Jeffery also consumed the flesh of his victims. He attempted crude lobotomies, drilling into victims skulls while they were still Alive, injecting them with muriatic acid to see whether he could extend his control to the living. In June 1978 he graduated from high school. He was driving alone until he picks up a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks; he took him to his parent’s house and had sex. Hicks tried to leave; Dahmer killed him with one blow to the head with a barbell. He dismembered the corpse, packed it in plastic bags and buried them in the woods behind the house. January 1979 his alcohol consumption became uncontrollable, dropped out of Ohio State University after one term due to drunkenness. He joined the army for a while post to Germany, two years later Army discharged him for alcoholism.
He returned home to Ohio following his discharge, where he exhumed Hicks’ decomposing remains, pulverized then with a hammer, and scattered the pieces even more widely in the woods. October 1981 he