Jeffrey Dahmer’s Motivation to Murder Jeffrey Dahmer is a well known serial killer, he killed nearly 17 men and boys in Milwaukee and Ohio. He was known as the Milwaukee Cannibal for he committed rape, murder, and dismemberment of his victims. It’s seemed to believed he was antisocial and had many other mental illnesses. He also had a troubled youth with a bad home life. Dahmer was arrested and convicted for the violent crimes he commited. This evidence is what may have lead Dahmer to his motivation to murder. Jeffrey Dahmer was caught in the summer of 1991 after killing from June 18, 1978–July 19, 1991. As a child Dahmer would be considered a “loner” he grew up with a dysfunctional family, where his mother and father were constantly fighting. This lead to hostility between him and his parents. He was …show more content…
His mother was always very depressed and his father was frequently absent due to work (Cheng, Jentzen, Johnson, Stormo, and Teggatz 1994.) Jeffrey Dahmer was severely mentally ill for most of his lifetime. Since he grew up in a troubled home and showed many habits of a serial killer even in his younger years due to his love to dissect roadkill and dissolve them in chemicals his father supplied. He continuously struggled with his sexuality, this frustrated him and fueled his anger, and he took up drinking as a solace. In February of 1992 Dahmer was finally sentences nearly a year after he was caught. Before he was eligible for parole, he was sentenced to 957 years in prison, which is fifthteen life sentences (Donnelley 2009.) His father stated “ There was something missing in Jeff.. We call it a conscience.”