Jeffrey Dahmer: Serial Killer

To begin, September of 1987, Dahmer found his second victim Steven Tuomi. Dahmer picked him up from a gay bar and took him back to a hotel room. When he woke up the following morning to Tuomi’s beaten dead body. He later testified that he had no remembrance of

This paper is a biography about Jeffery Dahmer, a notorious serial killer and sex offender. Mr. Dahmer was born on May 21st, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jeffery murdered a total of 17 men, while molesting some of these victims. His first murder victim was Steven Hicks back in 1978. His killing spree went from 1978 up until 1991. When he was seized, he was sentenced to fifteen consecutive life terms. But on November 28, 1994 Jeffery Dahmer was murdered by a fellow prison inmate by the name of Christopher Scarver.

After killing 17 men and sexually assaulting various men he got charged with 15 life sentences with no parole. Jeffrey Dahmer was able to stand trial for his crimes of murder and sexual assault. Dahmer got use to prison life fairly well, and was kept from the population. As he moved with the population a fellow inmate Christopher Scarver beat Dahmer down with a metal bar and he died on sustained

Jeffrey Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 in West Allis,Wisconsin. He and his parents, Lionel Dahmer and Joyce Annette, were an average american family who strived for the best. Jeffrey’s father was a graduate student who wanted to pursue a career as an analytical chemist. His mother worked as a teletype machine instructor. However, Jeffrey Dahmer’s mother was not a stable women. She had a history of psychological problems which meant that her son was susceptible to mental illness due to genetic factors. Growing up, Jeffrey had trouble with interacting with his peers. He also had a peculiar fascination with dead animals and “according to his father, his son was ‘oddly thrilled’ by the sound the bones made and instantly developed a fixation for playing with and collecting animal bones (“Jeffrey Dahmer” Wikipedia).” As he got older, he developed an addiction to alcohol. He started drinking heavily during high school which negatively affected his grades. Another issue that Dahmer faced in his early life was

Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men between the years of 1978 to 1991 in which he participated in necrophilia, dismemberment and cannibalism (Meyer, 2006). As a child, Dahmer was shy and suffered from low self-esteem. At a young age, Dahmer displayed abnormal behavior starting with the collecting of dead animals and using acid to strip off the meat having necrophilia desires. This escalated in his teen years turning into fantasies of killing and mutilating men. After graduating from high school, he was living alone and the feelings of abandonment returned giving him justification in his mind to commit crimes. Throughout his teens years he abused alcohol, which also lead to abnormal behavior. By the

Dahmer seemed like a very disorganized killer. He seemed much like a particular killer. Dahmer wasn’t very smart. He was below average intelligence, low or average birth status, was socially immature, and he seldom dated (Pringle). Dahmer hung out at gay bars and picked up homosexuals, particularly African-Americans. At the crime scenes, he left his victims dismembered. Dahmer would lead the victims back to his house, drug them, sexually assault the victims, and then dismember them. Dahmer would use acid to take away the skin from the skulls of the victims and then keep these skulls as trophies for his fantasies. Dahmer would also dismember the bodies of the victims and keep them in his apartment for safekeeping. When the police

Jeffery Dahmer is arguably the most notorious serial killer -cannibal in history. Targeting men and boys, Dahmer‘s life of crime began with drinking and sex offending. His murders were exceptionally gruesome, often involving rape, torture, necrophilia, dismemberment, and cannibalism. The media often commented on how “normal” Dahmer appeared. Jeffrey Dahmer made everyone question how one develops into such a monster. By the time of his apprehension, Dahmer had sodomized, murdered, and cannibalized at least seventeen men, mostly black, Hispanic or Asian, in the Milwaukee area between the years of 1978 until his arrest in 1991 (Williams pg.1).

Dahmer’s mother had pregnancy issues and took several different drugs to help; his mother was also extremely depressed--after a while, his mother developed an addiction to the drugs and abused them severely, which is extremely pernicious to the health, both physical and mental, of a growing fetus (Giannetakis). While growing up, Dahmer enjoyed to be by himself. He often took walks into the woods near his house. He would find dead animals and examine their innards; although he liked to dismember dead animals, he didn’t wish to inflict pain onto any living creature (Giannetakis).

