Why Is Jeffrey Dahmer Considered A Serial Killer

Jeffery Dahmer is one of the most notorious serial killers of all time. He had molested and killed 17 people with ages ranging from 14 to 36. His killings lasted between the years 1978 to 1991. After many close encounters with the law Dahmer was finally caught and arrested. He was sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms, and later murdered by another prison inmate in 1994. Even after all he did to harm individuals, Dahmer still pleaded not guilty for reason of insanity. Dahmer’s story begins in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 21, 1960 when Lionel and Joyce Dahmer give birth to Jeffrey Dahmer. For the most part Dahmer had a happy early life until age six when he had a surgery to correct a double hernia. Following the surgery Dahmer became increasingly

As stated in Biography.com “in June 1978, Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker and took him home to his parents' house, where they drank beer and had sex. 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.”(bio 1) During the time of Dahmer’s first murder his alcohol consumption had spun out of control. And after one term in The Ohio State University, Dahmer had dropped out. After Dahmer’s dad found out he insisted that he enlisted in the Army. Dahmer was posted in Germany but was discharged two years later due to alcoholism. Dahmer’s father ends up sending him to his grandmother’s house in

In the following morning Dahmer woke up next to the dead corpse of Steven in bed. Dahmer packed him up in a suitcase and took him to his grandmother’s basement where he would have sexual relations with the corpse before dismembering it. He would dispose of the remains in the trash. After Dahmer’s second kill he would run into a killing spree that lasted 13 years. While in the killing spree it seemed as if he was targeting African American men that he would meet at gay meeting places. He lured the men back home with him with a promise of sex or money. Dahmer would drug the men and then strangle them to death before he would have sexual relations and dismember the body. Dahmer would often keep souvenirs from the bodies such as their head or genitals. Dahmer would roughly start killing one person a week in the summer of 1991. Dahmer would continue to have sexual relations with the bodies, along with consuming them, dismembering them, keeping parts, But stated from Crime Museum “Dahmer was also using the idea that he could turn victims into “zombies” to have youthful submissive sexual partners.”(1) He tried drilling holes and injecting hydrochloric acid or boiling water in their skulls. Dahmer wasn’t always so lucky with his victims though. 14 year old Konerak Sinthasomphone was discovered just wandering the streets drugged and confused. Two women called the cops but Dahmer