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Notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 21, 1960, into the household of Lionel and Joyce Dahmer. He was a mostly happy child until the age of 6, when a minor surgery to correct a double hernia seemed to effect a change in him. Following Dahmer’s surgery he became violent and self-conscious. His brother was also born a day after. Dahmer felt as if his parents favored his norther over him. Around this same time, a career opportunity for his father came about. It resulted in the family moving to Ohio. This just made his insecurities worse. By his early teens he was disengaged, tense, and mostly friendless. He remained this way up until his first murder, when he was only 18. His first victim was a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks. Dahmer took the young man back to his parent’s house where he proceeded to get him drunk. As soon as Hicks tried to leave, Dahmer killed him with a blow to the head from a barbell. He dismembered the body and buried it in plastic bags behind his parent’s house. Dahmer would not kill again for 9 years. Dahmer’s alcohol consumption began to spin out of control when he was only 19. In January, 1979, after only one term at Ohio State University, he dropped out due to …show more content…

He was kept apart from the general population at first but he eventually convinced authorities to allow him to be with the other inmates. He found religion in the form of books he received from his father, and was even baptized by a local preacher. On November 28, 1994, he was assigned to work with two other prisons. One was a white supremacist convicted for murder. The other, an African American who was also serving a life sentence for murder. The guards left the 3 alone for only twenty minutes, they were shocked when they returned to find Dahmer and the white supremacists heads crushed in. Christopher Scarver (the African American) had crushed their heads in with a metal bar from the prison weight

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and it was the body form of a potential victim that would attract him. The majority of Dahmer's victims were killed by strangulation after being drugged with sedatives, although his first victim was killed by a combination of being bludgeoned and strangulation. His second

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Dahmers modus operandi was to find single men, ask them to go home with him for the night, either to his grandmothers or his apartment depending on where he lived at the time, then usually ask them to pose for pornography for him, perform sexually, drug them, murder them, and then cut up the bodies for disposal. He was considered a necrophiliac, a cannibal, and was a convicted pedophile. Dahmer mainly targeted young men and boys between the ages of 14 and 33. Most of his victims were African Americans, as he once said he hated black people, but not all of them were. All of his killings were in Wisconsin, and one in Ohio, being his first ever murder.

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After the second victim, Dahmer killed again and again until he was arrested in 1991. The last man that he tried to murder was named Tracy Edwards, 32. Edwards escaped from Dahmer and was wondering the streets with a handcuff attached to his wrist. Police saw him and he told them that a ‘weird dude’ had drugged him and tried to kill him. The police took Edwards back to Dahmer.

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During the time Jeffery’s parents left him living alone, Jefferey was overcome with a sense of loneliness. Dahmer picked up Steven hicks, a hitchhiker, and took him back to the Dahmer’s house for a beer. Once Hicks expressed his desire to leave, Dahmer struck him in the back of the head with a 10 lb. dumbbell. After the murder, Dahmer dissected Hicks and scattered his remains in the backyard.

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In 1994, he was on a team with two other inmates cleaning the prison’s gym bathroom when another inmate fatally attacked. The police sauntered into the bathroom only to find Dahmer lying on the ground in a pool of his own blood coming from his head. Because of the horrific attack on Jeffery Dahmer, he died a few minutes after prison personnel found him. When the paramedics were called to the scene, it was concluded that Dahmer’s head injuries were so severe that it looked like that of a car accident victim. An emergency responder said that he had never seen head injuries that severe before.

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Jeffrey Dahmer was 18 years old when he committed his first murder crime, it was during a summer of the year 1978. Being confused about his homosexual needs lead him to commit a murder to Steven Hicks a nineteen-year-old ‘hitchhiker’ who was invited by Dahmer to drink some beers at his father’s house. “When Hicks was ready to leave Dahmer bashed him in the head with a barbell and killed him” (Montaldo, 2015). Montaldo (2015) stated that Dahmer did not wanted for Hicks to leave the house, so there for he killed Steven dismembered the body and stored every part of the body into trash bags, buried them in his father’s property. Montaldo (2015) as time passed he returned to buried the bags as he also crumpled the bones then disbursed the rests

