Jeffrey Dahmer's Mental Disorder

This paper is a biography about Jeffery Dahmer, a notorious serial killer and sex offender. Mr. Dahmer was born on May 21st, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jeffery murdered a total of 17 men, while molesting some of these victims. His first murder victim was Steven Hicks back in 1978. His killing spree went from 1978 up until 1991. When he was seized, he was sentenced to fifteen consecutive life terms. But on November 28, 1994 Jeffery Dahmer was murdered by a fellow prison inmate by the name of Christopher Scarver.

Jeffrey Dahmer is a notorious man and it is for all of the right reasons that he has been labeled notorious. From 1987 to 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer murdered, sexually assaulted, and dismembered seventeen young men. He has been defined as many different things: necrophile, sadist maniac, psychotic, and many more. There were many signs that led up to his deviant behavior. A look into his adolescence will show some of those clear signs.

Jeffrey Dahmer was a fun and active child. He liked to wrestle, run and play with other children. But when his parents started to fight, he felt alone in the world. He began hiding in the woods and collecting the carcasses of dead animals. These carcasses gave him the comfort his family and classmates did not. At the age of 31 he went to jail for the murder of 17 people, where he was killed by a fellow inmate a few years later. What drove such a happy child to become a serial killer?

Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men between the years of 1978 to 1991 in which he participated in necrophilia, dismemberment and cannibalism (Meyer, 2006). As a child, Dahmer was shy and suffered from low self-esteem. At a young age, Dahmer displayed abnormal behavior starting with the collecting of dead animals and using acid to strip off the meat having necrophilia desires. This escalated in his teen years turning into fantasies of killing and mutilating men. After graduating from high school, he was living alone and the feelings of abandonment returned giving him justification in his mind to commit crimes. Throughout his teens years he abused alcohol, which also lead to abnormal behavior. By the

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Jeffery Dahmer is arguably the most notorious serial killer -cannibal in history. Targeting men and boys, Dahmer‘s life of crime began with drinking and sex offending. His murders were exceptionally gruesome, often involving rape, torture, necrophilia, dismemberment, and cannibalism. The media often commented on how “normal” Dahmer appeared. Jeffrey Dahmer made everyone question how one develops into such a monster. By the time of his apprehension, Dahmer had sodomized, murdered, and cannibalized at least seventeen men, mostly black, Hispanic or Asian, in the Milwaukee area between the years of 1978 until his arrest in 1991 (Williams pg.1).

Dahmer’s mother had pregnancy issues and took several different drugs to help; his mother was also extremely depressed--after a while, his mother developed an addiction to the drugs and abused them severely, which is extremely pernicious to the health, both physical and mental, of a growing fetus (Giannetakis). While growing up, Dahmer enjoyed to be by himself. He often took walks into the woods near his house. He would find dead animals and examine their innards; although he liked to dismember dead animals, he didn’t wish to inflict pain onto any living creature (Giannetakis).

He was a hedonistic killer; a rapist and a cannibal. Dahmer murdered a total of seventeen males over his thirteen year killing spree. He was sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms in prison. The FBI eventually determined his ritual for killing his victims. Dahmer would take the male into his basement, strangle them and fulfill his sexual needs with the corpse. Sometimes, he would even eat the human flesh. He would only practice cannibalism on the victims he believed he truly loved. (Biography.com Editors). Dahmer was killed in prison on November 28th 1994 by Christopher Scarver (Biography.com Editors). The FBI interviewed Dahmer in prison. His exact words were “Lust played a big part in the murders. Control and lust. Once it happened the first time, it just seemed like it had control of my life from then on. The killing was just a means to an end. That was the least satisfactory part. I didn’t enjoy doing that.” (Bonn). It is obvious to the FBI that Dahmer is a hedonistic killer that falls under the “lust” subcategory because he said himself, lust played a big part in the

