Apartment 213

Continuing with the trope of queers who kill, lets talk Jeffrey Dahmer. Jeffrey Dahmer was an active serial killer from 1978-1991.He   On Netflix I watched a documentary titled "The Jeffrey Dahmer Files" in which they interview three people. A neighbor Pamela Bass who lived in the apartment in front of Jeffrey Dahmer, the main detective -who was the main contact between Dahmer and the world Patrick Kennedy- and the main coroner Jeffrey Jentzen. Jeffrey Dahmer killed about 19 people, but what really set him apart was his fixation of sexual pleasure that he took away from performing acts of necrophilia and cannibalism.

The headlines called him the "Real Hannibal Lecter".

However one of the major differences between Dahmer and Hannibal is what makes him eligible for study in this class. He was gay. Dahmers victims were all men who he was going to pay to have sex with. Dahmer's father was a chemist who showed Dahmer how to use all the chemicals that he would eventually use to desiccate parts of the body. One of the ways that he collected trophies was to arrange the dead bodies in strange contorted positions and then take pictures. He would also cut off their genitalia and/or their hands and desiccate them. He would sometimes also cut the victims heads off and keep the skull and paint it elaborately. But what really set him apart was his cannibalistic nature. During his "active" years as a serial killer he would have murdered 17-19 people and eaten the same amount.

What baffles me the most about the Jeffrey Dahmer case was how he managed to kill and eat 19 people in his apartment. In most cases killers have their own homes or they have/know of  abandoned spaces to commit the atrocities. Dahmer just had a blue barrel in which he would keep the liquidated bodies. Then there is the confession. He was so honest with Detective Pat Kennedy that its almost like he wanted to get caught.