- Imprisonment, Death, And Aftermath
- Jail Sentencing & Imprisonment:
- -First charged with 17 murders, later reduced to 15
- -Pleaded not guilty by the reason of insanity
- -Found guilty and sane on 15 counts of murder
- -Sentenced to 15 life (957 years in prison)
- -Went to Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin
- -Declared himself a born-again Christian
- Prison Attacks & Death:
- -First time: unnamed inmate attempted to slash Dahmer’s throat with a razor
- -Second time: Christopher Scarver attacked Dahmer and Jesse Anderson with a 20 inch metal bar removed from workout equipment, Dahmer died on the way to the hospital with severe head trauma
- Aftermath
- -Real mother was furious with how her son was killed
- -Most families of victims were happy to hear of death
- -Dad wrote a book A Father’s Story: part of the profit went to the victims families
- -Little brother changed last name
- -Mother died of cancer
- -His apartment was demolished: plans to turn it into a memorial garden never fell through
- -Dahmer’s estate awarded to 11 of the families of victims who sued for damages
- -Possessions of Dahmer were destroyed