Born on May 21, 1960, Jeffrey Dahmer is an American serial killer and sexual offender. In an absolutely horrifying manner, Dahmer killed 17 men between 1978 and 1991. His methods included cannibalism, rape, dismemberment, and necrophilia. According to most accounts, Dahmer had a typical upbringing; nevertheless, as he grew older, he withdrew and stopped speaking. As he approached puberty, he showed little to no interest in hobbies or social interaction, preferring to amuse himself with studying animal carcasses and binge drinking. Even though he drank all through high school, he was nevertheless able to graduate in 1978. Three weeks later, the eighteen-year-old killed his first person. That summer, when his parents were divorcing, Jeffrey was left alone at the family home. He took the chance to do something about the sinister ideas that had been eating away at him. After picking up Steven Hicks, a hitchhiker, he offered to drive him back to his father's place so he could have some beer. However, Dahmer struck Hicks in the back of the head with a 10-pound dumbbell after he made the decision to depart. After dissecting, dissolving, pulverizing, and scattering the now-invisible remnants throughout his backyard, Dahmer eventually confessed to killing Hicks just to have him stay. It would be nine years before he killed again. That autumn, Dahmer enrolled in college but left because of his alcoholism. Following that, his father made him join the army, and from 1979 to 1981, he worked as a combat doctor in Germany. But he never was able to break the habit, and that spring he was released and returned home to Ohio. Following his drinking, which continued to give him problems, his father sent him to live in West Allis, Wisconsin, with his grandmother. He started going to homosexual bathhouses in 1985, where he would drug men and rape them while they were asleep. He was charged with merely probation for the rapes, despite being arrested twice in 1982 and 1986 for indecent exposure crimes. His second victim, Steven Tuomi, died in September 1987. After picking him up from a pub, Dahmer drove him to a hotel room, where he awoke the following morning to find Tuomi's lifeless body had been beaten. He implied that he had done the murder on some kind of blacked-out urge when he later claimed that he had no recall of actually killing Tuomi. Following Tuomi, the murders happened infrequently; there were two victims in 1988, one in 1989, and four in 1990. He went on luring unsuspecting guys out of bars and pursuing prostitutes, drugging, raping, and strangling them. But at this point, Dahmer also started performing extremely unsettling acts with their bodies. He kept using the corpses for sexual activity, took pictures of the dismemberment process, preserved his victims' genitalia and skulls for exhibition, and even kept some parts for himself to eat. Dahmer was detained during this time due to an incident at the Ambrosia Chocolate Factory when he drugged and touched a 13-year-old kid in a sexual manner. He received a five-year probationary term, a year-long work release camp sentence, and a requirement to register as a sexual offender for this. After completing the labor program two months ahead of schedule, he moved into an apartment in Milwaukee in May 1990. There, in defiance of his probation officer's orders to the letter, he would go on to kill four people that year and eight more in 1991. By the summer of 1991, Dahmer had killed around one victim every seven days. The notion that he could transform his victims into "zombies" in order to have them behave like young, obedient sexual partners captivated him. He employed a variety of methods, including punching holes in their skulls and putting hot water or hydrochloric acid inside their brains. Before long, the unusual noises and foul odors emanating from Dahmer's flat started to bother the neighbors. A lobotomized victim who was left alone once managed to get out onto the street and approach several onlookers for assistance. But Dahmer came back and managed to convince the authorities that the crazy young man was only his very drunk boyfriend. Dahmer was able to just avoid his fate for a short bit longer because the officers neglected to perform a background investigation that would have shown his status as a sex offender. Tracy Edwards was enticed into Dahmer's house on July 22, 1991, by the prospect of money in exchange for his company. Dahmer then used a butcher knife to force Edwards into the bedroom while he was there. Edwards managed to break free during the battle and make his way into the streets, where he flagged down a patrolling police vehicle. Edwards told the police about the knife in the bedroom when they got to Dahmer's residence. When the officers entered the bedroom, they discovered the images of mutilated victims and severed limbs, which ultimately helped them to take Dahmer into custody. After they looked into the house more, they discovered more human remains in his refrigerator, three more decapitated heads scattered throughout the apartment, and numerous photos of the victims. There was a human heart in the freezer and seven skulls in all in his flat. In his closet, he also made an altar out of human skulls and candles. Dahmer confessed after being arrested and started telling the authorities the graphic details of his crimes. The trial of Dahmer, which was indicted on fifteen counts of murder, started on January 30, 1992. Dahmer claimed insanity as his defense despite the overwhelming evidence against him because of his extremely unpleasant and uncontrollable desires. After two weeks of testimony, the jury found him guilty on fifteen counts of murder and sanity. He received 15 life sentences, which equates to 957 years in prison. He was given a second life term in May of the same year after entering a guilty plea for the murder of Stephen Hicks, his first victim. At the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin, Dahmer completed his sentence. Dahmer conveyed regret for his deeds and stated a desire to end his own life while incarcerated. In addition, he read the Bible and pronounced himself ready for his last judgment after becoming a born-again Christian. Two more prisoners attacked him; the first attempted to sever his neck, but only managed to inflict minor cuts. On November 28, 1994, an inmate attacked him again while they were cleaning one of the prison showers. Dahmer was discovered alive, but he passed away from serious head wounds while being transported to the hospital.