Jeffrey Dahmer Research Papers

From 1978 to 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer raped, killed, and performed dismemberment and necrophilia on the dead bodies of seventeen men. It all originated from a messed up early life in high school where he developed a serious drinking problem. His first murder happened in 1978 when he was eighteen years old. His first victim’s name was Steven Hicks, who he killed while his father was away on a business trip. He had the house to himself so he found Hicks hitchhiking for a ride, when he offered him to come back to Dahmer’s place. When Hicks tried to leave, Dahmer hit him in the head killing him, and then burying him in the backyard. His explanation for this murder was that he just didn’t want Hicks to leave. After that he would not kill again until

To one of his victims Anthony Scars, he kept his skull. During 1991 his killing started to become more frequent where in the summer he was killing once a week. The more he killed the more vicious and malice the killings would get. Konerak Sinthasomphone, a fourteen year old boy was found wandering the streets drugged. The police would find him, but Dahmer would get him back arguing that Konerak was his nineteen year old boyfriend. He then took him home, killed and dismembered his body, and then kept his skull. When he started killing a person a week in 1991, he had this insane idea of experimenting with his victims bodies Where he would inject things like hydrochloric acid and boiling water into their brains. Soon after people in his apartment building started noticing loud noises and horrible smells coming from Dahmer's apartment. The day he was arrested he tried to murder Tracy Edwards, by luring her into the bedroom with a knife. She would then escape through the fire escape where she would alert the police. When the police searched Dahmer’s home, the horrors they would find were quite

There was a total of seven skulls found and it was thought that he was committing cannibalism and necrophilia on his victims. All this evidence was so overwhelming and they were able to immediately arrest Dahmer on the day he was caught. Most serial killers stick to one racial background for their killings, however dahmer killed people with all different kinds of ethnicities. He confessed to the murder claiming it had nothing to do with racism, homosexuality, not a hate thing, and that he was not into torture. The final result of this investigation cultivated in sixty plus hours of confessing by Dahmer. His victims included: Steven Hicks aged nineteen, Steven Tuomi aged twenty four, James Doxtator aged fourteen years old, Richard Guerrero aged twenty three, Anthony Scars, aged twenty six, Raymond Smith aged twenty three, Eddie Smith aged twenty seven, Ernest miller aged twenty two, David Thomas aged twenty three, Curtis Straughter aged twenty nine, Errol Linsey aged nineteen, Konerak Sinthasomphone aged fourteen, Matt Turner aged twenty, Jeremiah Weinberger aged twenty three, Oliver Lacy aged twenty three, and Joseph Bradehoft aged twenty five years