Jeffrey Dahmer: Monster or Madman? - Defense Opening Statement (1992)
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- WI v. DAHMER (1992): It's been 30 years since Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested. Dahmer then pleaded guilty but insane to the murders and dismemberments of 15 boys and men. A jury would decide if Dahmer was sane at the time of the crimes. Depending on their verdict, Dahmer was facing life in prison or admittance to a mental institution. Dahmer was killed in 1994, by his fellow prison inmate Christopher Scarver.
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You not only pinned your own comment but loved it too?! That’s loyalty.
My fascination with True Crime started with him!
i was in college when this went down. I'd hurry home after classes and camp out in front of court tv. watched intensely til the very end. he was an other level disturbing and fascinating person
Me too
@@pullyourluck I was much younger- my uncle was telling me about Dahmer once in Florida and I was totally fascinated. Where is court tv located? is it in LA?
@@simcastpodvids that I am not sure of
@@pullyourluck i thought you said you used to hang around outside court tv
I remember being a kid seeing this live on court tv when it first started. Can't wait to watch this again!!!
He showed with a decreased person in the bath. He held a person's head in hand whilst he relived him self. Had body parts in fridge. Relived himself inside a dead person. He eats body parts. Yet this is the actions of someone who in legal terms is sane.
Yeaaah, I feel that this would be a very different case today, given the new knowledge of mental disorders. In my eyes, yes he was extremely intelligent and maybe wasn’t insane, but he had struggled with necrophilia his entire life mixed with homosexuality. Having no one to talk to/feel comfortable in your sexuality and talk about your feelings can make you feel hopeless. And his case was hopeless, due to the fact that society also failed him.
that 1992 audio quality 🥲 still worth the watch, thanks for posting! Wild stuff. RIP to all the victims, condolences to all the families and friends.
How many people do you have to eat in Wisconsin before they think you're insane?
Reminds me a lot of Dennis Nilsen in Britain who started in the same year as Dahmer (1978) which is even more weird. He also spoke candidly to police about what he did and his fantasies etc.
Exactly what I thought
Yes, the UK had Des Nilsen in 1983 all over the news, so when I heard about Dahmer when he was caught over a decade later, I was thinking "Again??". Brian Masters even called his book about Nilsen "Killing for Company".
Nilsen’s been called the British Dahmer
Both first victims were Stephen also
I can only imagine after Jeffrey's lawyers continually hearing all the testimonys, must have said to themselves- "why am I doing this??" 🙄😑
So true.. If your guilty and confessed you shoulnt need a lawyer and make that lawyer look bad and argue to get you a less judgment. ....duet 17 ....After they have interpreted the law and declared their verdict, the sentence they impose must be fully executed; do not modify it in any way.
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must die. In this way you will purge the evil from Israel.
Then everyone else will hear about it and be afraid to act so arrogantly.
@@lisamounts6555 $$$$
Someone has to do the paperwork I guess, thats basically the lawyers job in a situation like this
To determine if he was legally insane so he could go to mental institution.
I heard the lady on his team talk and say “you can’t help Become close to someone once you spend that much time with them” so idk
A whole decade before he was captured! The more murders he got away with, the more confident he became! Anyone who hide their crime clearly understands the consequences of his actions!
Dahmer would have been the first to agree with you on that.
@@dutch__butterfly9336 Dahmer wasn't a psychopath though. He didn't score high enough on the pcl-r test to be deemed one.
A whole decade he didn’t kill anyone though
@@eehyetti so he says
In terms of common sense he was totally nuts, but in the legal sense he was not. That's the problem with courts is they have to divide human behavior into black and white, when life is many shades of gray. Dahmer was both deranged and sick, and I think had he received proper treatment he could have stopped this early.
“These poor creatures” - wtf - I’m speechless
And he only says "I grieve for the hicks family" who happens to be a white victim
i really don't think he meant anything bad by it dude
Why does the judge say defend-DANT
dat Milwaukee accent i guess
Absolute heartfelt thoughts to all the families of all the beautiful people that died or thankfully escaped this maniac and sincere apologies for being a human. I’m ashamed that this crazy’thing’ was able to do what he did and get away with it for so long.
This "thing" is a product of all the horrible people around him especially the teachers and the bullies at highschool who treated him like a retard. the narcisisstic, mean and cruel "normal" people who thought it was a good idea to make fun of him and scrape out his face from a school picture.
we "normal" people kill and feast on the flesh of animals everyday. our governments kill or contribute in killing people from other countries by selling guns or simply not doing anything to stop it and we so nothing about it. we are not as good and as innocent as we think we are.
