Inside The Mind Of American Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer, an American sex offender and serial killer who killed seventeen males between 1978 and 1991. Dahmer modus operandi for murdering these males include cannibalism, necrophilia, dismemberment, and rape. On the 28th of November 1994, Dahmer was slaughtered by his fellow prisoner, who was in jail.
Early Life
Jeffrey Dahmer was born on 21st May 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Joyce Dahmer and Lionel. He was a happy, full of life and energetic kid throughout his childhood, but his life was changed when he had surgery on a double hernia. After his surgery, his parents noticed he was cut off from them, his little brother and others. By his initial teens, Dahmer was largely friendless, stresses, and disengaged.
He claimed in his confession that when he was 14-years-old his compulsions to murder and necrophilia began, and it was done because of his parents’ hostile divorce. When he was in school, Dahmer started drinking alcohol. Because of his bad habit, Dahmer was terminated from Ohio State University because he murdered a hitchhiker at his home. His name was Steven Hicks. The police arrested him, and when released from jail, he went to his grandmother’s home and lived with her.
His mother remarried again, and his stepfather insisted Dahmer join the military. In December 1978, Dahmer qualified for the army, and his first posting was in Germany. In the early year 1981, Jeffrey was discharged from the military because of the drinking problem. The German authorities also investigated the murders that took place in Germany when he was posted in Germany. He returned to his hometown Ohio from Germany.
Jeffery Dahmer Victims
Dahmer committed his 1st murder after graduating from high school in the year 1978 (June). His name was Steven Hicks. When he left his home, Dahmer hit on his head and started strangling with the help of a barbell. He cut up all the body parts and put them in plastic bags. He buried all the plastic bags at the backside of his parents’ house. In the year 1985, Dahmer used to visit gay bathhouses where he found his victims. In 1986, Dahmer was arrested by the police for masturbating someone in front of two young boys. These two boys were the suspect of this activity. Dahmer received a trial sentenced by the court for one year.
Steven Tuomi, Dahmer’s 2nd victim, was murdered in 1987 (September). They both met in a bar, and Dahmer offered him to go to the hotel. Dahmer booked a room, and they both drank alcohol all night. On next morning, when Dahmer awoke, he found the dead body of Tuomi. He didn’t recognize anything that happened last night because he drank too much. Jeffery Dahmer went to the market and purchased a suitcase in which he transferred the Tuomi body easily. He went to his grandmother’s home, where he cut all the body into small parts. Because dismembered, Dahmer masturbated the dead body. In the year 1988, he murdered two more fatalities at his grandmother’s house.
In the year 1990, Dahmer killed four more victims. He found all of them from different bars. He first gives them drugs, raped them brutally, and strangled them. With the corpses, he used their bodies for taking photographs, intercourse, display their genitals and skulls and consume the remaining parts.
He became happy after doing these vulgar activities with the dead bodies. In the year 1991, he used to kill one person a week. Even Dahmer neighbors feel awful smells and different noises from his apartment. The police came to his apartment but failed to get anything from his apartment.
On the 22nd of July 1991, Dahmer lured another person into his house, Tracy Edwards. After some time, Dahmer forced him into his bedroom with the help of a knife. During Edward’s struggle, he was lucky that he got escaped from his home. He ran on the street where he found the police. He told everything to the police. Police officers went to his apartment, where he found the photographs of the corpses and dismembered limbs.
Arrest And Trial
Finally, Jeffery Dahmer got arrested by the police officers. They investigated the whole house and found many human hearts and heads in his refrigerator. He was charged for around fifteen murders. During his trial period, he confessed that he did all these murders. Jeffery Dahmer was sentenced to prison for sixteen life terms, equivalent to 941 years in jail.
Death
During his life in prison, he used to read the Bible daily. He was assigned some work in jail with two other imprisoned murderers, Jesse Anderson and Scarver. During their work, Dahmer was attacked by Christopher Scarver, and he got injured badly. On his way to the nearest hospital, Dahmer died because of head trauma. Dahmer was brutally killed on the 28th of November, 1994.
