"I hated no one. I knew I was sick or evil or both. Now I believe I was sick. The doctors have told me about my sickness, and now I have some peace. I know how much harm I have caused... Thank God there will be no more harm that I can do. I believe that only the Lord Jesus Christ can save me from my sins... I ask for no consideration." This quote is from the infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Even from birth, Dahmer began shaping into one of America’s most notorious serial killers, as seen through his horrible crimes, which are still remembered after his death. The childhood of one of America’s most notorious serial killers possibly shaped him into the man he became later in life. Jeffrey Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960, in Milwaukee …show more content…
His first of many murders was just after graduating high school in June of 1978, when he was only eighteen. He picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks and took him home, where he got Hicks drunk. When Hicks tried to leave, Dahmer killed him by striking him in the head and strangling him with a barbell. He then dismembered the corpse and buried them in behind his parents home after packing the body parts in plastic bags. He later dug the remains up only to crush the bones with a sledgehammer and scatter them across a wooded ravine. He later claimed that he killed Hicks because he didn’t want him to leave. It would be nine years before he killed again. Meanwhile, his alcohol addiction had spun out of control, and he dropped out of Ohio State University. His father urged him to join the US Army. He served as a combat medic from 1879-1981, when he was discharged because of his ever-increasing drinking problem. He returned to Ohio after being discharged but was arrested later that year for disorderly conduct. His father sent him to live with his grandmother in West Allis, Wisconsin. His alcohol addiction persisted, and was arrested the following summer for indecent exposure. By 1865, he had began frequently visiting gay bathhouses, drugging and raping men as they laid unconscious. The following year, in 1968, two boys accused him of indecent exposure, and was arrested once again and received a one year