MADISON, WIS., JAN. 19 -- Jeffrey L. Dahmer performed lobotomies on some of his victims while they were drugged, then strangled them and dissected the corpses when his experiments failed, a forensic psychiatrist said.
Dahmer drilled holes in their heads to deaden a portion of their brains and poured fluids into their skulls, said Frederick Fosdal, hired by prosecutors to examine Dahmer.
"He had hoped to control and keep them around longer by making them zombie-like," Fosdal told the Wisconsin State Journal in a story published today.
Fosdal said Dahmer told him he drugged his victims and performed the brain operations while they were unconscious. Fosdal was hired by prosecutors to examine Dahmer after the body parts of 11 males were found in his Milwaukee apartment in July. Dahmer, 31, admitted to police he killed and mutilated 17 males, and last week he pleaded guilty but insane to 15 of the killings.
If found insane, Dahmer could be sentenced to a mental institution where, after a year of treatment, he could petition for release every six months. If judged sane, Dahmer would receive a mandatory life prison sentence for each slaying.
Fosdal said he found nothing in his examination of Dahmer to support an insanity plea.
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