Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 at the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. First of two sons to Joyce Annette and Lionel Herbert Dahmer. Dahmer grew to be 6ft and 180 lbs. Dahmer is also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal. He is an American serial killer and sex offender. His killing span between 1978 and 1991 he raped, murdered, and dismemberment of 17 men. His murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism and permanent preservation of body parts. Mostly kept parts or all of the skeletal structure. Dahmer had a normal childhood although growing up he began to become withdrawn and uncommunicative. Dahmer was an energetic and happy child until his undergoing of double hernia surgery shortly …show more content…
Classmates said he smuggled beer and spirits into the lining of his army fatigue jacket. He was 14 when he started drinking and he would drink all throughout the day no matter the time. He referred to drinking as his medicine. Although he recognized to be very polite and highly intelligent, his grades were about average. Once Dahmer hit puberty, he came out to be homosexual. He never told his parents although he did have a relationship with another youth but did not have intercourse. Approximately 16 years old, Dahmer made his first attempt on attacking another individual. Dahmer conceived a rape fantasy on a particular male jogger he found attractive unconscious and to make sexual use for the unconscious body. Dahmer put himself in the bushes with a baseball bat on a route that he noted the jogger took. That day the jogger never came through and Dahmer did not attempt again. He later stated that was his first attempt on attacking another …show more content…
June 18th Dahmer picked up another 18-year-old hitchhiker, Steven Hicks. Dahmer brought the other male to his house where the two began to drink. Dahmer stated that a few hours of drinking and listening to music Hicks “wanted to leave and [I] didn’t want him to.” Dahmer then bludgeoned Hicks with a 10lb dumbbell. Dahmer said he hit Hicks twice from behind in the chair he was sitting in. Once Hicks fell, Dahmer strangled him to death with the bar of the dumbbell then stripped Hicks cloths off his body before masturbating. The next day, Dahmer dissected Hicks body and later buried the remains in his backyard. Several weeks Dahmer then dissolved the flesh in acid before flushing the solution down the toilet. The bones of Hicks crushed with a sledgehammer and scattered in the woodland behind the home. Six weeks after the murder Dahmer’s father and fiancée returned where the found him living there