Jeffery Dahmer

May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994

  • Also known as Milwaukee Cannibal
  • American Serial Killer, Sex Offender, Commited Rape, Murder and Dismemberment of 17 Men & Boys.
  • Many of his later murders included Necrophil, cannibalism and permanent preservation of body parts.
  • Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder and Psychotic Disorder
  • Dahmer was beaten to death by an inmate at Columbia Correctional Insitution.

 

  • It was known that Dahmer was Deprived of attention as an infant.
  • Dahmer’s mother was known to be tense, greedy for attention and argumentative with her husband and their neighbours.
  • Mother tried to commit suicide.

 

  • At school, Dahmer has once beem described as being an enegetic and happy child, until he became notably subdued after undergoing a double Hernia Surgery.
  • A teacher described Dahmer as a reserved child whom she sensed felt neglected.
  • Although largely reserved and uncommunicated in grade school, Dahmer did have a small number of friends.
  • From an early age, Dahmer had an interest in animals.
  • He then began to collect animal carcasses from the side road. He dismembered these animals at home or behind of woodland behind the family home.
  • According to one friend, Dahmer dismembered these animals and stored the parts in Jars.
  • He was curious of how each animal ‘Fitted Together’.
  • He decapited the Carcass of a dog before nailing the dog before nailing the dog to the tree by the body.
  • He later impaled the skull of this dog.
  • According to Lionel Dahmer said his son was ‘Oddly Thrilled’ by the sound the bones made and instanly developed a fixation for playing with and collecting animals bones.
  • Lionel Dahmer demonstrated how to safely bleach and later presserve animal bones.

 

  • Dahmer during his freshman year began drinking due to problems at home.
  • Drinking occured before, during and after school.

 

  • When Dahmer reached puberty, he discovered he was homosexual.
  • On one occasion, when he was 16, Dahmer conceived a rape fantasy of rendering a particular male jogger he found attractive unconscious and then making sexual use of his unconscious body.
  • He thought of a plan and got to action. He hid in the bushes and waited for the man. The man never showed, this later started to be his first attempt to attempt to attack another individual.

 

  • Despite to being a loner at highschool, he became something of a class clown to students due to the pranks he reguarly staged. These pranks were known as ‘Doing a Dahmer’ included bleating, simulating epileptic seizures or cerebral palsy.

 

  • During his late teens & early twenties, Dahmer commited his first murder.
  • Dahmer picked up an 18 year old hitcher names Steven Mark Hicks.
  • Dahmer lured the youth to his house on the pre- text of the 2 of them drinking. Hicks wanted to leave as it was getting late. In response Dahmer hit him with a 10.LB dumbell. When Hicks fell unconscious, Dahmer strangled him to death with the bar or the dumbell. Dahmer then stripped the clothes from Hicks bosy before masturbating as he stood above the corpse. The following day, Dahmer dissected Hicks body in his crawl space; later buried the remains in a shallow grave in his back yard. Several weeks later, unearthing the remains and removing the flesh from the bones. He dissolved the flesh in acid before flushing the Solution down the toilet. He crushed the bones with a sledgehammer and scattered them in the woodsland behind the family home.

 

  • In 1979, Dahmer enrolled in the U.S Army where he trained as a medical specialist at fort Sam Houston.
  • In reports at first year, Dahmer repeatedly raped a man over a 17 month period. While another soldier belives he was druggered, then raped.
  • A stranger from work threw Dahmer a note offereing to perform fellatio upon him. Although Dahmer did not respond to this proposition, the incident stirred in his mind the fantasies of control and cominance he had developed as a teenager.

 

  • By late 1985, he began frequently visiting the bathhouses. During his sexual  encounters at the bathhouse, he became frustrated at his partners moving during the sexual act.
  • He quoted ‘ I trained myself to view people as objects of pleasure instead of people’
  • From June 1986, he began to adminster sleeping pils to his partners, spiking their drinks then raping their unconcious bodies.
  • Dahmer was released from the army. On one occasion, Dahmer read a report in the newspaper regarding a young mans funeral. He conceived the idea of stealing the freshly interred corpse and taking it home. He attempted to dig the coffin from the ground, but abandonded the plan.

 

  • On July 1991 Dahmer approached 3 men offering them money to accompany him to his apartment to pose for nude photographs.
  • 32 year old Tracy Edward agreed and noted a foul odor and several boxes of Hydrochloric acid on the floor. Dahmer claimed to be cleaning bricks. When Edward entered the bedroom, he noted nude male posters on the wall and a video tape of the Exorcist II was playing, he also noted a blue 57 gallon drum in the corner.
  • Before anything happened, Edward was able to punch Dahmer in the face and get the police. One of the officers noted the large knife and polaroid pictures of a human bories in various stages of Dismemberment.
  • They also found a freshly severed head of a male on the bottom in the refrigerator.
  • A through clear out then began, a totoal of seven skulls, some painted, some bleacjed found in Dahmers bedroom. Investigators found collected blood drippings upon a tray, & 2 human hearts as well as a portion or arm muscles. In Dahmers freezer they found an entire torso a bag of human organs and flesh.
  • 2 Entire skeletons, a pair of severed hands, a mummified scalp in the 57 gallon drum, 3 Dismembered torsos dissolving in asic soloution.
  • Chief medical examiner stated ‘it was more like dismantling someone’s museum than an acutal crime scene’

 

  • He Confessed to everything stating he had ‘created this horror and it onlu made sense i do everything to put an end to it’
  • He also confessed to consuming the hearts, liver, biceps & portions of thighs pf several victaims.
  • Dahmer was charged with four counts of murder. ( July 25, 1999 then a further 11 murders by August 22)
  • Diagnosed Dahmer with a personality disorder not otherwise spcified featuring borderling obsessive – compulsive anf sadistic traits.