Ernest Miller was a 23-year-old Black man from Chicago who traveled to Milwaukee for the 1990 Labor Day weekend to visit relatives. Primary records place his disappearance and killing in the early hours of September 3, 1990; family members said he arrived on September 1 and left in the early morning hours of September 3. FBI records note he was last seen leaving a friend’s residence at about 1:30 a.m. and was reported missing the following day.

According to a criminal complaint and Jeffrey Dahmer’s statements to investigators, Dahmer encountered Miller outside a bookstore on North 27th Street, offered him money to go to Apartment 213 at 924 North 25th Street, and brought him back to the apartment. Dahmer later said he drugged Miller, cut his throat near the carotid artery, photographed and dismembered the body, retained Miller’s biceps in a freezer, and kept and altered the skull.

Miller was named in amended charges accusing Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer of first-degree intentional homicide around September 3, 1990. The killing of Miller became one of the cases prosecuted with other murders; Dahmer was found legally sane by a Milwaukee jury and later sentenced to consecutive life terms. If anyone knew Ernest Miller, his movements in Milwaukee that Labor Day weekend, or remembers seeing him, please share what might help investigators or researchers.