Inside the Mind of Jeffrey Dahmer: Serial Killer’s Chilling Jailhouse Interview

I desensitize myself to it I I don't know I went to great lengths he is pure evil but you'd never know it by looking at him but when you hear him that's another story his killing field was Milwaukee and he got away with murder for more than a decade but how could any of this happen for the first time ever Nancy glass is here inside the world of Jeffrey Dahmer bill when I sat down opposite Jeffrey Dahmer for this interview I wondered what he would tell me how hard it would be to get him to discuss his horrific crimes what I found was that he was very forthcoming he volunteered details that may be difficult to hear I began by asking what he wanted from the men he picked up I had these obsessive desires and and thoughts wanting to control them to I don't know how to put it possess them permanently and that's why you killed them right right not because I was angry with them not because I hated them but because I wanted to keep them with me and as my obsession grew I was saving body parts such as skulls and skeletons Jeffrey Dahmer is recalling his monstrous past almost two years ago in this little apartment in Milwaukee police discovered the grisly remnants of one of the most horrible crime sprees in American history Jeffrey Dahmer an unassuming chocolate factory worker would eventually confess that he had seduced murdered and dismembered 17 young men he even ate some of his victims body parts Pete instantly became the center of worldwide media attention a serial killer unmasked there were protests and press conferences in Milwaukee as people try to understand how this could have happened in their midst how did Jeffrey Dahmer get away with murder after murder for 13 years how did a boy born into a hard-working middle-class family turn into the worst kind of monster imaginable in this exclusive interview we put those questions to Jeffrey Dahmer himself we met with him at the maximum-security prison where he is serving his sentence of 999 years for the first time he talks about his crimes and gives us a chilling look inside the mind of a serial killer it's a process that doesn't happen overnight when you d personalize another person and view them as just an object an object for pleasure instead of a living breathing human being it it seems to make it easier to do things you shouldn't do the reason why Jeffrey Dahmer was able to get away with his crimes was because of just what you are seeing here Jeffrey Dahmer is intelligent and articulate that is what makes him so frightening but if you listen carefully to his words throughout this interview you realize it is a thin disguise you do sound though like the kind of person who could have said to himself this is wrong i'ma stop I always knew though that it was wrong but after the the first the first killing was not planned I was coming back from the shopping mall back in 78 I had had fantasies about picking up a hitchhiker and taking him back to the house and having complete control and dominance over him the hitchhikers name was Steven Hicks he was just 18 Jeffrey took him to his parents house there he strangled him with a barbell he dismembered the body and hid it in a drainpipe it was Jeffrey Dahmer who gave those details to the police in his confession no one no one had a clue as to what was happening for for over a decade during that time Jeffrey Dahmer joined the Army and was sent to Germany he was eventually discharged for a drinking problem and returned to Ohio nine years after Stephen Hicks murder the killing began again what happened to you in the nine years in between that you were able to stop that you were able to control yourself just wasn't an opportunity to fully express what I wanted to do to do there was just not that the physical opportunity to do it then and I started when I moved to Milwaukee in 81 I started reading pornography going to the bookstores eventually that led to frequenting the gay bars and then I one time I brought this young man back to the hotel room the Ambassador Hotel was just planning on drugging him and spending the night with him I had no intention of hurting him when I woke up in the morning he had a broken rib here I was heavily bruised apparently I had beaten him to death with my fists and you have no memory no memory of it but that's what started the whole spree all over again Dahmer says he snuck the corpse of his victim Stephen to me out of his hotel room in a suitcase then he took it to his grandmother's house where he cut up the body and put it in plastic garbage bags when do you kill these men afterwards or you repulsed we upset know it at the time it was it was almost addictive it was almost a surge of energy I wouldn't have to worry about any of their needs or anything I just had complete control of the situation but Jeffrey Dahmer was out of control the urge to kill had overpowered him as police later learned he wasn't satisfied with his victims death he wanted more why did you photograph them it was my way of remembering their appearance their physical beauty I also wanted to keep something if I couldn't keep them there with me whole I at least I felt that I could keep their skeletons and I even went so far as planning on setting up an altar with the ten different skulls and skeletons and what was the purpose of the altar going to be uh as a sort of Memorial point where I could I don't know it's it's it's so bizarre and strange it's hard to describe a place where I could collect my thoughts and feed my obsession when the bodies were still in your apartment there was no time when you would see them and say this is grotesque what have I done there were times there were times but the compulsive obsession with doing what I was doing overpowered any feelings of revulsion this man with a quiet almost shy demeanor became a master manipulator who was able to lure strangers he met at gay bars to his apartment he was even able to con the police into returning a 14 year old boy to him after neighbors called 911 that the child was in the street naked and bleeding Dahmer convinced the police that he and the boy were simply having a lover's quarrel executed boyfriend of another boyfriend wasn't a childhood open after the police left Jeffrey Dahmer murdered that boy Connor axe into some phone this man says he had a near fatal encounter with Jeffrey Dahmer he wanted to take some picture of my back he hit me with a Robert hammer on my neck he was lucky to escape because by then the killing had become almost