Arrest
On July 22, 1991, two police officers picked up Tracy Edwards, who was wandering the streets, and decided to visit Dahmer's apartment, where Edwards said some "weird dude" had drugged and restrained him. Dahmer calmly allowed the police in, and after Edwards told them that the knife Dahmer had used was in the bedroom, the officer discovered much more than he bargained for: photos of dismembered bodies, including one of a head inside the fridge. Dahmer immediately became combative, but was subdued by one of the officers, while the other found the head in the fridge, three more in the freezer, preserved skulls, jars of male genitalia, and other horrifiying photographs.
Trial
On January 13, 1992, the trial began under the heaviest security due to the racial tensions caused by most of Dahmer's victims being African American. He even had an eight foot tall barrier of bulletproof glass separating him from the gallery. Many people attended, including his father and his step-mother. Although he had previously confessed to the murders, Dahmer initially pleaded not guilty, and eventually changed his plea to guilty by reason of insanity, against the advice of his lawyer. To support this defense, his lawyer provided every detail of every murder as an attempt to prove that only someone insane could commit such horrific acts. However, the prosecution was able to convince the jury that Dahmer was fully aware that what he was doing was wrong, and found him guilty on all counts on February 17, 1992, after only five hours of deliberation. He was sentenced to fifteen consecutive life terms, which totals up to 957 years in prison.
Death
Jeffrey Dahmer adjusted fairly well to prison life, and eventually convinced authorities to allow him be a part of the general prison population that he was separated from initially. He was able to eat and work with other inmates, and on November 28, 1994, he was assigned to work with a white supremacist, Jesse Anderson, and a schizophrenic, African American murderer, Christopher Scarver. After only twenty minutes of unsupervised work, authorities returned to find that Scarver had fatally beaten Anderson with a broom handle and had crushed Dahmer's skull.
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