“If a person doesn’t think there is a God to be accountable to, then—then what's the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges? That's how I thought anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we, when we die…”— Jeffrey Dahmer, youtube.com
“Took the head, washed it off, put it on the bathroom floor, masturbated and all that, then put the head back down with the rest of the bags. Next morning we had a large buried drainage pipe, about ten feet long put the bags in there, smash the front of it down, and leave it there for about two and a…”— Jeffrey Dahmer, angelfire.com
“And then I cut the arm off. Cut each piece. Bagged each piece. Triple-bagged it in large plastic trash bags. Put them in the back of the car. Then I'm driving to drop the evidence off a ravine, ten miles from my house. Did that at three o'clock in the morning. Halfway there, I'm at a deserted countr…”— Jeffrey Dahmer, angelfire.com
“So later that night I take the body to the crawl space. And I'm down there and I can't get any sleep that night, so I go back up to the house. The next day, I have to figure out a way to dispose of the evidence. Buy a knife, a hunting knife. Go back the next night, slit the belly open, and masturbat…”— Jeffrey Dahmer, angelfire.com
“It all revolved around having complete control. Why or where it came from, I don't know.”— Jeffrey Dahmer, angelfire.com
“I had been having, for a couple of years before that, fantasies of meeting a good-looking hitchhiker and [dramatic pause] sexually enjoying him.”— Jeffrey Dahmer, angelfire.com
“And that just happened to be the week when no one was home Mom was off With David, and they had put up at a mote1 about five miles away; and I had the car, above five o'clock at night; and I was driving back home, after drinking; and I wasn't looking for anyone but, about a mile away from the house,…”— Jeffrey Dahmer, angelfire.com
“That was just done as a prank. I found a dog, and cut it open just to see what The insides looked like, and for some reason I thought it would be a fun prank to stick the head on a stake and set it out in the woods. And brought one of my friends back to look at it and said I'd stumbled upon that in…”— Jeffrey Dahmer, angelfire.com
“I had these obsessive desires and thoughts wanting to control them [victims], to–I don't know how to put it–possess them permanently.”— Jeffrey Dahmer, youtube.com
“To this day I don't know what started it [the murders]. The person to blame is sitting right across from you. It's the only person. Not parents, not society, not pornography. I mean, those are just excuses.”— Jeffrey Dahmer, youtube.com
“It's a process, it doesn't happen overnight, when you depersonalize another person and view them as just an object. An object for pleasure and not a living breathing human being. It seems to make it easier to do things you shouldn't do.”— Jeffrey Dahmer, imdb.com
“I tried to keep the person alive by inducing a zombie-like state by injecting first a dilute acid solution into their brain, or hot water. It never did completely work.”— Jeffrey Dahmer, youtube.com
“I even went so far as planning on setting up an altar with 10 different skulls and skeletons. It was my way of remembering their appearance, their physical beauty. I also wanted to keep...if I couldn't keep them there with me whole, I at least could keep their skeletons.”— Jeffrey Dahmer, youtube.com
“I wanted to keep something of the person with me. I kept the mummified head and skull of one of the victims in a carrying case in my locker at work.”— Jeffrey Dahmer, youtube.com
“As the years went by, and the compulsion became stronger and the obsession more intense, it became the main focus of my life.”— Jeffrey Dahmer, youtube.com
“The first killing was not planned. I had had fantasies about picking up a hitchhiker and taking him back to the house and having complete control and dominance over him.”— Jeffrey Dahmer, youtube.com