Arguments Against Dahmer Insane

heartbeat and told Edwards that he would eat Edward’s heart. Edwards convinced Dahmer to stop and drink beer with him on the couch. When Dahmer was losing concentration Edwards punched Dahmer in the face and he ran for the front door. Edwards then flagged down two Milwaukee police officers and told them that Dahmer had held him prisoner. The police accompanied Edwards to Dahmer’s apartment. Dahmer said that he did put the handcuffs on Edwards and he told the police where the handcuff keys were. The officer Mueller found the keys and a collection of pictures of human bodies in stages of dismemberment. After dahmer saw the police with the pictures he fought to avoid arrest and was easily overpowered and had handcuffs placed on. Mueller then found

The defence argued that Dahmer was mentally ill was compulsed to kill. The defence stated that Dahmer was insane because of his necrophilia. The prosecution rejected the defence because they thought that Dahmer was not a necrophilia because he tried to create a submissive sexual partner with muriatic acid. Psychiatrist Park Dietz did not believe Dahmer was suffering from a mental illness because Dahmer tried to get his victim alone and he had prepared evidence, like pictures, of his victims, so he was not impulse killing. Forensic psychiatrist George Palermo believed that Dahmer murdered because of pent up aggression toward himself and he killed men because he wanted to kill the source of his homosexual attraction to them. Palermo believed Dahmer was not insane. Psychiatrist Samuel Friedman believed that Dahmer killed out of compassion. The trial of Dahmer lasted two weeks, the closing arguments happened on February 14. The defence told the jury that all the psychiatrist concluded that Dahmer did indeed have a mental

Dahmer was known as the Milwaukee Cannibal. In 1979, Dahmer enlisted in the U.S. Army and trained as a medical specialist. He served in West Germany as a combat medic. Due to his alcoholic abuse he was formally discharged from the army in 1981. Dahmer lured an unknown man in his apartment one week after Smith’s murder. Dahmer accidently took his own sedative and he was robbed. After he was handcuffed, Jeffrey Dahmer said “For what I did, I should be dead.” Dahmer was planning to create a private altar of his victim’s skulls and Oliver Lacy and Ernest Miller’s complete skeletons. He would place the skulls on a black table. He would also strip the flesh off of his four severed heads to place on the altar. He also wanted to place another skull of a future victim on the altar. Dahmer wanted incense sticks to be placed on the end of the table and the table would be adorned with a blue lamp. The altar would be dedicated to to himself. Jeffrey Dahmer wanted to create this altar to be himself, he wanted it to be a place where he could finally be at