Jeffery Dahmer
Jeffery Dahmer
Case Overview
Jeffery Dahmer was known as the milwaukee monster. A serial killer and sex offender who murdered then dismembered 17 men. He was charged with 16 counts of murder pleaded gulity however, found legally sane. He was sentenced to 15 life consecutive sentences on Nov 28, 1994 Dahmer was killed in prison.
Crime Background
Squential
He experimented with injecting caustic material in brains of victims to sedate them into 'zombies'. Dissected people and turned them into souvenirs. He had organized method of deaths, lobotomites, and postmortem. He sought attention with odd behaviors, faked seizures.
At first controlled planning then as increasing frequency and soon loss of control in his killing timings. His Victims Black Male: 8, Asian Male: 1, White male: 1. The ages range from: 14-33. His killing spree started off with 1978 then he went dormant for years until the rapid kills during 1987-1991.
Childhood
Dahmer had a rough childhood. He had divorce parents, that fought custody over his brother but not him. When his mom got custody of his brother and he was left with his dad until soon the dad left Dahmer. In his social life, he had no friends and was very neglected. In high school, he was known to be a 'class clown' as he would fake seizures constantly.
During his childhood years he realized he was homosexual at 13. However, he had built the desire to violently force submission. From social isolation, Dahmer built up a fascination for taxidermy and death. He also had a fetish for a certain body type. Specifically, young African American males.
Analyzation
Dahmer turned his hostility into a sadistic sexual behavior characteristic of the psychopathology of a serial killer. He aimed for control through violence. Dahmer had psychological and wanted to create partners who would never leave him. Dahmer didn't have much empathy and committed horrible gruesome crimes.
Dahmer had a little remorse, wasn't very charming, and his motives were different from other psychopaths, "organized" psychopaths like Ted Bundy. He strived by compulsive, emotional need to be with a person rather than just power-and-control motives.
