Jack Schroeder 8th Grade Language Arts 7th Hour Research Paper 25 April 2024 “Jeffery Dahmer” Jeffery Dahmer is one of the sickest serial killers in recent history. He killed 17 people in some of the most gruesome ways possible. His gruesome killings still circulate today in the form of T.V. Shows and documentaries -. On May 21, 1960, Jeffery Dahmer was born to Lionel Dahmer, his father, and Joyce Dahmer, his mother, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jeffery lived there for two years before his family moved to Ames, Iowa, so his father, Lionel, could work on his PhD in chemistry. Two years later, one of the most traumatic events in Jeffery Dahmer’s life happened. He was diagnosed with a double hernia, and Dahmer had a fear that his penis had gotten cut off. …show more content…
Dahmer became upset and smashed Hicks’ skull with a barbell. This knocked him out, and Dahmer finished the job by strangling him. Over the next couple of weeks, Dahmer would methodically strip the flesh off the bones, and bury the bones in the backyard (Jeffrey Dahmer Timeline). It should be known that the majority of the time, an 18-year-old would not know how to strip the flesh off a human body. This falls back to his childhood, where Jeffery and his father would often bond over skinning and preserving the bones of dead animals. Who was Jeffery Dahmer? Later, Jeffery Dahmer would enroll at Ohio State but would only remain there for a semester before dropping out. (Jeffrey Dahmer Timeline) Feeling lost and broken, Dahmer enlisted in the army in late 1978. He would be trained as a medic and stationed in Baumholder, Germany. Jeffery wouldn’t be known for being a class clown, but would be known for being a heavy alcoholic. In 1981, before his service time was up, Dahmer was discharged from the army because of his heavy drinking, at that point he was barely able to function because he was always hungover. When Jeffery got back to the States, he would spend a month in Florida where he