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Put a bullet in her head. From the co creator of Ozark. Looks like a family was running drugs. Execution style killing. It's rare for the keys. Any leads on who they might have been running for? The cartel killed my family. I'm gonna kill them. All of them. Mia Streaming now only on peacock. The biggest lie we've ever been told are what monsters look like. That is a sentence that surprisingly or not surprisingly, I've heard a lot of people say. And you know what? I agree with it. Because when I was a little girl and my mom was tucking me into bed and I would beg her to go make sure that no monsters were in my closet, in my little head, I pictured a monster as some kind of made up cartoon like character with like a hundred hands and one eye and fur. I don't know, something crazy. And then I grew up and I came to the realization that the scariest monsters do in fact walk among us. And sometimes they do look like a neighbor that you would wave hello to. And I'm not saying that to scare you, but I mean, I'm scared. I'm scared that sometimes monsters have dirty blonde hair and blue eyes. And sometimes they are named Jeffrey Dahmer. Yep. Today we are diving into one of the most infamous serial killers in America. And I do feel like it would be extremely wrong for me not to give you a warning at the beginning of this episode because, well, the things that we're talking about, they're going to make you uncomfortable. They are graphic and terrifying and hard to listen to. So just keep that in mind. Remember, your mental health always comes first. With all that being said, welcome to this episode of I wish you were here. I'm your host Michelle Cuervo. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born at evangelical deaconess hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And how you would describe his family in the way that he was raised, it's kind of up for debate. It almost feels like it depends on who you ask. Jeffrey himself remembers his house being full of tension. Never peaceful memories, mostly because of arguments between his parents that were just constant. I remember my early childhood as being one of extreme tension. I never really felt at ease or comfortable. It wasn't that my mom or dad didn't love me. I know that they did. They told me so. They took care of the house and they showed me love. But it was never peaceful. I could Feel it. My mom and dad were always at each other's throats. End quote. His father, Lionel Dahmer, was a chemistry student at Marquette University. And he was a pretty reserved guy. Guy, very scientific, very methodical, and also very distant from the family. He was always focused on his studies, and he very much so made that a priority above anything else. His mother, Joyce Flint Dahmer, was the opposite. She was very emotional, very expressive, but not in a good way. Very volatile and prone to dark mood swings. Through. Throughout Jeffrey's childhood, she really struggled with depression. Her mental health was not in a good place. And one of the things that played a part in that is just how much she craved love and attention from her husband. But she never got it. So in turn, that left her feeling lonely and sad to the point that she would often spend most of her days in bed. As a toddler, Jeffrey has been described as happy and energetic, but that all changed when he went through a surgery when he was around 4 years old. And. And it seems like after that, people have said that his entire personality changed. Not sure how much your personality can change at 4 years old, but it sounds like he was a very outgoing, happy little kid. After the surgery, he was very reserved and shy and timid, very quiet. Wouldn't really interact with other children at school, so much so that his teachers would notice and they would often feel bad for him. They would feel sad for him because he looked so lonely. It seemed like the absence of his father and the struggles of his mother 100%, did have an impact on him. Even his own dad noticed that Jeffrey was way more withdrawn and disconnected, or at least seemed to be from the other kids around his age. Which makes sense, right? Because when you do grow up in an environment like that and you are surrounded by tension and struggles, of course it's going to affect anyone, especially a child. In 1966, Jeffrey and his parents moved to Doylestown in Ohio, where Joyce would then give birth to her second child, Jeffrey's brother. A couple of years after that, In May of 1968, they moved again, this time to Bath Township in Ohio. And by the way, the reason why I said that there are kind of different answers as far as what Jeffrey's childhood was like is because, according to his father, it was a rough upbringing. And he would say that Jeffrey definitely stood out from the other kids and that there was a lot of tension in the house. He would also say that his marriage was unstable because of the many mental health struggles that Joyce was facing. And years later, after Jeffrey committed the many murders that he did, Lionel would almost imply that he turned out to be the way that he was because of Joyce, his mom, Jeffrey's mom, Lionel's wife. Quote, as a scientist, I wonder if the potential for great evil resides deep in the blood that some of us may pass on to our children at birth. End quote. But on the other side of things, according to Joyce, his mom, after everything, Joyce