m. [307] Dahmer was discovered on the floor of the bathrooms of the gym suffering from extreme head wounds; [308] he had been severely bludgeoned about the head and face with a 20-inch (51-centimeter) metal bar.

On this occasion, rather than immediately acidifying the skeleton or repeating previous processes of bleaching, which had rendered previous victims' skulls brittle, Dahmer placed Smith's skeleton in his freezer for several months in the hope it would not retain moisture.

Revolving around the reactions of Dahmer's parents following his arrest in 1991, Raising Jeffrey Dahmer stars Rusty Sneary as Dahmer and co-stars Scott Cordes as Lionel.

In December 1981, he and Dahmer's stepmother sent him to live with his grandmother in West Allis, Wisconsin. Publishers Weekly reviewed that A Father's Story is "a book for criminologists, psychiatrists and the ghoulish. McCann described Dahmer as a calculating individual who killed to control his victims and retained their bodies "merely to afford" himself a prolonged period of sexual pleasure. However, in numerous interviews following his 1991 arrest, Dahmer stated to both police and psychiatrists he did not sexually assault or engage in willing homosexual relations while stationed in West Germany.By pleading guilty on January 13 to the charges brought against him, Dahmer had waived his rights to a trial to establish guilt, as defined in Wisconsin law. Two court-appointed mental health professionals—testifying independently of either prosecution or defense—were forensic psychiatrist George Palermo and clinical psychologist Samuel Friedman. While inside the bedroom, Edwards noted nude male posters on the wall and that a videotape of The Exorcist III was playing. Upon hearing of Dahmer's sentencing, his father Lionel and stepmother Shari requested to be allowed a ten-minute private meeting with their son before he was transferred to the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, to begin his sentence. They engaged in sexual activity before Dahmer drugged Doxtator and strangled him on the floor of the cellar.