Suggesting they share a drink, Jeffrey Dahmer brought Hicks to his mother’s home in Bath Township, Ohio.
“The first killing was not planned,” Dahmer told Inside Edition in 1993, though he said he’d thought about picking up a hitchhiker and “controlling” him. But he claimed that he didn’t intend to kill Hicks. By that point, Dahmer, a recent high school graduate, had long fantasized about raping men. The story of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims starts with Steven Hicks, an 18-year-old hitchhiker on his way to a rock concert, who Dahmer picked up in Ohio. Public Domain Steven Hicks hitchhiked in the hopes of attending a concert, but he ended up becoming Jeffrey Dahmer’s victim.