October 29, 2010

Shelley Duvall

I knew my grandma would be waking up and I still wanted him to stay with me so I strangled him … I brought him up to the bedroom and pretended he was still alive.

I took the knife and the scalp part off and peeled the flesh off the bone and kept the skull and the scalp … If I could have kept him longer, all of him, I would have.

I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex for each one, put in the upper portion of the body and boiled that for about two hours and then the lower portion for another two hours. The Soilex removes all the flesh, turns it into a jelly-like substance and it just rinses off. Then I laid the clean bones in a light bleach solution, left them for a day and spread them out on either newspaper or cloth and let them dry for about a week in the bedroom.—Jeffrey Dahmer