Sick reason serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer ate his victims

A journalist who once interviewed Jeffrey Dahmer has revealed snippets of her harrowing correspondence with the notorious serial killer.

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A journalist who once interviewed Jeffrey Dahmer has revealed snippets of her harrowing correspondence with one of America’s most notorious serial killers.

Nancy Glass, who spoke with Dahmer in 1993 for CNN, spoke to Kyle and Jackie O on Wednesday and explained why the serial killer wanted to eat his victims.

“He said he chose to eat them because he wanted them to be part of him. He was so desperate, so desperately lonely, so ashamed of being gay,” she said.

Dahmer killed 17 young men and boys and ate some of their corpses between 1978 and 1991. Ms Glass said he had serious “bonding issues” stemming from his childhood and believed ingesting his victims would mean they would “never leave him”.

Ms Glass revealed Dahmer appeared shockingly normal during their interviews.

“The super scary part [was] he seemed perfectly normal. That’s terrifying,” she added.

“It was odd. I mean, you can hear the way he’s talking to me is very thoughtful. He contemplated, but he’s a psychopath.

“He says to me, ‘I’m sorry for what I did.’ But he’s a psychopath. He doesn’t even know what those words mean.”

Similar sentiments have been echoed by the droves of reporters who have studied Dahmer for over three decades.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Picture: Curt Borgwardt/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images

Self-published author Gisela K., who studied Dahmer and his case for her book The Milwaukee Monster, said: “He wanted to wipe out their consciousness while keeping them alive.”

He tried this on Errol Lindsey, Tony Hughes and Konerak Sinthasomphone in 1991 and “then gave up on the idea”, Gisela said.

He also tried to “freeze dry the perfect mate, so he could continually have sex with the body,” the FBI documents say. This method failed too.

Dahmer felt like he needed to try these methods because “he wasn’t all that strong,” Gisela told The US Sun. “He wasn’t going to physically overpower his victims to get them to bend to his will.”

The ‘Milwaukee cannibal’ told law enforcement that his sexual fantasies took complete control over him.

Creating a zombie or “freeze-drying his perfect mate” led to his victims’ deaths, but Dahmer told investigators he didn’t want to kill them. He called it the “least satisfactory part”.

“I did not enjoy doing that. That’s why I tried to create living zombies with uric acid in the drill, but it never worked,” according to a quote attributed to Dahmer in Gisela’s book.

“No, the killing was not the objective. I just wanted to have the person under my complete control, not having to consider their wishes, being able to keep them there as long as I wanted.”

Originally published as Sick reason serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer ate his victims