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Jeffrey Dahmer Case Summary

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In the case of Dahmer. Vs. Wisconsin, Dahmer was arrested from his apartment (1991) when one of his upcoming victims, Tracy Edwards, escaped and brought the police back to Dahmer’s apartment. For the following 2 weeks, Dahmer was questioned about his murders in which he confessed to have murdered as well as consume parts of the 16 young men he had killed since 1987. He waived to have a lawyer present as he wished to put an end to all the horror he created. Jeffrey Dahmer was born in 1960 in West Allis Wisconsin. At age 15, Dahmer began to socially seclude himself and become enraptured with dissecting dead animals. In 1988 his grandparents kicked him out after being arrested, and bought an apartment on the West side. Shortly after, Dahmer was arrested for drugging and fondling a 13-year-old boy. For the following years after he was released for his 5-year probation, Dahmer killed over 17 male victims. He was indicted for 15 of them and went to trial for them. …show more content…

The issue of the case was to determine Dahmer’s mental stability, and whether he suffered from a personality disorder/illness. The defense argued that Dahmer was driven to his hateful acts as a result of an obsession that he could not control due to a mental disease. Through numerous trials, expert doctors and psychiatrists were brought in to testify and diagnose Dahmer. On both sides, there were doctors that diagnose Dahmer in correlation to their argument. For example, the final defense expert diagnosed Dahmer with schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, alcohol dependency, etc. Dahmer’s defense attorney, Gerald Boyle, supported his argument that the murders of Jeffrey Dahmer were compulsive and not based on choice. He based his support on the testimonies of the all mental health

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