# Jeffrey Dahmer

> Dahmer pleaded guilty but insane to murdering young men and boys in Milwaukee between 1988 and 1991. A jury found him legally sane in 1992, and he was sentenced to consecutive life terms; months later he pleaded guilty in Ohio to a 1978 murder. Another inmate killed him in a Wisconsin prison in 1994.

- Case: State of Wisconsin v. Dahmer · Milwaukee, Wisconsin · 1992
- Section: historical case (closed; the defendant has died)
- Outcome: Deceased. Died Nov. 28, 1994, after an attack by another inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin, where he was serving consecutive life terms. His lawyer said after sentencing that no appeal was planned. The convictions in Wisconsin and Ohio stand.
- Died: Nov. 28, 1994
- Topics: Serial killings
- Last updated: 2026-10-17
- Editorial review: approved 2026-10-17
- Web page: https://criminalbackstories.com/history/jeffrey-dahmer/
- All defendants are presumed innocent until found guilty by a court of law. Charges and allegations described on this site are not proof of guilt.

## Why this case is remembered

The case drew a large new audience in September 2022 with Netflix's *Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story*. The sister of Errol Lindsey, one of the victims, said the series recreated her 1992 courtroom statement without asking the family: "They didn't ask me anything. They just did it."[26] A former *Milwaukee Journal* crime reporter who covered the arrest said the series "does not bear a great deal of resemblance to the facts of the case."[27]

## Case at a glance

- Murder record: Pleaded guilty to 16 murders, each committed on a separate occasion. Dahmer pleaded guilty but insane to 15 Milwaukee County homicides, and in February 1992 a jury found him sane on each of the 15 counts, so the convictions stood and he was sentenced to life imprisonment.[1][10] In May 1992 he pleaded guilty in Summit County, Ohio, to the 1978 murder of Steven Mark Hicks.[16][24]
- Charges: Homicide counts filed in Milwaukee County beginning in July 1991; by Aug. 6, 1991, he faced 12, and he ultimately pleaded to 15[18][7]
- Plea: Guilty but insane to 15 counts, accepted by Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Laurence C. Gram Jr. on Jan. 13, 1992[7]
- Sanity verdict: Sane on each count, by a 10–2 vote of the jury, Feb. 15, 1992[10][11]
- Sentence: Fifteen consecutive life terms, Feb. 17, 1992; Wisconsin had no death penalty[14][11]
- Ohio: Pleaded guilty in Summit County in May 1992 to the murder of Steven Mark Hicks, 18, killed June 18, 1978; sentenced to another life term[16][24]
- Earlier conviction: Second-degree sexual assault and enticing a child for immoral purposes, a 13-year-old boy; sentenced May 24, 1989[2]
- Died: Nov. 28, 1994, after an attack by another inmate at Columbia Correctional Institution, Portage, Wisconsin[21]

## The backstory

### The 1989 conviction and probation

In 1989 Dahmer was convicted in Milwaukee of second-degree sexual assault and of enticing a child for immoral purposes; the victim was a 13-year-old boy, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.[2] On May 24, 1989, he was sentenced to one year in the Milwaukee House of Correction, with work release, and five years of probation, with conditions that he get alcohol treatment and have no contact with anyone under 18.[2] A state probation agent supervised him from March 1990 until his arrest; she met with him about twice a month, and home visits were waived under a waiver her supervisor approved, the court wrote.[2]

### The May 1991 police encounter

In the early morning of May 27, 1991, a woman named Sandra Smith encountered Konerak Sinthasomphone, who was 14 years old, and asked Nicole Childress to call the police, according to the federal district court's account.[1] Milwaukee police officers John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish responded; the boy did not answer their questions, Dahmer gave a false name for him, and the ambulance crew "was sent away by the police," the court wrote.[1] The officers took both to Dahmer's apartment, and, "thinking they had verified that Sinthasomphone belonged with Dahmer," left the boy there.[1] "Dahmer killed Sinthasomphone some 30 minutes later," the court wrote.[1] Dahmer later failed to report that police contact to his probation agent, one of the two violations on which his probation was revoked after his arrest.[2]

### The arrest

At about 11:30 p.m. on July 22, 1991, Milwaukee police on patrol found a partially clothed man near an apartment building who said he had been threatened with a knife, the FBI has recounted.[5] Officers went to Dahmer's apartment, arrested him and found "numerous body parts belonging to multiple victims"; the remains of 11 victims were found there.[5] The FBI provided laboratory and identification services to Milwaukee authorities, including DNA and tool mark analysis.[5] Soon after his arrest, Dahmer confessed to more than a dozen murders, and in an affidavit he admitted killing 11 men.[5][17] Milwaukee County prosecutors filed homicide charges in stages; by Aug. 6, 1991, he faced 12 counts, and bail was set at $5 million cash.[18]

