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Jeffrey Dahmer, Stone Philips Interview, 1994

Regarding Dahmer’s behaviour in prison, there are various opinions on why he would act like that. He was known for playing with food, putting ketchup on his meal to resemble body parts; he once placed a sign in his cell “Cannibal Anonymous Meeting”; he taunted scared guards next to him making them jump by whispering “I bite”.

Following the prison staff insight, he was a model inmate, but based on Christopher Scarver’s opinion, “He crossed the line with some people — prisoners, prison staff. Some people who are in prison are repentant — but [Dahmer] was not one of them”.

However it's important to consider Scarver never really had a direct contact with Dahmer, plus he suffered from a severe mental illness, which makes his statement of doubtful authenticity.

The same Gerald Boyle, Jeffrey Dahmer’s defence attorney, stated “Dahmer was such a milquetoast. He would never have done that stuff. He killed people, but he didn't taunt people. I never saw him do anything that would lead me to believe that he would mimic the deaths that he caused. I just don't believe that.”, claiming it wasn’t the serial killer’s “style”.

On the other hand, Roy Ratcliff, the pastor who baptised Dahmer, backed up the topic saying he'd been told by prison guards Dahmer would joke about cannibalism, effectively affirming the serial killer's ambiguous behaviour.

Last seen of Jeffrey Dahmer in the prison library, 1994

On why of these actions, the theories are three:

Causing outrage to find death: we are aware of Dahmer’s death wish. He claimed multiple times he wanted to be dead, from having suicidal thoughts, to requesting for the death penalty. He was conscious of the risk of his health by being included in the general population, yet, even after people’s recommendations, he chose to be moved anyway. He wasn’t able to commit suicide himself so he provoked people to get what he wanted. Relevant information is also they didn’t find marks on Dahmer’s body, meaning Dahmer didn’t fight back during the attack, accepting his fate. He also said these words no longer before his death to the mother Joyce “It doesn’t matter, Mom. I don’t care if something happens to me”.

His sense of humour: it is known that Dahmer had a particular dark humour. During highschool years Dahmer was known as the clown/mascotte to the students at Revere High School. He staged pranks and he bleated and simulated epileptic seizures or cerebral palsy, which became known as "Doing a Dahmer". Even during interrogation, “He picked up the brown bunch and commented that they held a remarkable resemblance to a person's fingers after they had been immersed in muriatic acid for a while. He placed the banana in his mouth and chewed. "It's not bad."”(cit. Grilling Dahmer). It’s possible he was just spending time as he could.

He had become a shadow of himself: he portrayed himself as THE cannibal in an attempt to attract attention, giving people what they expected from him. He didn’t have real friends, he never had, so he kept this attitude for say “stay away from me”. He toyed with the idea of cannibal quite a bit, because he didn’t trust people. This is the insight Roy Ratcliff gave after he learnt about Jeffrey’s behaviour in prison. Roy became one of the latest and only true friends Jeffrey met.

Roy Ratcliff holding the card Jeffrey Dahmer gave him for thanksgiving

Jeffrey Dahmer was suspected of abducting and murdering a 6-year-old boy named Adam Walsh during his brief residence in Miami. This "occurred" after he was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army due to his alcoholism and chose to live in Miami.

Dahmer denied committing any act against the boy, stating that he would never hurt a small child since his interest was strictly in men who were "of legal age to drink and go to bars." He also denied being a pedophile. It was later confirmed that Jeff Dahmer had no involvement in the Adam Walsh case.

However, shortly after denying the murder, he asked the detective if he could just confess to the crime anyway in order to receive the death penalty. He said we would "welcome the death penalty" and that it would be "fine" to him. Here is the following conversation:

She got beat up in prissonnm!:((((

📝 chatting with dietz:

when dr park dietz discussed the opening of his victims abdomen, dietz asked dahmer if he imagined that his victims were suffering, to which dahmer told him that he did imagine that they were suffering, and that he was never excited about that idea, instead dahmer was excited about the insides being visible to him:

quote from dahmer during an interview with dr. park dietz:

“i was thrilled to seeing the insides, i never thought of them being alive while it was being done.”

when dietz went on to question dahmer further about why he [dahmer] didn’t open the victims abdomens while they alive and drugged, dahmer explained that wasn’t what he wanted to do.

further quotes from dahmer during an interview with dr. park dietz:

“i wanted to sexually enjoy them while they were whole and undamaged.”

*dietz asks if they were more appealing to him that way*

“Uh yeah I guess I will take one more.”

Some Italian newspapers often report news in an overdone, funny way. Here are some examples with serial killers/mass shooters, as they are mentioned; I found them on Internet after a lot of researches”

Jeffrey Dahmer: “The degenerate starving blondie”

Ted Bundy: “The fascinating Vowkswagen driver”

Richard Ramirez: “The rotten-teethed Satanist”

Dylann Roof: “The young shooter who probably needs an hair stylist” (they deleted it after a while, but this is legendary)

Elliot Rodger: “The virgin shooter”

Eric Harris: “The bomber who thought he was God”

📝 dr.dietz and dahmer discuss steven tuomi:

** transcript from the trail **

j.d: “since i had completely failed in trying to resist the urges, yeah i just, i just went with it, embraced it.”

dr.d: “decided not to try.”

j.d: “right, right.”

dr.d: “but the only time you tried to resist was when you were going with religion with your grandma.”

j.d: “right.”

dr.d: “and then the failure with the fellow at the ambassador, do you even remember what happed there?”

j.d: “after that there was no resistance after that, none. It was a gradual escalation, drinking, bath clubs, book stores, bath clubs, right up until the ultimate.”

dr.d : “did you understand how self-indulgent this was?”

j.d: i did but by that time my moral compass was so shot, so totally corrupted that that was my main focus of life. These were my fantasies, that’s what fueled my fantasies. That’s what happens when you think you don’t have to be accountable to anyone, you think you can hide your activities and never have to account for them, it can lead to anything then, which it did.”

dr.d: “you think more people would have done these sort of things if you weren’t inhibited by your conscious?”

j.d: “it would depend on the person i suppose, i don’t know, I can’t speak for others. I really don’t know, I only know what happened in my case.”

dr.d: “you felt this as a struggle for a couple of years?”

j.d: “right, up until the ambassador and then there was no struggle after that, no struggle at all.”

dr.d: “you did just what you pleased.”