Errol Lindsey was a 19-year-old Black man from Milwaukee whose life ended on April 7, 1991, after an encounter with Jeffrey Dahmer. Lindsey’s sister said she last saw him when he left to go to a store that day. Dahmer later told investigators he met Lindsey near 27th Street and Kilbourn Avenue, offered him money to come to his apartment at 924 North 25th Street, and gave him a sedative-laced drink. Investigators say Dahmer drilled into Lindsey’s skull and introduced hydrochloric acid in an experiment intended to leave a victim alive but submissive; Lindsey regained consciousness, was given more drugs, then strangled. Dahmer dismembered the body, later kept Lindsey’s skull and reportedly removed and temporarily retained portions of his skin.

Lindsey’s disappearance went unresolved until July 22, 1991, when Tracy Edwards escaped Dahmer’s apartment and led police back to evidence that prompted Dahmer’s arrest. Dental records identified Lindsey; his identification was publicly reported July 26, 1991. Prosecutors charged Dahmer with first-degree intentional homicide for Lindsey’s death; he pleaded guilty to 15 Milwaukee-area murders on January 13, 1992, and after a sanity phase the jury rejected an insanity defense. On February 17, 1992, Judge Laurence Gram Jr. imposed 15 consecutive life sentences.