Biography of Jeffrey Dahmer, A Murderer

Biography of Jeffrey Dahmer, A Murderer

Jeffrey Dahmer was born May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He had a

typical family, which consisted of his father Lionel Dahmer, his

mother Joyce Dahmer, and his little brother David.

When Jeffrey was eight years old, he and his family moved to the small

town of Bath Township, Ohio. Since Jeffrey didn't have any friends

there, he would spend most of his time in the woods behind their

house. There he would mutilate and decapitate small animals, mostly

dogs, cats, and squirrels. His parents worried but figured it was just

a boy thing.

When Jeffrey started high school, everybody tried to keep their

distance from him. They thought he was kind of strange because of the

way he would talk and because he had a very short temper. After a

while he learned that if he could drink with the best of them, he

would fit in. He knew that if he would act different, such as creating

a scene in a public place, people would watch him and he would be

getting attention. Soon after, he became very dependent on alcohol and

drank heavily every day. Jeffrey would like to trace around bodies

with chalk on the class room floor. When he started doing this, his

classmates knew that he was a little more than just odd. Jeffrey was

an average student, he had some weak subjects but he also was very

good in others. On June 1978, Jeffrey graduated from Revere High

School.

Jeffrey was very racist and once said that if he could kill all blacks

he would. It is unknown what made him so racist, although much of his

family was. It was later found out that Jeffrey never killed a white

man or boy. He also never killed a wom...

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wasn't charged for it.

On November 28, 1994, Jeffrey's body was found in the restroom of the

Columbia Correctional Institute. He had been murdered by a black man

who had also killed another racist white man at the same time. The

three men had been assigned to mop the restroom floors when an

argument started. An argument ending in tragedy to some and joy to

others. It was later described that Jeffrey's head looked like it has

been repeatedly smashed into the wall or floor. It resembled a

watermelon that had been dropped a couple times.

For Jeffrey's family it was a very hard time, despite all the grief he

had caused to innocent families, they still loved him. The reporters

were also very hard for the Dahmer family to deal with. To many it was

just the end to another nightmare.