SERIAL KILLERS > MOST NOTORIOUS

JEFFREY DAHMER

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By Marilyn Bardsley

Lust, Booze & Murder

A few months after his arrest in October of 1981 for drunken and disorderly conduct, his father thought it best that Jeffrey go live with his grandmother in West Allis, Wisconsin. Things were calm for a few months, until he dropped his trousers in the company of a group of people. He had apparently had a bit to drink. He kept things under control for another four years until he was again arrested in September of 1986 for masturbating in front of two boys. He was put on probation for a year.

He killed his second victim, Steven Toumi, in a hotel room in September of 1987. The two of them had been drinking heavily in one of the popular gay bars. Dahmer didn't know how he killed him, but when he awoke, Toumi was dead and blood was on his mouth. He bought a large suitcase and stuffed the body inside. After he took Toumi's corpse to his grandmother's basement, he had sex with it, masturbated on it, dismembered it and threw it in the garbage.

Several months later, he selected his third victim, a fourteen-year-old Native American boy named Jamie Doxtator, who hung around outside the gay bars, looking for relationships. Dahmer's methods had become established by that time. Normally, he would meet and select his prey at gay bars or bathhouses. He would lure his victims by offering them money for posing for photographs or simply to enjoy some beer and videos. Then he would drug them, strangle them, masturbate on the bodies or have sex with the corpses, dismember the bodies and dispose of them. Sometimes he would keep the skulls or other body parts as souvenirs.

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1. A Victim Almost Escapes
2. The Body in the Bedroom
3. Exposed!
4. The Head in the Fridge
5. First Blood
6. Lust, Booze & Murder
7. More Murders, More Arrests
8. A True Psychopath
9. The Killing Binge
10. Deadly Ritual
11. Control
12. Why?
13. A Happy Little Boy
14. Metamorphosis
15. Isolated by Sexual Fantasy
16. Drunk and Deadly
17. Trial Begins with Heavy Security
18. The Insanity Defense
19. Evil or Sick?
20. End of the Road
21. Did Dahmer Find God?
22. Spiritually Clean?
23. Bibliography