DADDY GAY BARS SEATTLE TRIAL
Trial and Imprisonmentĭahmer’s trial began in January 1992. They promptly destroyed them in an effort to distance the city from the horrors of Dahmer's actions and the ensuing media circus surrounding his trial.
In 1996, following Dahmer’s death, a group of Milwaukee businessmen raised more than $400,000 to purchase the items he used for his victims - including blades, saws, handcuffs and a refrigerator to store body parts.
Subsequent searches revealed a head in the refrigerator, three more in the freezer and a catalog of other horrors, including preserved skulls, jars containing genitalia and an extensive gallery of macabre Polaroid photographs of his victims. In fact, the boy was 14 years old and a brother of the Laotian teen Dahmer had molested three years earlier. When the police arrived, the boy was incoherent, and they accepted the word of Dahmer - a white man in a largely poor African-American community - that the boy was his 19-year-old lover. On May 27, 1991, Dahmer's neighbor Sandra Smith called the police to report that an Asian boy was running naked in the street. Dahmer also attempted crude lobotomies, drilling into victims' skulls while they were still alive and injecting them with muriatic acid. He developed rituals as he progressed, experimenting with chemical means of disposal and often consuming the flesh of his victims. Over the following two years, Dahmer's victim count accelerated, bringing his total from four to 17. He briefly lived with his grandmother following his release, during which time he does not appear to have added to his body count, before moving back into his own apartment. However, Dahmer was granted an early release by the judge, after serving only 10 months of his sentence. Years later, in an interview with CNN, Lionel Dahmer stated that he wrote a letter to the court that issued the sentence, requesting psychological help before his son's parole. I failed the system, it did not fail me." ” “I guess I've really done it this time, I'm sorry." ” “God told me to do it." ” It was just the only way I knew of to keep them there and keep them with me." ” “It gave me a sense of total control and increased the sexual thrill, I guess, knowing I had total control of them and that I could do with them as I wished." ” “It's hard for me to believe a human being could do what I have done, but I know I did it." ” “I do not blame the police, the courts or the probation system. Maybe I was an Aztec." ” “ world already has enough misery in it without my adding more to it." ” “It was not a case of hating them. I don't know what I was thinking when I did it." ” “Maybe I was born too late. And try as I might, I couldn't make other people seem less strange and unknowable." ” “What I've done has cut both ways. I simply didn't know how things worked with other people. Nor could I formulate a plan for winning their affection. When children liked me, I did not know why. Frankly, I wanted death for myself.” “I feel so bad for what I did to those poor families, and I understand their rightful hate.” “I take all the blame for what I did.” “I wanted to find out just what it was that caused me to be so bad and evil.” “The subtleties of social life were beyond my grasp. I tried and I failed, and created a holocaust.” “This has never been a case of trying to get free. I have seen their tears, and if I could give my life right now to bring their loved ones back, I would do it.” “I should have stayed with God. I promise I will pray each day to ask for their forgiveness when the hurt goes away, if ever. I know the families of the victims will never be able to forgive me for what I have done. “I know society will never be able to forgive me.