Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was an American serial killer and sex offender, who committed the rape, murder, and dismemberment of seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Dahmer committed his first murder when he was a teenager which led to his cannibalism later in his life.
Jeffrey Dahmer was raised in a family in which his father was not aware of the inner struggles of his son. It is believed that Dahmer was sexually abused when he was an eight-year-old by one of the boys in his neighborhood. Jeffrey Dahmer was a loner who felt neglected by his family and did not fit well with his peers. Jeffrey also received poor grades in school, but he was excessively interested in science and was fascinated by dead animals. At age eighteen, Dahmer killed and dismember his first victim and he kept it a secret from everyone. Jeffrey was an alcoholic where at one point he was arrested for drunken disorderly conduct.
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Jeffrey Dahmer was manipulative therefore, he was able to convince his victims to come to his house where he drugged them, and got rid of the pieces of the bodies. This is how he was able to get rid of evidence. The police couldn’t hunt down and arrest someone for the murders, simply because people have disappeared. There needs to be a body, or some other physical evidence, of a murder before anyone can be arrested. This is why this serial killer was able to avoid being caught for so