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5A Wausau Daily Herald Tuesday, November 29, 1994 State A Ccnctroos turner 'He never made excuses' I I ft I-1 A "Some will be sympathetic, others won't," she said. Shari Dahmer said she does expect a custody battle over her stepson's ashes. Dahmer, 34, left a will stipulating that he be cremated, said Shari Dahmer. "I truly think his remains are better with Lionel," she said. Shari Dahmer said there are no plans to bury his ashes in Wisconsin or mark his grave.

"I think Jeff would like to be forgotten," she told the newspaper. "And I don't want anything that people can spit on, or whatever they want to do. We'd just like to keep this private." ly injured. She said Dahmer and his family believed he would be killed eventually. Shari Dahmer said she hopes Dah-mer's death will ease some of the anguish of his victims' families.

"They'll never forget what happened to their relatives, but I hope they find some peace in the fact that, hopefully, this is all over," she said. "For me, there is a sense of relief that Jeff is no longer suffering, and maybe my husband can stop suffering soon," she said, her voice on the verge of tears. Dahmer drugged, strangled and dismembered his victims, eating parts of some of the bodies. He was arrested in July 1991 in Milwaukee and was sentenced to serve 16 life sentences. Dahmer's parents divorced in 1978.

Reached by the television show "Hard Copy," Dahmer's mother, Joyce Flint of Fresno, said, "Oh my God! My son! How could this happen?" Flint could not be reached to comment further. Shari Dahmer said the prison informed her of Dahmer's death, and she called her husband, who was on his way to Pennsylvania. Shari Dahmer said she and her husband, Lionel, 58, weren't concerned whether some people would welcome his death. 1 'HI imill l' l.Mllll.l AP photo Former apartment: Two men wearing protective clothing remove a barrel from a Milwaukee apartment on July 23, 1991, where serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer lived. Police discovered body parts in the apartment, and Dahmer later confessed to murdering 17 men and boys.

Dahmer was attacked and killed Monday at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage. Dahmer talked of suicide, found religion Stepmother says Dahmer couldn't explain his actions CLEVELAND (AP) Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed 17 men and boys, never tried to explain his crimes and didn't understand why he committed them, his stepmother said. "He never made excuses for what he did," Shari Dahmer, 53, told Cleveland's WJW-TV in an interview Monday after learning of her stepson's death. Dahmer was attacked and killed Monday while cleaning a bathroom at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage. Another inmate was held in his death.

Shari Dahmer said her stepson told his family he could not understand or control the "terrible urges" that led to his actions. "That's why he always said, 'Keep me in prison. If you let me out, Til do them she said. "Jeff, first of all, from the day he was arrested felt he deserved anything that he got. When he found God, he said after the first time he was assaulted that it was only by the grace of God that he wasn't killed," Shari Dahmer said.

In July, an inmate tried to cut Daimler's throat He was not serious li it'tL' involving 14-year-old was shoddy and violated department rules. Sept. 10: Dahmer pleads innocent and innocent by reason of mental disease or defect to 1 5 murder counts. Sept. 24: Prosecutors in Summit County, Ohio, charge Dahmer in 1978 killing there after police using a map drawn by Dahmer find the victim's bone fragments at Dahmer's boyhood home.

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-Wausau 842-4185 AP photo Correctional institution: This is the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage. Convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was killed at the prison early Monday. A fellow inmate was taken into custody at the prison. watching TV," said prison system something spectacular behind bars spokesman Joseph Scislowicz. tried to cut Dahmer's throat with a In July, a Cuban inmate who razor blade during a chapel service, hoped he would be deported if he did His makeshift knife fell apart and Dahmer wasn't hurt.

The Rev. Roy Ratcliff, who baptized Dahmer in May in a prison infirmary whirlpool bath, said Dahmer told him he generally got along well with other inmates. Ratcliff said Dahmer spent most of his time in his cell, but didn't talk much about life behind bars or what made him do what he did. "He was as curious about that as anyone," Ratcliff said. "Mostly he talked about how deeply guilty and remorseful he was." Ratcliff said he felt as though he has lost a friend, but that he and Dahmer had accomplished what Dahmer wanted preparing him to meet his maker.

The Journal reviewed 576 pages of prison records, which describe his behavior, finances and visitors, among other topics. Records showed Dahmer once said of his incarceration, "This is a living death." on all 15 counts, making him eligible for mandatory life sentence for each Milwaukee count February: Dahmer says in TV interviews in prison he still feels compulsions that made him kill. March 29, 1994: Dahmer's mother, Joyce Flint, attempts suicide in Fresno, Calif. June 16: Two police officers fired over case of 14-year-old are reinstated under judge's order. July 3: Prison inmate tries to slash Dahmer's throat, but he suffers only minor scratch.

Nov. 28: Dahmer killed in prison. Governor's wifc scheduled for surgery MADISON Sue Ann Thompson, wife of Gov. Tommy G. Thompson, was scheduled for surgery after discovery of a cancerous breast tumor.

John Matthews, the governor's executive assistant, said Thompson would undergo the lumpectomy today at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, and the governor would be with her for the surgery. "It's a small tumor," Matthews said. "A full scan revealed no evidence of other tumors or other cancers." After a night in the hospital, Thompson will undergo six weeks of radiation therapy on an outpatient basis, he said. Thompson lives at the family home in Elroy and teaches at Kendall Elementary School, but she received a leave of absence from the job and plans to stay at the Executive Mansion in Madison during treatment. "She and the family are very upbeat about her prognosis, as are her physicians," Matthews said.

