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Unlike Hannibal ("the Cannibal") Lecter, the brilliant mass-murdering psychiatrist in The Silence of the Lambs, the creature who apparently turned Apartment 213 into a private slaughterhouse is an unassuming 31-year-old ne'er-do-well named Jeffrey L. Dahmer. The pale, sandy-haired Dahmer, who was recently fired from his job at a Milwaukee chocolate factory, immediately confessed to 11 murders. Police believe he may have actually committed as many as 17 during the past 10 years. Most of the apartment victims were black males, and some were homosexuals. One trait Dahmer seems to share with the fictional...
Throughout much of his life, there were warning signs that something was terribly wrong with Jeffrey Dahmer. His stepmother, Shari Dahmer, who was interviewed last week by the Cleveland Plain Dealer before clamming up to the press, said that "when he was young, he liked to use acid to scrape the meat off dead animals." At 18, Jeffrey witnessed the bitter divorce of his parents and lived with his mother in Bath Township, Ohio. But one day, said Shari Dahmer, his mother disappeared with his younger brother, leaving Jeffrey with nothing. Often Dahmer attempted to sedate himself with alcohol...
...years Jeffrey lived with his grandmother in West Allis, Wis. During the late 1980s, Shari Dahmer recalled, a harsh chemical odor began to emanate from the basement and garage. When Jeffrey's father Lionel, a chemist, found "bones and the residue in the containers," Jeffrey told him that he had been stripping the flesh from an animal he had found. "Now I look at it, and I think that it's possible he was destroying human body parts," said Shari Dahmer...
...glass, tall weeds crowding its rusted entryway. Swaggart can still draw the faithful: a couple of weeks ago, 1,200 people attended a three-hour Sunday service, at which he sang, preached and pleaded for money. But Swaggart attorney and co- defendant William Treeby concedes, "We're suffering." Jeffrey Hadden, a University of Virginia scholar of televangelists, says Swaggart has stayed relatively debt-free. "Otherwise," Hadden explains, "he wouldn't have made it. But he doesn't have $5 million in change lying around...
...government off the back of business, federal food watchdogs went off-duty. Since this was also an era of national obsession with health, the hottest-growing segments of the food market were "the light and leans, low fats, the healthy choice," says Grocery Manufacturers of America vice president Jeffrey Nedelman. In that atmosphere of lax regulation and lite mentality, health claims proliferated like sprouts on a salad...