Jeffrey Dahmer And Manson Comparison

A lot of criminals come from troubled childhoods and/or broken homes. Most people don't wake up thinking that they want to start a life of crime because they have nothing better to do. Jeffrey Dahmer and Charles Manson are no exception. I would like to think if they were raised differently, they might not have become the notorious criminals that people love to hate. Dahmer and Manson have been in and out of jail since they were young. Manson raped a fellow male inmate while serving time at McNeil Island Prison in Washington State. For Dahmer, raping, slaughtering, and butchering his victims were a package deal. Susan Atkins was being arrogant while being interrogated about another crime, the Mansons were not being looked at as suspects for the Sharon Tate murders. After …show more content…
Manson never had hands on involvement with the Sharon Tate murders. People say, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can't force the horse to drink the water.” Manson lead members of his cult (the horses) to murder celebrities that he thought were evil (drinking the water). As a cult leader, he just told people what to do but he was still responsible for the murders. He did not feel remorse about the murders that happened and continued to think that he is a good person. He was even planning to kill other celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen, and Tom Jones. Dahmer, on the other hand, felt a lot of remorse. He once said, “I know society would never forgive me. I know families of the victims will never be able to forgive me for what I have done. I promise I will pray each day to ask for their forgiveness when the hurt goes away, if ever. I have seen their tears, and if I could give my life right now to bring their loved ones back, I would do it” (Dahmer). Manson never thought what he was doing was wrong but thought he was being told messages through lyrics from ‘The Beatles’