Why Famous:Known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, Jeffrey Dahmer committed the rape, murder and dismemberment of 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991.
At his trial, Dahmer pleaded guilty but insane which the court dismissed, finding him legally sane and sentencing him to 16 terms of life imprisonment.
Born: May 21, 1960 Birthplace:West Allis, Wisconsin, USA
Died: November 28, 1994 (aged 34) Cause of Death: Clubbed to death with a metal bar by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver
Events in the Life of Jeffrey Dahmer
1991-07-22 Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 men in 1978
1992-01-13 American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane
1992-02-15 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane and guilty of killing 15 boys
1994-11-28 Convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium in Portage, Wisconsin
Elizabeth Báthory
H. H. Holmes
John Wayne Gacy
Richard Kuklinski
Ted Bundy