would agree that, yeah, maybe Jeffrey was quiet and reserved as a child, but she would say that there were no warning signs at all that signaled to what kind of person Jeffrey would grow up to be. And I would, yep, I would have to disagree with Joyce there, because I think that there were plenty of warning signs. So let's talk about some of those. From a very early age, Jeffrey had a very particular interest in animals. But not cute dogs, cute cats. No, he was interested in dead. Dead animals, specifically in what was inside of them. So if Jeffrey ever saw a dead animal on the side of the road, in the woods, in a field, whatever, he would grab it, he would then take it back home and dissect it to see what was inside. And because his father, very smart guy, by the way, his dad sounds like very book smart, and he was into science and chemistry, meaning that he had a lot of chemicals in the house. And Jeffrey liked to play around with those. He liked using them on the animals and seeing what happened. He was just absolutely fascinated with death as a whole, but more specifically with bones and with the animals. He would take them out, he would clean them up, and then he would keep them stored in a shed in his yard. And one time when Jeffrey was around 10 years old, during a family dinner in which they were eating chicken, he stopped and asked his father what would happen to the chicken bones if they were placed in bleach. His father, I guess, just took that to be scientific curiosity. So he showed him exactly how to bleach and preserve bones. Keep that in mind. We're going to table that for now, but we're going to come back around to it. Point being, I don't know about you, I disagree with Joyce, and I would call that a neon red flag. In 1977, when Jeffrey was in his early teens, he was. He became extremely disconnected with society. He just carried around a really tense, cold energy. And he started having dark thoughts, dark feelings of craving and wanting to do terrible things to people, specifically to boys and men. This is also around the time as well, that Jeffrey says that he began to realize that he wasn't attracted to women or girls. He was in fact attracted to men and boys, but he never told anyone about that. A couple of years later, when his parents got divorced, it almost seems like that was the turning point when Jeffrey ultimately decided that now was the time to finally turn all of his scary thoughts and feelings into actions. In May of 1977, he graduated high school and by that point his father had moved out of the family home because of the divorce. And his mom has decided, had decided that she, along with Jeffrey's brother, were also going to be moving out as well. I'm not exactly sure why his parents thought that it would be okay to leave Jeffrey alone in that big house all by himself, but it sounds like after the divorce, his parents argued about who would be getting custody of Jeffrey's little brother, but they didn't really express much concern about who would be the person responsible for taking care of Jeffrey. Some reports do state that his mother and his brother were just out of town. Others state that they did fully move away and they moved in with other family members. But whatever the case is, Jeffrey was left to be and exist on his own, at least for a period of time in that summer in that house that he had all to himself. And it was also a pretty isolated house, very dangerous, because that would be the beginning of Jeffrey Dahmer's murder spree. After three weeks of graduating high school, he committed his first murder. June 18, 1978. Jeffrey Dahmer was driving around when he saw an 18 year old male hitchhiker. He pulled up to him, rolled down the window to talk to him and asked him if he wanted to come back to his parents house to hang out because his parents were not home. He said that they could chill, just have a good fun night together. He was flirting with him a little bit. That boy, Stephen Hakes agreed. So the two of them go back to Jeffrey's house, they hang out, they're having fun, they're listening to music, until Steven eventually says, okay, this was fun, gotta go now, thanks so much, nice to meet you sort of thing. Jeffrey didn't like that. He was upset, he didn't want him to leave and he was going to stop him from being able to leave. Stephen Hicks never made it back home because that night Jeffrey grabbed a 10 pound dumbbell and he struck him in the back of the head, leaving him unconscious. He then grabbed a barbell and he strangled Steven with it until he was dead. He walked up to him, he looked down at what he had just done. Did he regret it? No. Did he feel bad? Not at all. He liked it. He loved it, even. Jeffrey removed Steven's clothing, and he stood over him, watching him. And at that moment, he felt so excited. He was so happy about what he had just done, but he wanted to do more. So he took Stephen's body and he dragged it down to the basement. The next day, to get rid of the body, Jeffrey started cutting it apart, treating it like a science project. And he buried the human remains in his own backyard. And where he would go back to it several weeks later to take and strip the bones clean and dissolve everything else that were not bones in acid. He would then flush that acid solution down the toilet with the bones. Jeffrey decided to take a sledgehammer and crush them. And then he scattered them all over the woods behind his house. Afterwards, he