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Why Is Jeffrey Dahmer Wrong

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Jeffrey Dahmer did a horrible man who did horrible things. Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested and sentenced 15 consecutive life sentences and was forced to live in a mental institution for a year. From there he went to jail, and two years later was killed by his cellmate. Died on November 28, 1994, Jeffrey Dahmer killed 17 men and boys. Jeffrey Dahmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1960 where he lived with mother Joyce, and father Lionel. Dahmer had, what seemed to be, a normal childhood. He was a happy and energetic child until the age of four when he had a surgery for a double hernia. After the surgery something happened and Dahmer was no longer the same boy he was before. Dahmer’s mother gave birth to another boy, the family moved quite …show more content…

The person may have a mental disorder, or something neurologically wrong with them. For example, they could think that people are talking to them in their head and telling them to kill someone. A person could also have had a rough childhood which causes them to kill as a release of anger or sadness. A person could kill for revenge, money, alcohol, or drugs. Someone who kills has to have something wrong with them. Who can kill just someone for no reason? Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested on July, 22 1991 when other residents of the apartment building he was living in complained about a horrid smell coming from his apartment. When the police arrived, they immediately arrested Dahmer and searched his apartment. When they went through his apartment they found the genitals of 9 men and boys stuffed in containers in his fridge. There were also the skeletons of men and boys in his deep freeze. Dahmer pleaded guilty and was sentenced to fifteen consecutive life sentences. Dahmer also pleaded insanity for the murders of 17 men and boys. He was required to be admitted to a mental institution for two years. Two years after being in jail, Dahmer’s cellmate, Christopher Scarver, fatally beat Dahmer. Scarver was Dahmer’s cellmate and also a murderer. Scarver also killed another inmate named Jesse Anderson. Dahmer was 34 years old when he was murdered. He lived from May 21, 1960 to November 28,

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