There was a morbid curiosity to know the details, but it was more than that – there was a desire for people to read the facts and then to figure out how to ensure this never happened again. I covered the trial and wrote a book on the case, "The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough: The Secret Murders of Milwaukee’s Jeffrey Dahmer" - the only book written by a local reporter. His trial in 1992 was an event of circus-like proportions. The stories dominated the local headlines of the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel (Milwaukee was then a two-daily newspaper town) and were soon picked up by national and international media. His killings involved necrophilia, cannibalism and the preservation of body parts. Jeffrey Dahmer, 31 when he was arrested in 1991, sexually assaulted, killed and dismembered 17 men and boys – 16 in West Allis and Milwaukee, Wisconsin and one victim in Ohio – all between 19. Body parts litter apartment: Milwaukee man arrested at scene up to 12 bodies might be involved. It was a tip that led me to inexorably be linked to one of the most famous serial killers of our time – even 25 years later. That tip led me to an apartment building at North 25th Street & Kilbourn Avenue in Milwaukee. Two Milwaukee Police Officers had made a gruesome discovery - a man had been keeping body parts in his apartment – including human heads in the refrigerator. Now, 25 years later, it is clear I wasn’t the only one with memories to conceal, or better yet, to discard from that horrible era.Īs a parttime crime reporter for the former Milwaukee Journal (and part-time waitress, like every well-paid journalist), I received a tip from a police source just before midnight on July 22, 1991. A real estate agent once declared I would never sell my house if I insisted on displaying in the foyer the enormous framed front page of the Milwaukee Journal from Jthat welcomed guests to my home with the headline, "Body parts litter apartment," and my sole byline beneath it.
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