Jeffrey Dahmer Research Paper

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Jeffrey Dahmer also known as the milwaukee cannibal was a very deranged and kind of a freak as a child. And i don’t mean this as a derogatory statement. His lifestyle was just odd. I say this because his parent’s found him many many times playing with dead animal bones and it didn't matter to him for him it was intriguing i believe it was a wonder for him and it was an afixiation of death and to see it for him was a rush and it meant he would see death again over and over that being his reason for killing . But he was a big trophy keeper he believed in keeping parts of his victims and savoring the memories of what he had done to his victims. And for me it’s those kind of people who won’t change and who only want to see others in fear or to …show more content…
It would be nine years before he would find his next victim.But during this nine year period his drinking habit became more of a problem.In fact he even dropped out of ohio state do to his drinking problem. His father insisted that Dahmer enlist in the army he was then sworn in December of nineteen seventy eight. He was posted out in Germany.And little did that help with his drinking he couldn’t even stay in do to it he was discharged in nineteen eighty one for alcoholism. The thing the Germans had tried to connect some murders to Dahmer when he had been there but the armed forces protected the view by saying he had no part in them.Back in the states he went home discharged and probably looked down by parts of his family. But the other part is that when Dahmer had gotten home he had dug up the remains of his first victim Hicks. When he did he pulverized them with a hammer and spread them out even more on the property. he was then arrested later that year due to a disorderly conduct. His father later sent him off to his grandmother's house in Wisconsin.But even his grandmother couldn’t stop he's growing drinking problem . He was then aressted again that year for master baiting in

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