Free Serial Killer's Soul by Herman Martin Page B

professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and Dr. Carl Wahlstrom, a psychiatrist from Chicago, also were experts for the defense.
    Representing the prosecution was Dr. George Palermo, a well-respected forensic psychiatrist from Milwaukee, who, years earlier, had been on the staff at the Vatican; Dr. Frederick Fosdal, a psychiatrist from Madison; and Dr. Park Dietz, a criminologist and clinical professor of psychiatry and bio-behavioral sciences at the University of California-Los Angeles School of Medicine.
    When Dr. Dietz interviewed Dahmer before the trial, he asked Dahmer if he would agree to videotape the interview. Dahmer didn’t want him to, saying, “No, I don’t want to be videotaped wearing this orange jumpsuit and I haven’t shaved for so long. I’d look bad.”
    “How about if I get someone from the sheriff’s office to shave you and we get you in some street clothes?” he asked.
    Dahmer agreed. “If you can do that, fine. You can tape the interview.”
    Richard Heath, chief investigator for the Milwaukee County DistrictAttorney’s office, present for all of Dahmer’s interviews by the various psychiatrists, brought in three of his own shirts from which Dahmer could choose. One was light pink with a white stripe, the second was a blue stripe, and the third was a chocolate brown-and-white stripe. Dahmer chose the brown one. Later a couple of the psychiatrists revealed that people with strong sexual personalities often wear brown.
    (NOTE: During an interview with author Lorenz, Heath revealed the following about that interview.)
    The videotaped interview with Dr. Dietz lasted four days and encompassed twenty hours of tape. Jeff smoked the entire time, switching from Marlboros to menthol cigarettes.
    “What’s wrong with you?” Dietz asked Dahmer.
    Dahmer paused. “I don’t know. You’re the doctor. I don’t think it’s evil spirits… and I’m not in a cult. You know I bought a table and made sort of a shrine. I’d put each victim on that table and then just sit back in my big leather chair and look at the body. It made me feel powerful. Sometimes I’d take photos of the bodies before and after killing them. I controlled them like the guy in
Silence of the Lambs
.”
    “Why do you think you got caught, Jeff?” Dr. Dietz asked.
    “Simple,” he replied, “I just got behind in my work, too many bodies stacking up in my apartment. I couldn’t keep up.”
    Other witnesses during Dahmer’s trial included:
    • The man hired to remove blood stains on the carpet in the apartment rented by Dahmer at the Oxford Apartment building at 924 N. 25 th Street in Milwaukee;
    • The employee from a hardware store where Dahmer purchased the muriatic acid he used to dissolve human flesh from the bones of his victims;
    • The man who sold Dahmer the large blue barrel he used as a vat to store body parts;
    • The pharmacist who sold Dahmer the prescription of Halcyon, the drug he used to subdue his victims;
    • The Milwaukee police officer who had contact with Dahmer for other offenses;
    • Milwaukee police detectives Patrick Kennedy and Dennis Murphy, who interrogated Dahmer on July 23, 1991, the day after he was arrested, and who took his one hundred-and-sixty-page signed confession;
    • Tracy Edwards, the young man who would have been Dahmer’s eighteenth victim, but who was able to free himself and alert authorities on the evening of July 22, 1991, leading to Dahmer’s arrest;
    • Ronald Flowers, who met Dahmer at a gay bar a year or two previous to Dahmer’s arrest;
    • Somsack Sinthasomphone, the brother of Dahmer’s youngest victim, Konerak Sinthasomphone. Dahmer sexually assaulted Somsack, a Laotian minor, in 1988. Because of this crime, Dahmer received five years’ probation and one year at the work-release program in Franklin in May 1989. He was still on probation when he was arrested for the murders and, amazingly, he still saw his probation officer on