also threw Stephen's necklace and the knife that he had used from. From a bridge into the Cuyahoga River. Six weeks go by, and by that point, Jeffrey's father was now engaged to a new woman. The two of them decide that it would be a good idea to stop by the family house to see Jeffrey. And I guess that was actually the first time that his dad realized that Jeffrey had been living all alone. He didn't know. Maybe he did, or maybe that was just confirmation. Not sure. But he says, hey, you should probably go to college, don't you think? And Jeffrey says, oh, yeah, sure, I guess. And then that August, he ends up enrolling at Ohio State University. However, it did not take long for him to realize that school just wasn't for him. He had no interest in being there. He had no interest in doing homework, paying attention in class. Didn't like it, didn't care, didn't want to do it. So after only three months in, he dropped out. Then in January of 1979, Jeffrey is now 18 years old and. And his father says, okay, if you don't want to go to college, then maybe you should enroll in the army. He just wanted him to do something with his life. So Jeffrey does. In July of 1979, he was deployed to West Germany, where he served as a medic. He wasn't in the army for long, but during the time that he was, we later hear, like years later, two soldiers that came forward to say that Jeffrey had saved them during the time that they all served together. So he wasn't behaving, is my point. In March of 1981, Jeffrey was deemed unsuitable for service because besides doing whatever crazy stuff he was doing, he also had a pretty severe drinking problem. And because of that, he was Discharged from the army after that, Jeffrey was kind of scared to go home and face his father. So instead he decided that he was going to be moving to Miami beach out of all places, and he was going to try and live on his own there Was in Miami, he makes plans to live at a motel, but he fails to pay rent. He's evicted, and he does eventually have to move back to Ohio when his dad agreed to let him live with him and his stepmom. But only two weeks into living with them, Jeffrey was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct. His father, by that point, had had enough of him. It seemed like Jeffrey couldn't or wouldn't behave and. And his dad was just frankly tired of having to deal with him and trying to encourage him to change his life around again. I don't know what kind of person his dad was. I. I don't want to, like, make it sound like I'm saying that he was a good guy, because I don't know if he was, but he was trying to get him to do something with his life. However, Jeffrey clearly showed no interest in getting his life together. So his dad ends up kicking him out. Jeffrey then ends up moving with his grandmother in Wisconsin. And during that time, he did spend some time with his grandmother. That was one of the family members that he actually spoke to, really. They would go to church together. Jeffrey also ended up getting a job, which was huge. But any hope of getting his life turned around very quickly went away again because he wasn't out of trouble for long. He just couldn't stop drinking. And maybe it was just because he didn't want to. By late 1985, Jeffrey is now around 24, 25 years old. And his new thing became regularly visiting bath houses. He thought it's like a spa sort of thing. And he thought that it was just a relaxing place for him to be in. He liked it. But more than that, he liked it because very often, more times than not, there were other men there. And it was at that bathhouse that he started having physical relationships with some of the male staff there. However, pretty quickly, Jeffrey Dahmer realized that he wasn't really satisfied with the relationships that he was making there. They were just not quite meeting his needs because Jeffrey realized that he actually didn't really like when his partners moved during whatever they were doing. He much rather them be still. He much rather them be not all the way there. He much rather them be completely unconscious not moving because he didn't see these. He didn't care for them as People, he just wanted to use their bodies, I guess. He later says, quote, I trained myself to view people as objects of pleasure instead of as people. End quote. That's really scary. 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He starts flirting with him, very much so, expressing interest in him, until he is eventually able to persuade him to come back to a hotel with him. The next morning, when Jeffrey Dahmer wakes up, he sees that the man is still in his hotel room, lying with his chest crushed in and black and blue, with bruises all over him. He was dead. Jeffrey later said that he had no intentions of ending his life and that he had no idea how it happened. Literally. His story for now, his second victim, was that he just woke up with a dead man next to him with no memory of what had happened. But regardless of how it happened, he now had a body to get rid of. And so to do so, Jeffrey bought a suitcase to put it in. A week later, he took the suitcase with a body back to the house that he was living in with his grandmother. And over the course of two hours, he took his time cutting it up, ripping everything off of the bones, disposing of those in trash bags, crushing the bones with a sledgehammer, and pretty much repeating the process that he had done with his first