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Date Posted: 17:49:11 07/03/03 Thu
Author: Mr. Lyle Odimar
Subject: We forgot to celebrate May 12, 1994 !!! Maybe Scott will help us!

Gosh golly! I forgot that blessed event in May, so busy was I reupholstering the benches in the gazebo at the Looper Trailer Rancho with a zesty mango colored vinyl. Here is the story, btw, the mango vinyl is waterproof just in case this story makes you puke:

Dahmer Is Baptized In Prison Tub
[The Milwaukee Sentinel, front page with color photo, 12 May 94]
by Steven Walters, Sentinel Madison Burear

Madison -- A Madison minister said Wednesday he baptized convicted serial killer Jeffrey L. Dahmer in a state prison whirlpool Tuesday afternoon.

Roy Ratcliff, 47, said he, Dahmer, the prison chaplain and two guards walked from Dahmer's cell area down a long hall about 2p.m. Tuesday to the prison infirmary, where Dahmer was baptized by immersion.

The whirlpool at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, where Dahmer is serving 15 life terms, was filled for Tuesday's ceremony, Ratcliff said.

Baptism by immersion requires that the celebrant be dunked under water, signifying that person's cleansing of sins and new relationship with God.

An assistant to the prison warden confirmed the baptism took place, but said no further details would be released.

"It's a personal matter," the official said.

Ratcliff, minister of the 100-member Church of Christ, said he began making plans to baptize Dahmer after a one-hour meeting April 20.

Ratcliff said he believes Dahmer made a true spiritual decision to be baptized.

Dahmer "was able to convince me this was not just a gag. It was something he felt and believed in," Ratcliff said.

"I was convinced that he wanted God in his life," Ratcliff said of their April meeting.

They met "in a little room with just a table and a couple of chairs," and Dahmer said he wanted his "sins washed away" by renewing his personal relationship with Jesus Christ, Ratcliff said.

Convinced of Dahmer's sincerity, Ratcliff said, he will begin meeting with Dahmer at 1:30p.m. Wednesdays, starting next week, to read and study the Bible together.

Ratcliff said both he and Dahmer were nervous during their first meeting.

"You're a little bit anxious about it," Ratcliff said. "I had no idea what his thinking was."

Ratcliff said he was asked to baptize Dahmer by Mary H. Mott, an Arlington, Va., woman who called him after she sent Dahmer 12 Bible correspondence lessons in mid-March.

After seeing a televised interview with Dahmer and his father, Mott, 69, said she concluded "that young man dowsn't know anything except evil." Dahmer has confessed to killing 17 young men and boys.

Mott said she then called the prison, was told by a guard how to send materials to Dahmer and sent him a Bible and the 12 "World Bible School" correspondence school lessons.

On April 1, Mott said, Dahmer typed her a note, thanked her for the Bible and the study lessons, and added:

"I want to accept the Lord. Would you please try to find someone to bring a baptistry tank to the prison?"

In that letter, Dahmer also signed a statement acknowledging that he wanted to accept Christ, Mott said.

When she got that letter, Mott said, "I got on the phone again."

"God forgives all sins," said Mott, who retured in 1975 after a 32-year career with the Defense Department. "God does not consider one sin greater than the other."

Mott said she first called a Baraboo-area minister, who explained that he was moving from the area and gave her Ratcliff's name.

Mott said Dahmer also sent her the completed Bible study lessons, which she "graded."

"He did very well," she said of the lessons. "He had to miss two or three (questions), out of 12 lessons."

After returning from the April 20 meeting with Dahmer, Ratcliff said, he began working with prison officials on whether a baptistry tank could be shipped into the maximum-security prison.

When prison officials offered the whirlpool, Ratcliff said, he and Dahmer agreed.

Mott said Ratcliff phoned her after Tuesday's ceremony.

"It was just real exciting," she said. "It's all to glorify God."

In his career as a minister and evangelist, Ratcliff said, he has baptized people "in rivers and creeks," but never anyone "so well-known."

Dahmer "seemed to understand very clearly what needed to be done," Ratcliff added.

Praise God! Jeffrey Dahmer is in heaven with Jesus and the angels. Of course, those faggoty boys he raped, murdered, and then ate are all deservedly in hell with Satan. Just think of it: We'll all be at the marriage supper of the Lamb with Jeffrey Dahmer!!

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"'You're a little bit anxious about it," Ratcliff said. '"I had no idea what his thinking was.'" Was he on a blind date? (NT) -- Kathy, 08:31:16 07/04/03 Fri