📰 ‘Dahmer tried to get treatment - but he walked out of mental health centre after waiting 15 minutes’:
Jeffrey L. Dahmer tried to seek mental health treatment on his own initiative in October, about the same time that probation records indicate his condition was rapidly deteriorating.
Dahmer visited the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex in Wauwatosa October 4th. Records indicate that Dahmer visited the clinic voluntarily about 10 a.m, but left 15 minutes later without getting any treatment.
On three separate occasions since March 1990, Dahmer told Donna Chester, his probation agent, that he was thinking of committing suicide.
According to Chester’s report, Dahmer spoke with Chester about suicide on:
July 9, 1990: when he reported having financial problems. He looked “rough and tired”, Chester said.
August 13, 1990: when Dahmer told Chester he had a lot of bills and had found out last week he was being sued by West Allis Memorial Hospital for failure to pay a bill. “The only way I can see a way out is to jump from a tall building” Dahmer said. Chester suggested he hire an attorney and possibly file for bankruptcy.
July 8, 1991: Dahmer told Chester he was “getting close to being fired” from his job at Ambrosia Chocolate Co. due to lateness and missing work. Chester warned Dahmer about the serious complications that would arise from loosing his job. Dahmer told Chester that if he lost his job, that would be a good reason to commit suicide.
August 27, 1990: Dahmer complained to Chester about how miserable his life is, and about how hard life was for him.
October 23, 1990: Dahmer told Chester he got angry at people who made a lot of money, saying “Why are they so lucky?”
December 17, 1990: Dahmer told Chester his father, Lionel, and brother, David, were coming to visit him and his grandmother for the Christmas holidays. Dahmer said he was uncomfortable being around his family because his father is controlling. He said he had nothing in common with his brother, who attends collage. Dahmer also told Chester he was embarrassed about his conviction of second-degree sexual assault and enticing of a child for immoral purposes.
May 13, 1991: Dahmer told Chester that a man had been strangled to death in his apartment building. He told Chester that he and other people that lived in the apartment had been questioned by a detective who asked them if they seen or heard anything. Dahmer told Chester he knew nothing about the slaying.
“He was a troubled individual. We had no idea that this mass murder stuff was going on. There is nothing in his reports that would tell us he was a mass murder.”
— Roger Miller, assistant chief of the Milwaukee region of the division of probation and parole.
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