“And then I cut the arm off. Cut each piece. Bagged each piece. Triple-bagged it in large plastic trash bags. Put them in the back of the car. Then I'm driving to drop the evidence off a ravine, ten miles from my house. Did that at three o'clock in the morning. Halfway there, I'm at a deserted country road, and I get pulled over by the police. For driving left of center. Guy calls a backup. Squad. Two of 'em there. They do the drunk test. I pass that. Shine the flashlight on the backseat, see the bags, ask me what it is. I tell 'em it's garbage that I hadn't gotten around to dropping off at the landfill. And they believe it, even though there's a smell. So they give me a ticket for driving left of center and I go back home.”
— Jeffrey Dahmer

Annotation

Dahmer describes barely evading arrest after police stopped him as he tried to dispose of the remains of his first murder victim in 1978. 1991 interview with FBI agent Robert Ressler before Dahmer’s conviction and sentencing.

Tagged: Serial Killers, creepy, Police
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