Dahmer

One of America's most notorious murderers is being played by Evan Peters... but what were his crimes and how was he finally caught?

He moved out into an apartment in Milwaukee and the murders and dismemberments continued into the Nineties. He then started to carry out assaults and murders in his grandmother’s home. In 1981, he was discharged, and in the mid-Eighties, back in Milwaukee, he started to frequent gay bathhouses where he sedated men and assaulted them. Running down a Milwaukee street with a pair of handcuffs dangling from one wrist, Tracy Edwards told police that Dahmer was trying to kill him. In 1992, Dahmer was jailed for life. He later dug up the body so he could dissolve it in acid and crush and scatter the bones. He later admitted he fantacised about dominating a submissive male partner, and that these fantasies had started to involve dissection. He drank heavily and called alcohol his “medicine” to classmates. Dahmer was interested in dead animals, specifically animal bones, from an early age – something thought to have begun when he saw his father removing animal bones from beneath their home. He began to collect insects and the skeletons of small animals, such as squirrels, and preserve them in jars of formaldehyde. Dahmer was a quiet child, who underwent double hernia surgery at the age of three. [Netflix](/topic/netflix)’s newest addition to its true crime canon is a thriller from [Ryan Murphy](/topic/ryan-murphy), who explores the case of one of America’s most notorious serial killers: Jeffrey Dahmer.