Sophia Juenger
Mrs. Neuberger
Composition 2
8 February 2023
Serial Killer: Jeffrey Dahmer
Childhood
Jeffery Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dahmer’s mother, Joyce, is known to have had a difficult pregnancy with Dahmer (Casey).Dahmer lived in a home with his mother, Joyce, and his father, Lionel Dahmer. At home, Dahmer was seen as a normal child, bright, enthusiastic, and bubbly. His teachers at the elementary level said otherwise. Some teachers wondered if Dahmer was neglected at home because of his actions in school. At around the age of six, Dahmer was given a brother named David. Dahmer and his family eventually settled in Bath, Ohio (Sulivan). After his brother's birth Dahmer went into surgery to fix two hernias,
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Lionel, his father, made Dahmer enlist in the army after the dropout. After December of 1978, Dahmer was stationed in Germany. He was later discharged in 1981. After his case was discovered and all his murders were uncovered, German authorities tried to connect murders from his deployment to murders that had taken place in the area while he was there (Jeffery Dahmer). After being discharged, his father sent Dahmer to live with his grandparents in Wisconsin, where his alcoholism continued. While living here, he was involved with law enforcement three times. Once for disorderly conduct, indecency, and one last time for masturbating infront of young boys. He was only given a year of probation after the incident with the young boys (Jeffery Dahmer). Studies after Dahmer's case showed that his household could have contained neglect. His way of murder was related back to how he was treated as a child, and the way his childhood was seen. He was a killer that used sexual and very harsh ways. He was most known for his mutilation and cannibalism. Not only was he a serial killer and used horrific ways, he also was known for the murders of all bisexual or gay males. All his victims were of the male gender and tended to be bisexual
The skulls of Beeks and Miller were recovered in Dahmer’s apartment when he was arrested. 1991 was the fall of Dahmer, however, it was also the most deadly year. On March 7, he picked up Curtis Straughter, age 18, at a bus stop and offered him money to go home with him. This is the first time that Jeffrey switch up the routine of his murder. This time, he drugged Slaughter prior to having sex and killing him.
They discovered many things, like the photographs of dead men in his dresser and dismembered bodies in various places (Dahmer 7). Within days the entire world was informed of his
Hicks was last seen June 18, 1978, though his remains were not discovered until 1991 after Dahmer confessed to killing him (Jeffery
Dahmer is known for his murders, which involved cannibalism and necrophilia. Jeffrey Dahmer’s evil past, including his childhood, murders, and trial, is a prime example of man's inhumanity to man. Statistically, murderers have a troubled background which includes abuse and sexual
His family then moved to a small town in Ohio (“Jeffrey Dahmer Biography”). When Dahmer was four, he underwent a double
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jeffrey Dahmer has been brought to the juvenile justice system because he abused animals and killed many animals including a dog. Jeffrey Dahmer committed animal cruelty by killing his dog and slicing it up just to look in the inside. He wanted to get revenge on his friend. In the process he broke into his home, stole his tadpole and killed it.
Jacob Chappell CRIJ-1307-01 3/21/2015 Jeffrey Dahmer The son of an absent father and suicidal and self-obsessed mother, Jeffrey Dahmer lived an increasingly isolated life that ultimately led to him becoming one of the most prominent serial killers in recent history. From the moment of entering grade school no one wanted anything to do with Jeffrey. He was unable to deal with his anger about being teased openly and it was repressed which lead to heavy drinking by his early teens and a swift discharge from the army as well as being fired from every job he had ever held.
The FBI felt confident that the Unabomber had been raised in Chicago and later lived in the Salt Lake City and San Francisco areas. This turned out to be true. The brother of Ted, David Kaczynski, described him as troubled, who had grown up in Chicago, taught at the University of California at Berkeley (where two of the bombs had been placed), then lived for a time in Salt Lake City (FBI,
At the time he was a closeted gay kid but had other feeling about men. Around 14 he admitted his likings toward boys, not girls. He had been having “compulsions” about men. All he could think about is not being with them but being with their dead
At least one point in time they physically assaulted each other because of their fighting (Berry-Dee & Morris, 2008, p. 83). Later on Lionel and Joyce got a divorce which didn’t seem to improve Jeffrey Dahmer’s situation. The Dahmer family moved to Ohio in 1966 when Jeffrey was six years old. They settled in Doylestown, Ohio for a short period of time.
(Jenkins, 2023). Dahmer’s parents, Lionel and Joyce, and his brother David Dahmer lived in Wisconsin until they moved to Ohio in 1968. His parents had a troubled marriage. According to Lionel, “Joyce was far from an ideal mother. She was on prescription drugs while pregnant with Jeffrey, and was mentally unstable after she gave birth to him” (Giacomazzo, 2021).
Later the same year, Jeffrey committed his first murder. Dahmer had picked up a hitchhiker by the name of Steven Hicks. He was almost 19 years old. After hours of drinking, listening to music and talking, young Hicks was ready to move on and continue his journey. Jeffrey however, didn’t want Hicks to leave, so he hit him with a 10 pound dumbbell twice in the back of the head.
Every article, report and case study about Dahmer always says the same thing; he was a withdrawn young man who had a drinking and no friends. His father thought something was wrong with him and his grandmother who also thought his behavior was strange and at one point
Jeffrey had written a one-hundred sixty page confession.. Dahmer was sentence to life he was sent to Columbia Correctional Institute in Wisconsin. After a while Jeffrey was use to the prison life and was a self-proclaimed born-again Christian.. Jeffrey was baptized May tenth nineteen ninety- four. Jeffrey was sentenced to fifteen life terms, a total of nine- hundred thirty seven years in
At age six, Dahmer and his family relocated to Bath Township, Ohio where he would later commit heinous crimes and would go unnoticed for quite some time. Many of the behaviors Jeffrey Dahmer displayed were firmly rooted and shaped in childhood. Jeffrey's mother was pregnant with her second child, which received considerably more attention than Jeffrey did. Young Jeffrey was fascinated with death and mutilation, even went as far as picking up roadkill mutilating them to see how all the parts work together. Dahmer was sexually molested by a neighborhood boy in rural Bath Township.