Jeffrey Dahmer, a notorious serial killer and sex offender in Milwaukee, Wisconsin responsible for killing, dismembering, and consuming 17 male victims during 1978 to 1991. Jeff Dahmer was the child of Joyce and Lionel Dahmer; he was born May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dahmer’s father was a graduate student working on his masters in analytic chemistry, and his mother worked as a Teletype machine instructor. The marriage of Dahmer’s parents showed signs of early problems with continuous fighting. Joyce Dahmer suffered from extreme psychological issues such as depression, and anxiety. Jeffery’s mother attempted suicide when he was a young child. Growing up, Dahmer seemed to be a very happy child until age 6, where he had a surgery to

He last victim that ended the decades of killing, was Tracy Edwards. Dahmer lured Edwards into his residents and when Edwards saw the disturbing things Dahmer kept in his room, he escaped from the house and flagged down an officer. Upon arrival at Dahmer’s place they found photographs of remains, dismembered limbs, a heart in his freezer, a total of seven human skulls, and an alter made from candles and the human skulls in his closet. Dahmer was arrested and went to trial on January 30, 1992, were he plead not guilty and attempted to use the insanity plea. His efforts were very unsuccessful, and he was charged with 15 accounts of murder and was sentences to 957 years in prison. Dahmer began his sentence at Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin where he was beaten to death by an

Serial killers have fascinated the imaginations of people for a long time. One of the most notorious serial killers is Jeffrey Dahmer whose gruesome murders shocked the nation. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer also known as Milwaukee monster was a notorious American serial killer and sexual offender in the 1980s and early 1990s. Between 1978 and 1991 Dahmer had murdered 17 men. His victims were usually raped, tortured, dismembered, and cannibalism was also involved. Jeffrey was a troubled child psychologically and his social skills had a lot to be desired. All the way through his childhood he was ignored and had queer fantasies of cadavers. In his adulthood this psychosocial status quo didn 't change and was in fact aggravated.

As a child Jeffrey Dahmer was very gregarious, loveable, and jubilant. He lived a normal life alongside his parents Lionel and Joyce Dahmer in a small house in the forest near Bath, Ohio. It was not until a minor surgery to treat a double hernia he had at the age of six that his behavior started to change. The surgery may have been minor, however the damage created disturbing changes within him. After the surgery he became more reclusive and

It left him feeling open and exposed. Two years later at age six, Jeffrey’s little brother David was born. According to Jeffrey Dahmer’s Childhood, “though this did not have a dramatic effect on Dahmer’s life he stayed pretty much neutral to his brother's existence and they never became close (Jeffrey Dahmer's Childhood, The Web,1)”. After the birth of David, the Dahmer family had moved to Ohio. A few years later at age eight, he had been sexually molested by a neighbor boy. Although it was not reported until the probation officer entered Dahmer’s records. However, this terrible childhood incident may play a very vital role into Dahmer’s crimes that he committed later on. After this incident, his parents began to quarrel back and forth leading to their divorce (Jeffrey’s Senior year) but demonstrating that his home was “...no safe haven for a child.” (Jeffrey Dahmer's Childhood, The Web,2) “By age 10, Dahmer was experimenting with dead animals: decapitating rodents, bleaching chicken bones with acid, nailing a dog’s carcass to a tree and mounting its head on a stake. His parents worried but figured it was just a boy thing,”(Jeffrey Dahmer's Childhood, The Web,3.) In high school, he was very

After his first killing of Steven Hicks Dahmer craved more victims. He went on to kill a total of 17 men and young boys. Those males being Steven Hicks, Steven Tuomi, James Daxtator,

Jeffery Dahmer was known to be a very social kid up until the age of 6 when he underwent his hernia surgery that affected his personality negatively (Fink & Pont, 2012). When Jeffery turned eight his family moved to Ohio, which caused him to be insecure, and even more withdrawn (Fink & Pont, 2012) Throughout all of high-school Jeffery Dahmer was known to be an “out-cast”