### The murders of conviction in Milwaukee

Dahmer admitted drugging, strangling and dismembering the young men and boys he was charged with killing, UPI reported at the end of the trial.[10] He pleaded guilty but insane to the murders of 15 people. A list of the victims published after the verdict gave each one's age, home city and when he was last seen or reported missing; those are not dates of death.[12]

Jamie Doxtator, 14, of Milwaukee, was last seen in January 1988.[12]

Richard Guerrero, 25, of Milwaukee, disappeared in 1988.[12]

Anthony Sears, 26, of Milwaukee, was last seen March 25, 1989.[12]

Ricky Beeks, 33, of Rockford, Illinois, was last seen in May 1990.[12]

Edward W. Smith, 28, of Milwaukee, was reported missing in June 1990.[12]

Ernest Miller, of Chicago, was last seen Sept. 2, 1990.[12] He had been living in Chicago, where he hoped to study dance, and was visiting family in Milwaukee when he disappeared, the *Chicago Tribune* reported.[18]

David C. Thomas, 23, of Milwaukee, was reported missing Sept. 24, 1990.[12]

Curtis Straughter, 18, of Milwaukee, was last seen Feb. 18, 1991.[12]

Errol Lindsey, 19, of Milwaukee, was last seen April 7, 1991.[12]

Anthony Hughes, 31, of Madison, was reported missing May 24, 1991.[12]

Konerak Sinthasomphone, 14, of Milwaukee, was killed on May 27, 1991, about 30 minutes after police left him at Dahmer's apartment.[1] By Dahmer's account, he had met the boy at a downtown shopping mall and invited him to the apartment to pose for pictures, the *Chicago Tribune* reported.[18]

Matt Turner, 20, of Chicago, met Dahmer in Chicago on June 30, 1991.[12] Dahmer's unauthorized trip to Chicago that day was the second violation on which his probation was revoked.[2]

Jeremiah Benjamin Weinberger, 23, of Chicago, was killed by Dahmer "on or about July 6, 1991," according to the Seventh Circuit.[2][12]

Oliver Lacy, 23, of Milwaukee, was last seen July 12, 1991.[12]

Joseph Bradehoft, 25, of Milwaukee, met Dahmer on July 19, 1991, three days before the arrest.[12]

### The plea and the sanity trial

On Jan. 13, 1992, Dahmer changed his plea to guilty but insane, and Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Laurence C. Gram Jr. accepted it.[7] His lawyer, Gerald Boyle, told the court, "I want to emphasize that the decision to plead guilty is Mr. Dahmer's."[7] Under Wisconsin's procedure, a defendant who pleads insanity is first convicted and then tried separately on sanity; Dahmer's plea took the trial directly to that second phase.[7] If he was found sane, each count carried a mandatory life sentence; if insane, he would be committed to a mental institution.[7] The burden of proving insanity was on the defense.[11]

Testimony lasted 12 days and included three young men who said they had escaped from Dahmer, police detectives, and the officers from the May 1991 encounter.[10][6] Seven psychiatrists and psychologists testified.[13]

**The defense experts.** Dr. Fred Berlin of Johns Hopkins University testified that Dahmer had necrophilia, which he called "a broken mind," and that Dahmer had been "fighting very hard not to give into these urges," though he could control himself when a situation required it.[8] Dr. Judith Becker testified, "He has a mental disease. That is what drives his behavior."[23] Dr. Carl Wahlstrom, a Chicago psychiatrist, testified that after his fifth killing Dahmer developed beliefs about building a "temple" or "power center" from remains, and that he "tried very hard to avoid getting caught."[9][23]

**The prosecution and court-appointed experts.** Dr. Frederick Fosdal, called by the prosecution, testified that Dahmer had told him, "I had choices to make. I made the wrong choices."[23] Dr. Park Dietz, also for the prosecution, testified that while Dahmer was an alcoholic, the killings were planned and deliberate.[23] Dr. George Palermo, appointed by the court, testified that Dahmer had an antisocial personality disorder but did not meet the legal definition of insanity.[23] UPI reported that the experts split 4–3 on his sanity, that the two court-appointed experts sided with the prosecution, that only one described him as psychotic, and that all agreed he knew his actions were wrong.[10]

