Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, was an American serial killer who murdered and dismembered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Dahmer sought out men, mostly African American, at gay bars, malls and bus stops, lured them home with promises of money or sex, and gave them alcohol laced with drugs before strangling them to death. He would then engage in sex acts with the corpses before dismembering them and disposing of them, often keeping their skulls or genitals as souvenirs. Dahmer was convicted of 16 murders and was sentenced to 16 terms of life imprisonment on February 15, 1992. On November 28, 1994, Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver, a fellow inmate, at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Wisconsin.