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After picking up hitchhiker Steven Hicks, Dahmer lured the youth into his home and bludgeoned him with a dumbell (Mendoza 1). Unfortunately, this killing was the first of many. After a brief stint moving to San Antonio, Jeff was forced to move in to his grandmother’s house back in Milwaukee where the murders continued. Dahmer had developed a masterful technique for murder, where he would pick up a partner at local gay bars, bring them back to his grandmother’s apartment, and then proceed to assault and murder his victims, often in sexually perverse ways. One of the survivors of these attacks, recalls that he saw a mattress stained with dried blood and a knife with a blue plastic handle, which immediately let him know that something was wrong (Mathews and Stevens, 44).

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His first victim was Steven Hicks a hitchhiker. Jeffery Dahmer picked up Hicks and took him home to his parents' house. Dahmer proceeded to get the young man drunk and when Hicks tried to leave, Dahmer did not agree, Dahmer felt disrespected for him not wanting to be intimate with him. Dahmer killed him by “striking him in the head and strangling him with a barbell” (Biography). He dismembered the corpse of his first victim, packed the body parts in plastic bags and buried them behind his parents' home in attempt to cover his motives.

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Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer and sexual offender who committed his crimes between 1978 and 1991 and is widely known to this day. After sexually abusing, murdering, and dismembering his 17 male victims he was found to perform sexual acts to the corpse or even consume them. This gave way to his well known name of the “Milwaukee Cannibal”. Though given multiple diagnoses during trial he was deemed sane and sentenced to 17 life sentences in prison.

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He was a bit of an odd child having caught an interest in dead things and things on the more bloody and gruesome side, things kids his age wouldn't be into or interested in. When Dahmer's father saw he had taken a liking to dead animals and road kill, he would show his son how to melt the skin off the bones with chemicals, cuendsily the same chemicals Dahmer would use on his victims bodies. When he turned 14 he would discover that he was gay, this would also affect his way of life and killing ways. At age 18, Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker and would later kill him, marking his first victim, Steven Mark Hicks, who was barely 19 at the time. Young adulthood for Dahmer was very difficult.

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It may cause you to think about what made him like this and why he did the things he did. To start off, Jeffrey Dahmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was born on May 21st, 1960 (Jeffrey 2020). He is the child of Lionel Dahmer, father, and Joyce Dahmer, mother. His dad was a chemist, so Jeffrey did not grow up in poverty.

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Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960, to Joyce Annette and Lionel Herbert Dahmer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He His father, Lionel was a chemist and his mother, Joyce was a teletype machine instructor. At age four he was diagnosed with a double hernia that needed

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The second time he got attacked he died on the way to the hospital from severe head trauma (Jeffrey Dahmer). Christopher Scarver was the inmate who killed Dahmer. He said he grew to despise Dahmer because of how he would fashion severed limbs out of prison food and taunt other inmates (Why I killed Jeffrey Dahmer). He would also use ketchup as blood and drizzle it over his food and in his mouth, Scarver said that it was very unnerving (Why I killed Jeffrey Dahmer).

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Steven Toumi was his second victim, Dahmer was at a local gay bar where he met Toumi. He asked to go to a hotel with him to have more drinks and do drugs. Toumi followed him back, the two drank, Dahmer doesn 't recall killing Toumi, all he remembers was that he passed out and woke up to Toumi’s dead body lying beside him. Dahmer had a large suitcase and dismembered Toumi’s body and put it the suitcase and dragged him to the basement of his grandmother’s house and put his genitals, heart in jars and put the head in the freezer.

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When he visited the gay bars often had to offer the boys or men money to lure them to his apartment (Schwartz,1992). As stated in Ewing (2006), in November, Dahmer committed his second murder, but Dahmer never recalled how the man died, just that carried the body in a suitcase to his grandmother’s house. At the house he told authorities he masturbated on the body, skinned and dismembered it and threw the remains of the body in the trash. Dahmer’s killing spree would rapidly escalated nearly two months after the second homicide and would last for about three and half years before the police would finally catch him (Ewing,2006). According to Schwartz (1992), later in Dahmer’s confession he said, “he killed his victims to prevent them from leaving”.

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