“I started having obsessive thoughts of violence intermingled with sex and it just got worse and worse” (“Jeffrey Dahmer”). These are the words of one of the most notorious serial killers of the twentieth century: Jeffrey Dahmer. Jeffrey Dahmer committed crimes of murder, rape, necrophilia, dismemberment, and cannibalism. He committed seventeen murders over the course of thirteen years, which consisted of mostly young African American males. However, the people who knew Jeffrey Dahmer were entirely unaware of who he truly was. He fooled family, friends, and even law enforcement into thinking of him as just the guy next door. Attempting to understand Jeffrey Dahmer and the heinous crimes he committed

On July 25, 1991, Dahmer was charged with only four counts of murder. By August 22, 1991, Dahmer was charged with 11 murders in the state of Wisconsin. He was charged in the state of Ohio for the murder is Steven Hicks. He wasn’t charged with the attempted murder of Tracy Edwards or the murder of Steven Tuomi. At his preliminary hearing on January 13, 1992, Dahmer pleaded guilty (but insane) to 15 counts of murder.

In total Jeffery Dahmer killed 17 people throughout his crime spree and was arrested 4 times . There were many people affected by the actions of Jeffrey Dahmer such as the victim 's, family, and the community of Milwaukee. Total, there were 17 men in total that were killed. Jeffrey would go to gay bars and meet the men, take them home and then kill them. According to the article Crime Museum it stated, He first tried to attack a 13 year old boy but the boy got away and went to police. Dahmer was arrested and sentenced five years probation. According to the book Notorious Lives, just three weeks after graduating high school he had picked up a 18 year old hitchhiker named Steven Hicks in 1978 and brought him back to his parent’s house and forced him to do sexual actions with him. Then after he struck him in the head with a dumbbell and killed him. Stevens friends and family had reported him missing after 6 days from his disappearance. Jeff didn 't kill for another nine years. Steven Tuomi was the second victim, which he met at a bar and brought him home and then killed him. Dahmer however claims he has no memory of committing that crime. One of those victims was Anthony Sears, which Dahmer had killed him and kept his skull in a freezer where he kept other

Serial killers have fascinated the imaginations of people for a long time. One of the most notorious serial killers is Jeffrey Dahmer whose gruesome murders shocked the nation. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer also known as Milwaukee monster was a notorious American serial killer and sexual offender in the 1980s and early 1990s. Between 1978 and 1991 Dahmer had murdered 17 men. His victims were usually raped, tortured, dismembered, and cannibalism was also involved. Jeffrey was a troubled child psychologically and his social skills had a lot to be desired. All the way through his childhood he was ignored and had queer fantasies of cadavers. In his adulthood this psychosocial status quo didn 't change and was in fact aggravated.

Jeffery Dahmer is one of the country’s most notorious serial killers. Very few people don’t know who is and for good reason. He confessed to murdering 15 to 17 young men and boys (Hickey, 2016, p. 157). His reign of terror started in 1978 when he was just 18 years old and just three weeks after graduation (Hickey, 2016, p. 156). One reason why Dahmer is so famous is because of the cannibalism of some of his victims. Unlike some serial killers, he did not blame common problems, such as his parents, society, or pornography for his crimes. It is hard to say what exactly leads to a person wanting to kill however, there seems to be certain circumstances in which most serial killers experience.

Jeffrey Dahmer suffered from severe loneliness and antisocial behavior which were both influenced by his genetic makeup and his environment. Jeffrey Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 in West Allis, Wisconsin. Jeffrey had an intellect that was above average and seemed to have the mind of a normal, curious child until his parents divorced and his mother died. Shortly, Dahmer became a very reserved child who also had an attraction to animals. Dahmer’s later psychotic behavior

Jeffrey Dahmer was a sex offender and serial killer mainly between the years 1978 and 1991. He is well known for his severely atypical behaviors. Among his outward manners that are recognized as abnormal are paraphilia-specifically necrophilia and sexual sadism. Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims, whom were boys and men, suffered from rape, violence, dismemberment and finally their murders. Dahmer’s slow progression of killings soon turned into an obsession, which would later land him in prison with a sentence