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Jeffrey Dahmer: A Serial Killer

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When it comes to Jeffrey Dahmer, he unquestionably fits the common profile of the serial murder offender. According to Kim Davies, “a serial killer is commonly defined as an individual who kills multiple victims at different times and often in different places with cooling-off periods in between the killings”. In addition, they are generally male and interested by a variety of psychological urges, but primarily, power. Some serial killers travel to find their victims but others stay in the same area. Some characteristics of a serial killer include, alcohol and substance abuse, psychological abuse during childhood, childhood sexually stressful events, having physical injuries bed wetting, growing up lonely and secluded, having fantasies, and …show more content…

His victims were mostly African American men, whom he met at gay places, took them home, promising money and/or sex, and feeding them alcohol and drugs before strangling them to death. He would have sex with the corpses before opening them and throwing them away. Most of the time, he kept their genitals or skulls as souvenirs. In September 1988, an encounter with a 13-year-old Laotian boy resulted in charges of sexual abuse and second-degree sexual assault for Dahmer. He pleaded guilty while stating that the boy had looked much older. While waiting for his sentence for sexual assault, in March of 1989, he enticed, drugged, strangled, photographed, opened up the body and disposed Anthony Sears, whom is a young African American man. After Dahmer’s trial in May, he was sentenced one year in prison with day release, letting him work during the day at his job and return to prison at night. He also has a five-year probationary sentence. Jeffrey Dahmer was given an early release by the judge after serving 10 months of his sentence. After 15 months, his victim amount kept rising. Twelve more lives were taken the same way as the others. He also consumed their flesh, drilled into their skulls while they were still alive, and injected them with muriatic …show more content…

A hedonistic serial killer “murders for the satisfaction obtained from the process of killing”. One type of hedonistic serial killer is that they are lust murderers who kill for sexual pleasure. Dahmer all along did this with most or all of his African American victims. Another type is that they are thrill-oriented killers, who murder for excitement and may also torture or injure their victims. Dahmer as well did this to his victims. For example, opening up their bodies, drilling on their skulls, or beating them up. The last type is a comfort-oriented killer, who kills for the benefits they receive from killing, such as psychological pleasure. Jeffrey Dahmer certainly killed for psychological pleasure. All of his victims were innocent and did absolutely nothing to

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From 1978 to 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer raped, killed, and performed dismemberment and necrophilia on the dead bodies of seventeen men. It all originated from a messed up early life in high school where he developed a serious drinking problem. His first murder happened in 1978 when he was eighteen years old. His first victim’s name was Steven Hicks, who he killed while his father was away on a business trip. He had the house to himself so he found Hicks hitchhiking for a ride, when he offered him to come back to Dahmer’s place.

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Jeffery Dahmer was an American serial killer in the 80s Dahmer killed 17 young men over the course of 13 years. Jeffery Dahmer was a child who was neglected by his parents, due to his father working continuously and his mothers addiction to drugs; therefore, he felt like never received any affection from either of them. The only bonding he and his father had was dissecting roadkill in the garage, thus teaching his son skills to utilize on his victims. By the time he was 18, Dahmer was already struggling with his personal desires, his hidden homosexuality, and fantasy for murder; however, this fantasy did not become reality until June of 1978 when Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks and murdered him. Jeffery Dahmer, “the Milwaukee Cannibal” who was an American serial killer, murdered 17 and cannibalized some young men from 1978-1991; however He was caught in 1991 when one of his victims escaped.

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Jeffrey Dahmer Jeffrey Dahmer is known throughout history to be one of the most infamous serial sex offender and murder of the 1970’s. Jeffrey is also referred to as the “Milwaukee Cannibal”, “between the years of 1978 and 1991 Dahmer raped, murdered, and dismembered seventeen boys and men” (Tithecott, 1997). Dahmer was very fascinated with the skeletal structure of his victims, he would preserve his later victims body parts along with taking part in necrophilic tendencies and cannibalism. Wisconsin is where Jeffrey grew up with both his parents and younger brother David, his “father was a chemical engineer and his mother suffered from hysteria, depression, suicidal ideation, and psychosomatic illnesses” (Tithecott, 1997) (in other words she strived for others attention). In Jeffrey’s mother’s effort to strive for others attention especially for her

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A serial killer is a person who murders three or more people, usually in service of abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant break which can also be called a "cooling off period” between them. There are different types of serial killers. Some are mission oriented serial killers; others are visionary killers. There are equally power and control killers and thrill or hedonistic killers. There are many serial killers in the world at large with different motives for killing.

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Jeffrey Dahmer was a famous murderer in 1978 until 1991. During this time he killed 17 men by meeting them at gay bars, bus stops, and other places, promising them sex or money if they went with him. Jeffrey would give them drugs that were laced with alcohol before suffocating them to death. He would take pictures of the men while he was killing them and afterwards would have intercourse with their dead bodies. Dahmer went so far with these killings that he kept parts of the bodies as souvenirs.

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