“To the heart of the problem and get to the meat of the question” - Am I going mad? - did he just say that? ...😮wtff. It’s no wonder it was a huge screw up back then. But hey, it still happens now.
I get it. Heart and meat.
Lot of you complaining that it's long, yes ofcourse that's how court hearing is.
"The Heart of the problem".... "The MEAT of the question".... Haha the end of his Opening Statement was terrifically ironic lol I wonder if he was trying to be PUNNY. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
why does the ambient noise sound like an inside of a flying passenger aircraft?
I can't listen to this. My anxiety is going way up. I'm going to watch someone make amazing paintings on Reddit.
Definitely a good choice... always gotta be looking out for your own mental health... the rest of the world sure doesn't give a damn haha
@Winter Faery kill kill kill! dismember and eeeeaaaat!!! **headbangin' and air guitarin'**
@Winter Faery 🤣🤣🤣
Was there a reason why Dahmer didn't wear his glasses in court? He almost always wore glasses. Was it his decision or his lawyers?
He said he didn’t want to see anyone and wanted to distance himself from the whole experience.
@@broomflyer3574 he is a coward!
@@broomflyer3574 interesting
Coward
He decided to not wear his glasses in court. He was extremely near-sighted and couldn't see well without his glasses. So by not wearing them, all he saw were blurs. He said it made him too nervous seeing the faces of the judge, jury, and victims' families.
Sometimes, a person is just too mad and evil for this world. Dahmer is one. I simply can't understand how any adult could wilfully slaughter another. He was truely a deviant.
Exactly, we want to think he was crazy but in reality he's just human. Look at his interviews in prison he seems perfectly normal and his parents didn't notice him going mad. He just simply had sick fantasies and was willing to play them out and normal people don't want to believe it.
Look at how quickly humans became completely barbaric in Iraq and Syria during ISIS times. A lot of those people will have been normal working people in Syria especially before that war started.
To eat another human being 🤢💔 I can’t even fathom eating animal meat! I’m glad he’s not wasting our tax money!
What sets this monster apart from other serial killers is the fact that he was having intercourse with a corpse and eating the flesh?? :((((( > He was worse than Ted bundy
I don’t understand how anybody could kill any living human or animal.
@@MsTinkerbelle87 some animals taste really good, you should try it
If I were a relative of one of the victims, I would be furious with this Defense Attorney.
….That’s kind of his job though - a job I don’t think anyone would want, but….
Why?
I understand where you're coming from. If it wasn't for this prosecutor and the DA's office and even Jeffrey Dahmer's lawyers, then we wouldn't have the psychological studies that we have today. I know that sounds horrible because it's like the victim's had to be some sort of Lab rat for this study to take place. But at least some good did come out of this. For the victims who did die in a horrible most disgusting way, their deaths are not in vain. Because now we have the signs to recognize if your child may have any psychological homicidal tendencies in the future. That helps save lives.
@@JessicaC. You are being overly optimistic about the science that was gathered from this case. We hardly have a clue what causes someone wanting to kill another human being and we are most certainly not able to stop them.
@@carmenl163 because he referred to the victims as creatures and help jeffrey get reduced sentencing for child molestation.
Dahmer's hand movements and mouth movements are unnerving during this opening statement.
i once read that, whilst in Prison, JD would purposely 'wind up' his fellow in-mates by eating Meat (at the Dinner Table) like a Savage and actually enjoy their fury, all the time acting as if he was unaware of their reactions! what a psycho eh?
He was trying to be funny and make laugh of it
or maybe taunting them since he wanted to die and make somebody to do that. He cannot do suicide, don't know why.
And it's bullshit made up by a delusional schizophrenic maniac. He actually got on well with most of the other inmates, they'd call him "JD" and they even cheered for him when he got baptized. Everyone who knew him said that he'd never mock his victims death.
Pardon my bluntness but I thought this 30 years ago and I still wonder today if JD wasn't getting off by listening to his acts over and over. Hearing the defense recalling his oh woe is me life. Then the State making him sound a dedicated worker in his chosen field. Joel Guy Jr didn't really try to hide it.
Has anyone noticed his white knuckles throughout this?
When this happend, i was still a little baby... 30 years later , it went viral at netflix... This is maybe an old case , but it was fascinating me that over decades it still really caught our attentions...myself randomly clicked every documenter about him in youtube now, after watched netflix.... Imagine if tweeter exist in 90's ...
