According to Detective Pat Kennedy, there weren’t very many things that enraged Dahmer or set him off. Dahmer understood the wrongness of his crimes and believed that those upset by it had every right to be. However, the one thing that did bother him was being accused of being racist.
10 out of 17 victims of Dahmer’s were black, and in the eye of the public, the murders of black men were viewed as hate crimes. Dahmer was very clear when speaking up about his motivation behind the crimes, which was to capture a male body of perfect physique and to not have him leave afterwards. Race, apparently, had no play in any of it.
An excerpt from Pat Kennedy’s “Dahmer Detective”:
“But Pat, that’s not me. I told you, I loved these guys. I’m not ashamed for being gay. I don’t hate homosexuals. I didn’t mutilate their bodies. I was careful and precise when I cut into them because I wanted to keep parts of them with me. Mutilation had nothing to do with it. I simply needed a way to dispose of the remains when I was finished.” Dahmer seemed upset by the supposition that he harbored hatred toward anyone, especially homosexuals.
I laid another newspaper article in front of him with the headline ‘Slayings of Minorities Disturb Black Leaders’. It described how they were particularly distressed that so many of his victims were black. A professor of Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee stated that it was clear Dahmer had a hatred for black men and purposefully targeted that population. Dahmer read the short clipping before putting it down on the table. “This is preposterous. I don’t hate black people.”
I reminded him that ten of his seventeen victims were black men. “That may be, but I didn’t target blacks. I told you, I picked the ones I found the most attractive. I had a physical profile; I wanted young, long, lean, smooth skinned, muscular men. Color did not enter into it. If they fit the description and were nice looking, I would approach them.”
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