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A 31-year-old FBI file includes a disturbing list of polaroid pictures featuring Jeffrey Dahmer's gruesome murders.
On the night of July 22, 1991, local authorities searched the notorious serial killer's home at 924 North 25th Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after his final victim Tracy Edwards escaped with one of his wrists still attached to a pair of handcuffs.
Edwards, then 32, told officer Rolf Mueller and his partner Robert Rauth that Dahmer had threatened him with a knife, which was when they headed to the apartment and found the key to the handcuffs, as well as the knife in the killer's bedroom.
Upon inspection, the cops discovered a shocking 80-picture Polaroid collection of the Milwaukee cannibal's naked and dismembered victims, per Oxygen.
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The 74 pages of declassified documents, obtained by The Sun, disclosed correspondence between police chief Philip Arreola and FBI director William S. Sessions.
"The remains of eleven decapitated, dismembered victims were discovered in the apartment of Jeffrey Dahmer," Arreola wrote in the document dated August 12, 1991.
One of the photos sent to the FBI was said to be of 23-year-old Jeremiah Weinberger, who was Dahmer's 15th victim on July 5, 1991. The cops reported that the photo showed Dahmer's right leg and foot.
Other pictures included in the Milwaukee Monster's repulsive collection were those of his seventh victim, Ernest Miller, 22, and his eighth victim, David Thomas.
The snaps showed Dahmer engaging in sexual acts with the dead bodies of some of his victims, while others exhibited naked dismembered corpses in different poses.
The pictures were key to the serial killer getting charged and ultimately convicted for his crimes, as the cop who arrested him discovered them on his bedside table. They took the photos and requested that the FBI examine them to further "the identification of the suspect and victims".
After Mueller and Rauth found Dahmer's stack of sick polaroids in his apartment, he attempted to run but the cops managed to wrestle him to the ground and handcuff him - ending his barbaric rampage, The Sun reports.
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In 1994, the American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology wrote that Dahmer took the photos of his dead victims because he "wanted to keep them as mementos to keep him company".
According to Biography, it is also understood the murderer took pictures at various stages of the murder process so that he could "recollect each act afterward and relive the experience".
Among other things, the cops discovered heads severed from their bodies, skulls that had been bleached, and a vat of acid measuring 57 gallons of liquefying flesh.
Investigators also recovered chilling tools from the apartment such as various knives, saw blades, and a wooden spoon - all used to decapitate and dismember his victims.
In addition to that, authorities found that Dahmer's fridge held prepackaged body parts to eat, with it later emerging that the parts came from 11 different people among the 17 men and boys he killed between 1978 and 1991.
After his violent storm came to an end, the twisted cannibal was sentenced to 16 life terms in prison and was sent to the Columbia Correctional Institution in Wisconsin in 1992.
And on November 28, 1994, Dahmer met his fate as he was beaten to death by inmate Christopher Scarver.
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ENTERTAINMENT
October 12, 22
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By Asiya Ali
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A 31-year-old FBI file includes a disturbing list of polaroid pictures featuring Jeffrey Dahmer's gruesome murders.
On the night of July 22, 1991, local authorities searched the notorious serial killer's home at 924 North 25th Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after his final victim Tracy Edwards escaped with one of his wrists still attached to a pair of handcuffs.
Edwards, then 32, told officer Rolf Mueller and his partner Robert Rauth that Dahmer had threatened him with a knife, which was when they headed to the apartment and found the key to the handcuffs, as well as the knife in the killer's bedroom.
Upon inspection, the cops discovered a shocking 80-picture Polaroid collection of the Milwaukee cannibal's naked and dismembered victims, per Oxygen.
Credit: ARCHIVIO GBB / Alamy
The 74 pages of declassified documents, obtained by The Sun, disclosed correspondence between police chief Philip Arreola and FBI director William S. Sessions.
"The remains of eleven decapitated, dismembered victims were discovered in the apartment of Jeffrey Dahmer," Arreola wrote in the document dated August 12, 1991.
One of the photos sent to the FBI was said to be of 23-year-old Jeremiah Weinberger, who was Dahmer's 15th victim on July 5, 1991. The cops reported that the photo showed Dahmer's right leg and foot.
Other pictures included in the Milwaukee Monster's repulsive collection were those of his seventh victim, Ernest Miller, 22, and his eighth victim, David Thomas.
The snaps showed Dahmer engaging in sexual acts with the dead bodies of some of his victims, while others exhibited naked dismembered corpses in different poses.
The pictures were key to the serial killer getting charged and ultimately convicted for his crimes, as the cop who arrested him discovered them on his bedside table. They took the photos and requested that the FBI examine them to further "the identification of the suspect and victims".
After Mueller and Rauth found Dahmer's stack of sick polaroids in his apartment, he attempted to run but the cops managed to wrestle him to the ground and handcuff him - ending his barbaric rampage, The Sun reports.
Credit: REUTERS / Alamy
In 1994, the American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology wrote that Dahmer took the photos of his dead victims because he "wanted to keep them as mementos to keep him company".
According to Biography, it is also understood the murderer took pictures at various stages of the murder process so that he could "recollect each act afterward and relive the experience".
Among other things, the cops discovered heads severed from their bodies, skulls that had been bleached, and a vat of acid measuring 57 gallons of liquefying flesh.
Investigators also recovered chilling tools from the apartment such as various knives, saw blades, and a wooden spoon - all used to decapitate and dismember his victims.
In addition to that, authorities found that Dahmer's fridge held prepackaged body parts to eat, with it later emerging that the parts came from 11 different people among the 17 men and boys he killed between 1978 and 1991.
After his violent storm came to an end, the twisted cannibal was sentenced to 16 life terms in prison and was sent to the Columbia Correctional Institution in Wisconsin in 1992.
And on November 28, 1994, Dahmer met his fate as he was beaten to death by inmate Christopher Scarver.