This lawyer is cringe.
Both
I was young even this happened but, I remember watching this (because the adults were watching it) and I watching the victims families get up there and the pain that came these families exhibited was so heart wrenching. The poor ppl that lived in that building, and had to hear the atrocities that took place there is unimaginable. Knowing these ppl had to hear what he did and the fact they called the police and was begging for someone to come and see what he was doing but, they were ignored. The police are 100% responsible he got away with this as long as he did. Jeffrey Dahmer was a sick dude. It honestly blows my mind how long he got away with this.
😲 Wow so long ago.
BOTH MONSTER AND MADMAN!
Defense just talking in circles
I am thinking if he could choose the better way and the love of his life; or ever few true friends
Sounds like Kevin Spacey.. I wonder if they ever worked together 🤔
Both. He was a monster AND a madman.
He’s not legally insane. As it just means legally that he had no idea it was wrong which he did
Jeff was sick..
understatement of the year haha =) but yeah, truly sadly sick... im amazed and very thankfull for how his father stood by him through all of it... a lot godfathers would disown a kid just for being gay... let alone all of this right... I think that was rather sweet of him... gives me a tiiiny little bit of hope for humanity
@@ScumfuckMcDoucheface yeah Lionel was amazing
@@ScumfuckMcDoucheface did u read lionel's book "a Father's story "? I own it it's a very good book u should check it out if u haven't. Also too..they JUST did a re-issue of it like only a year ago with some additions to the original hardcover from lionel himself. The dude is still alive!
@@ScumfuckMcDoucheface he still knew what he did was wrong
I hate when people call him Jeff. It’s giving him this personality when he is a monster. Call him Jeffery, he hated that name
The lawyer has no tact
It’s crazy how he doesn’t seem like he would ever hurt anybody, deception is wild
So true!
Bcz he's freak n psychopath.he eats human flesh...cnnt b trusted.
We didnt need 2 week of hearing how guilty he was. He said he was. Read the law to him and place judgment and no arguing the judgment of death. No changing it to the left or to the right. Righteous and fair. No wasting time and moeny to bring judgment on a manslayer that is guilty. Clean the earth of this evil. Then everyone else will hear about it and be afraid to act so arrogantly to argue their judgement.
You know a lot of people are not afraid of death ? I don’t think it would deter most potential serial killers
This was about his sanity, not about his guilt.
wow, Good attorney to explain the way he did, the most gruesome story of a mad man.
So he had no body...literally
😔 its sad
"he is a fruit cake" 🤣
He was a monster and a madman
Both Duh !!!!!!
This was not good for gay communities PR..
Neither was HIV
I believe if it wasn't for him being drunk from drinking alcohol he wouldn't of did what he did. Alcohol should be illegal absolutely. Yet Marijuana is illegal. Hmm 🤔
I can't belive they wasted the time of a trial for this piece of sh_t. This is the perfect case that should have seen Jeffrey taken out behind the police station and shot in the head 4 or 5 times. There thats is no costly trial ect. Imagine his lawyers had to sit next to that guy.
Police, Doctors and lawyers, all this Intellectual intelligent brains people. Please say where you can go and talk about these things JD did to others? Not a natural thing to do what he did.
I think he was mad
🌸✌️💜
I’m confused…so he did do 9 months in jail before actually being caught and sent to prison for life…cause they didn’t show that in the Netflix series
not everything on the series is true
and they left out a lot more then that
They showed it. His dad picked him up from prison
Did you miss an episode? They did show that.
They didn't show a lot in the netflix series, but what they did show was mostly inaccurate.
Was he sleeping in court?
I thought so too
At 4:35 he almost fell a sleep haha
Tony Podesta friend
He's so cute 😍
As far as opening statements go, this one is crap lol. This attorney seems to be running in circles and never quite finishes the race. He is dry, boring and a bit confusing. But I could be wrong because I can’t seem to stay awake long enough to get through it lol 😊
This lawyer has such a great voice. I bet he was so rich.
Just a regular Caucasian.
Meanwhile in South Africa 🤣🤣🤣
Racist much
Damn!
You caught us!
Now how am I ever gonna get enough product by the end of the week?!... I mean damn bro! I've got the weekly White People Eating Children banquet to worry about! The hall will never give me my money back this close to the weekend. =/ Ugh!
@Senile Joe it’s in your DNA. Look up who killed and ate their slaves.
@Senile Joe And Chicago 🤣 Same people everywhere
BOTH MONSTER AND MADMAN!
Human after all. And responsible to society as that.