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Jeffrey Dahmer: Serial Killer

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most of everyone Knows the name Dahmer from his monstrous, nauseating and unspeakable acts on 17 males. Because of his mental illnesses Jeffrey Dahmer will forever be known for his notorious killings from the late 70s to the early 90s due to what he did to the bodies of his victims, why he killed innocent people, and how he successfully kept this secret for years. Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee Wisconsin to his mother Joyce and father Lionel Dahmer. He was described as a beautiful boy, both of his parents had considered him to be a normal child. Dahmer was happy and energetic until the age of four when he had a surgery to correct a double hernia. One of his teachers saw him differently though, Jeffrey’s first grade teacher wondered …show more content…

The murder happened in June of 78’ when he had picked up a hitchhiker name Steven hicks. Dahmer then took Hicks back to his parents house when he proceeded to get him drunk. When Hicks tried to leave Dahmer killed him by hitting him in the head, and strangling him with a barbell. After the murder Dahmer dismembered the body of hicks, packed his body in a trash bag then buried his body parts behind his parents house. He later exhumed the remains, crushed the bones with a sledgehammer and scattered them across a wooden ravine. The police pulled him over with his body parts in the backseat “ I couldn’t believe it, I thought I was dreaming” Dahmer told the police after they didn’t search his car (Dundas). Dahmer had enlisted into the military in January of 1979 just one year after his first killing. Upon learning about this many people question why he was allowed to go into the army in the first place. He was honorarily discharged from the army after he completed only two years of his initial three-year enlistment. Reasoning behind this was his intensive alcohol abuse, which had just got worse with time and eventually deemed him unfit to serve in the military. After Dahmer had gotten home he was arrested for disorderly conduct which this had prompted his dad to arrange him to stay with his grandmother where

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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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Jeffrey Dahmer killing spree started in the summer of June 1978 with his first victims Steven Hicks who was a hitchhiker that Dahmer picked up to invite over for a drink while his father was gone . His spree would span over the next 13 years until July 21, 1991 when bad luck hit Dahmer he met Tracey Edwards he would turn out to the bad luck charm for Jeffrey. Dahmer really like Edwards and wanted to keep him alive longer this was a mistake, because has Jeffrey was trying to handcuff Edwards fought back punched Dahmer in the face and kicked his side before running out of Dahmer’s apartment to flag down a cop. While the officer was up looking around Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment found the pictures of dead bodies hanging around his bedroom and dismembered

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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.

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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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He would also put ketchup around his mouth, and tell the guards, “Be careful, I bite”. Dahmer’s creepy sense of humor made him lose his life. On November 28, 1994, he was beaten to death by a fellow inmate, Christopher Scarver. They were both in the weight room when Scarver hit him over the head with a metal bar twice. He died on the way to Divine Savior Hospital in Portage.

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According to reports “he continued his fascination with dead animals, dissecting dead squirrels in his grandmothers basement and dissolving them with chemicals” (crime museum). His grandmother began to find disturbing things in her home like a .357 magnum under his bed and a male mannequin in his closet. Because of his strange behavior his grandmother asked him to move out. Nine years after the first murder Dahmer killed again. This time he picked up Steven Tuomi from a bar and reportedly killed him on impulse and Dahmer said he had no memory of killing him.

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The trial began in January of 1992 with an eight-foot wall of bulletproof glass around where Dahmer would be sitting to reduce the risk of him getting shot(pink 10). He was charged with fifteen counts of murder(green 61). Since he had already confessed his murders to the police, he pleaded guilty but insane. They claimed the cause of his killings was a result of his fear of being alone. This in effect, directly lead him to have sexual relations with the bodies(blue 97).

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In 1978, Dahmer picked up a man on the side of the road named Steven Hicks and took him to his house. Jeffrey continued to give the man drugs and alcohol, but when Steven tried to run off, Dahmer hit him in the head with a barbell and caused Hicks to die instantly. He cut up the body and packed it into plastic bags and buried them behind his house. Soon after the killing, Jeffrey dug up the remains, compact the bones with a sledgehammer and spread them all over wooded ravine. After the killing, Jeffrey was shocked yet amazed about what he had done.

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Who is Jeffery Dahmer? Jeffery “monster” Dahmer, the famous Milwaukee serial killer and cannibalism, who killed 17 men over the span of a decade ranging from the ages of 14-28. Why did he kill? How did he escape from authority for over 9 years?

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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.

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