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Jeffrey Dahmer explained why he took a nine year break from brutal killings

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Published 09:46 26 Sep 2022 GMT+1

Jeffrey Dahmer explained why he took a nine year break from brutal killings

An interview Dahmer did with Inside Edition has been going viral on TikTok

Anna Verdon

Anna Verdon

Featured Image Credit: NBC / Netflix

Topics: Netflix, Crime, True Crime

Anna Verdon
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Jeffrey Dahmer explained in a prison interview why he stopped his brutal killings for nine years. You can find out the chilling reason in the video below:

Also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

Netflix series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story dropped last week and offers a fictionalised account of the serial killer's horrific crimes.

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Naturally, the new show has seen many people hooked in disbelief at what had happened, and now a clip of an interview with Dahmer by Inside Edition's Nancy Glass has been going viral on TikTok.

Jeffrey Dahmer in court.
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In the interview, Glass asks Dahmer what he was doing during the nine years he stopped his killings and his answer is shocking.

Glass asks: “What happened to you in the nine years in between that you were able to stop? That you were able to control yourself?”

With a calm and collected demeanour, Dahmer replies: “There just wasn’t an opportunity to fully express what I wanted to do. There was just not that physical opportunity to do it then.”

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Jeffrey Dahmer's mugshot.
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He added: “When I moved to Milwaukee in ’81, I started reading pornography, going to the bookstores… eventually that led to frequenting the gay bars.

"One time I brought this young man back to the hotel room, the Ambassador Hotel, was just planning on drugging him and spending the night with him. I had no intention of hurting him.

“I woke up in the morning he had a broken rib here, he was heavily bruised. Apparently, I had beaten him to death with my fists.”

“And you have no memory of it?” the interviewer asked.

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“I have no memory of it,” said Dahmer.

“But that’s what started the whole spree all over again.”

The brutal killings have been made into a Netflix series.
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Commenting on the clip, many TikTok users noted the way Dahmer held himself during the interview.

One user said: “What scares me most about this man was how honest and blunt he was when he got caught, he had nothing to lose. Feel so bad for the victims."

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Another said: “The scariest part of Dahmer has always been his self-awareness.”

Others said they thought that he was relieved he got caught.

Another wrote: “I feel like in real life he is more self-aware and expressive than the series.”

While others said they felt for the families of his victims, particularly now they have to relive it all again.

One wrote: “I feel so sorry for the victims’ families! Constantly having to relive this every time they bring out a new documentary."

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