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Jeffrey Dahmer stashed victim’s head and genitals in work locker at chocolate factory-Ruth Lawes-Entertainment – Metro
Dahmer killed 17 boys and men.
Dahmer murdered 17 boys and men (Picture: Bureau of Prisons/Getty Images)
Jeffrey Dahmer hid the dismembered body parts of his victim Anthony Sears in his locker while he was working at a chocolate factory.
Sears, 26, was one of the 17 boys and men Dahmer murdered in a killing and sexual assault spree that lasted from 1978 until 1991.
After being arrested more than two decades after he brutally killed his first victim, Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison, before being beaten to death by a fellow inmate in 1994.
Dahmer strangled Sears at his grandmother’s house, where he was living at the time, after meeting at Milwaukee gay club La Cage and cut his genitals and head off as trophies.
In Netflix documentary Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes, Dr Park Dietz, the forensic psychiatrist for the prosecution during the trial, told programme makers about the gruesome way Dahmer stored Sears’ body.
He explained: ‘He kept the full head, not just the skull, and he also kept his genitals and he put them in an airtight container. And he put it in his locker at the chocolate plant where he worked.
Dietz continued: ‘This was safer than having it at Grandma’s house where somebody could stumble upon it.
Dahmer was killed by another inmate (Picture: Sipa/REX/Shutterstock)
In audio played during the three-part documentary, Dahmer’s lawyer Wendy Patrickus asks the serial killer if he kept the genitals and head as a ‘companion’.
Dahmer responds: ‘It was just a matter of trying to preserve what I had left.
‘I hope he would dry out and would stay looking like he did in life but it didn’t work out that way.
‘By that time it was fairly obvious it didn’t look like Tony anymore. It was just all shrivelled up.’
Dahmer kept body parts in his work locker (Picture: REUTERS)
Only one of Dahmer’s victims managed to escape, Tracy Edwards, after pretending he needed the bathroom and hitting the murderer on the head.
In the documentary, in archive footage from a news report, Edwards tells a journalist: ‘I told him I gotta go to the bathroom. And so as I was walking past the guy, I hit him right?
‘And then I ran for the door and God had to be with me because he had like eight different locks on there [the door]. And I just picked the right lock out of all of them.’
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After fleeing Dahmer, Edwards bumped into officers who were on the rounds in Milwaukee, informing them about the terrifying incident.
Police searched Dahmer’s home and were horrified to find polaroid pictures of dismembered victims and later found body parts including two full skeletons.
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes is available to stream on Netflix on Friday.
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