Jeffrey Skilling

Americans seem to have a sick fascination with the sick and demented, and dark and morbid. For many, it is explained like “watching a train wreck, but not being able to look away”, while others just seem to find it fascinating. There have been many serial killers, who have become notorious for the ways in which they murdered their victims, and the ways that they were portrayed in the media of that time. When asked to name serial killers that are well known, names like Bundy and Dahmer seem to…

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, a notorious serial killer and sex offender in the years of 1978-1991 held a unholy secret in his apartment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He killed around seventeen men and violated most of them: rape, dismemberment, necrophilia, and cannibalism were involved in these murders. He was only charged with fifteen counts of murder and was sentence to nine hundred and fifty-seven years in prison. Dahmer was a sick-twisted individual he grew up with a pretty normal childhood until an…

Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy Introduction “A serial killer is a person who murders three or more people, usually due to abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant break between them” (Wikipedia). Notorious serial killer and sex offender Jeffrey Dahmer killed 17 men between 1978 and 1991. Dahmer was sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms, and then murdered by a fellow prison inmate in 1994 (“Jeffrey Dahmer…

When many people think of a serial killer they think of Hannibal Lecter, although he is fictional, or Jeffrey Dahmer. A serial killer is someone who murders at least three people that fit a specific category weather it is based on gender, race, wealth, age, religion, or any other characteristic (Serial Killer 2001). Serial killers have intrigued and frightened people in American culture for decades. One of the more horrifying aspects of serial killers is that there is no way of distinguishing…

Sadly in the flawed world that we live in, there are people who have clouded judgments and cannot function rationally. There are people who can commit malicious acts and justify them by their own means that do not necessarily make sense to a sane person. Unfortunately some of these people are psychopaths and serial killers. One of the first serial killers documented in America was Dr. Henry Howard Holmes. He created a hotel in Chicago in 1893 for The World’s Columbian Exhibition. This event…

Hello I am Michelle Torres a well-known forensic scientist, and I am here to prove that Bob last week murdered Lisa in her own home. I have the evidence to properly prove that my accusation is correct. Hair evidence is very important, it is a timeline that holds a lot of information about a person, like drug use, locations, and dietary information. Analysts are able to tell if individual hairs are human or animal. In our case we are working with human hair, human hair can be tested to…

Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most notorious serial killers in the history of the United States. The book My Friend Dahmer gives an account of the insidious murderer from his upbringing to his first murder. Dahmer’s murderous instincts developed over several years with specific events that mark a difference in his life and what he would become later on a cold blooded murderer. There are three specific scenes from the book My Friend Dahmer that change the reader’s perspective and impact the…

In 1985 Leicester University Geneticist Alec Jeffrey’s developed a technique in which DNA that can identify people by using finger prints also known as DNA Profiling (http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/whoami/findoutmore/yourgenes/whydoscientistsstudygenes/whatisdnaprofiling.aspx). Fingerprints are unique to everyone, even identical twins boast different prints so with that in mind fingerprints where a used as a new method of investigating crime scenes. Later new part of the body was found to be…

We all know of Jeffrey Dahmer, the monster that was exposed in 1991 for his twisted murders. However, how he came to be, remains relatively hidden. Based on Derf Backderf’s acclaimed graphic novel titled “My Friend Dahmer,” director Marc Meyers spins a sadistic and deceptive adaptation that chronicles Jeffrey Dahmer’s teenage years amid familial struggles and the inability to fit in at school. As this sadist biopic unfolds, audiences will experience Dahmer’s gradual descent into twisted evil,…

Identifying the Markings of a Killer Richard Tithecott, an expert on Jeffrey Dahmer and the modern serial killer who wrote Of Men And Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer And The Construction Of The Serial Killer, inspires the reader to imagine a young boy born in a small New Hampshire town with a population less than that of the average college campus. His mother, a devout Methodist, preached Scripture to him whenever she got the chance. His father, a “devout” alcoholic, yelled at and beat him every time…