Five of the seven experts agreed, on direct or under cross-examination, that he had a mental disease. McCann argued that necrophilia was a personality disorder, not a mental illness, and Judge Gram rejected that argument each time it was raised.[13] McCann's fallback argument was that Dahmer could have chosen not to kill even if he had a mental disease.[13]

### The verdict and sentence

On Feb. 15, 1992, after nearly five hours of deliberation, the jury of seven men and five women found Dahmer sane on each of the 15 counts by a 10–2 vote; Wisconsin required only 10 jurors to agree.[10] One juror said, "His whole conduct showed he was a con artist."[11] Another, one of the two in the minority, said the jury agreed there was a problem but disagreed whether it was a disorder or a disease.[13]

On Feb. 17, Judge Gram sentenced him to 15 consecutive life terms after relatives of the victims addressed the court.[14][15] A federal court later described the sentence as "life imprisonment without the possibility of parole."[1] Dahmer told the court, "I take all the blame for what I did," and, "I know society will never be able to forgive me."[15] His lawyer said no appeal was planned.[14][31] Wisconsin had no death penalty.[11]

### The Ohio case

Steven Mark Hicks, 18, of Coventry Township, Ohio, was killed on June 18, 1978, at the Dahmer family home in Bath Township, Summit County, according to an Associated Press account; Dahmer had graduated from high school shortly before.[24] Hicks had been hitchhiking.[24] After Dahmer's 1991 confession, he told investigators where to find the remains, and he was indicted in Summit County.[24] In May 1992 he pleaded guilty in Akron to the murder and received another life term; he sat quietly while Hicks's mother called him a monster, the *St. Petersburg Times* reported.[16]

## Personal backstory

### Early life

Dahmer was born in Milwaukee in 1960, according to his father's memoir as summarized in a review.[29] The family moved to Bath Township, Ohio, when he was 8, and he graduated from Revere High School.[24] In the memoir, his father wrote that his son seemed like any other child until he began to withdraw, and that his own absorption in his work as a chemist kept him from seeing that his son's drinking had begun in high school.[29] The father linked that withdrawal to a hernia operation in childhood, according to another review.[30] *These are the father's account, not findings of a court.*

### College and the Army

He left college after one semester, his father wrote.[29] He enlisted in the Army in 1979 and served as a medic with the 68th Armored Regiment in Baumholder, West Germany, from July 1979 to March 1981, according to Associated Press reporting cited by *Military Times*.[25] He was separated in 1981 under a chapter of Army regulations covering alcohol and drug abuse; his stepmother told the AP that his drinking led to the discharge.[25] Asked about him in 1991, she said, "Something happened to him in prison that he would never talk about."[17]

### Milwaukee

He later lived for a time at his grandmother's home in West Allis, a Milwaukee suburb, the *Chicago Tribune* reported in 1991.[18] *The sources reviewed do not document his work history in Milwaukee.*

### Mental health, as testified

No court found Dahmer legally insane. At trial, defense experts testified that he had necrophilia, and Berlin called his condition "a broken mind"; the court-appointed psychiatrist testified to an antisocial personality disorder; and a prosecution expert testified that he was an alcoholic.[8][23] Ten of the 12 jurors found that he did not have a mental disease.[13] Dahmer told examiners that race played no role in his choice of victims, most of whom were young Black men, UPI reported.[10]

### The families

After the verdict, the sister of Edward W. Smith said it "brought back the faith I'd lost in the justice system."[11] The mother of Anthony Hughes said, "I want to thank God, thank Mr. McCann, thank the jury, for bringing in justice for us."[10] A relative of Ernest Miller said, "I've been praying every night that he would not be found insane."[10] In 2022, the sister of Errol Lindsey said that watching her sentencing-day statement recreated by Netflix "brought back all the emotions I was feeling back then."[26]

### In custody and death

He served his sentences at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin.[10][21] On the morning of Nov. 28, 1994, Dahmer and another inmate, Jesse Anderson, were escorted to a work detail at about 7:50 a.m.; Dahmer was found about 20 minutes later in a bathroom in the prison's recreation area with severe head wounds and died at 9:11 a.m., UPI reported.[21] Neither man was under direct guard supervision at the time, and Anderson was critically injured in the same attack.[21] Wisconsin's corrections secretary called it "a terrible tragedy."[21] He was 34.[21] A federal appeals court later described Christopher Scarver, a "triple murderer," as "the inmate who murdered Jeffrey Dahmer."[4] His lawyer said he trusted Dahmer "has found a peace he could never find in life."[21]

