. my favorite Dahmer facts
ㅤ─── He wore yellow contact lenses to mimic The Emperor from Star Wars: Return of The Jedi and the Gemini Killer from The Exorcist III.
ㅤ─── He made some of his victims watch The Exorcist III with him.
ㅤ─── He was attached to his victim's bodies by the hip, even taking a head and genitals with him to work and keeping them in his locker.
ㅤ─── Dahmer as a child used to collect animal bones in a metal bucket and shake it around, which made him laugh until his ribs hurt.
ㅤ─── He liked to fake seizures for attention.
ㅤ─── He wanted to build an altar with his victim's bones. He liked to measure the circumference and width of his victim's skulls and their facial features. He later admitted he was searching for a skull with perfect symmetry for said altar.
ㅤ─── He culinary-styled his victim's similarly to Hannibal Lecter (though Lecter's is more dramatized for fictional entertainment), he would buy meat tenderizers and spices and study different ways to prepare meat.
ㅤ─── He used to terrorize his prisonmates by shaping his food into the shapes of different human body parts.
ㅤ─── He beheaded a dog and put its head on a spike long before his first human victim.
ㅤ─── He used to tell guards and prisonmates, "I bite" and had a sign on his cell wall that said "Cannibals Anonymous Meetings Inside." This pissed off a lot of the prisonmates and he was forced to remove it.
ㅤ─── His furniture (including his fridge) were attempted to be auctioned off to raise money for the victim's families, which led to a lot of public outrage. Civic leaders and business owners pooled 407k dollars to buy all of the items, and then destroyed every single one to prevent them from entering the public market.
ㅤ─── He had an obsession with neatness and refused to speak to police and investigators until they perfectly arranged the items in front of him to his liking.
ㅤ─── Despite the public framing his murders as "hate killings" or the act of targeting groups for animosity, Dahmer insisted he had no hate in his body for the victims. He described it as a fear of them leaving him or finding someone better.
ㅤ─── He tried both topping and bottoming, and greatly preferred topping. However, he stated that he wanted nothing more than for the men to just sit still and let him work.
