned man had to remain locked up for the rest of his days. However, he stressed that he should be admitted to a psychiatric hospital and not to a regular prison, since he was mentally ill, although at times he seemed to be in his right mind and rationalized his behavior.

The criminal admitted to having practiced cannibalism and devoured the biceps of one of his victims. He pointed out that he masturbated before the human pieces and skulls of those he considered beautiful and whom he did not want to lose. He told the police that he had the feeling that he could stay by their side if he killed them and kept their skulls. He also stated that the three heads found in her refrigerator and in his freezer, with the flesh intact, belonged to his last three victims.

In popular culture

Cinema

• Jeffrey Dahmer: The Secret Life was premiered in 1993 with Carl Crew on Dahmer's role.
• The biographical film Dahmer premiered in 2002. The actor Jeremy Renner became world-famous for his role as Dahmer on this tape, co-started by Bruce Davison.
• Raising Jeffrey Dahmer was released in 2006. It revolves around the reactions of Dahmer's parents after their arrest in 1991. It is starred by Rusty Sneary as Dahmer and co-started by Scott Cordes as Lionel.
• In 2012, the independent documentary The Jeffrey Dahmer Files was premiered at the South by Southwest festival. He has interviews with Dahmer's ex-wife, Pamela Bass, as well as with Detective Patrick Kennedy and with the forensic doctor Jeffrey Jentzen.
• In the 2017 film Get Out the protagonist's friend mentions the killer.
• In 2017, director Marc Meyers presented My Friend DahmerWith Ross Lynch playing Dahmer. This film was premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 25 of the same year.

Television

• The Trial of Jeffrey Dahmer was launched in 1992. Directed by Elkan Allan, this documentary focuses primarily on the testimony issued in the first trial of Dahmer. The documentary concludes when Dahmer addresses Judge Laurence Gram after his conviction.
• The Investigation Discovery channel also issued a documentary focusing on Dahmer within its Most Evil documentary series. This documentary presents extracts from the Dahmer interview in 1994 with Stone Phillips and was first released in August 2006.
• HLN transmitted an episode that focuses on Dahmer's crimes as part of its research series How it Really Happened. This episode, entitled "The Strange Case of Jeffrey Dahmer", was originally issued on March 31, 2017.
• In the second season and episode 13 of the series "X-Files" in 1994, at minute 10:47 mention is made of the murders of Dahmer along with the speculations of police incopetence.
• The digital cable TV channel and satellite Oxygen issued the two-part documentary Dahmer on Dahmer: A Serial Killer Speaks in November 2017. Produced and led by Matthew Watts, the program presents interviews with, among others, Dahmer's father, his stepmother, former classmates, psychiatrists who testified at his trial and Patrick Kennedy, the homicide detective involved in the investigation.
• episode 3 of Season 1 of the Netflix series Dark Tourist, issued on July 20, 2018, partially deals with the history of Dahmer.
• In episode 4 of the fifth season of the American Horror Story series, entitled "The Night of the Devil", several serial killers meet at the Hotel Cortez. The actor Seth Gabel interprets the role of Dahmer and in his script he writes a little as his murders were.
• In chapter 11 of the tenth season of the animated series South Park, entitled "Inferno on the street 2006", a parody is shown The Three Chiflatesusing three killers as characters, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy.
• On September 21, 2022 the mini-series premiered at Netflix Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer StoryWith Evan Peters on Dahmer's role.
• On October 7, 2022 the Docuserie Conversations with Killers was premiered: Jeffrey Dahmer's tapes.