## The victims

### Proven in court

- Steven Mark Hicks, June 18, 1978 (killed), Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio (Guilty plea). He pleaded guilty in Summit County in May 1992 to Hicks's murder and received a life term.[16][24]
- Jamie Doxtator, January 1988 (last seen), Milwaukee County, Wis. (Guilty plea). One of the 15 Milwaukee County homicides to which he pleaded guilty but insane[1]; last seen in January 1988, age 14, of Milwaukee, according to the list of the 15 victims published after the verdict.[12]
- Richard Guerrero, 1988 (disappeared), Milwaukee County, Wis. (Guilty plea). One of the 15 Milwaukee County homicides to which he pleaded guilty but insane[1]; disappeared in 1988, age 25, of Milwaukee, according to the list of the 15 victims published after the verdict.[12]
- Anthony Sears, March 25, 1989 (last seen), Milwaukee County, Wis. (Guilty plea). One of the 15 Milwaukee County homicides to which he pleaded guilty but insane[1]; last seen March 25, 1989, age 26, of Milwaukee, according to the list of the 15 victims published after the verdict.[12]
- Ricky Beeks, May 1990 (last seen), Milwaukee County, Wis. (Guilty plea). One of the 15 Milwaukee County homicides to which he pleaded guilty but insane[1]; last seen in May 1990, age 33, of Rockford, Illinois, according to the list of the 15 victims published after the verdict.[12]
- Edward W. Smith, June 1990 (reported missing), Milwaukee County, Wis. (Guilty plea). One of the 15 Milwaukee County homicides to which he pleaded guilty but insane[1]; reported missing in June 1990, age 28, of Milwaukee, according to the list of the 15 victims published after the verdict.[12]
- Ernest Miller, Sept. 2, 1990 (last seen), Milwaukee County, Wis. (Guilty plea). One of the 15 Milwaukee County homicides to which he pleaded guilty but insane[1]; last seen Sept. 2, 1990, of Chicago, according to the list of the 15 victims published after the verdict.[12]
- David C. Thomas, Sept. 24, 1990 (reported missing), Milwaukee County, Wis. (Guilty plea). One of the 15 Milwaukee County homicides to which he pleaded guilty but insane[1]; reported missing Sept. 24, 1990, age 23, of Milwaukee, according to the list of the 15 victims published after the verdict.[12]
- Curtis Straughter, Feb. 18, 1991 (last seen), Milwaukee County, Wis. (Guilty plea). One of the 15 Milwaukee County homicides to which he pleaded guilty but insane[1]; last seen Feb. 18, 1991, age 18, of Milwaukee, according to the list of the 15 victims published after the verdict.[12]
- Errol Lindsey, April 7, 1991 (last seen), Milwaukee County, Wis. (Guilty plea). One of the 15 Milwaukee County homicides to which he pleaded guilty but insane[1]; last seen April 7, 1991, age 19, of Milwaukee, according to the list of the 15 victims published after the verdict.[12]
- Anthony Hughes, May 24, 1991 (reported missing), Milwaukee County, Wis. (Guilty plea). One of the 15 Milwaukee County homicides to which he pleaded guilty but insane[1]; reported missing May 24, 1991, age 31, of Madison, according to the list of the 15 victims published after the verdict.[12]
- Konerak Sinthasomphone, May 27, 1991 (killed), Milwaukee County, Wis. (Guilty plea). The federal court found that he was 14 and that Dahmer killed him about 30 minutes after police left him at Dahmer's apartment, one of the 15 homicides Dahmer pleaded guilty to.[1]
- Matt Turner, June 30, 1991 (met Dahmer in Chicago), Milwaukee County, Wis. (Guilty plea). One of the 15 Milwaukee County homicides to which he pleaded guilty but insane[1]; age 20, of Chicago, he met Dahmer in Chicago June 30, 1991, according to the list published after the verdict.[12]
- Jeremiah Benjamin Weinberger, July 6, 1991, or about then (killed), Milwaukee County, Wis. (Guilty plea). The Seventh Circuit wrote that Dahmer killed him "on or about July 6, 1991"; his was among the 15 counts in the plea.[2][1][12]
- Oliver Lacy, July 12, 1991 (last seen), Milwaukee County, Wis. (Guilty plea). One of the 15 Milwaukee County homicides to which he pleaded guilty but insane[1]; last seen July 12, 1991, age 23, of Milwaukee, according to the list published after the verdict.[12]
- Joseph Bradehoft, July 19, 1991 (met Dahmer), Milwaukee County, Wis. (Guilty plea). One of the 15 Milwaukee County homicides to which he pleaded guilty but insane[1]; age 25, of Milwaukee, he met Dahmer July 19, 1991, according to the list published after the verdict.[12]

