Sinthasomphone: Who's To Blame?

Anthony Sears was an African-American man who is renown for being Jeffrey Dahmer’s fifth victim. He was bisexual and he met Jeffrey at a gay club. Jeffrey brought him back to his grandmother’s house and proceeded to have sex. He then gave Anthony a drink to put him to sleep. Once he fell asleep, he killed him then dismembered the body. He kept the penis and head as trophies. He then painted the skull grey and disposed the remains in the garbage.

Just to give it a thought, often times when people make a mistake in the past they do not want to remember it in any way shape or form. Therefore, when being asked about their past they will not give clear answers. Hecht, Faulkner, Metts, and Cupach all believe that, “The revealing of identity through communicative enactment (the third frame) can either be directly or indirectly communicated to others” (Henson and Olson 343). This supports the fact that in Dahmers’ interview he was indirectly communicating with the interviewer, which explains the reason why Dahmer did not give definite answers to Phillips questions. When talking about his first killing Dahmer admits that he put sleeping pills in his victims drink, but when talking about how he killed the first victim he says, “I have no memory of beating him to death” (12:08). Dahmer does know how he killed his first victim but he just does not want to speak about how he murdered his first victim because through indirect communication he is conveying that he didn’t want to explain what his emotions were during the time he felt like sexually assaulting the victim. It is also quite intriguing how Dahmer knows that the interviewers know that he is nechrophillic but despite knowing that he is adamant on not speaking about his sexual

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

In May of 1990, he moved out of his grandmother’s house and into the apartment that later became notorious for his killings. He committed four more murders before the end of 1990 and two more in April of 1991, and another in May of 1991 (answers.com). On May 27, 1991, 14 year old Konerak Sinthasomphone was seen on the street, wandering naked, obviously under the influence of drugs and bleeding heavily. Two females from the neighborhood spotted him and called 911. Dahmer approached and tried to convince the women he was ok and attempted to take the boy away. The women stopped him until police arrived. Dahmer told responding police the Konerak was his 19 year old boyfriend and they had an argument while drinking. The police were convinced of Dahmer’s story and they released the boy back to him against the two women’s will. Later that night, Dahmer killed and dismembered Konerak’s body and kept his skull as a souvenir (answers.com). In this particular murder, Dahmer was also guilty of false imprisonment and kidnapping. The 14 year old boy Konerak was attempting to escape from Dahmer until he convinced the police that everything was ok and proceeded to take the drugged boy back with him. At this point kidnapping took place because Konerak was restricted from

He was a major alcoholic and was forced to join the army by his father which he hated and left. After he left his drinking got worse. Then he went out to party and got hookups all the time with dudes. The amazing Jeffrey Dahmer not only got his victims drunk and drugged and raped them, he murdered them then cut them up, ate certain body parts and kept the genitals for sex toys, because it gave him ’power’ also take pictures and masturbate to the photos. Murdered 17 males starting at June 6, 1978 and he was 18, his last victim was in July 19,1991 and he was 31.

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

When Dahmer woke up from the anesthesia, he was worried that someone could have cut his genitals. After his extremely long recovery period, Dahmer became more and more of a loner. While all this was going on with Dahmer, his mother was slipping further into depression and her drug addictions were quickly increasing. Dahmer and his family moved to Ohio after his father had completed his doctorate. Dahmer was subjected to overhearing his parents’ many arguments.

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

Once Dahmer convinced Tracy Edwards, a thirty-two-year-old man to accompany Dahmer to his place. The case of Tracy Edwards was a lucky victim who managed to escape from Dahmer and who told the police his whole story. When police officers went to Dahmer apartment, he was very calm, and he allowed the officers to enter like he had done nothing. Police officers then searched his apartment and found a skull in refregirator, As mentioned in the article” Bob there’s a fucking head in the refrigerator”(32). He felt no guilt for cutting these people. He would take pictures of dead victims and keep those pictures, to improve his fantasy and sick desire. He was

Jeffrey Dahmer stated that the flesh would be kept in acid from one to two weeks to decompose, and become “jelly”. This relates to the documentary because it described one of the many ways Dahmer would keep his murders a secret. Dahmer’s documentary also opened the conversation of child predators, which Dahmer was, he prayed on all age’s not just older men, but younger men. He got away with it multiple times, the documentary discusses how child predators usually kill their victims in fear they will go, and tell on their predator. In 1988, Dahmer lured a young man to his home, but let him free due to his grandmother, whom he lived with at the time, arriving home earlier. In this case one of Dahmer’s youngest victim, Konerak Sinthasomphone, whom was the younger brother of a male that Dahmer lured into his home in 1988 before his grandmother interrupted, was drugged and taken into Dahmer’s home.

My Friend Dahmer explores the beginnings of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s mental sickness and how, though he tries to suppress his tendencies, he