He was finally caught on July 22, 1991, when one of his intended victims escaped and led police to his apartment. Inside, authorities found photographs of dismembered bodies, severed heads in the refrigerator, and a horrifying collection of human remains.
The boy who once played innocently with “fiddlesticks” had grown into Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, the Milwaukee Cannibal, one of America’s most infamous serial killers, later chronicled in Netflix’s Monster.
The inmate who killed Jeffrey Dahmer, Christopher Scarver, claimed that God told him to do it.
When news of Dahmer’s death broke, his mother, Joyce, lashed out at the media, saying, “Now is everybody happy? Now that he’s bludgeoned to death, is that good enough for everyone?”
Reactions from the victims’ families were divided. Some expressed relief, while others said the news only deepened their pain. Catherine Lacy, the mother of victim Oliver Lacy, said, “The hurt is worse now, because he’s not suffering like we are.”
The district attorney who prosecuted Dahmer urged the public not to glorify Scarver, reminding everyone that Dahmer’s killing was still an act of murder.
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