Part 49: Wisconsin

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These two cases take us to the state of Wisconsin, which is located next to the following states: Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan.

WARNINGS OF MURDER, CANNIBALISM, NECROPHILIA, BODY SNATCHING, GRAVE ROBBERY AND EXHUMING CORPSES.

Number one- Jeffrey Dahmer

 Pictured above is Jeffrey Dahmer

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Pictured above is Jeffrey Dahmer.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, born on the 21st of May 1960, died on the 28th of November 1994, he was 34 years old when he died, he was also known as the Milwaukee cannibal or the Milwaukee monster, he was an American serial killer and sex offender who committed the murders and dismemberments of seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991, many of his later murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism and the permanent preservation of body parts-typically all or parts of the skeleton, he often got his victims from gay bars in the area and most of his victims were people of colour.

He was convicted of fifteen out of the sixteen murders he committed and he was sentenced to fifteen terms of life imprisonment on the 17th of February 1992, he was later sentenced to sixteen terms of life imprisonment for an additional homicide in 1978.

On the 28th of November 1994, Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver, he was beaten over the head with a metal pole that Chris found, a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional institution in Portage, Wisconsin.

On the 28th of November 1994, Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver, he was beaten over the head with a metal pole that Chris found, a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional institution in Portage, Wisconsin

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Pictured above is Dahmer's confirmed victims.

Here is the list of Dahmer's confirmed victims: Steven Mark Hicks (18 years old, disappeared on the 18th of June 1978), Steven Walter Tuomi (25 years old, disappeared on the 20th of November 1987), James Edward Doxtator (14 years old, disappeared on the 16th of January 1988), Richard Guerrero (22 years old, disappeared on the 24th of March 1988), Anthony Lee Sears (24 years old, disappeared on the 25th of March 1989), Raymond Lamont Smith (32 years old, disappeared on the 20th of May 1990), Edward Warren Smith (27 years old, disappeared on the 14th of June 1990), Ernest Marquez Miller (22 years old, disappeared on the 2nd of September 1990), David Courtney Thomas (22 years old, disappeared on the 24th of September 1990), Curtis Durrell Straughter (17 years old, disappeared on the 18th of February 1991), Errol Lindsey (19 years old, disappeared on the 7th of April 1991), Tony Anthony Hughes (31 years old, disappeared on the 24th of May 1991), Konerak Sinthasomphone (14 years old, disappeared on the 27th of May 1991), Matt Cleveland Turner (20 years old, disappeared on the 30th of June 1991), Jeremiah Benjamin Weinberger (23 years old, disappeared on the 5th of July 1991), Oliver Joseph Lacy (24 years old, disappeared on the 15th of July 1991) and the final victim was Joseph Arthur Bradehoft (25 years old, disappeared on the 19th of July 1991).

Here is the list of Dahmer's confirmed victims: Steven Mark Hicks (18 years old, disappeared on the 18th of June 1978), Steven Walter Tuomi (25 years old, disappeared on the 20th of November 1987), James Edward Doxtator (14 years old, disappeared ...

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Pictured above is Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment where he killed his victims.

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Number two- Ed Gein

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Edward Theodore Gein, born on the 27th of August 1906, died on the 26th of July 1984, he was 78 years old when he died, he was also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, he was an American murderer and body snatcher, Gein's crimes were committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, he gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered he had exhumed corpses from the local graveyard and he fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin, Gein also confessed to killing two women; tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.

Gein was initially found unfit to stand trial and confined to a mental health facility, by 1968, he was judged to be competent to stand trial; he was found guilty of the murder of Worden, but he was found to be legally insane and he was remanded to a psychiatric institution, he died at Mendota Mental Health Institute of respiratory failure, on the 26th of July 1984, he was 78 years old, he was buried next to his family in the Plainfield cemetery in a now unmarked grave.

A sheriff's deputy discovered Worden's decapitated body in a shed on Gein's property, she was hung upside down by her legs with a crossbar at her ankles and ropes at her wrists, she was shot with a .22 Calibre rifle.

When authorities search Gein's house they found the following; whole human bones and fragments, a waste basket made of human skin, human skin covering several chair seats, skulls on his bedposts, female skulls (some with the tops sawn off), bowls made from human skulls, a corset made from a female torso skinned from the shoulders to the waist, leggings made from human leg skin, masks made from the skin of a female heads, Mary Hogan's face mask in a paper bag, Mary Hogan's skull in a box, Bernice Worden's entire head in a burlap sack, Bernice Worden's heart was in a plastic bag in front of Gein's potbelly stove, nine vuluvae in a shoe box, a young girl's dress and the vulvas of two females judged to have be about fifteen years old, a belt made from female human nipples, four noses, a pair of lips on a window shade drawstring, a lampshade made from the skin of a human face and fingernails from female fingers.

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