﻿It’s hard to imagine the horrors that humans are capable of committing,
especially against each other. Even when you hear about it or directly see it yourself,
it can be difficult to fully comprehend that the perpetrator is another human being.
This is especially relevant when talking about Jefferey Dahmer, one of the most deranged,
twisted, and evil human beings in American history. His crimes continue to shock those
who hear about them, even to this day, and today we’ll be taking a deeper look into them.
Jeffrey Dahmer was born May 21st, 1960 to Lionel and Joyce Dahmer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
By all accounts, Jeffrey seemed like he would turn out to be a normal kid if maybe a little
reserved. However, his teachers quickly noted that his inclination to be alone was a possible sign of
neglect at home, which was partially true as both of his parents spent minimal amounts of time with
him. His dad was frequently busy with college, and his mother was often ill, leaving her sick in bed
and out of sight. Not only this, but Lionel and Joyce’s marriage was tenuous at best, leaving the
house in a state of extreme tension that prevented Jeffrey from ever really feeling comfortable,
often having to listen while the house was filled with yelling and arguing.
Already struggling to bond with their son as is, Jeffrey’s parents were scared of how he
might deal with the news that he would soon have a baby brother to share their parent’s
attention with. In order to keep Jeffrey from resenting the attention his brother would get,
Lionel and Joyce decided it would be a good idea to let then 6 year old Jeffrey name his brother,
eventually deciding on the name David. Not long after this, Jeffrey began to develop a deep
fascination with animal remains, especially with how bones “fit together” , starting out with a
harmless bug collection but soon evolving into the corpses of full sized animals. Once, Jeffrey even
came across a dog corpse in the forest near his home which he decapitated and nailed to a tree. At
only 10 years old he randomly asked his dad what would happen if you put chicken bones in bleach.
Being a chemist himself, Lionel thought this was merely a scientific question and didn’t think
anything of it, even demonstrating to his oldest son how to safely bleach and preserve bones.
In 1968 the family moved to Bath, Ohio, and at age 14 Jeffrey started attending Reverence High
School where he was quickly labelled as an outcast with few friends. Over time however,
Dahmer became somewhat of a class clown. He would imitate seizures and cerebral palsy to make
his classmates laugh, and even coined the term “Doing a Dahmer” to reference acting like this.
This time was also when Jeffrey began to develop issues with alcoholism, blatantly drinking in
broad daylight and turning up to school drunk, once even telling another student that the scotch
he was drinking in an early morning class was “[his] medicine”. These early teenage years were
also a turning point in Jeffrey’s sexuality, as he began to feel sexual compulsions relating to
other boys and violence. Dahmer later noted that he was especially preoccupied with his
fantasies’ chests which would later lead to an obsession with dissection. When he was 16
these compulsions took an even darker turn when he began to fantasize about attacking and raping
a jogger who freqeantly ran near his house. Jeffrey went so far as to even grab a baseball
bat and wait in some bushes for the man to come by on his usual jog, however by pure chance
the man didn’t run by that day and narrowly avoided being brutally attacked and assaulted.
By 1977 Jeffrey’s drinking had gotten completely out of hand and his grades had taken a sharp
nosedive because of this, as well as because his parents' marriage had finally come crumbling down.
His father Lionel would move out in 1978, just before Jeffrey graduated highschool, and Joyce
would move away not long after with David, leaving Jeffrey alone in the family home.
Being completely alone in the family house gave Dahmer the space he needed
to explore the fantasies he had kept to himself all these years. On June 18th,
a mere three weeks after his graduation, Jeffrey picked up 18 year old Steven Hicks who was on his
way to a concert, but was convinced by Dahmer to come over and have a few drinks before the show.
After a few hours of hanging out, listening to music, and drinking,
Hicks went to leave and was struck in the head with a dumbbell by his gracious host.
While unconscious, Hicks was then strangled to death by Dahmer, who proceeded to masturbate
over the body and drag it into a crawl space beneath the house where it was dissected and
buried. At a later point Jeffrey dug Hick’s body back up and removed the flesh from the bones and
dissolved it before crushing the bones with a sledgehammer. Not long after this, Lionel
moved back into the house, completely unaware of the horrors that had occurred while he was gone,
and convinced Jeffrey to enroll into college, although he would drop out a mere 3 months in.
In early 1979, jeffrey joined the military, working as a combat medic for a time in Germany,
however his alcoholism still proved to be an issue. He would continue to serve
in the military until March of 1981 where he was honourably discharged. 2 soldiers
who served alongside Dahmer both claimed he raped them, with one ever saying that it was
repeated. Following the military Jeffrey briefly moved back home but after being arrested for
disorderly conduct he was sent away to live with his grandmother back in Wisconsin.
