Project on Jeffery Dhamer

Project for Jeffrey Dahmer Student’s Name University Course Professor Date   Project for Jeffrey Dahmer Citation: the State of Wisconsin, Plaintiff vs. Jeffrey L. Dahmer 924 N. 25th st. Milwaukee. Summary Born on May 21, 1960, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was a serial killer and sex offender who brutally killed and dismembered 17 males in over ten years. He was also recognized as the Milwaukee Monster and the Milwaukee Cannibal. Dahmer admitted to 15 of the killings he committed in Milwaukee County between January 1988 and July 1991 (Masters, 2020). He committed several subsequent killings that included cannibalism, necrophilia, and the continuous conservation of victims' bodies or bones. In his later years, Dahmer revealed that he used to eat several of his victims' legs, hearts, and other internal organs. Dahmer has arranged his meals like dismembered limbs covered with tomato sauce to stun other convicts in jail. Procedural History On July 26, 1991, Jeffrey L. Dahmer made his first appearance in Milwaukee County Circuit Court, where he was indicted with multiple charges of first-degree premeditated murder (Masters, 2020). Dahmer was apprehended after authorities discovered the remains of 11 victims in his Milwaukee residence, and he was brought before Judge Laurence Gram for trial. Precedents On July 22, 1991, Dahmer was arrested after a failed attempt to kill another victim, Tracy Edward. Edwards managed to escape from Dahmer's apartment, flag down a police vehicle, and led them back to the apartment to arrest Dahmer. Beginning in the wee hours of July 23, 1991, Dahmer was interrogated by Detective Patrick Kennedy about the killings he had committed and the evidence that had been discovered in his apartment. Dahmer renounced his entitlement to have an attorney present during his questioning (Masters, 2020), and he said that he desired to disclose everything since he had inflicted such evil on the world that it was only natural that he would do all in his power to put a stop to it. With no hesitation, he confessed to killing 16 young men in Wisconsin since 1987, with one more victim having been slain in Ohio as far back as 1978 (Masters, 2020). Mr. Dahmer was not prosecuted in one of the Milwaukee brutal murders given the absence of proof, but he was tried and convicted in Ohio for the death of an 18-year-old girl. Although Ohio currently has a capital penalty, Mr. Dahmer did not have a chance of being executed since the crime took place in 1978, before the sentence was imposed. Despite admitting to the crimes during the questioning, Dahmer initially pled not guilty to every count when his trial started in January 1992. He finally modified his plea to guilty by mental disease or defect. On February 15, 1992, the jury gave their verdict after lengthy deliberation, finding him guilty on all charges but sane. He was charged and convicted to 15 consecutive life sentences in jail, with no prospect of release or parole (The Associated Press, 1992). It was the harshest punishment that Mr. Dahmer could get from Judge Gram of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court for the murder and dismemberment of his victims to satisfy his sexual urges. Justice The purpose of justice, in this case, was to establish the lawlessness of Dahmer's act...