Dahmer claims that his attraction toward necrophilia and murder began at the age of 14. It appears that the breakdown of his parents' marriage, their divorce and the psychological stresses may have been the reason for turning these earlier thoughts into actions. In June 1978, He dismembered the corpse of his first victim,Steven Hicks, …show more content…
In September 1987, Dahmer took his second victim, Steven Toumi, whom he met in a gay bar. He bought a large suitcase to transport Tuomi's body to his grandmother's basement, where he did sexual acts on the corpse before dismembering it and disposing the remains in the garbage. His remains were never found.
Dahmer's killings lasted for more than 13 years. During that time he sought out mostly African American men at gay bars, luring them home with the bribe of money or sex and gave them alcohol mixed with drugs before strangling them to death. He would then have sex acts with the corpses before dismembering them and disposing them. He also often kept his victim's genitals or skulls as souvenirs. He frequently took photos of his victims during the murder process just so he could relive the experience.
Around the same time, He encountered with a 13-year-old Laotian boy that resulted in charges of sexual exploitation and second-degree sexual assault for Dahmer. He pleaded guilty and claimed that the boy had appeared much older. While awaiting sentencing for his sexual assault case, Dahmer moved back in with his grandmother. In March 1989, he lured, drugged, strangled, sodomized, photographed, dismembered and disposed the body of Anthony Sears, a young African American man and aspiring