Cute but terribly, terribly, wrong...

It was time to arrest Jeffrey Dahmer.  Officers Rauth and Mueller told him to place his hands behind his back so that they could handcuff him, and that was the first time he resisted them.  As the two officers put their hands on his arms, Dahmer stiffened and forced his arms forward.  Suddenly the three of them began spinning and tumbling into the living room, crashing across the floor, and yelling as they fought for control.  The whole building seemed to shake, some of the residents remembered, and there were terrible screams from inside the apartment…Then they heard Dahmer’s voice bellowing and a different voice, maybe one of the cops, yelled that he’d been scratched.  There were more violent crashes and shaking as Dahmer tried to force himself up against the combined weight of the two detectives.

Then there was a sudden, long, earsplitting scream that seemed to penetrate through the walls and out into the street.  It was a scream so profound in its misery that the people who heard it were frightened and saddened at the very same time.  This was Dahmer’s scream of acquiescence, a primal scream, a death scream.    

Ukraniain Andrei Romanovich Chikaltilo was convicted of murdering 53 women and children from 1978 to 1990.

Known variously as The Butcher of Rostov, The Red Ripper and The Rostov Ripper, most of his victims were homeless people who he picked up near train and bus stations.

His crimes were notable in their violence, stabbing the victims uncontrollably until his perverted urges were satisfied.

When arrested and interrogated, he confessed to some 56 murders, but as three of the victims’ bodies could not be found, Chikatilo was not held accountable for them.

Declared sane after a six-day psychiatric evaluation, he stood trial in one of the first major media events of the post-Soviet era.

~ Jeffrey Dahmer, and  Ted Bundy.