victim. And if you think that that's bad, which it is, it's horrific. It only gets worse because Jeffrey decided that this time around, he wasn't quite ready to get rid of everything. He was not quite ready to get rid of his victim's head. So he didn't. For two weeks, he kept the head, only the head, wrapped in a blanket. He then boiled it with something, I don't know what, before then, using the bleaching method that he knew that he learned from his father, to preserve the skull, which then he kept for his own pleasure, until it was too brittle to keep. Joffrey would later say that after that murder, his obsession with murdering men, quote, went into full swing, end quote. And he, quote, unquote, didn't even try to stop it. After that, he began actively seeking victims, primarily at gay bars. And he would ask them to come back to his place with him, where he would then drug them until they were unconscious, sa them, and kill them before disposing of their bodies. He did that to two more victims while still living at his grandmother's house. That was until she eventually forced him to move out in 1988, but not because she knew anything about his crimes. But because she was just tired of his behavior, of him bringing back different boys and men to her house and doing whatever they were doing. She wasn't a fan of that. And she also often complained about foul smells coming from her basement. In September of 1988, Jeffrey is now 29 years old and he's living at his own apartment. He was able to lure a 13 year old boy back to his apartment where he s8 him. For that he was actually charged and arrested. He confessed to it, pleaded guilty, claiming that he thought that the boy was much older. He spent a week in jail before being released on bail. But his father ended up finding out about this and he was deeply alarmed. He wrote a letter to the judge pleading for his son to receive a real psychological intervention before sentencing. Quote I have reservations regarding Jeff's chances when he hits the streets. I have experienced an extremely frustrating time to urge initiation of some type of treatment. I sincerely hope that you might intervene in some ways to help my son, who I love very much and for whom I want a better life. I do feel, though, that this may be our last chance to initiate something lasting and that you can hold the key and quote, quote. And his father was of course correct in thinking that Jeffrey should have been kept in custody or else, because even while waiting for his trial, he found another victim. He lured, drugged, essayed, strangled, photographed, dismembered and disposed of his body. And of that victim, Jeffrey kept body parts and bones to preserve them. He later said that this was because he found him so beautiful that he did not want to lose him. His trial was in May of 1989. He was sentenced to one year in prison. However, that was with day release, meaning that he could go out during the day, just had to be back in prison at night. And after serving only 10 months of that sentence, he was granted early release. Within weeks, he got his own apartment at 924 N. 25th St. In Milwaukee. Apartment 213. And the murders just kept going. Throughout the next two years, Jeffrey would murder 12 more victims, making his total victim count that we know of. A total of 17 boys and men. His first victim. After leaving prison, he lured into his apartment and he did to him what he had done to the others. He also took photographs. Throughout the entire process, he did the same to the next victim once again. But while trying to preserve the body and dry out his skull for him to be able to keep, he put it in the oven and the heat of it made it explode, completely ruining the school. Jeffrey would later claim that that murder was A complete waste because he was unable to keep anything from it. He had a very big thing for keeping trophies, if you can't tell with different victims, Joffrey would also experiment different things, such as experimenting with different kind of chemicals to dissolve and dispose of the bodies. He often ate, consumed the flesh of said bodies, and even tried to do some science experiments with some of his victims while they were still alive. An example of one of his experiments included him attempting to inject stuff into, into their brain while they were still alive. So as you can probably already tell, there was a meticulous method, a pattern that Jeffrey Dahmer had developed. He would find either a man or a boy, lure them, usually from a gay bar, like I said, or a bath house or a bus stop or shopping mall, with the promise of giving them $50 or $100 to pose for him, to be able to take nude photographs of them. Once inside the apartment, he would offer. He would offer them a drink laced with either sleeping pills or other sedatives. When they lost consciousness, he would then strangle them. After that came the dismemberment, the photography, the preservation of skulls and body parts as trophies. And years later, Jeffrey would admit that he had also engaged in necrophilia and cannibalism with his victims. He told investigators that he had prepared human hearts, livers, thighs and biceps with a meat tenderizer and spices for him to be able to eat. He kept a 57 gallon drum of acid in the corner of his bedroom. To be able to dissolve the bodies. He often stored heads in refrigerators. He spray painted skulls and kept them as decor on shelves. I mean, he is truly one