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Who Is Jeffrey Dahmer?

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Jeffrey Dahmer was born in Wisconsin in the March of 1960 (Biography.com, 2016). He was an energetic and cheerful child until age four when he needed surgery to fix a double hernia (Biography.com, 2016). After the surgery he had a new personality in a negative way (Biography.com, 2016). Around the age sixteen, his parent’s marriage was broken and they got a divorce, however, Jeffrey claimed his obsession of necrophilia and murder began around age 14 (Biography.com, 2016). In 1978 when he graduated from high school, he picked up Stephen Hicks, who was hitchhiking, and took him home where Jeffrey decided to get Stephen drunk (Biography.com, 2016). When Stephen tried to leave, Jeffrey struck him in the head and strangled him with a barbell (Biography.com, …show more content…

Both Jeffrey and Steven checked into a hotel room and drank a lot (Biography.com, 2016). After a while, Jeffrey woke up to find Steven dead but had no memory of the previous night; so he bought a large suitcase to take Steven’s body to his grandmother's basement, where he butchered and masturbated on Steven’s corpse before got rid of the evidence (Biography.com, 2016). Jeffrey’s killing spree lasted a little over 13 years (Biography.com, 2016). Jeffrey looked mostly for African-American men wherever he could, lured them home with empty promises of money or sex, and drugged their alcohol so he could strangle them to death (Biography.com, 2016). He would participate in necrophilia before butchering his victims then disposing of them, except he would keep their genitals or skulls as trophies (Biography.com, 2016). He took pictures of his victims throughout the whole crime so he could go back to relive his experience (Biography.com, 2016). In 1991, two police officers picked up Tracy Edwards, a 32-year-old African American man who was wandering the streets with a handcuff dangling from his wrist, who claimed a man had drugged and restrained him (Biography.com, …show more content…

When the trial was over on February 15, 1992, Jeffrey was sentenced to sixteen consecutive life sentences. On November 24, 1994 Jeffrey was beaten to death in prison by another convicted murderer (Biography.com, 2016). Aileen Wuornos was born on in 1956 in Michigan (Biography.com, 2015). Aileen had a horrifying experience during her childhood (Biography.com, 2015). Her father committed suicide in prison where he was serving time for child molestation, and her mother left her and her older brother Keith to be raised by their grandparents even though their grandmother was an extreme alcoholic and their grandfather was very violent (Biography.com, 2015). When Aileen was older, she claimed that her grandfather sexually abused her and had sexual relations with her brother (Biography.com, 2015). Shortly thereafter, Aileen was forced to leave her home so he raised herself in the woods (Biography.com, 2015). She eventually became a hitchhiker and a prostitute just to survive (Biography.com, 2015). She was arrested in the 1970 for assault and disorderly conduct charges (Biography.com, 2015). Thereafter, she moved to Florida where she met Lewis Fell (Biography.com, 2015). Aileen and Lewis were married in 1976, but Lewis annulled the union soon after (Biography.com,

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