Editing Jeffrey Dahmer (section)

===Indictment===
On July 25, 1991, Dahmer was charged with four counts of [[first-degree murder]]. By August 22, he had been charged with a further eleven murders committed in Wisconsin.{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=11}} On September 14, investigators in Ohio, having uncovered hundreds of bone fragments in woodland behind the address in which Dahmer had confessed to killing his first victim, formally identified two [[molar (tooth)|molars]] and a [[vertebral column|vertebra]] with X-ray records of Hicks.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19910914&id=uPVHAAAAIBAJ&pg=4324,3674325|title=Bones Identified at Dahmer Home|work=[[The Victoria Advocate]]|publisher=Victoria Advocate Publishing|location=Victoria, Texas|date=September 14, 1991|access-date=April 29, 2018|archive-date=January 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122034043/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19910914&id=uPVHAAAAIBAJ&pg=4324%2C3674325|url-status=live}}</ref> Three days later, Dahmer was charged by authorities in Ohio with Hicks' murder.<ref>{{cite news|first=Rogers|last=Worthington|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-08-07-9103260555-story.html|title=Dahmer Polite In Court As New Charges Are Filed|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|publisher=[[Tronc]]|location=Chicago, Illinois|date=August 7, 1991|access-date=April 29, 2018|archive-date=October 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001043319/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-08-07-9103260555-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Dahmer was not charged with the [[attempted murder]] of Edwards,{{sfn|Masters|1993|p=11}} nor with the murder of Tuomi.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1893&dat=19920114&id=VMQfAAAAIBAJ&pg=1165,1695178|title=Dahmer Enters Insanity Plea|work=The Southeast Missourian|access-date=February 19, 2021|date=January 14, 1992|archive-date=April 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220424202744/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1893&dat=19920114&id=VMQfAAAAIBAJ&pg=1165,1695178|url-status=live}}</ref> He was not charged with Tuomi's murder because the [[district attorney]] only brought charges where murder could be proven beyond a [[reasonable doubt]]{{sfn|Dvorchak|Holewa|1992|p=56}} and Dahmer had no memory of actually committing this particular murder, for which no [[real evidence|physical evidence]] of the crime existed.{{sfn|Dvorchak|Holewa|1992|p=56}} At a scheduled [[hearing (law)|preliminary hearing]] on January 13, 1992,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hPohAAAAIBAJ&pg=3446,5821944&|title=Dahmer: Guilty, Insane|work=[[Reading Eagle]]|agency=Associated Press|date=January 13, 1992|access-date=December 5, 2013|via=Google News|archive-date=July 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715155823/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hPohAAAAIBAJ&pg=3446%2C5821944|url-status=live}}</ref> Dahmer pleaded [[insanity defense|guilty but insane]] to 15 counts of murder.{{sfn|Dahmer|1994|pp=209–210}}