How many people did Jeffrey Dahmer kill?

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender.

Dahmer was infamous for committing the murder and dismemberment of seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

Of these victims, twelve were killed in his North 25th Street apartment.

Three other victims were murdered and dismembered at Dahmer’s grandmother’s West Allis residence, with his first and second victims being murdered at his parents’ home in Ohio and at the Ambassador Hotel in Milwaukee, respectively.

A total of fourteen of Dahmer’s victims were from various ethnic minority backgrounds, with nine victims being black.

However, Dahmer was adamant that the race of his victims was incidental to him and that it was the body form of a potential victim that attracted his attention.

Dahmer’s contentions have been supported via an independent forensic specialists’ study of his victim selection.

The anthropological analysis of revealed that Dahmer’s victims shared a “morphological similarity”, suggesting that Dahmer was “psychologically attracted to a certain anthropometric body type.”

Most of Dahmer’s victims were killed by strangulation after being drugged with sedatives, although his first victim was killed by a combination of bludgeoning and strangulation.

Dahmer’s second victim was battered to death, with one further victim killed in 1990, Ernest Miller, dying of a combination of shock and blood loss due to his carotid artery being cut.

Four of Dahmer’s victims killed in 1991 had holes bored into their skulls through which Dahmer injected hydrochloric acid or, later, boiling water, into the frontal lobes in an attempt to induce a permanent, submissive, unresistant state.

Although Dahmer was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, and a psychotic disorder, he was found to be legally sane at his trial.

Dahmer was convicted of fifteen of the sixteen murders he had committed in Wisconsin and was sentenced to fifteen terms of life imprisonment on February 17, 1992.

Dahmer was later sentenced to a sixteenth term of life imprisonment for an additional homicide committed in Ohio in 1978.

Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver, a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, on November 28, 1994, Wisconsin.