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On July 22nd, 1991 Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the United States changed forever. Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested for killing and eating 17 young men [#1]. Jeffery’s confessions will make people understand why he is known as one of the most terrifying serial killers in the United States. What people don’t know is what made him turn into this great murder. What would come next. Jeffrey Dahmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 21, 1960, into the household of Lionel and Joyce Dahmer [#1] As a newborn and young child he appeared to have no mental or physical problems and was a very curious and outgoing child. Although as he grew older and after he moved three times, other problems started to reside around Jeff, he was very socially …show more content…

He began showing little to no interest in hobbies or social interaction around the ages of 10 to 15. Dead animals became an interest of his and he also started drinking heavily during his high school years (“National Museum of Crime and Punishment”). After Dahmer's high school graduation he would set out to kill his first victim. In June of the summer of 1978 Steven Hicks was hitchhiking and was picked up by a man named Jeffrey Dahmer, Little did Hicks know that was going to be the last time he would be seen alive. Dahmer took Hicks home with him to get drunk and have a good time. When Hicks tried to leave, Dahmer killed him with a blow to the head with a barbell. He dismembered the corpse of his first victim, packed the body parts in plastic bags and buried them in the woods behind his parents' house (Biography.com …show more content…

Dahmer then drop out of Ohio State because of his drinking. His father made him enlist in the army, but he was kicked out due to alcoholism (“National Museum of Crime and Punishment”). After getting kicked out of the army, Dahmer went to a mental hospital in Florida to help him with his drinking problem. The help didn’t last for long, due to the fact that he couldn’t stop drinking and got kicked out. Dahmer was then sent home to live with his father. Dahmer was not done with Hicks and deiced that he would go and dig back up his remains, to make it easier to scatter his remains around the woods of his dad’s house. An arrest later that year for disorderly conduct prompted his father to send Dahmer to live with his grandmother in Wisconsin, but his alcohol problem persisted and he was arrested again for disorderly conduct the following year (“ Biography.com”) . After moving into his grandma's Dahmer would be taking his second victim in the fall of 1987. This one wouldn’t be a hitchhiker but a man he picked up at a gay bar. Steven Tuomi was Dahmer's second victim. Tuomi and Dahmer went back to a hotel and partied, only for Dahmer to wake up the next day not remembering what happened and seeing Steven dead right next to him. He bought a large suitcase to transport Tuomi body to his grandmother's basement, where he had sex with and masturbated on the corpse before dismembering it and disposing of the remains in

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annah Miller Professor Jackson English 102 7 September 2017 The Milwaukee Cannibal “They had sex and drank beer, but then Hicks had to leave and Dahmer could not bear the thought of Hicks wanting to leave so he struck him in the head with a barbell and killed him” (Serial Killers). The dead in their stillness would become the primary objects of Jeffery Dahmer’s sexual desires which led him to his necrophilia ways (Serial Killers). Jeffery Dahmer, born May 21 1960 in Milwaukee Wisconsin was a typical, healthy child who enjoyed teddy bears and toy blocks. At five years old he was fascinated with the sound of animal bones rubbing together, “his father swept out the remains of some small animals from under the house.

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Although Dahmer was young, lack of attention from his parents ultimately left a mark on him that later led to abandonment issues. This served as a catalyst and reason as to why he would kill the young men he took home from bars and clubs. Dahmer later admitted that he never wanted to kill others; he felt that he had to, because he did not want to be alone. As if being extremely quiet and reserved wasn’t enough to separate him from other children his age, he also picked up disturbing hobbies which his father introduced him to. Carl Wahlstrom, a forensic psychiatrist who interviewed Dahmer recalls: “He and his dad, as a father-son activity, bleached the connective tissue and the hair off rodent corpses.at the time, the unusual hobby wasn’t about a love for gore—it was practiced out of an interest in science.

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