β 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.
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 he would "welcome the death penalty" and that it would be "fine" to him. Here is the following conversation:
Detective: "And like I said that's why we are here and you know i had to ask you right out if you had anything to do with the kidnapping and the murder of Adam Walsh."
Dahmer: "Nothing... nothing."
Detective: "One of the things that did impress me last week when we were talking was your openness and honesty about this, you remember we've talked about this and then I'd ask you and i shared this with [redacted] if you would have done that, would you tell us and you said "absolutely" and then i said "why?" and you had a good reason, it's like you said..."
Dahmer: "No secret, there's no point in trying to hide it anymore, you know."
Detective: "The devil's advocate, i mean, white shirts, those people that we always have to answer to... they said "well he's afraid of the death penalty" Florida has the death penalty."
Dahmer: "I would welcome the death penalty.
Detective: "I know. We talked a little about that last week."
Dahmer: "In fact i, uh... if that would get me the death penalty I'd- I'd admit to it, you know, you think it would? I'll be fine, that'll be fine with me."
Detective: "No, we don't want you to..."
Dahmer: "I don't want to go on rotting away in this place."
Dahmer: "I'd be more than happy to get over it like that."