routine before you went out to pick up a man was there any kind of ritual you went through I go to the nightclubs drink watch the strip TV shows and if I didn't meet anyone at the bars I'd go to the bath clubs and meets meet someone there offer them money and we'd go back to the apartment have a few drinks I'd have the sleeping pill mixture already prepared person would drink it to fall asleep and that's when they would be strangled watching the movie Exorcist 3 was also part of his ritual it put him in the mood for murder I felt so hopelessly evil and perverted that that I actually derives a sort of pleasure from watching that tape did you like feeling evil no no I didn't but I tried to overcome the thoughts and it worked for a while but eventually I gave in while Jeffrey Dahmer may say things today that make it seem like he understands what went on in his mind he does not all he can do is tell you what happened but he cannot stop whatever it is that drove him to kill in the first place do you still feel those same urges do you still feel that compulsion that obsession I wish I could say that it just left completely but no there are times when I still do still do have the old compulsions Jeffrey Dahmer says as time went on his mind became more and more warped and yet he was clever enough to continue to elude police and lure young men to his apartment we should warn you the details are very graphic I started having these obsessive thoughts when I was about 15 and 16 and they got worse and worse what will your fantasies about they were sexual fantasies of control power complete dominance they became reality was it pleasure in that fantasy there was excitement fear pleasure all mixed together Jeffrey Dahmer fulfilled his fantasies by murdering and dismembering 17 young men in time his desires became more extreme his deeds more grotesque listen to him talk about the most unnatural things in the most matter-of-fact of ways that's when you realize that none of it has touched him I was branching out that's when the cannibalism started eating of the heart and the arm muscle it was a way of making me feel that they were a part of me at first it was just curiosity and then it became compulsive then I tried to keep the person alive by inducing a zombie-like state by injecting first dilute acid solution into their brain or hot water and it never did to completely work could someone like you be stopped could you be helped no I was I was dead set on going with this compulsion it was the only thing that gave me any any satisfaction he became so warped by his evil impulses that he even took a victim's head with him to work at the ambrosia Chocolate Factory I kept the mummified head and skull of one of the victims in a carrying case in my locker at work were you almost flaunting it yes but that's how strong the compulsion was that so bizarre the the desire was I wanted to keep something of the person with me Jeffrey Dahmer exhibited some disturbing behavior early on he began drinking heavily as a teenager dropped out of college was arrested for indecent exposure disorderly conduct and fondling a thirteen-year-old boy tragically one of his murder victims would be that boy's brother do you know what started it is there any kind of incident that you can remember to this day I don't know what started it and the person to blame is sitting right across from you that's the only person not parents not society not pornography I mean those are just excuses his MacArthur teen year crime spree finally ended when this man Tracy Edwards brought the police to the infamous apartment like the others he had gone there with the promise of money he was listening to my heart because at a point he told me he was gonna eat my heart at that point I hit him and I ran what was the turning point for you that made you suddenly realize that you had done something terribly wrong something you should be sorry for it was the night of the arrest they have no memory of what happened during the six hours before the last victim ran out of the apartment they heard a knock on the door and the police were there with with the last victim they asked me where the key was to the handcuffs I was my mind was in a haze I sort of pointed to the bedroom and that's where they found the pictures they yelled cuff em I was a handcuffed and it was just the realization that there was no point in trying to hide hide my actions anymore the best route was to help help the police identify all the victims and just make a complete confession when it was revealed that most of the victims were black or homosexual people in Milwaukee were incensed many felt that was why he went after them and why the police didn't seem to care when their families reported them missing Tim of year 17 victims were black were they racially motivated what was not a sexual preference it was just to find an obsession with the best looking young man I could find well you just heard him say that his sexual preference had nothing to do with the killings he has not come to terms with his homosexuality never understood it there was no use trying to fight it because I couldn't rid myself of it it was it was too powerful and persistent do you dislike it yes it's caused a lot of problems for me a lot of conflicts and unanswered questions the conflicts remain with him and so do his compulsions but in prison he finally cannot act on his savage desires if you were out on the street now would you still be committing the crimes probably if this hadn't happened there's no doubt I probably would be I can't think of anything that would have stopped me you [Music] you

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Length: 17min 12sec (1032 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 27 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/AnyMathematician8017]

Obsessive thoughts over possession, domination, objectification, dismemberment, eating hearts... Fantasies that eventually became realities. Chilling... I wonder if Armie ever acted on these same compulsions or if he came close? Only time will tell...

Thank goodness these women came forward, who knows -- maybe lives were saved!

[u/davey3932]

i read an article about theories why serial killers are on the decline, and one of them is that pornography is everywhere now so they are able to have that outlet.

i don't know if armie was a potential killer, but his interests were obviously unhealthy and demented.

[u/itsmyfirsttime1]

Damn, he literally checks all the boxes. They are basically the same person.