Hughes, Tony

Deaf from early childhood; graduated the Wisconsin School for the Deaf. Active in the Milwaukee gay community, he disappeared in May 1991. In late July of that year, a police raid on a Milwaukee apartment discovered the dismembered remains of several gay men, including Tony Hughes, the only deaf victim of serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer had picked up Hughes in a gay bar, using written notes to lure Hughes to Dahmer's apartment. Hughes was the 13th of Dahmer's 17 murders.