Jeffrey Dahmer Research Papers

Notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 21, 1960, into the household of Lionel and Joyce Dahmer. He was a mostly happy child until the age of 6, when a minor surgery to correct a double hernia seemed to effect a change in him. Following Dahmer’s surgery he became violent and self-conscious. His brother was also born a day after. Dahmer felt as if his parents favored his norther over him.

Around this same time, a career opportunity for his father came about. It resulted in the family moving to Ohio. This just made his insecurities worse. By his early teens he was disengaged, tense, and mostly friendless. He remained this way up until his first murder, when he was only 18. His first victim was a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks. Dahmer took the young man back to his parent’s house where he proceeded to get him drunk. As soon as Hicks tried to leave, Dahmer killed him with a blow to the head from a barbell. He dismembered the body and buried it in plastic bags behind his parent’s house. Dahmer would not kill again for 9 years.

Dahmer’s alcohol consumption began to spin out of control when he was only 19. In January, 1979, after only one term at Ohio State University, he dropped out due to

He was kept apart from the general population at first but he eventually convinced authorities to allow him to be with the other inmates. He found religion in the form of books he received from his father, and was even baptized by a local preacher. On November 28, 1994, he was assigned to work with two other prisons. One was a white supremacist convicted for murder. The other, an African American who was also serving a life sentence for murder. The guards left the 3 alone for only twenty minutes, they were shocked when they returned to find Dahmer and the white supremacists heads crushed in. Christopher Scarver (the African American) had crushed their heads in with a metal bar from the prison weight