Moving to Wisconsin did nothing to improve Jeffrey’s attitude, and his drinking problems
began to rear their ugly head again, leading to him getting arrested for indecent exposure,
and in 1986 he would be accused of masturbating in public in front of two twelve year old boys.
He soon found himself thinking back to the sexual fantasies of his teenage years,
and Dahmer picked up a man named Steven Tuomi on November 20, 1987, and checked the two of
them into a hotel. Dahmer then blacked out and awoke to find Tuomi’s corpse on the floor with
his chest beaten in and covered with bruises, as well as blood on his own hands. Dahmer would claim
that he had had no intention of killing Tuomi that night and was shocked that it had ever happened.
He then used a large suitcase to transport the body back to his grandmother’s basement
where he severed the head, arms, and legs, and boiled the head so that he could extract the skull
which he then used for masturbation until it became too brittle and had to be destroyed.
This whole event solidified in Jeffrey the idea that human beings were merely objects
for his own pleasure, and he soon began to seek out more and more men to murder and defile.
He killed two more men while still living at his Grandmother’s house before she kicked
him out for bringing young men around late at night and for the horrendous smells that were
permeating the house, and Jeffrey moved into a one bedroom apartment on North 25th Street.
In March of 1989 Dahmer killed Anthony Sears, a young African American man who
was an aspiring model. Dahmer flayed the skin from the body, but unlike his previous victims,
Dahmer was so attracted to Sears that he chose to permanently preserve Sears’ head and genitals,
and even took them with him when he later moved apartments.Between this event and 1991, Dahmer’s
body count would jump from two to seventeen, with each murder being even more horrid than the last.
Dahmer began to develop habits he performed with each murder, including dissecting the
body and preserving certain organs for consumption, dissolving bones in acid,
and bleaching the skulls. He also eventually began performing rough lobotomies on his victims
by injecting their heads with hydrochloric acid, reducing them to a docile and submissive state.
Dahmer was able to get away with so many murders by choosing victims who wouldn't be missed,
targeting societal outcasts and criminals. One of Dahmer’s most infamous murders occured on
March 27th, 1991, when he came across a 14 year old Laotian boy that he lured into his apartment,
molested, and lobotomized with hydrochloric acid. At some point Jeffrey left to go buy
some alcohol while the boy was unconscious, and when he returned he found that Sinthasomphone,
the boy, had somehow managed to wander naked outside and attract the attention of three of
Dahmer’s female neighbors. The police were alerted and came by to check the scene out, but completely
believed Dahmer’s lies about the two men being lovers who had fought an let Dahmer take the boy
back into his apartment, despite the fact that they could blatantly see that Sinthasomphone
was bleeding from his rectum. Once back in the apartment, Dahmer injected the poor 14 year old
once again, which killed him, leaving Dahmer to spend a day dismembering the corpse.
The downfall of Jeffrey Dahmer came on July 22nd, 1991, when one of Dahmer’s intended victims,
a man named Tracy Edwards, managed to escape the apartment and alert nearby police that a “freak”
had handcuffed him and threatened him with a knife. The police returned to the apartment
and after a quick search one of the officers noticed the many, many polaroids Dahmer had
taken of his victim’s corpses in various states of decay and dismemberment. After subduing and
arresting Dahmer, the police were able to conduct a more thorough search through the apartment,
and were unable to prepare themselves for the horrors they were about to unearth. They found
four severed heads, seven skulls, collections of blood, two human hearts, a piece of arm muscle,
and an entire torso and bags of organs in Dahmer’s refrigerator, and that was just the kitchen,
Other areas of the apartment housed whole human skeletons, a pair of disembodied hands,
two severed penises, a mummified scalp, and a 57-gallon drum containing acid that was in the
process of dissolving three other torsos. On top of all of this they found 74 Polaroid pictures
that documented Dahmer’;s sick fantasies, as well as his dissection and dismemberment process.
While being interrogated by police Dahmer was more than willing to cooperate, and confessed to every
murder he had committed. He not only described how each victim died and how he dealt with their body,
but Jeffrey also admitted his necrophillic habits to the police and detailed to them an altar he
was in the process of building out of his victims’ remains. Dahmer’s trial began in January of 1992,
and Dahmer pleaded guilty but insane to the 15 counts of murder he had been charged with.
On February 15th, 1992, Dahmer was found guilty and sentenced to 16 consecutive life sentences.
Jeffrey adjusted very well to his life in prison, however that was soon to come to an end.
Not long after being allowed to interact with the general population of the prison,
Dahmer was assigned to work with two other inmates named Jesse Anderson and Christopher Scarver.
When the guards went to check on how the three men’s work was coming along,
they found Anderson and Dahmer both beaten to death with a metal rod by the hands of Scarver,
who would later state that he killed Dahmer because he was disturbed with his crimes.
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