Blow by Blow Account of how Tracy Edwards Escape from Dahmer, Secret Revealed at Trial

May 2024 · 3 minute read

Tracy Edwards, then 32 years old, was with two friends in a bar in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when he first met Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killer. See blow by blow account of what happened with all secrets.

Before meeting the three, Jeffrey Dahmer had murdered 17 men and boys some of whom he ate their flesh in his apartment after hr lured them there.

Dahmer told bis new “friends” he was a professional photographer, and said he would pay $100 for one of them to pose nude for him.

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How Dahmer lured Tracy Edwards

Tracy Edwards, who was short on money, agreed to return to Dahmer’s apartment but was undecided as to whether to pose for the photographs Dahmer wanted or not. But he went along anyway.

Tracy Edwards’ friends planned to meet him at the apartment, but as Edwards climbed into a cab with Dahmer, Dahmer gave the friends a fake address so that they can’t trace him and Tracy Edwards.

Giving evidence at Dahmer’s trial, Edwards described the atmosphere between them as seeming friendly, and said he believed Dahmer’s lies that the horrific odour in the apartment was due to a broken sewer pipe, and the boxes of hydrochloric acid in the living room were supplies he used to clean bricks.

They sat on the sofa and discussed the armed forces – Dahmer briefly served in the army, and Edwards was born on a base, having grown up in a military family – while having a drink together. Jeffrey Dahmer Tracy Edwards secret is interesting as it progresses.

But in a moment that changed everything, Edwards turned away and Dahmer secured handcuffs on his wrist and held a knife up to his ribcage.

Dahmer informed Edwards he would kill him if he did not comply with instructions, and led him to the bedroom, where the terrified Edwards noticed a 57-gallon vat in the corner of the room, where the horrific smell appeared to originate.

They sat on the bed, stained with blood, while Dahmer played the 1990 film The Exorcist III on VHS. Dahmer told Edwards that he was going to remove his heart and eat it.

But Edwards continued to reassure Dahmer the two were friends, and he wouldn’t run away, placating him until the serial killer briefly dropped his guard. At that point Edwards punched him in the face, fleeing the property and flagging down two police officers.

The arrest of Jeffrey Dahmer

After his escape, Edwards would tell a reporter: “I ran for the door and God had to be with me because he had like eight different locks on there. And I just picked the right lock out of all of them.”

The officers accompanied Edwards back to the apartment, where they found Dahmer, multiple skulls, a variety of human body parts, and polaroid pictures showing his victims in various states of dismemberment. Kitchen equipment showed Dahmer had likely been cooking and eating some of the human remains.

He was immediately arrested for the attempted murder of Edwards, a crime for which he was never convicted, but once in custody confessed to all 17 murders.

Dahmer’s trial, which began in January 1992, did not aim to determine whether he was guilty, but whether he was responsible for the murders, with a jury deciding if Dahmer was or was not “insane”.

Edwards was a key witness in the case, and faced questioning on whether he was “a homosexual” – to which he replied “no, not at all” – and whether he suspected that the photoshoot Dahmer had invited him to take part in was a “homosexual kind of thing”.

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