Jeffrey Dahmer Thesis

Jeffrey Dahmer

"My consuming lust was to experience their bodies. I viewed them as objects, as strangers. It is hard for me to believe a human being could have done what I've done (Dahmer)." Jeffrey Dahmer was a narcissist, a necrophiliac, somewhat of a sadist and a cannibal. In many ways he fit a typical sexual serial killer profile, but in some ways he didn’t. 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 (Anonymous, 2010).

Jeffrey Dahmer was born in Milwaukee on May 21, 1960, to Lionel and Joyce Dahmer. Despite the difficulties of Joyce's pregnancy, he was wanted and adored

He has been struggling with his mind for several years now. His own homosexual desires, mixed with his need to act out his sadistic fantasies is what pushed him to commit his first murder. He picked up hitchhiker, 19-year-old Steven Hicks. Dahmer invited Steven to his father's home and the two drank beer and had sex, but when Hicks decided to leave Dahmer bashed him in the head with a barbell and killed him. He then proceeded to dismembering the body, placing the parts in a garbage bag and burying them in his father’s back yard (unknown). Dahmer said "I was completely swept along with my own compulsion. I don't know how else to put it. It didn't satisfy me completely, so maybe I was thinking, 'Maybe another one will. Maybe this one will.' And the numbers started growing and growing and just got out of control.” As you can see, this was only the begging of Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer killing spree.

For the next six years Jeffrey lived with his grandmother in West Allis, Wisconsin. During these six years he encounters the police several times and His consumption of alcohol heavily increases (Anonymous, 2010).In August 1982, he was arrested after exposing himself to a couple of young boys at a state fair. He was arrested again in September 1986 for masturbating in public; he got 10 months in jail. Shortly after his released he was arrested for the 3rd time for touching inappropriately a 13 year old boy in his home town. He was given five-years

He was not charged in the attempted murder of Edwards. His trial began on January 30, 1992. With evidence

overwhelmingly against him, Dahmer pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity (Montaldo).

The trial lasted two weeks, he was found sane and guilty on 15 counts of murder and sentenced him to 15 life terms, totaling 957 years in prison. At the end of his sentencing he calmly read his 4 page statement and apologized for his crimes (Montaldo). He ended with,

"I hated no one. I knew I was sick or evil or both. Now I believe I was sick. The doctors have told me about my sickness, and now I have some peace. I know how much harm I have caused... Thank God there will be no more harm that I can do. I believe that only the Lord Jesus Christ can save me from my sins... I ask for no consideration."

Dahmer served his time at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin, where he ultimately declared himself a born-again Christian (Montaldo). Dahmer and inmate Jesse Anderson were beaten to death by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver while working in the prisons gym, on November 28, 1994. Dahmer died of severe head trauma while on his way to the hospital