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Jeffrey Dahmer: Murders
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At his 1992 trial, Jeffrey Dahmer, an alcoholic worker in a chocolate factory, admitted to the murder of seventeen young men during a thirteen-year killing spree. His gruesome full disclosure, including accounts of cannibalism, fired the popular imagination and helped spawn a virtual cottage industry of books, trading cards, movies, and other products. But behind the monstrous ghoul of popular imagination, there lurked a desperately lonely young man whose killings were the result of years of progressive mental illness.
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Jeffrey Dahmer was responsible for a series of gruesome murders of seventeen young men from 1968 until he was caught on July 22, 1991 in Milwaukee. He was convicted and given 15 life terms. On November 28, 1993, he was killed by fellow inmates.
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Jeffrey Dahmer was born in Milwaukee in 1960 and moved with his family to Bath, Ohio at the age of eight. His childhood was troubled, his shyness and low self-esteem made worse when he was molested by a neighbor. He reportedly killed and dissected animals as a hobby. He ... struggled with substance abuse in his adolescence. At age 18, his parents divorced. Dahmer committed his first murder soon after, killing a 19 year old hitchhiker named Steven Hicks.
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Jeffrey Dahmer was officially indicted on 17 murder charges, which were reduced to 15. The murder cases were already so notorious that the authorities never bothered to charge him in the attempted murder of Edwards. His trial began in July 1992. With evidence overwhelmingly against him, Dahmer pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, arguing that his necrophiliac urges were so strong that he could not control them.
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Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994) was an American serial killer who killed 17 men between 1978 and 1991 (with the majority of the murders occurring in 1991). He was born to a fundamentalist father in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At age eight, his family moved to Bath, Ohio, near Akron. From his earliest youth he was extremely shy, and, according to his father, was molested as a child by a neighbor. He collected dead animals and showed signs of necrophilia, but this was revealed only at his trial. He was ... a closeted alcoholic and homosexual and suffered from extremely low self-esteem.
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The shocking life of Jeffrey Dahmer is examined in this chilling film that delves into the mind of the notorious serial killer. Learn about Dahmer's traditional upbringing, his horrific crimes and his murder in prison by a fellow inmate. Jeremy Renner, Bruce Davison star. AKA: "Mind Is a Place of Its Own." 102 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: Spanish; audio commentary; featurette; theatrical trailer.
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