Jeffrey Dahmer is one of America's most well-known serial killers and sex offenders, who murdered 17 men between 1978 and 1991. After killing his victims (whom he lured to his grandmother's basement with the promise of drugs and alcohol), he would mutilate their bodies, photograph them, and perform sexual acts on the corpses. He kept their genitals or skulls as mementos and often ate their remains or used chemical means to dispose of the rest of the bodies. Dahmer was captured in 1991 and put in prison for 16 life terms, but his time was cut short after fellow inmate Christopher Scarver killed him in 1994.
Dahmer's lengthy killing spree has inspired a number of films: The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (pictured above), Dahmer (starring Jeremy Renner), Raising Jeffrey Dahmer, and more. Most recently, the acclaimed graphic novel based on Dahmer's childhood, My Friend Dahmer, has been adapted as a soon-to-be-released film starring Nat Wolff, Anne Heche, and Vincent Kartheiser. As far as TV, Dahmer's likeness made an appearance in the same "Devil's Night" episode of American Horror Story that Gacy's did.
