Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer , also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American <a href="/facts/Serial_killer/3Sr3d6Vo">serial killer</a> and <a href="/facts/Sex_offender/3RHfhut6">sex offender</a> who killed and <a href="/facts/Dismemberment/llBqh31A">dismembered</a> seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Many of his later murders involved <a href="/facts/Necrophilia/A75rfjJF">necrophilia</a>, <a href="/facts/Human_cannibalism/hHsL6AuD">cannibalism</a> and the permanent preservation of body parts—typically all or part of the <a href="/facts/Skeleton/FXc9Y2lF">skeleton</a>.
Although he was diagnosed with <a href="/facts/Borderline_personality_disorder/VFaa63gE">borderline personality disorder</a>, <a href="/facts/Schizotypal_personality_disorder/SJed1v2E">schizotypal personality disorder</a>, and a <a href="/facts/Psychotic_disorder/cVGd7MKK">psychotic disorder</a>, Dahmer was found to be legally <a href="/facts/Sanity/oGRSfB5m">sane</a> at his trial. He was convicted of fifteen of the sixteen homicides he had committed in <a href="/facts/Wisconsin/XvyqH6vN">Wisconsin</a> and was sentenced to fifteen terms of <a href="/facts/Life_imprisonment_in_the_United_States/3EffvrAG">life imprisonment</a> on February 17, 1992. Dahmer was later sentenced to a sixteenth term of life imprisonment for an additional homicide committed in <a href="/facts/Ohio/YutCnTlh">Ohio</a> in 1978.
On November 28, 1994, Dahmer was beaten to death by <a href="/facts/Christopher_Scarver/hPU7xf86">Christopher Scarver</a>, a fellow inmate at the <a href="/facts/Columbia_Correctional_Institution_(Wisconsin)/LjMrXyM4">Columbia Correctional Institution</a> in <a href="/facts/Portage%2c_Wisconsin/kgLw93dN">Portage, Wisconsin</a>.

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Jeffrey Dahmer