eternal dahmnation

ⓘ Milwaukee Ambrosia Chocolate Factory, the place where Jeffrey Dahmer worked from January 1985 until July 1991. Dahmer was hired as a mixer at the Factory, where he worked from 11 p.m to 7 a.m. six nights per week, with Saturday evenings off.

According to coworkers, Jeffrey was unremarkable, quiet. He oddly looked at the walls while he ate and smoked during breaks. Apparently he once asked to accompany a coworker to his house, but was rejected after (not known if it is true or not, many make false allegations under his name). He brought a severed head to work once and left it at his locker.

"My great-aunt worked side-by-side with him on the night shift at the factory. She said he was a "quiet and nice man who minded his own business and did his job."

Dahmer was officially fired on July 19, 1991, just three days before his final arrest. He was terminated due to chronic absenteeism and lateness. During his final weeks, his heavy drinking and obsession with his crimes caused him to completely neglect his job duties. He was suspended on July 15, officially dismissed on July 19, and arrested on the night of July 22, 1991, after his final intended victim, Tracy Edwards, escaped and alerted the police.

The old downtown Milwaukee factory was demolished in 1993, and the company relocated. The former factory site is now occupied by the Fiserv Forum, the arena where the Milwaukee Bucks play, which opened in 2018.

"There were no warning signs when he was growing up. There was nothing unusual. Jeff was always just a very shy, quiet boy."

upon entering Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment, you’ll notice that it’s a bit disorganized and awkward. straight ahead from the entrance, you’ll see his fish tank, situated on top of a sleek black table in the far corner of the room. Before the fish tank is a light colored couch and a crooked rug, too small for the space it’s in. the walls are sparsely populated with erotic imagery of the male form.

on the upper corner of the wall, there’s a security camera, like one you’d see outside of a grocery store.

looking around the small, cluttered apartment, you’ll find hints as to what the man who lives here gets up to.

here on this side-table, you’ll see empty cans of beer among what looks like bottles of chemicals and medications. there’s even a drill on the floor next to a bottle of bleach.

if you turn to your left, you’ll see a cube freezer, stationed awkwardly near the kitchen area. on top of this freezer lay a bunch of polaroids taken by Dahmer. in front of the freezer are several boxes of Soilex cleaning product and several square cardboard boxes, which contained acid.

if you turn all the way around, you’ll be back at the front door, looking at the hallway towards Jeff’s bedroom.

stepping just into the small hallway, and turning to your left, you’ll see Jeff’s bed along with a dresser carrying a TV. the floor is stained and the room is cluttered but not full. beyond the dresser, just out of sight, a large blue drum takes up space in the corner. i wonder what he keeps in there..?

Jeffrey Dahmer is unrepeatable. It is essentially impossible for anyone to possess all those positive qualities at the same time. Only a handful of people came somewhat close to him, but only Dahmer could truly be himself—forever.

At the end of that third day of talking to him before he was going to go into court, he said to me, ‘You know, I’m a little bit concerned. You know I have to go to court tomorrow’ and he already knew by then that there was news media all over the place because I would be in the paper and be like; ‘oh look at what they’re saying about you’. He was concerned about that he looked all greasy and funky and will I need to go on this paper dress suit. So I went home that night, and I had my oldest boy at the time was a sophomore in high school and he was damn near 6’1. 6’2, 285 pounds. So I asked him, I said, ‘Oh hey Pat, do you have a shirt and some pants that you don’t like’. Of course he pulled out this blue striped shirt, he goes; ‘Yeah, this is the one you gave me for Christmas that I will never wear’. He goes you have this one, and he also had a pair of black jeans that he gave me, right. So the next day when I went in, as we were preparing for court, I gave those to Jeffrey Dahmer and he put them on. Well that’s the shirt that’s on People Magazine, the blue and white striped shirt, where people say, ‘Oh look how he’s dressed, like a tennis player.’ They made all those assumptions about his choice, but that was my son’s shirt and pants that he wore there. They took him back in the judges chambers and the holding cell where they hold prisoners. He started to get out of those clothes, and get into, because now he was going to go to the county so he was putting on his orange jumpsuit. He tried to hand me back the shirt and the pants and at the time I said, ‘Oh no Jeff, that’s alright you can keep them’.

During Jeffrey Dahmer’s trial, renowned forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz (hired by the prosecution) revealed that, after pouring muriatic acid, then hot water into the brains of Konerak Sinthasomphone and Jeremiah Weinberger in order to create a “sex slave” zombie had failed, Jeffrey Dahmer had thought of putting an electric wire through a hole in a live man’s head and plugging the other end into a socket to see if an electric charge might keep him going. Thankfully he was caught before that experiment was ever realized.

Others in the past have experimented with applying electricity to deceased bodies. In 1818, Glasweigan Andrew Ure demonstrated to the public how a recently deceased corpse could resume heavy breathing and point its fingers at the audience.