Jeffrey Dahmer's Cuban-Born Inmate Reveals the Real Reason Why He Tried to Kill Milwaukee's Terrifying Cannibal Serial Killer

The Cuban-born inmate, who tried to kill Jeffrey Dahmer in prison, said he had no regrets about his decision to slash the throat of Milwaukee's terrifying cannibal serial killer and would do it again if he had the chance.

Osvaldo Durruthy, 65, recently sat down with the Daily Mail and talked about his failed attempt to kill Dahmer before a fellow inmate murdered the serial killer. Durruthy admitted that he does not regret his action even though he earned additional time in prison for it.

The Cuban-born convict was serving a 31-year sentence on drug and firearm offenses, and he was given an additional five years to his sentence after he tried to take Dahmer's life by slashing his throat with a razor blade.

"I don't have an ounce of regret on what I did to Jeffrey Dahmer. I tried to kill him, and I failed. I don't even regret having to spend an extra five years in prison... And I'm glad someone else got him," Osvaldo Durruthy told the outlet.

Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered, raped, and dismembered 17 men and boys in Milwaukee, Wisconsin between 1978 and 1991, is considered one of America's most notorious serial killers. His gruesome crimes included cannibalism and necrophilia.

Cuban-Born Convict Osvaldo Durruthy on Killing Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer

During the interview, Osvaldo Durruthy also revealed how he plotted to kill Jeffrey Dahmer for years. He said he even pretended to be mentally ill in order to get transferred to the same prison where the serial killer was incarcerated.

After being sentenced to 31 years for possessing drugs and a firearm in 1992, the Cuban-born convict was sent to prison in Waupun, Wisconsin.

Around the same time, he had heard of Dahmer and his crimes and learned that the serial killer was serving his sentence at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin.

He then became obsessed with killing the murderer to "make up for the bad things" he had done. The Cuban-born refugee said he acted crazy and took pills as part of his plan to be transferred to the mental health facility for prisoners, where Dahmer was incarcerated.

After more than two years, Durruthy managed to get diagnosed with schizophrenia and was transferred to a Columbia's cell next to Dahmer in June 1994.

As a weapon for killing Dahmer, the Cuban-born convict made a four-inch shank by pulling out the blades in his prison razor and attaching them to an old toothbrush handle. He hid the weapon in his sock and attacked Dahmer during a prisoner church service on July 1994. However, Durruthy said the shank broke.

"I stood up, with my left arm, I put Dahmer in a headlock, and with my right hand, I began to slash his throat with the razor shank. I was slashing him back and forth as fast as I could. After a few slashes, the shank broke. It wasn't strong enough. It fell out of my hand onto the floor," he noted.

Still in a headlock, Durruthy said he started punching Dahmer in the face as "many times" as he could before the prison guards jumped in and broke them up. Dahmer was then sent to the prison hospital ward for shallow lacerations treatment, while Durruthy was placed into solitary confinement.

After 25 years in jail, the Cuban-born convict was paroled in 2016. He now lives in an apartment in a city near Madison, Wisconsin, with his 38-year-old son and two grandchildren.

Dahmer was killed in prison by another inmate five months after Durruthy's failed attempt to murder the serial killer. Christopher Scarver, who was serving a life sentence for murder, beat Dahmer to death with a metal bar in November 1994.

"I really tried to kill him. I'm glad Dahmer is dead. Maybe when word got out that I tried to kill him, it gave other inmates ideas," the Cuban-born inmate said.

Durruthy had already spent five years in a Cuban prison for pickpocketing before he arrived in the U.S. He came to the U.S. during the Mariel boatlift or the mass emigration of thousands of Cubans in 1980.

Osvaldo Durruthy was sent to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin to be processed after he arrived in America. He said he also wanted to kill Jeffrey Dahmer because "he ate people," and it was also for his family and the Black community.

Victims of Milwaukee's Terrifying Cannibal Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer

Most of Jeffrey Dahmer's victims were Black. His other victims also included an Asian and a Latino. Richard Guerrero was the only Hispanic among his victims.

According to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Guerrero, 25, was the fourth victim of Dahmer, who was called the "Milwaukee cannibal" or the "Milwaukee monster."

The young man from a family of Mexican descent went missing in March 1988, and his sister, Janie Hagen, immediately assumed he was dead because he never called their mom to let her know everything was okay.

She said her brother always called their mom, even when he was in trouble with the law. Hagen believed that police did not take them seriously because they were Hispanic.

Speaking to Dahmer in Spanish during the trial, Hagen called the serial killer "diablo, el puro diablo," which translates to "devil, the pure devil."

Dahmer confessed that he met Guerrero outside a bar in Milwaukee and offered him money in exchange for letting him take nude photos.

The serial killer said he drugged Guerrero before strangling him with a leather strap and having sex with his corpse. Guerrero's remains were never found. Authorities believed that Dahmer had dismembered his body.

Aside from Guerrero, Jeffrey Dahmer's other victims were Steve Hicks, 18; Steven Tuomi, 25; James Doxtator, 14; Anthony Sears, 24; Raymond Smith, 32; Edward Smith, 27; Ernest Miller, 22; David Thomas, 22; Curtis Straughter, 17; Errol Lindsey, 19; Tony Hughes, 31; Konerak Sinthasomphone, 14; Matt Turner, 20; Jeremiah Weinberger, 23; Oliver Lacy, 24; and Joseph Bradehoft, 25.

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Written by: Rick Martin

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