Jeffrey DahmerMr. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (wikipedia.org). Eight years later, his family moved to Bath, Ohio. He was a very shy boy who often collected dead animals and showed signs of necrophilia at an early age. No one could have predicted that Jeffrey Dahmer would commit 17 murders during his life which, during the trial, were revealed to be motivated by necrophilia and his own homosexuality. Most of Mr. Dahmer's victims were young, homosexual black men whom Dahmer subjected to sexual abuse. assaults (wikipedia.org). Jeffrey Dahmer had one goal in mind; finding a completely compliant sexual partner, essentially motivating the killing of necrophilia. Dahmer was a closet alcoholic and also suffered from low self-esteem. He is one of the most famous serial killers in the history of American true crime. On July 24, 1991 the news arrived. Thirty-one-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Shortly before, the police had been alerted to a terrified man, Tracy Edwards, still in handcuffs, who had just escaped from a nearby apartment where he had been lured by a man offering him a beer (Lane 126). If the man had not run away, he would have been massacred by a butcher's knife. Unfortunately for the police, they had another opportunity to catch Dahmer in the act, but they failed miserably. In May 1991, a Laotian teenager, Konerak Sinthasomphone, had escaped from Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment, naked, dazed and bleeding, but still alive. Sinthasomphone did not speak English and Dahmer managed to convince police officers that the 15-year-old boy was his 19-year-old homosexual lover. After the police released Sinthasomphone into Mr. Dahmer's clutches, Dahmer dismembered the boy and kept his skull as a keepsake. Coincidentally, this was the older brother of a boy molested by Dahmer in 1988, a crime for which he served a year in a low-security labor camp (wikipedia.org). In 1991, police had not yet connected the murders of 12 people. black men, as well as five others, to a serial killer possibly operating in the Milwaukee area. The breakthrough in the case finally came later that year. Two officers spotted Tracy Edwards, 32, stumbling around with only one handcuff on her wrist. Naturally, the officers moved alongside Edwards and began questioning him.