of the worst to ever live. The chief medical examiner who responded to the scene after Jeffrey Dahmer's arrest later said about his apartment, quote, it was more like dismantling someone's museum than an actual crime scene. End quote. Now we get to May 27th of 1991. Jeffrey Dahmer is 31 years old at this point. That night, a 14 year old victim had been drugged by Jeffrey. But he, unlike the others, had luckily managed to escape. And as soon as he got the chance, he stumbled out of Jeffrey's apartment, booked it, ran down the street naked and bleeding. Neighbors saw him and of course called the police to report that there was a bit naked boy running down the street who looked to be like he was in danger. When police officers showed up, the boy was completely out of it. He didn't even. He didn't know what was going on. I mean, I'M sure he knew that he was in danger and scared, which is obviously why he ran out. But he didn't really or he could not explain what was going on because of the stuff that Jeffrey had given him. He was in. He's so loopy, completely disoriented. And then guess what? Jeffrey Dahmer himself walks out of his apartment. He completely sick in the head, but sober, approaches the officers to tell them that this was all a big mistake. Jeffrey told the officers that the boy was his 19 year old boyfriend and said the two of them had been arguing that night. Obviously in reality we know that he was not 19, he was 14 and he was not his boyfriend, he was his victim. But of course he was not going to tell the officers that. And authorities, despite the boy's condition, despite neighbors concerns, despite one neighbor telling officers that she believed the child was in the child was in danger, they chose to believe Jeffrey Dahmer. And they grabbed the boy, walked him straight back into apartment 213 and handed him off back to Jeffrey Dahmer. What do you mean? What do you mean? Jeffrey had no idea about this yet. But that victim was also the younger brother of one of his earlier victims. Meaning that that family lost two sons to Jeffrey Dahmer. It makes me sick. The boy was dead before the night was over. And those two officers were later fired for gross negligence. However, they then were subsequently reinstated by the court. That detail makes me so, so, so sick because that boy could still be alive today. Should still be alive today. And had those two officers searched Jeffrey's apartment, they would have found another dead body of another victim, along with bones and human remains and everything else. But they didn't. And their choice costed that boy his life. After that, Jeffrey Dahmer claimed four more victims before he ultimately got caught with one of his last victims. He kept the head and the heart in his fridge and the bones in his freezer. It was July 22nd of 1991 when Jeffrey Dahmer was finally arrested. Earlier that afternoon, Jeffrey had been at the Grand Avenue Mall approaching strangers. He had offered several men $100 to come back to his apartment and pose for photographs. Only one accepted. 32 year old Tracy Edwards, who just so happened to be a man who was short on money. When the two of them got back to Jeffrey's apartment, this strong foul odor hit Tracy Edwards immediately. The smell, I mean it was the smell of decomposing human remains. But of course Jeffrey wasn't going to say that, so he just explained it away, claiming that the smell was coming from a broken sewer pipe. There were boxes of hydrochloric acid in the living room, which Jeffrey claimed that he had because he used them for cleaning. And the two of them sat on the couch. They started talking about the military. But then, in a sudden movement, Jeffrey Dahmer snapped a handcuff onto one of Tracy's wrists and pressured a long, large knife to his ribcage. For four hours, Tracy Edwards sat in that apartment, handcuffed knife on him, watching the Exorcist playing on the tv, while the man beside him, Jeffrey Dahmer, rocked back and forth, listening to his heartbeat. Tracy had obviously noticed the 57 gallon barrel sitting in the corner of the bedroom. Not only that, but he had also realized that the foul smell was coming from it, and he knew that he needed to get away now. When Jeffrey was momentarily distracted, Tracy punched him in the face, knocking him off balance, and he ran straight to the door. He sprinted down the street of North 25th street with a handcuff still dangling from one of his wrists. And until he flagged down a Milwaukee patrol car, he told two officers what happened to him as best as he could. And the officers then asked him if he would be willing to walk them back to the apartment where this had all happened. Tracy agreed. When Jeffrey opened the door, he was calm, he was composed. He told the officers that this was all just a big misunderstanding. And he almost convinced them. Then one of the officers spotted the Polaroid photographs. The officers walked into the bedroom where there was one open drawer. And it was when the officer looked into it that he saw a pile of Polaroid pictures. Many of them, most of them, if not all of them, violent in nature. They were just screw some photos of human bodies. The officer walked into the living room to show the other officer, and he quietly whispered to him, quote, these are real. As he showed in the pictures. When Jeffrey realized what they were looking at, he tried to leave. He created a struggle. He tried to resist arrest. Luckily, the