10 Most Horrific Cannibal Killers Of All Time

Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most notorious serial killers of all time, with the story of his crimes - which included murder, cannibalism and necrophilia - and capture receiving mass media attention in the early 1990s.

His career in killing started long before that though, as Dahmer's first murder was committed in 1978 when he killed 18-year old Steven Hicks. Following a gap of almost ten years, Dahmer struck again in 1987 and began to strike more frequently over the next four years until he had racked up 17 murders.

Before the murder of Anthony Sears in 1989, Dahmer had generally dismembered his victims or dissolved them in acid. However, after getting his own apartment he began to become more experimental. At one point he even started injecting acid into the skulls of his victims in an effort to make them subservient to his whims.

It was the following year where he started to cannibalize his victims, often extracting the heart, biceps and other muscles and organs for later consumption.

Dahmer's story is all the more shocking because of the many opportunities to capture Dahmer that were missed, the most striking of which was when Konerak Sinthasomphone was returned to him after being found naked and in disarray in the streets. Dahmer simply convinced his neighbours they were lovers and was left free to kill him as he intended.