Jeremiah Benjamin Weinberger was a 23-year-old Hispanic/Latino man of Puerto Rican descent who disappeared from Chicago during the first weekend of July 1991 after leaving Carol’s Speakeasy in Old Town. He had been living in Chicago and worked in customer service for a video business; family and friends described him as organized, attentive to his appearance, interested in art, and close to his family.

Investigators say Weinberger left Chicago with Jeffrey Dahmer and went by Greyhound to Milwaukee, where Dahmer brought him to an apartment at the Oxford Apartments on North 25th Street. According to Dahmer’s later statements and the prosecution, Weinberger was drugged, subjected to a cranial assault that ultimately caused his death on or about July 7, 1991, and was thereafter decapitated and dismembered. His head was kept in a freezer and parts of his torso stored in a 57-gallon drum.

Dahmer was arrested on July 22, 1991, after another man escaped and led police to the apartment; Weinberger was later identified through dental records. Prosecutors charged Dahmer with Weinberger’s murder among others; Dahmer admitted responsibility, pled guilty while asserting mental disease or defect, was found legally sane, and received consecutive life sentences.