Twenty-five years ago, the cannibal serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer met his own demise. Beaten to death Nov. 28, 1994, in a Wisconsin prison by a fellow inmate wielding a metal bar, it was a violent end to a sadistically violent existence.
Dahmer confessed to killing 17 boys and men between 1978 and 1991, when he finally was captured in Milwaukee.
According to federal records that are now part of the Chicago Sun-Times’ growing “The FBI Files” database, investigators’ post-conviction interviews with Dahmer show the questions he was asked and many of his answers were, as might be expected, not for the faint of heart.
It’s been well documented that Dahmer’s murderous spree might have ended sooner and with less carnage had the police been more on-the-ball during encounters with him prior to his 1991 arrest.
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