i’m up in the middle of the night as per usual, and also as per usual, i’m freaking myself out by reading about morbid shit, and tonight it’s People Who Escaped From Serial Killers, and how fucking horrifying that must be,
and what I did not know about the capture of Jeffery Dahmer was, in summary:
(obligatory trigger warning for discussion of greusome murders omfg)
He’s out bein a creeper in typical serial killer fashion, asking random dudes to come home with him so he can ~take some pictures of them~ for money. one Idiot Dude is like “hellyeah, bro, i’ll let you take some pictures of me.”
So they go into his home (apartment, I think?) and for some reason the Idiot Dude does not immediately leave upon discovering that the home literally reeks of dead bodies. And at some point, dahmer puts handcuffs on the dude and then he’s like “imma kill you for funsies.” and the dude is like, uh, could you NOT?? and Dahmer is like “nah imma do it, and also i’m gonna eat your heart.”
Idiot Dude manages to get dahmer to let his guard down at some point, then punches him in the face and runs away! Woo! Escape of the Grand Idiot!
So, Idiot Dude finds some cops outside and he’s like “hi, a lunatic handcuffed me and said he was going to eat me, can you take these cuffs off of me, please?”
and they’re like “ok sure” but then they discover that the cuffs use a different kind of key than the one they carry. So they’re like “well let’s just go find your lunatic friend and get the key from him.”
So the cops and the idiot all go up to the apartment and dahmer is like “oh hello, you delightful officers, i see you have met my dear friend, Idiot.”
And they’re like “yeah, can we get the key to uncuff Idiot?”
So one of the cops goes to look for the key in the bedroom, and while he’s in there, he DISCOVERED PICTURES OF DISMEMBERED BODIES THAT WERE OBVIOUSLY TAKEN IN THAT VERY SAME APARTMENT????
So obviously they’re like “uh you’re under arrest for being an actual demon” and dahmer is fighting them as they try to detain him
and what is so FUCKING WILD to me about this is that THEY DIDN’T KILL HIM!!!!
They have an actual serial killer with PICTURES OF DISMEMBERED BODIES AND THE STENCH OF ROTTING FLESH IN THE HOUSE. They discover A FRESHLY SEVERED HEAD IN THE FRIDGE!!!!
AND YET! THEY DON’T SHOOT HIM!!!!!
A BLACK DUDE CAN BE STRANGLED TO DEATH EXECUTED IN PUBLIC AND IN BROAD DAYLIGHT FOR MAYBE HAVING DRUGS
BUT A WHITE SERIAL KILLER WITH A FRESH HEAD IN THE FRIDGE AS HE TRIES TO RESIST ARREST GETS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GETS TO HAVE A TRIAL! GETS TO EXERCISE HIS RIGHTS!!!
AND IN THE END, HE WASN’T EVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH!!! HE WAS SENTENCED TO NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY ONE YEARS IN PRISON!!!! Which means Literally Nothing, considering humans don’t even fucking LIVE that long, like, wtf kind of useless, petty bullshit is that?? JUST KILL THE MOTHERFUCKER!!!*
That sick monstrosity of flesh would still be alive today if another inmate at the prison didn’t decide to do The Lords Work and beat that son of a bitch to death!!
kinda GENUINELY shocked and floored that nobody at the scene of dahmer’s arrest just fuckin snapped and killed him on the spot. AMAZED that no one evidently ~feared for their life~ in the presence of SOMEBODY WHO CUTS UP HUMAN BEINGS AND EATS THEM!!! Shit, I prolly woulda shot that sick fuck in the neck just out of sheer outrage!!!
I cannot, CANNOT imagine anything scarier than suddenly realizing you’re in the presence of a serial killer who literally has a head in the fridge. Or i guess, the only thing that COULD be scarier than that is being serially killed. Bc generally, I imagine, if you become AWARE that you’re in the same room as a serial killer, the next thing that happens is usually that you get serially killed.
But noooooo, they weren’t scared!
A black teenager in a hoodie is scarier than a white man with a severed head in his fridge! (bonus fact: the severed head belonged to a black man). A black man lying face down on the street is more of a threat than a white man who EATS PEOPLE AFTER HE MURDERS THEM!!!!