JEFFREY Dahmer's eyewear was inspired by his fascination with the Gemini killer and Emperor Palpatine, an author said.
Self-published author Gisela K., who studied Dahmer and his case for her book "The Milwaukee Monster," told The U.S. Sun that Dahmer was obsessed with The Exorcist III and Star Wars' antagonists.
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Dahmer wore bright yellow contact lenses "to literally get into character and go to the gay bars to find his next victim," she said.
"At his trial, the Exorcist III became a focal point as it was his favorite movie that he watched at least two to three times per week for about six months before he was caught," Gisela wrote in her book.
"It was released in the USA in August 1990, and he paid more than $100 to have it in his possession.
"He resonated so much with the main antagonist, the Gemini killer, that he bought yellow contact lenses to feel and look like him."
Gisela said Dahmer would obsessively talk about the movies during his lunch breaks while he worked at a chocolate factory.
"FBI profiler Robert Ressler reasoned that Dahmer’s interest in the movie was about the power the possessed had over the minds and bodies of the rest of the world, and over reality," Gisela wrote in her book.
During a police interrogation after his 1991 arrest, Dahmer told investigators that The Exorcist III was his favorite movie.
He said the movie "helped fit into his fantasy" and he could "create illusions," according to FBI documents reviewed by The U.S. Sun.
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He held his last victim, Tracy Edwards, at knifepoint and forced him to watch The Exorcist with him before Edwards escaped and told the police about Dahmer, which ultimately led to the killer's arrest.
By that time he had killed 17 people, and he told investigators he would've kept hunting to satisfy his urges, according to the FBI documents.
Police found human skulls, hearts, a bag of organs and numerous severed body parts in his apartment after he was taken into custody.
GLASSES PART OF SERIAL KILLERS' LOOK
The spectacled look has been part of many well-known serial killers' looks over the years.
Hitc.com compiled a list of other serial killers who wore aviator glasses while they carried out their murder sprees.
Scottish murderer Dennis Nilsen, who murdered at least 12 young men and boys between 1978 and 1983 in London, wore aviator glasses.
Dennis Rader, also known as BTK, who murdered 10 people between 1974 and 1991 in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, wore aviators too.
British serial killer Harold Shipman, who had an estimated 250 victims, and the unidentified Zodiac Killer also both wore similar frames.
DAHMER'S BACKSTORY
Dahmer was known as "The Milwaukee Cannibal" and murdered 17 people between 1978 and 1991. He typically found his victims in gay bars or a mall.
Dahmer cut up most of his victims, kept body partsas trophies and cannibalized some of his victims for sexual gratification, he told investigators, according to FBI documents.
Dahmer lured his victims - almost all of whom were either Hispanic or black and part of LGBT communities - back to his apartment and offered to pay them for nude photographs.
His apartment was equipped with $400 worth of security cameras and outfitted with different locks on the bedroom, bathroom and front door, according to the FBI documents.
Once inside, he followed a similar MO that started out by sneaking sedatives in his victims' drinks.
In the FBI files, Dahmer said he used fans to try to get rid of the smell, which was an important part of the Netflix series because his neighbor Glenda Cleveland couldn't escape the smell coming in through the vents.
Dahmerwas finally arrested on July 22, 1991, after one of his victims,Tracy Edwards, escaped and led officers to his apartment.
While searching his home, officers discovered a bedside table drawer full of disturbingPolaroid photographsof his victimsand their dismembered bodies.
By September 14, 1991, he was charged with 16 murders, many of them committed at his apartment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Dahmerwas given 16 consecutive life terms, with the last one being in May 1992, for the murder of hisfirst victimhitchhikerSteven Hicks, 18.
Fellow inmate Christopher Scarver murdered Dahmer in prison in February 1992.
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