The Killers Of Jeffery Dahmer As A Serial Killer

Killers have been roaming across the world for hundreds of thousands of years. Society outlaws murder, yet people keep on killing. Among these people who take somebody else’s life, there are serial killers. A serial killer is somebody who commits a series of murders, sometimes with no motive, but usually a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern left behind the crime scene. Serial killing is psychological, someone to be labeled as a serial killer is to have a psychological motive for taking life. Some of the greatest serial killers to have wandered America, searching for their prey are Ted Bundy, H.H. Holmes (Hermman Webster Mudgett), John Gacy, and perhaps the most notorious killer from Wisconsin, Jeffery Dahmer. Jeffery Dahmer,

Dahmer’s timeline of killing and terror was from1978 through 1991. When Dahmer was arrested, the media captured every single step, every little thing that he did. Jeffery Dahmer was sensationalized and then dehumanized by the media and people of the United States by the time of his capture in 1991. Dahmer became the national headline. Six months prior to Dahmer’s incarceration, the legendary movie “The Silence of the Lambs” came to the screen with serial killer Hannibal Lector being the focus on the minds of teenagers and young adults. Dahmer and Lector had been connected immediately when the “Wisconsin cannibal” was captured, being Dahmer. There is a comparison and a fascination with serial killers among the American people such as “Silence of the Lambs” character Hannibal Lector and real-life serial killer Jeffery Dahmer, along with other murderers that are interesting to society; people are enthralled with these killers, the way they think and why they do it, yet the populous call them “monsters”, it is obvious that society dehumanizes these executioners because people can see themselves as monsters on the inside, but some people cannot keep

“The Silence of the Lambs” was a movie in 1991, right before the Jeffery Dahmer capture, about a young FBI trainee assigned to interview an incarcerated serial killer Hannibal Lector. There was a serial killer on the loose which could be tied back the Lector, he had known the active killer. To get information, the viewer was struck with the reality of a serial killer and what they think, degrading every potential victim in their way. When Agent Clarice Starling was first assigned to interview Lector, she talked to another agent who had interrogated Lector earlier; she soon briefly realized from the original agent that Lector was a, “a monster, a psychopath, we were surprised to had catch him…you could say that Lector has become a prized asset for the FBI” (Demme). Right in the beginning of the movie, the viewers already know what they are getting into. Lector has been described as hard to catch in a way that he had been a squirrel being chased through the woods. In that same sentence, the agent described Lector as the FBI’s prized asset, or possession. At this point, Lector is not a human who had been