A Shocking Collection Of Jeffrey Dahmer's Polaroids

On the night of July 22, 1991, 32-year-old Tracy Edwards flagged down two Milwaukee police officers claiming a “freak” kidnapped and handcuffed him. Edwards accompanied the policemen back to Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment, where he claimed to have been held captive for five hours.

Upon arrival, Edwards revealed Dahmer also threatened him with a knife and told him he wanted to eat his heart.

Surprisingly, Dahmer did not seem bothered by Edwards’ claims and simply directed the officers to a handcuff key on his bedside dresser.

Upon entering the bedroom, the officer stumbled upon a large knife hidden under the bed as well as an open dresser with nearly 80 Polaroid pictures of dismembered human bodies.

A look inside Dahmer's dresser drawer where investigators found 74 Polaroid photographs

“These are for real,” the officer called back to his partner in the living room. The discovery startled Dahmer, who tried to avoid arrest but was quickly overpowered by an officer.

74 disturbing Polaroid photographs were found inside Dahmer's dresser drawer

“Officer yelled, ‘Get the cuffs on him,’ or something like that. The other one came out in the hallway, and I was running down that way to get out the way because I said, ‘I don’t know what they’re doing. I don’t know what they found,'” Dahmer’s neighbor Pamela Bass told the press.

During his confessions, Dahmer told the police he would pose his dead victims and their body parts and then photograph them with a Polaroid camera.

He would masturbate to the heads and body parts as he recalled the murders and fantasized about the actual event.

Criminal psychologists who interviewed Dahmer suggested the demented killer posed and photographed his victims to stimulate his obsession with sexual sadism and necrophilia.

Although Dahmer could not explain the meaning behind the distinctive poses he manipulated the bodies into, investigators suggested they could have been sexually significant to the killer.

In addition to 74 Polaroids, Milwaukee police found five severed heads, seven skulls (including some that were painted or bleached), and a tray of blood drippings inside a refrigerator.

Cleaned and painted human skulls found inside Dahmer's storage

Investigators also discovered two human hearts and a part of an arm wrapped in plastic bags on the refrigerator shelves, as well as a torso and a bag of human organs and flesh frozen in ice at the bottom of Dahmer’s freezer.

A severed head inside Jeffrey Dahmer's refrigerator

Further investigation revealed two skeletons, a pair of severed hands, two severed penises, and a mummified scalp, as well as three more torsos dissolving in acid in the 57-gallon drum.