Jeffrey Dahmer: A Serial Killer

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Have you ever wondered why or how a person could kill or better yet eat another human being? If you have you’re not the only person, over the years people have been puzzled on how a person can slowly develop into such a monster. Some of the questions we ask ourselves are what happen that motivated them to become what they are today? What possessed them to do what they did? Lastly, do all of them share a common characteristic? Before we start talking about the history of one of the most well-known serial killer that was also cannibal and a cannibal that was almost a serial killer, we must first defined what a serial killer and a cannibal is. According to the book Serial murderers and their victims the FBI defines a serial killer as “the unlawful …show more content…
In Jeffrey Dahmer’s childhood there were some events that Dahmer had experienced that might have motivated him to a life of killing and eating. According to Lionel Dahmer at age 4, Jeffrey had a double hernia, and had to have surgery. Lionel thinks this quasi-castrating surgery affected his son. According to Masters he explains that “Dahmer’s fascination with dead animals might have begun when, at the age of four, he noted his father removing animal bones from beneath the family home”. According to Lionel Dahmer, his son was "oddly thrilled" by the sound the bones made, and instantly developed a fixation for playing with and collecting animal bones. He would occasionally search beneath and around the family home for additional bones. (Masters, …show more content…
These cannibal fantasies were developed by watching the Robinson Crusoe film on television and Armin says “this awakened the fascination of cannibalism within me.” Armin later explains that he “started wishing that Sandy the boy in the TV ‘Flipper’ series would his fantasy brother, the one who would be in me.” Later on Armin says the fantasy began to frustrated him that now he “wanted something more solid than an idea.” He explains “I wanted a real person to be part of me.” Armin also explains how as a child he watched butchering in Rotenburg. (Stampf,

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