University Daily Kansan / Monday. February 17, 1992 5 Jury finds Dahmer sane discards expert testimony The Associated Press MILWAUKEE — In the end, jurors who decided Jeffrey Dahmer was sane when he killed and dismembered 15 young men and boys cast aside the opinions of medical experts and listened to one person: the serial killer himself. Dahmer told police he killed "for my own warped, selfish desires for self-gratification," and the jury concurred. Dahmer's confession, as recited by two police detectives, came through more clearly during his three-week sanity trial than experts' descriptions such as "paraphyllia disorder not otherwise specified," some jurors said. "The professional words were confusing," juror Karl Stahle said after the verdicts were read Saturday. "His whole conduct showed he was a con artist. ... He had just one thing on his mind — to satisfy his ego and to satisfy himself," Stahle said. The jury's decision that Dahmer was not insane means he faces mandatory life sentences. A hearing was set for today, when relatives of his victims plan to speak in court. Dahmer did not take the stand during 12 days of testimony. His lawyer, Gerald Boyle, made good on a promise to have Dahmer speak through his lengthy confession. Dahmer told police he seduced victims, drugged and strangled them, then had sex with the corpses. He later mutilated bodies, saved skulls and ate a heart, biceps and thigh. Wisconsin law required the jury to determine whether the former chocolate factory worker had a mental disease or defect when he killed. If he did, jurors had to decide whether he knew right from wrong or could not control himself. "We never got past the first question," said Russell Fenstermacher, one of two jurors who dissented and said Dahmer was mentally ill. The unusual trial required that 10 of the jurors agree. "We all agreed there was a problem," Fenstermaker said. "Whether we interpreted it as a disorder or a disease is what seated us." Throughout the testimony, it seemed the factor that would determine whether Dahmer would be sent to prison or to a mental institution was his measure of control, or, legally speaking, his ability to "conform his conduct to the requirements of the law." Boyle and District Attorney E. Michael McCann said that the jurors would have to wrestle with the issue of control. The lawyers relied largely on testimony from seven psychiatrists and psychologists, five of whom agreed either willingly or under cross-examination that Dahmer suffered from a mental disease. Most mental-health professionals classified the disease as necrophilia, a sexual attraction to corruces. McCann argued three times in the absence of the jury that necrophilia legally was not considered a mental illness but a personality disorder. Circuit Judge Laurence Gram Jr. rejected the argument each time, leaving McCann with a backup argument — that regardless of whether Dahmer suffered a mental disease he could have chosen not to kill. "We had never heard of paraphylla or necrophilia, let alone trying to spell it," said juror Elba Duggins, who voted with the majority that Dahmer had not suffered from a mental disease. "When you look at the experts, they can't agree on it. ... If they had seven doctors up there agreeing, it may have been different," she said. Fenstermaker said Dahmer would have been found sane even if the jury had said he was mentally ill. "He could have conformed his conduct to the law," he said. "It would not have changed the outcome." TRADING CO. 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