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In treatment. >> we're not criminalizing their mental illness, which is what we've done in this country. >> reporter: unfortunately, getting the mentally ill help is not enough. army veteran franklin rosario had been in treatment for months when -- >> sir, you may not possess any firearms. do you understand that? >> yes, your honor. >> reporter: at this hearing, he convinced the judge to let him go home. days later, he committed suicide, stabbing himself to death. but the judge's programs have many more success stories. like this man. >> justin is amazing. he was a chef at a nice restaurant on...

His first murder, bludgeoning a 19-year-old hitchhiker with a ten-pound barbell. then dissecting his victim's body in the crawl space of his parent's home. and burying the remains in a shallow grave. after the murder, jeffrey dahmer dropped out of college, began living at home without a job, and continued drinking heavily. his father urged him to enlist in the army. >> he doesn't have an occupation of any kind. he's not trained for anything. so how about trying the army for a while? >> reporter: less than three years after joining the army, dahmer was kicked out for excessive drinking. >> we h...

Mental illness out of jail and in treatment. >> we're not criminalizing their mental illness, which is what we've done in this country. >> reporter: unfortunately, getting the mentally ill help is not enough. army veteran franklin rosario had been in treatment for months when -- >> sir, i'm ordering that you may not possess any firearms, do you understand that? >> yes, your honor. >> reporter: at this hearing, he convinced the judge to let him go home. days later, he committed suicide, stabbing himself to death. but the judge's programs have many more success stories. like this man. >> justin ...

A while? >> reporter: less than three years after joining the army, dahmer was kicked out for excessive drinking. >> we had to do something. so we sent him to my mother's in milwaukee, wisconsin. >> reporter: that's when his behavior changed, from strange to bizarre. >> for a period of time he was sleeping with a male mannequin in his grandmother's home in wisconsin, pretending in his mind, that it was a corpse. >> reporter: while dahmer was living with his grandmother, he continued abusing alcohol. his father enrolled him in a treatment program. but the psychologist working with dahmer refuse...

Concerns as soon as you got there? >> as i'm pulling up to the scene, there's a private school across the street. >> reporter: the police special response team surrounding the area, as millian begins talking to rosario. >> he had on body armor when i was talking to him through the window. i saw the butt of a rifle. so i knew danger was there. >> reporter: and he knew rosario suffered from mental illness. he's a combat army veteran 100% disabled, who suffers from ptsd, schizophrenia, bipolar and depression. it's unlikely he's taking his medication. give me an idea of his state of mind. >> he wa...