According to Biography, Jeffrey Dahmer took his first life in June of 1978 when he was only 17 years old. A hitchhiker named Steven Hicks accepted a ride from him and followed Dahmer back home. It was there that the young Dahmer struck Hicks with a dumbbell and strangled him to death on the floor of his living room. He then dismembered the body and scattered the bones in the woods surrounding the house. Nine years later, Dahmer would kill again.
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Between 1987 and 1991, Dahmer targeted mainly Asian and Black homosexual males in Milwaukee’s impoverished neighborhoods. It was his custom to drug, strangle, sexually assault, and dismember his victims in a carefully plotted, meticulous fashion. According to The U.S. Sun, he went so far as to drill holes into some of their skulls and inject acid directly into their brains. It was a string of crimes that finally ended after Tracy Edwards escaped Dahmer’s apartment on July 22, 1991 and flagged down a police vehicle. Edwards brought the officers back to the residence where he had narrowly escaped death, and it was there that they discovered several decaying corpses, Polaroid photos of lifeless bodies placed in distorted poses, and body parts preserved in jars. After a trial lasting several months, Dahmer was found guilty and ultimately sentenced to 16 consecutive life sentences for his crimes. He remained incarcerated up until his death in 1994 (via Biography).
