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JEFFREY Dahmer told investigators that police almost caught him several times, but he was "soft spoken" and "respectful" which allowed him "to talk his way out of problems", according to FBI documents.
A couple of these close encounters were depicted in the Netflix docuseries, most notably the time when Dahmer's neighbor Glenda Cleveland caught him with a naked, bleeding and drugged 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone on May 27, 1991.
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In the show, Cleveland alerted police, but the officers chalked it up to a lovers' quarrel and didn't investigate it further.
Dahmer said he "was terrified" and expected to be caught that night, according to FBI documents obtained by The U.S. Sun.
If police took Sinthasomphone to the hospital, they would've found the holes that Dahmer drilled into the teen's skull, Dahmer told investigators, the FBI documents said.
Instead, the officers bought Dahmer's story about how they were lovers after he showed them photos.
JEFFREY DAHMER STORIES
At other times, he used sarcasm or made a joke to avoid detection, said self-published author Gisela K., who studied Dahmer and his case for her book "The Milwaukee Monster."
"When he murdered Steven Tuomi in the Ambassador hotel, he does not remember doing it," Gisela told The U.S. Sun.
"He booked an extra night, went out and bought a suitcase, and then wheeled the bag out of the hotel with Tuomi inside.
"He was still staying with his grandmother and his driver's license had expired, so he needed a cab home. When the cab driver pulled up, he asked for help to load the bag in the cab.
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"The driver chuckled and asked if he had a dead body in there or something, and Dahmer laughed too and said, 'Yeah, something like that.'"
Gisela said Dahmer compartmentalized everything going back to his childhood, "which is kind of actually what helped him not be detected for so long."
Some of his neighbors thought he was "quiet" and "pleasant," Dahmer told investigators, according to the FBI documents.
And he talked about The Exorcist III and Star Wars movies while working at the chocolate factory with his packed lunch, not letting on about his "other life," Gisela said.
I SHOULD'VE BEEN CAUGHT AFTER THE FIRST MURDER
Dahmer admitted to investigators that police should've caught him after his first murder, "but police were not thorough".
Police pulled Dahmer over after he killed Steven Hicks in June 1978 and stuffed his cut-up body in garbage bags.
After police asked what was in the bags and what smelled, he told them he was taking garbage to the city dump, but police never checked the bags, according to the FBI documents.
Instead, they gave him a traffic ticket and let him go, but the encounter "terrified" him so he went nearly 10 years without killing again, the FBI documents said.
SEARCHES MISSED BODY PARTS
Dahmer told investigators the police executed a search warrant on his apartment after a 1988 murder and found nude photos in his drawer but missed the human skull.
He said he "sat in jail for six days waiting for the police to come back and confront him with this fact, but the police never did," according to the FBI documents.
He told investigators about two other close calls when police found a skull in his closet that he painted but they thought it was fake, the FBI documents said.
Another time when police questioned him about a murder in the building while he had the dead body in his bedroom.
DAHMER'S BACKSTORY
Dahmer murdered 17 people between 1978 and 1991, but was only charged and convicted of killing 16.
He cut up most of his victims, kept body parts as trophies and cannibalized some of his victims for sexual gratification, he told investigators, according to FBI documents
Dahmer lured his victims - almost all of whom were either Hispanic or black and part of LGBT communities - back to his apartment and offered to pay them for nude photographs.
His apartment was equipped with $400 worth of security cameras and outfitted with different locks on the bedroom, bathroom and front door, according to the FBI documents.
Once inside, he followed a similar MO that started out by sneaking sedatives in his victims' drinks.
In the FBI files, Dahmer said he used fans to try to get rid of the smell, which was an important part of the Netflix series because his neighbor Cleveland couldn't escape the smell coming in through the vents.
Dahmer was finally arrested on July 22, 1991, after one of his victims, Tracy Edwards, escaped and led officers to his apartment.
While searching his home, officers discovered a bedside table drawer full of disturbing Polaroid photographs of his victims and their dismembered bodies.
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By September 14, 1991, he was charged with 16 murders, many of them committed at his apartment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Dahmer was sentenced to multiple life terms, but he was in prison less than a year before fellow inmate Christopher Scarver murdered him in a jailhouse stabbing in 1992.
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