PICTURE POEM.
MAGAZINE COVER.
ONE SENTENCE STORY.
DIALOGUE.
July 22, 1991-Jeffrey Dahmer is caught and brought into custody.
Detective: Why? Why’d you do it?
Dahmer: I was tired of being lonely. They always asked to leave.
Detective: Why those boys, those men? Why’d you choose them?
Dahmer: I liked how they looked, how they talked. They gave me a release, a spotlight away from reality.
Detective: What was the point?
Dahmer: I believe I already made this point.
Detective: Ok. Ok. Where’d it start.
Dahmer: I think it was...76’? No, 78’. Yeah, 1978. I don’t know what it was, I had an urge too strong to deny. I know it was what you might call ‘evil’ or ‘immoral’ but it’s done. Nothing you or I can do now huh.
Detective: So you are fully aware of what your actions caused?
Dahmer: Yes.
Detective: You brutally raped some of these men while they were drugged, intoxicated and then you strangled them. Is there any more to your story Dahmer.
Dahmer: I may have eaten a body part.
Detective: You’re a monster you know? A monster.
Dahmer: I may have killed 16, no, no, 17 men, but I’m no less a human like. The only thing that separates us is my thirst for blood.
Detective: You’re the least humane man I’ve ever come across, and I hope you enjoy life in jail.
January 7, 1992
Dahmer: Only a man with true insanity could have done the things I have done in my lifetime.
Dahmer’s Attorney: How could a sane man complete such brutal, horrifying tasks? Don’t you see that the only thing this man is guilty of is having a diseased mind? He needs to see the walls of a hospital and the face of doctors, not the walls of a prison and the face of guards and prisoners.
Detective: Listen, you’re both crazy if you think the jury will forgive this man for the acts of terror he performed on innocent men and children.
Dahmer’s Attorney: I guess we’ll have to leave it up to the jury.
SLIDESHOW.