"She is in excellent spirits." A routine mammogram detected the lump two to three weeks ago, Matthews said, and a subsequent exam confirmed the lump is a cancerous tumor. Stay Off ice: A warden who pulled a 5-year-old boy from Duck Creek after the youngster broke through thin ice, urged Monday after the boy died that people avoid going onto ice. The department says ice is never safe. There's always a risk when you go out on the ice," state Department of Natural Resources warden Chris Groth said. Streams and rivers are dangerous because the current beneath the ice causes varying ice thicknesses, he said.

Corey Silas was playing in the snow in downtown Oneida near the State Highway 54 bridge over the creek when he slipped down an embankment on his sled and into the river Sunday about noon. His sister had left him earlier, going back into their nearby house because she got cold, Groth and Capt. Jim Paape of the Brown County Sheriffs Department said. Tentative pact: Brig- gs Stratton Corp. and the union representing its Milwaukee-area employees have reached a tentative agreement on new three-year contracts at the company's engine and lock divisions, a newspaper reported Monday.

The Milwaukee Journal said that, according to sources familiar with the negotiations, the agreement includes provisions aimed at helping 2,000 workers who will lose their jobs during the next three years as the company moves engine assembly operations to three plants being built in Georgia, Alabama and Missouri. The Associated Press Dahmer From Page 1A It was only the beginning. The 34-year-old former chocolate factory worker admitted he drugged, strangled and dismembered his victims, having sex with one corpse and eating parts of others. He flushed brains down the toilet and kept skulls and other parts as mementos. Officials told of torsos soaking in acid, severed heads in the refrigerator and freezer, skulls in boxes, a hand and a genital organ in an 80-quart kettle pot and photos of victims in various stages of dismemberment.

"I should have stayed with God," Dahmer told a judge at his sentencing in February 1992. "I tried and I failed, and created a holocaust Prior attack Dahmer, who was serving 16 life sentences, had been attacked in prison once before. In July, an inmate tried to cut his throat during a chapel service, but the razor blade attached to a plastic handle fell apart before it could hurt Dahmer. The suspect in Monday's attack was Christopher J. Scarver, 25, who was on a work detail in the prison gym with Dahmer and wife-killer Jesse Anderson, Corrections Department spokesman Joe Scislowicz said.

Scarver was placed in solitary confinement pending the outcome of an investigation, Scislowicz said. Bathroom beating Dahmer was found beaten in a staff bathroom adjoining a basketball court in the maximum-security facility. Anderson was found in a locker room shower area, Sullivan said. Dahmer was breathing but not responsive when he was found, Sullivan said. The Dahmer case allowed a 14-year-old, naked, bleeding Laotian boy to remain with Dahmer over objections of witnesses.

Aug. 6: Prosecutors file eight more murder charges against Dahmer; bail increased to $5 million. Aug. 22: Prosecutors file three more murder charges against Dahmer, bringing total to 15 in Wisconsin. Prosecutors say they lack evidence to file charges in one Milwaukee County death.

Sept. 6: Police Chief Philip Arreola fires two officers and places third on year's probation. Says their investigation of May 27 incident The PORTAGE (AP) He was Inmate No. 177252 at the Columbia Correctional Institution, a man who, like many prisoners, found religion behind bars. But Jeffrey Dahmer never escaped the notoriety his macabre crimes gave him.

He sometimes called his existence "living death" and spoke of suicide. Dahmer, 34, slain Monday while cleaning a prison restroom, was serving 15 consecutive life prison terms here and faced another life term for an Ohio slaying. He admitted to strangling and dismembering 17 boys and men and cannibalized some of them. Prison records detailed by The Milwaukee Journal in March revealed a life behind bars punctuated by boredom and childish pranks. "I have over 900 years to do," he once complained to a prison guard.

"I bite," Dahmer had been known to tell guards at the 600-inmate maximum-security prison where he died. "He used to sit up until 4 a.m. Key events in case of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer: July 22, 1 991 Dahmer arrested after man flees his Milwaukee apartment and flags down police car. The man takes police to apartment, where they find remains of 1 1 victims. July 25: Dahmer charged with four counts of first-degree intentional homicide after admitting he killed 17 people since 1978.

Bail set at $1 million. July 26: Three Milwaukee policemen suspended with pay after authorities learn they were at Dahmer's apartment May 27 and "There was a substantial amount of blood," said Craig S. Ratz, a paramedic who helped transport Dahmer to the hospital. "He didn't look like his former pictures," Fire Chief Ettore Castellente said. Sullivan didn't specify where prison guards were at the time of the attack, but said two guards and a recreational officer were in the area.

Sullivan said one of the guards left the gym for a time to bring in inmates for workouts. "They would not have been under direct supervision at all times. Taxpayers can't afford 100 percent safety in a prison. You'd have to come up with one staff member for every prisoner," Sullivan said. For a year, Dahmer was kept in isolation at the prison in Portage; then the staff determined he could mix with other prisoners, Sullivan said.

Anderson suffered head injuries and was in critical condition early today. Scarver is serving a life term for the execution-style slaying of a man during a robbery in Milwaukee in 1992. Feared for life Dahmer's father, Lionel Dahmer, told TVs "A Current Affair" his son feared for his life when first jailed in Milwaukee, "but he felt that he was well protected at that high maximum security prison." "If he'd have had a choice, he'd have let this happen to him," Dahmer's mother, Joyce Flint, told the Milwaukee Sentinel from Fresno Calif. "I always asked if he was safe, and he'd say, 'It doesn't matter, Mom. I don't care if something happens to me." Transcendental MeditationProgram 0k mi Eliminate Stress Improve Health Reduce Anxiety Enjoy Life More 500 scientific research studies show TM to be the most effective technique of self-development available in the world today.

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