### Other deaths attributed (not proven in court)

- Steven W. Tuomi, September 1987 (last heard from) (By his own statement; not proven in court). Never charged: a federal court wrote that Dahmer confessed to 17 killings but pleaded to 15 of 16 Milwaukee County homicides, and the Chicago Tribune reported in 1991 that Tuomi, 28, last heard from in September 1987, had been named as the 16th victim, with no remains found.[1][18][14]

## Myth and record

- Claim: Glenda Cleveland, his next-door neighbor, saw the injured boy and made the call that brought police on May 27, 1991, as the 2022 Netflix series shows it.[28][27]
  The record: According to the federal court's account of the night, a woman named Sandra Smith encountered Konerak Sinthasomphone and asked Nicole Childress to call the police.[1] Cleveland, Smith's mother, lived in an adjacent building, not next door, according to her 2011 obituary, and called police afterward.[28] The reporter who broke the story in 1991 has said the series' opening scenes involving her never happened.[27]
- Claim: Dahmer was convicted of 17 murders; police said in 1991 he "may be responsible for killing at least 17," and he confessed to 17 killings.[17][15]
  The record: A federal court wrote that he "has confessed to killing 17 young men" and that he "pled guilty to 15 of his 16 Milwaukee County homicides."[1] He was convicted of those 15 and, in Ohio, of the murder of Steven Hicks: 16 in all.[10][16] One Milwaukee death, that of Steven W. Tuomi, was never charged; no remains were found, the *Chicago Tribune* reported in 1991.[18][14]

## The two sides

- Defense: Having pleaded guilty, Dahmer had the burden of proving he was insane.[11] His lawyer, Gerald Boyle, argued that he was "not an evil man" but "a sick man whose sickness rose to the level of mental illness," and defense experts testified that he had a mental disease, most often described as necrophilia.[11][13]
- Prosecution: District Attorney E. Michael McCann argued that necrophilia was a personality disorder rather than a mental illness, and that even with a mental disease Dahmer could have chosen not to kill.[13] He told the jury, "Please, please don't let this murderous killer fool you."[10]
- The jury: Ten of the 12 jurors found that he did not have a mental disease, so the jury did not reach the remaining questions. One of the two dissenting jurors said, "We never got past the first question."[13]

## Timeline

- 1960: Dahmer is born in Milwaukee.[29]
- June 18, 1978: Steven Mark Hicks, 18, is killed at the Dahmer family home in Bath Township, Ohio, shortly after Dahmer graduates from high school.[24]
- July 1979–March 1981: He serves as an Army medic in Baumholder, West Germany, and is then discharged.[25]
- May 24, 1989: He is sentenced for second-degree sexual assault and enticing a child for immoral purposes: one year in the House of Correction with work release, and five years of probation.[2]
- May 27, 1991: Two Milwaukee police officers encounter Dahmer with 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone and leave the boy at Dahmer's apartment.[3][1]
- July 22, 1991: Police arrest Dahmer at his Milwaukee apartment.[5]
- Jan. 13, 1992: He pleads guilty but insane to 15 counts.[7]
- Feb. 15, 1992: The jury finds him legally sane on all 15 counts.[10]
- Feb. 17, 1992: He is sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms.[14][15]
- May 1992: He pleads guilty in Summit County, Ohio, to the murder of Steven Hicks.[16]
- Nov. 28, 1994: He dies after an attack by another inmate at Columbia Correctional Institution.[21]
- June 1996: A Milwaukee civic fund buys his belongings from the victims' families for $407,225 and has them destroyed.[22]

## What came after

The families of victims brought civil claims against his estate. The first, by the mother of Anthony Hughes, produced a judgment of about $10.15 million in Milwaukee County Circuit Court in July 1992.[19] In 1996, a court order gave the families his belongings to auction; a Milwaukee civic fund instead raised $407,225 to buy them, and they were destroyed after a Columbia County judge approved the release.[22] The two officers fired over the May 1991 encounter were ordered reinstated in 1994 and later lost a federal suit over their discipline.[20][3] In 1993 a federal judge dismissed the Sinthasomphone family's due process claim against the officers on qualified-immunity grounds, and in 1997 the Seventh Circuit rejected the Weinberger family's claims over his probation supervision.[1][2]

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