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Jeffery Dahmer
Jeffery Dahmer Word Count: 1641 The serial killer that I chose to profile is Jeffery Dahmer. Dahmer brings both horrifying, yet amazing qualities to the table in the respect that he terrorized people, not only those that were his victims, but also people that lived both near and those around the country. Section I: Overview - Jeffery Dahmer - Born on May 21, 1960, at Evangelical Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Jeffery Dahmer was found beaten by fellow inmates on the morning of November 28, 1994, as was pronounced dead at 9:11 a.m. - Was given life imprisonment on 15 counts of murder committed in Wisconsin and one committed in Ohio, for which he was tried separately. He was sentenced to fifteen consecutive life terms for a total of 957 years in prison. - Jeffery Dahmer was always seen as very shy and isolated at an early age. Dahmer had fantasies about killing men and having sex with the corpses. Despite the early tendencies of his childhood, Dahmer didn’t act on any of these sexual fantasies until after he had graduated from highschool in June of 1978. Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker by the name of Steven Hicks, and eventually Hicks would be the first victim of Dahmer. Dahmer then enrolled at Ohio State University, only to flunk out within one semester. Next, Dahmer joined the army at the end of 1978, but was discharged for alcoholism and went to live in Florida before returning to Ohio. Dahmer was then arrested in October of 1981 for drunken and disorderly conduct, so his father sent him to live with his grandmother in West Allis, Wisconsin. Dahmer had a couple of sexual legal incidents, then kept cool for about four years. In 1987, Dahmer killed his second victim, Steven Toumi, and would go on a ravenous murder spree after that. - Victims were mainly homosexual men, mostly African-American - Dahmer was active from June 1978 to July 22, 1991 Section II: Childhood Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960, to Lionel and Joyce Dahmer. Dahmer was wanted and loved despite Joyce’s problems in pregnancy. Dahmer was a normal, healthy child that showed no signs of mental problems. When Dahmer was four, Lionel was sweeping under the house for small animals that had been killed by civets. As Lionel gathered the bones Dahmer was fascinated with the bones of the dead animals. When Dahmer was six, he suffered from a double hernia and needed surgery to correct the problem. After the surgery, Dahmer seemed to be emotionally scarred by it. It seemed as if he had been exposed by this surgery and couldn’t recover from it. By the time that Dahmer was in first grade, Lionel started to notice a change in the personality of the young boy. Dahmer had become very shy and showed a general lack of self-confidence. Jeff had become distant, whereas he use to be a very outgoing and friendly boy. By the age of fifteen, Jeff would ride around with plastic bags and collect the remains of animals for his own personal cemetery. He would strip the flesh from the bodies of dead animals that he had found. There is argument that he loved to torture animals, but that is unlikely because of the love of his own pets. The stripping of the dead animal’s flesh, but not any sort of harming his own animals showed Dahmer’s fascination with dead creatures. Dahmer became more introverted and isolated himself from the outside world. He was overcome with fantasies that would result in the emphasis of dead people and creatures as his main sexual desire. Dahmer’s parents always had trouble in their marriage, stemming mainly from Dahmer’s mother’s various physical ailments and her ability to be high strung, which were likely to come from a background in which her father’s alcoholism affected her greatly. Finally, these troubles in the marriage ended with divorce when Dahmer was eighteen. Section III: The Crimes and the Victims In my opinion, Dahmer was a disorganized killer because he was guilty of having most of the distinguishing qualities of that particular killer, rather than that of an organized serial killer. Dahmer was below average intelligence, ...This is ONLY a preview of the article. If you would like to view the entire document, you must subscribe to Electronic References. Please register below now! Get This Full Article After Registration
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