May 21, 1960 Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
May 17, 1968 Dahmer family moves to 4480 West Bath Road, Bath Township, Ohio.
June 1978 Jeffrey Dahmer graduates from Revere High School.
June 18, 1978 Dahmer picks up hitchhiker Steven Hicks, who becomes Dahmers first murder victim.
July 24, 1978 Divorce is granted to Lionel and Joyce Dahmer.
Aug. 1978 Joyce Dahmer takes younger son, David, and moves to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Jeffrey is left alone in the house in Bath until his father finds him there and moves back in.
Sept.Dec. 1978 Jeffrey attends one freshman quarter at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Dec. 24, 1978 Lionel Dahmer weds Shari Shinn Jordan.
Dec. 29, 1978 Jeffrey Dahmer starts three-year hitch in U.S. Army, reports for duty Jan. 12, 1979.
July 13, 1979 Dahmer completes training as medical specialist and is assigned duty post in Baumholder, Germany.
Mar. 26, 1981 Dahmer is discharged from thearmy in South Carolina because of excessive drinking. He drifts to South Florida.
1982 He moves into the home of his paternal grandmother, Catherine Dahmer, at 2357 South 57th St. in West Allis, Wisconsin.
1982 Dahmer is cited for indecent exposure at the Wisconsin State Fair.
1985 Dahmer is hired as a laborer at the Ambrosia Chocolate Company in Milwaukee.
1986 Dahmer is arrested for urinating in public.
Sept. 15, 1987 Steven W. Tuomi, twenty-eight, of Michigan, disappears. He is not officially reported missing until January 1989. Dahmer identifies him later as a victim.
Jan. 1988 James E. Doxtator, a fourteen-year-old Native American, is picked up by Dahmer, taken to the house in West Allis, and killed.
Mar. 1988 Richard Guerrero meets Dahmer and is killed in the house in West Allis.
1988 Dahmer moves out of his grandmothers house in West Allis and into his own apartment at the Oxford Apartments, 924 North Twenty-fifth Street.
Aug. 1988 Dahmer is arrested for molesting a 13-year-old boy.
Jan. 30, 1989 Dahmer is convicted on charge of sexual assault and enticing a child for immoral purposes.
Mar. 25, 1989 Dahmer picks up Anthony Sears at the LaCage bar and takes him to his grandmothers house and kills him.
May 23, 1989 Dahmer is sentenced to five years probation. Spends first year in a work-release program in the Milwaukee County House of Corrections.
Mar. 1990 Dahmer is released two months early from work-release program.
June 1990 Edward W. Smith meets Dahmer, is taken to the apartment, drugged and killed.
July 1990 Dahmer meets Raymond Smith a/k/a Ricky Beeks at the 219 Club in Milwaukee, takes him to his apartment, and kills him.
Sept. 3, 1990 Ernest Miller leaves his aunts home and vanishes. Dahmer later tells police that he met Miller in front of a bookshop on North Twenty-seventh Street in Milwaukee. He takes him to his apartment and kills him.
Sept. 24, 1990 David C. Thomas is reported missing by his girlfriend. Dahmer later says he killed him in the apartment.
Feb. 18, 1991 Curtis Straughter is last seen by his grandmother. Dahmer meets him at a bus stop near Marquette University, takes him to his apartment, and kills him.
April 7, 1991 Errol Lindsey is last seen going to the store by his sister. Dahmer later says he met him on the corner of Twenty-seventh and Kilbourn, took him to his apartment, and killed him.
May 24, 1991 Anthony Hughes, a deaf-mute, meets Dahmer outside the 219 Club on Second Street, goes to Dahmers apartment, and is killed.
May 26, 1991 Konerak Sinthasomphone, fourteen, the brother of the boy Dahmer was convicted of molesting, disappears on the day he had soccer practice.
May 27, 1991 Police investigate complaint that a naked, bleeding boy is in the street near the Dahmer apartment. Dahmer persuades police they are homosexual lovers. Dahmer kills Konerak Sinthasomphone.
June 30, 1991 Dahmer meets Matt Turner, twenty, in a Chicago bus station after Gay Pride parade. Turner is killed, his body dismembered and later found in Dahmers apartment.
July 5, 1991 Dahmer meets Jeremiah Weinberger,twenty-three, at a bar in Chicago. Two days later, he tells police, he killed and dismembered him.
July 15, 1991 Dahmer is fired from the Ambrosia Chocolate Company for absenteeism, losing a job he had held for six years. The same day he meets Oliver Lacy on the street and takes him to the apartment and kills him.
July 19, 1991 Dahmer meets Joseph Bradehoft, twenty-five, at a bus stop and takes him home and kills him.
July 22, 1991 Dahmer takes Tracy Edwards to his apartment but Edwards escapes and flags down the police, who arrest Dahmer. The remains of at least eleven human bodies are found in the apartment.
July 24, 1991 Glenda Cleveland reveals she, her daughter, and her niece all told police on the night Konerak Sinthasomphone was murdered that he was not an adult.
July 25, 1991 Dahmer is charged with four counts of intentional homicide, the equivalent of murder in Wisconsin. Bail is set at $1 million.
July 26, 1991 Police Chief Philip Arreola suspends, with pay, the three police officers who investigated the May 27 incident at Dahmers apartment involving Konerak Sinthasomphone.
Aug. 4, 1991 Authorities dig in yard of Dahmers boyhood home in Bath Township, Ohio, and discover shards of human bones.
Aug. 6, 1991 Dahmer is charged with eight more murders and bail is raised to $5 million. Thief steals $6,000 from grieving family.
Aug. 7, 1991 Milwaukee Police Association, by an overwhelming vote, says it has no confidence in Chief Arreola. Officials ignore it.
Aug. 10, 1991 Konerak Sinthasomphone is cremated following a traditional Buddhist ceremony.
Aug. 22, 1991 Dahmer is charged with three more slayings in Wisconsin, for a total of fifteen. Ohio prosecutor vows to seek a grand jury indictment for the murder of Steven Hicks. District attorney hints that no charge may be brought on seventeenth victim because of missing remains. Dahmer waives his right to a preliminary hearing.
Jan. 13, 1992 Dahmer changes plea from innocent to guilty, but insane.
