If people had paid closer attention to Jeffrey Dahmer’s earlier cases and convictions, he could have been caught much sooner and had his reign of terror put to an end. Born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Lionel and Joyce Dahmer, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was a poster child for a typical american kid. But, when he was around six years old, a minor surgery to correct a double hernia seemed to cause a change in his usual happy personality. He began to talk less and lacked all sense of self confidence and if that wasn’t enough, Jeffrey’s father was offered a job in Ohio causing the family to move far from their home and worsening his insecurities. By his early teenage years he was extremely tense, disengaged and had very few friends. (Jeffrey Dahmer Biography) He was just fourteen years old when he claims he began to have thoughts about murder and developed a weird attraction to corpses. His parents divorced around the same time so there is some speculations as to
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His victim pool included mostly African-American men and boys which he met at homosexual meeting places. He would lure his victims to his grandmother’s basement with promises of sex, drugs, alcohol or money and once he talked them into joining him he would feed them alcohol laced with drugs before strangling them to death. Afterwards he would have sex with and or masturbate on their dead bodies before disposing of them. He soon developed a new fetish which included keeping some sort of souvenir. His favorites included removing their skulls and genitals or taking pictures with the victims throughout various stages of the murders, allowing him to relive the experiences over and over. Occasionally he would even assemble the victims skulls into an “audience” and masturbate in front of them to achieve
His victim pool included mostly African-American men and boys which he met at homosexual meeting places. He would lure his victims to his grandmother’s basement with promises of sex, drugs, alcohol or money and once he talked them into joining him he would feed them alcohol laced with drugs before strangling them to death. Afterwards he would have sex with and or masturbate on their dead bodies before disposing of them. He soon developed a new fetish which included keeping some sort of souvenir. His favorites included removing their skulls and genitals or taking pictures with the victims throughout various stages of the murders, allowing him to relive the experiences over and over. Occasionally he would even assemble the victims skulls into an “audience” and masturbate in front of them to achieve