In May 21, 1960, Joyce and Lionel Dahmer gave birth to Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born in West Allis, Wisconsin. Ever since he was a young child, He suffered from his parents fighting against each other. In elementary, he was extremely timid, having very few friends. When he was seven years old, he had a sick obsession with the anatomy of animals. In one instance, he has even placed a dog’s head on a pike. `When Jeffrey was in high school, he was a “drunken” outcast. On multiple occasions he was caught drinking or intoxicated during school. When he “hit” puberty, he began to experience “homosexual fantasies” and since his parents divorced and never paid attention to him, he didn’t know what to do about it. Since he was also timid and kept …show more content…
For several months, he kept an eye on a jogger at a local park, and he took a “liking” to. Though he never went through with it, he wanted to rape and murder him. With his parents’ divorce and his grades slipping, his class clown act was ruining his high school reputation. His parents both fought over him for custody until he graduated in 1978. When he graduated, he finally gave in to his sexual cravings. He picked up an eight teen year old by the name of Steven Hicks in the summer of Jeffrey’s Graduation. He lured this man to come to his apartment with him for a photo shoot. When he treated the man to a “ruffed” drink, murdered him with a dumb bell, and immediately “jerked off” on his corpse. Panicking, he instinctively dismembered the body and buried the body parts in the back yard underground. Six weeks after his first murder, Jeffrey decided to enroll at Ohio State hoping to major in business and finance. Though he got accepted in Ohio State, he dropped out three months later due to alcoholism. After his dreams in business and financing failed, he decided to join the army in search of finding a future in medicine. In 1979, he was deployed to West Germany where he raped another man repeatedly for over seventeen months, but due to his alcoholism, he was honorably