Placing the body in a suitcase, Dahmer transported it to his grandmother’s basement where, a week later, he dismembered it and placed it in the trash, except for the head which he retained for a further week before boiling it in industrial detergent and bleach, eventually pulverizing the brittle skull. Dahmer would later tell authorities he had only planned on drugging Tuomi and had no recollection of beating him to death with his fists.

September 1987: Dahmer kills his next victim, nine years after his firstĪfter taking Steven Tuomi, 24, back to a hotel room, Dahmer says he awoke the following morning to find Tuomi dead alongside him in bed. Charged with disorderly conduct, he was sentenced to one year of probation and to undergo counseling. August 1982: Dahmer is arrestedĪrrested for indecently exposing himself at Wisconsin State Fair Park, Dahmer was convicted and fined $50.Īugust 1986: He is charged with disorderly conductĪrrested for masturbating in front of two boys, Dahmer told authorities he was merely urinating. Hoping his grandmother would be a tempering influence on their son's ongoing drinking, Dahmer's parents sent him to live with her in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There was just not the physical opportunity to do it then.” September 1981: Dahmer returns to Ohio following a military dischargeĭahmer briefly returned to Ohio to live with his parents following his military discharge, but was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct, for which he was fined and received a suspended jail sentence.

“There just wasn’t an opportunity to fully express what I wanted to do. Of those nine years without a victim, Dahmer said the urge was always there what he lacked were the right circumstances. In the intervening years he had joined the army and was stationed for a time in Germany, eventually being discharged due to problems with excessive drinking. No one had a clue as to what was happening for over a decade,” Dahmer said of what would transpire following his first killing.ĭahmer would not murder again until 1987. Dahmer took Hicks to his parent’s house in Ohio where he strangled and beat him with a barbell before dismembering the body and placing it in trash bags. The hitchhiker was 18-year-old Steven Hicks, Dahmer’s first victim. I’d had fantasies about picking up a hitchhiker, and taking him back to the house, and having complete dominance and control over him.” “I was coming back from the shopping mall back in ’78. The first killing was not planned,” Dahmer told Inside Edition in 1993. Here’s a timeline of Dahmer’s murders-some of the most shocking ever committed in modern history: June 1978: Dahmer kills his first victim

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