American serial killers can be anyone for many reasons. Jeffery Dahmer was one of America's most known serial killers, due to his gruesome ways of killing. He managed to kill 17 males in the span of 2 years, 2 of his victims being young boys and the rest of the 15 were young men. Jeffery Dahmer was an American serial killer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He killed and raped most, if not all, of his victims before his last attempt at victimization escaped and told cops of what he had witnessed. Childhood trauma can affect the ways killers think and end their victims, such as in the case of Jeffery Dahmer. When Dahmer was 4 he had to go through traumatic surgery to fix a double hemroid, when he woke up after he was in pain and would become closed off and would slowly slip into his ways causing him to take his disinterest in. …show more content…
He was a bit of an odd child having caught an interest in dead things and things on the more bloody and gruesome side, things kids his age wouldn't be into or interested in. When Dahmer's father saw he had taken a liking to dead animals and road kill, he would show his son how to melt the skin off the bones with chemicals, cuendsily the same chemicals Dahmer would use on his victims bodies. When he turned 14 he would discover that he was gay, this would also affect his way of life and killing ways. At age 18, Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker and would later kill him, marking his first victim, Steven Mark Hicks, who was barely 19 at the time. Young adulthood for Dahmer was very difficult. When Dahmer was in high school, he was a regular alcoholic in his