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The notoriety of Jeffrey Dahmer, aka The Milwaukee Monster, will be discussed for years to come. This American serial killer murdered 17 individuals between 1978 and 1991. In addition, he even took part in hideous acts such as necrophilia, cannibalism, and permanent preservation of his victims’s body parts.
The then 32-year-old Tracy Edwards was going to be Jeffrey Dahmer’s 18th victim. However, due to his quick thinking, he managed to escape and ultimately led Milwaukee police officers Robert Rauth and Rolf Mueller to the serial killer’s apartment. Dahmer invited Edwards to his place and offered him money in exchange for posing for nude photographs. Upon their entrance, Edwards got a stench of rotting flesh. The serial killer soon drugged and handcuffed him with a knife pointed at his chest.
Dahmer then took him to a bedroom and made him watch The Exorcist III. However, the 32-year-old managed to convince the killer to take him back to the living room. According to Daily Mail, he said, “‘I talked him into taking me back to the living room but on the way, we stopped in the kitchen, where he opened the refrigerator to reveal a bloody mass of flesh inside.”
Eventually, Edwards made for the front door, striking Dahmer in the jaw, and opened both its locks simultaneously. Once free, with handcuffs dangling from his wrists, he approached cops and explained everything that happened to him.
When did Jeffrey Dahmer and Tracy Edwards meet?
Tracy Edwards met Jeffrey Dahmer on July 22, 1991. For his crimes, the court sentenced Dahmer to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. However, a fellow inmate named Christopher Scarver beat him to death on November 28, 1994.
In 2022, Netflix released a true crime anthology series titled Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, where Evan Peters played Jeffrey Dahmer and Shaun J. Brown played Tracy Edwards.