officers were able to put handcuffs on him and they called for backup. While Jeffrey was lying on the floor with his handcuffs, one of the officers opened up the fridge only to find it stuffed with human parts. Jeffrey then looked at him and said, quote, for what I did, I should be dead. The search of his apartment revealed a human head in the refrigerator, three more in the freezer, and honestly, so many other disgusting things that I can't even talk about because I will throw up. As well as an extensive gallery of Polaroid photographs of his victims and his crimes. Jeffrey later said that he planned to build a private altar for his victims. And he described that it would be a place where he could feel at home. Beginning in the early hours of July 23, 1991, Detective Patrick Kennedy began questioning Jeffrey Dahmer. Over the following two weeks, Kennedy and Detective Dennis Murphy conducted over 60 hours of interviews, ultimately compiling a 178 page written confession. Jeffrey surprisingly cooperated fully and without any hesitation. He described each murder in methodical, clinical detail. The methods, the victims, what he had done with all of their remains. And finally, on July 25, he was formally charged with four counts of first degree murder. By August 22, 11 further charges had been added. And on September 17, Ohio authorities charged him with the 1978 murder of Stephen Hicks, his first victim, after they were able to identify a bone fragment found in the woods behind his old family house. His trial began January 30th of 1992. He was charged with 15 counts of first degree murder. Jeffrey initially pleaded not guilty to off the charges, which, like, hello, you confessed during a police investigation, kind of silly. But he eventually changed his plea to guilty by reason of insanity. His defense team was trying to argue that by bringing up the gruesome details of his crimes, they tried to use that as proof that only someone mentally insane could commit those terrible acts. But ultimately, the jury found Jeffrey Dahmer legally sane in each of the 15 counts. And on February 17, 1992, he stood before the court for sentencing. Before the judge could speak, speak, Jeffrey asked to address the court himself. He stepped up and read from a prepared statement, Quote, this has never been a case of trying to get free. I never wanted freedom, frankly, I wanted death for myself. This was a case to tell the world that I did what I did, but not for reasons of hate. I hated no one. I knew I was sick or evil or both. Now I believe I was sick. The doctors have told me about my sickness. Now I have some peace. I know how much harm I have caused. I decided to go through this trial for a number of reasons. I felt it was necessary for me to give as good of a detailed account as I, I could. I wanted to find out what it was that caused me to be so bad and evil. I hope and pray I have provided some answers. Thank you. Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms in person with no possibility of parole. In May of 1992, a 16th consecutive life sentence was added for the Ohio murder of Stephen Hicks, his first ever victim. Jeffrey Dahmer had been assigned to work detail at the Columbia Correctional institution in Portage, Wisconsin. On the morning of November 28, 1994, he was cleaning a bathroom with two other inmates, Christopher Scarver and Jesse Anderson, when Christopher attacked them both. He beat Jeffrey dahmer with a 20 inch metal bar taken from a piece of gym equipment and he also fatally attacked Jesse Anderson. Jeffrey was found with severe head trauma and was transported to the Divine Savior Hospital in Portage where he was pronounced deceased. He was 34 years old and he had served less than three years of his sentence. When asked years later why it was that he killed Jeffrey Dahmer, Christopher Scarver said simply that Jeffrey Dahmer had shown no remorse for what he had done and had even taunted other inmates by fashioning food in the shape of severed limbs. He said that he felt chosen to carry out the act, saying that he killed Jeffrey Dahmer because God told him to do so. Yeah, let's all take a minute because that was a lot. I covered Jeffrey Dahmer's case over on TikTok a while ago and I spent so long on the research, I. At that time, it was the video that I had spent the most amount of time on and it got taken down almost immediately because of how graphic and vile he is. And I still think a year at least has passed since I've spoken about this story. And I still think that he is one of the worst. I. I just, it makes me physically uncomfortable. And it's also so extremely sad how many families had to learn what their children or husbands or cousins or friends were put through at the hands of Jeffrey Dahmer. It is truly an evil that should be studied. I know it has, but I just. Nothing, nothing can ever be said that would make me understand how a person, he could do this. That is all I have for today. Thank you guys for spending time with me today. I hope you are having the best day. If not, go do something to make it the best day. Make somebody happy and I will see you in my next episode. Massive kiss on the forehead to every single one of you. Thank you guys so much for tuning into this episode of I wish you were here. As a reminder, you can listen to this podcast anywhere you get podcast video version also available on YouTube. Love you.
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