Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (/ˈdɑːmər/; May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen males between 1978 and 1991. Many of his later murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism, and the permanent preservation of body parts—typically all or part of the skeleton.
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| Born | Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer May 21, 1960 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Died | November 28, 1994 (aged 34) Portage, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Homicide by bludgeoning (severe skull and brain trauma) |
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| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (x16; total of 941 years in prison) |
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| Victims | 17 |
Span of crimes | 1978–1991 |
| Country | United States |
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Date apprehended | July 22, 1991 |
| Imprisoned at | Columbia Correctional Institution, Portage, Wisconsin |
Although he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), schizotypal personality disorder (StPD), and a psychotic disorder, Dahmer was found to be legally sane at his trial. He was convicted of fifteen of the sixteen homicides he had committed in Wisconsin and was sentenced to fifteen terms of life imprisonment on February 17, 1992. Dahmer was later sentenced to a sixteenth term of life imprisonment for an additional homicide committed in Ohio in 1978.
On November 28, 1994, Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver, a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin.