He butchered his victims in secret for more than three years, turning his apartment into a grisly slaughterhouse filled with human heads and stripped flesh. He even took photographs of their corpses so he could later look back and relive the experience of murder.
In all, Dahmer admitted to killing 17 males.
But was he a manipulative killer who planned each murder in detail or simply a madman?
That was the issue facing a Wisconsin jury, which had to decide whether Dahmer would spend the rest of his life in prison or be sent to a mental hospital.
If Dahmer had been found insane in connection with the murders he committed before 1989, he could have been eligible to apply for release from a mental hospital six months after confinement. On the murders committed after 1989, Dahmer would have been up for release within a year.
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