Jeffrey Dahmer Research Paper

All murderers start out the same way. They start in their mothers womb as innocent lovable human beings, but what makes them turn to their sadistic personalities? Sadism is the tendency to cause pain in order feel pleasure. Most serial killers are sadists. Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted
Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Charles Manson are some of the most sadistic serial killers to date. At one point in their life, they were all loving happy children, but something changed.
Serial killers all start out as normal human beings. While most developed psychopathic tendencies early on most are able to control their impulses. But something in their lives' change causing that self-control to vanish into thin air. When profiling a killer most will say he is from an unloving …show more content…
We all characterize fear, disillusion, and disappointment in different ways. In the mind of a psychopath, those emotions are multiplied causing them to feel trapped and making them lash out. Dahmer's parents traveled a lot in his teenage years and ended up separating. That alone caused Dahmer to feel betrayed and feel abused. That led him to kill 17 young boys as he also experimented with his homosexuality. He states that he was fascinated with the anatomy of the human being. When a thorough search of his house was conducted they found several severed heads and organs in his refrigerator and in containers. Another example, Ted Bundy started killing simply because his girlfriend dumped him. All his victims resemble his ex. John
Wayne Gacy's troubled childhood and his alcoholic abusive dad caused him to kill 34 young males. Now just to make it clear in no way shape or form are those excuses to kill. That is just the killers perspective on their life. They feel their life has been horrible so they reenact that same pain they felt upon someone else, which in their mind this action is justified. All