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Jul 14, 2011
A chronology for a man usually begins with his birth, sometimes even with the birth of his parents.
Not so for Jeffrey Dahmer, the man so often likened to a monster, who was arrested by the Milwaukee Police Department 20 years ago this month. He was subsequently convicted of 16 murders. Dahmer was a serial killer, a rapist, a cannibal, a necrophiliac. This chronology begins with his crimes and ends with his death.
June 1978: Dahmer is 18 years old when he picks up hitchhiker Stephen Hicks and takes him to his father’s home. Dahmer hits Hicks in the back of the head with a 10-pound dumbbell and buries the body in the backyard of the Bath, Ohio, home. The crime would not be known until Dahmer confessed years later.
October 1981: Dahmer is arrested in Ohio for drunk and disorderly conduct after being discharged from the U.S. Army for alcohol abuse.
1982: Dahmer is arrested for indecent exposure in Wisconsin. He is living in West Allis with his grandmother, who later admitted she smelled strange odors in her basement and found a .357 magnum under Dahmer’s bed.
September 1986: Dahmer is arrested for indecent exposure in Wisconsin, this time for masturbating in front of two boys.
September 1987: Dahmer picks up 26-year-old Steven Tuomi at a gay bar. He kills Tuomi in a hotel room, packs the body in a suitcase and goes to his grandmother’s home, where he has intercourse with the corpse before dismembering it and throwing the body parts into the garbage.
January 1988: Dahmer kills 14-year-old Jamie Doxtator, a boy he met outside a gay bar.
March 1988: Dahmer kills Richard Guerrero, 25. The two met at a bar in Milwaukee.
Sept. 26, 1988: Dahmer, who had moved to a Milwaukee apartment after being kicked out of his grandmother’s home, is arrested for drugging and sexually assaulting a 13-year boy. Dahmer is sentenced to five years’ probation and one year in a work release camp. He’s registered with the state as a sex offender.
February 1989: Dahmer, while awaiting sentencing on the sexual assault charge, picks up Anthony Sears and takes the 24-year-old to his grandmother’s home, where he kills him. Dahmer still had Sears’ skull when he was arrested for the last time.
May 1990: For the last time, Dahmer’s grandmother kicks him out of her home. He finds an apartment, No. 213, 924 N. 25th St., Milwaukee. People would remember that address.
June 1990: Dahmer kills Edward Smith, 36.
July 1990: Dahmer kills Ricky Lee Beeks, 27.
September 1990: Dahmer kills Ernest Miller, 22.
September 1990: Dahmer kills David Thomas, 23.
February 1991: Dahmer kills Curtis Straughter, 16.
April 1991: Dahmer kills Errol Lindsey, 19.
May 24, 1991: Dahmer kills Anthony Hughes, 31.
May 27, 1991: Fourteen-year-old boy Konerak Sinthasomphone is found wandering the street, naked, bleeding and under the influence of drugs. Two women who encounter the boy call 911. Dahmer, who chased him into the street, convinces police officers he and Sinthasomphone are a couple and they’d had a spat after drinking too much. Despite the objections of the women who called 911, the officers escort Dahmer and the boy back to the apartment. They are unaware of a corpse in the bedroom, that Sinthasomphone is a minor and that Dahmer is a convicted child molester. Later that night, Dahmer kills and dismembers Sinthasomphone.
June 1991: A woman telephones police after reading a story about a missing boy who resembled the one found in the street. But authorities do not respond and they dismiss the woman’s concern that police officers returned a boy, not a man, to Dahmer.
June 30, 1991: Dahmer kills Matt Turner, 20.
July 5, 1991: Dahmer kills Jeremiah Weinberger, 23, whom he picked up in Chicago.
July 12, 1991: Dahmer kills Oliver Lacy, 23.
July 19: Dahmer kills Joseph Brandehoft, 25.
July 22, 1991: Dahmer lures Tracy Edwards, 32, to his apartment. He grabs a butcher knife and forces Edwards into a bedroom decorated with photographs of mangled corpses and containing a blue barrel emitting a foul smell. Edwards kicks and punches Dahmer. He runs into the street, where he stops two Milwaukee police officers on patrol. Dahmer allows Officers Robert Rauth and Rolf Mueller into his apartment, where they find a head, a human heart and other body parts, along with photographs of Dahmer’s victims. Dahmer is arrested.
July 23-27, 1991: Dahmer confesses and is indicted on 15 counts of first-degree murder.
Jan. 30, 1992: Dahmer pleads not guilty by reason of insanity.
February 1992: A jury convicts Dahmer of 15 murders and sentences him to 15 life terms.
May 1992: Dahmer pleads guilty to killing Stephen Hicks in Ohio.
Nov. 28, 1994: Dahmer, like his first murder victim, is bludgeoned to death. The 34-year-old is found in a pool of blood in the toilet area next to a Wisconsin prison gym.
