Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer: Serial Killer

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Born Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer on May 21, 1960. He was the first of two sons to Joyce Dahmer and Lionel Dahmer. His mother worked as a teletype machine instructor while his father was a student at Marquette University. He was studying to achieve his degree in Chemistry. As Jeffrey entered into first grade his mother spent more and more time recovering from weakness. His father was still studying at the university which took up most of his time but when his father was home, it was his mother who demanded Lionel's attention the most. She wanted his attention so bad that she went as far as to attempted suicide with some pills which she had become addicted to before she was pregnant. It has been said that she had been taking the pills while she was …show more content…

He did have one short lived relationship but nothing ever come of it. He began to have fantasies that involved dominance and control. Those began to become intertwined with his dissection obsessed. He devised a plan to take a jogger that always ran past his house and use his body sexually while he was unconscious. Fortunately, the jogger did not run his usual route on the day Jeffrey wanted to act upon his plan. Though he never tried to attack him again, this was later said by Dahmer that this was his first plan to attack another human …show more content…

Upon his return, he exhumed Steven's remains to pulverize the bones and scatter the pieces even more widely behind the home. Shortly after his return he continued his drinking and was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct. His father then decided a change of scenery he figured it would do him some good so he sent Jeffrey to live with his grandmother in Wisconsin. At first, this arrangement worked out well for him. He was attending church and even found a job as a phlebotomist. While employed here, he was arrested for indecent exposure for showing himself to 25 women and children. He was convicted in 1982, and ordered to pay a fine plus court cost. He was then laid off from his job and remained jobless for a couple years. Living off of whatever money his grandmother provided him. Finally, in 1985 he was hired by the Milwaukee Ambrosia Chocolate Factory as a mixer. Shortly after he was a the library for a reading and had another guy throw himself at him and offer him sexual favors. Dahmer denied him but this is believed to be what stirred up the thoughts of control over guys again in his mind. He then started frequenting the guy bars of Milwaukee. While he was enjoying himself going to the bars and bathhouses, he would get frustrated with his partners because they were moving while they preformed the sex acts on

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