Jeffery Dahmer: Serial Killer

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Born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffery Dahmer became front-page news on July 22, 1991, after the local police linked him with the murders of seventeen young boys. Growing up Jeffery lived with his parents Lionel and Joyce Dahmer. He was a happy child always laughing and very active, until he turned four. Jeffery underwent surgery for a double hernia and began to feel subconscious after seeing the doctors examine his body, since he did not know what was going on. When Jeffery turned ten things got worse, he began to lose interest in hobbies and social interaction with other people. As Dahmer headed to high school he found new interests that including dead animals and heavy drinking. Following high school his drinking created a problem for him, so his dad enlisted him into the army. But long after he was kicked out for alcoholism. He was then forced to live with his grandma, that’s when his behavior became increasingly strange. His fascination with dead animals continued, dissecting and dissolving animals in his grandma basement. In the summer of 1978 Dahmer committed his first murder and from there things got worse. He began to dismember his victims and engage in sexual intercourse after they were dead. In the summer of 1988 …show more content…

Dahmer forced Edwards into the bathroom with a butcher knife, with a struggle Edwards was able to escape and contact police. When they arrived to Jeffery’s apartment they found multiple pictures of dead bodies and dismembered limb, with that evidence they arrested him. With further investigation they found severed heads in a refrigerator, human hearts, and other human remains. It was later stated that aside from practicing necrophilia on his victims he also engaged in cannibalism. In 1992 Jeffery Dahmer was convicted on all seventeen murders and was sentenced to fifteen life terms. But during his time in prison Dahmer was killed in 1994 by an

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