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Okay. John, are you ready to hear something crazy?

Of course.

On January 13, 1995, detectives in Knoxville, Tennessee arrived at a murder scene in Tyson Park.

This was unlike anything they had ever seen before.

In the dirt leading up to where the body was found, there were finger marks,

which implied that their victim had been physically dragged to a more remote location

while fighting desperately to save her life.

Her clothes were strewn up in the surrounding trees, covered in blood, and she had been beaten

horrifically and slashed with what they assumed was a knife. She had deep wounds in her head,

and it appeared that brain matter was visible. This was a brutal murder, and they knew that it would rock the community of Knoxville,

especially because their victim was a college-aged girl, and they had many universities and

post-high school programs located around them. But what the detectives feared more than fielding

phone calls from concerned parents was the fact that in the midst of America's satanic panic, their victim had a pentagram carved into her chest.

Police say the suspect, 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer, has confessed to the killings of 11 people

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