Jeffery Dahmer: an Abnormal Psychotic Serial Killer and Sex Offender

Jeffery Dahmer: an Abnormal Psychotic Serial Killer and Sex Offender

  • Submitted By: tica14
  • Date Submitted: 03/26/2009 8:20 PM
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Jeffery Dahmer was an abnormal psychotic serial killer and sex offender. As a young boy he was extremely vicious, he found interest in dissecting animals. He would collect dead animals for fun. During high school, people described him as being very different but not dangerous. He was attracted to violence and became a alcoholic loner, oddball and ridiculed. After his mother and father got a divorce something in Dahmer led him to kill his first victim Stephen Hicks.
Dahmer invited this hitchhiker to his house for some beers. Even though Stephen Hicks agreed towards the end when he wanted to leave, Dahmer stopped him. Dahmer threatened Hicks and strangled him, smash his bones and scattered them in the woods behind his home. After his first killing Dahmer had the urge to kill more people.
Being in love by death he decided to join the army. This is when he expanded his knowledge on the human anatomy. He was then discharged for alcohol abuse. After not being to find a job, he moved in with his grandmother. There he was charged for exposing himself. Then he moved back to Milwaukee. He was arrested for sexually abusing a 13 year-old boy. He convinced the judge that he need therapy and was released with probation. Shortly after, he began a line of murders.

In May 1991, a boy was found on the street, wandering naked, and bleeding. Dahmer then told the police that the little boy was his 19 year-old boyfriend. The police then handed Dahmer the little boy. It was later found that there were bodies in the back of his room. Later that night, Dahmer killed the young boy and then kept his skull as a souvenir.
Dahmer killed another 15 young men. By July 1991 he was claiming one victim a week. Most of Dahmer’s victims were young men usually African Americans or Asians. Dahmer’s murdering of his victims was usually the same. It was considered as a deadly ritual. He would invite the men to his apartment to watch sexually videos and drink beer. Dahmer then would...

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