Jeffrey Dahmer: A Brief Biography

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As many people already know Jeffrey Dahmer as a crazy, weird, and psychotic person. Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most well-known serial killers in the history of the United States and people from the United States just don’t know him people from everywhere will recognize the name Jeffrey Dahmer. It is to be told that Mr. Jeffrey Dahmer had an average childhood as every other child did. Jeffrey Dahmer was born on May 21st, 1960 in West Allis, WI; his parents were Joyce and Lionel Dahmer. Jeffrey Dahmer was a normal child growing up but it all started to change at the age of ten years old when his parents started to notice that he was starting to drift away from people and keep to himself. Jeffrey Dahmer had his parents with him until he was eighteen that’s when his parents started to have marriage problems and communicating with each another. As every other kid would be outside playing basketball, baseball, physical sports that normal kids would participate in Jeffrey Dahmer would keep to himself, then rather being involved with the other children by playing with dead animals. He loved using chemicals to watch animals dissolve and decompose. As Jeffrey Dahmer was in high school, he had found alcohol were he had begun drinking heavily and constantly. His parents had notice the growing problem of his alcoholism. His father had tried to make him stop drinking by making him enlist in to the army so he could get away from everything. Jeffrey Dahmer did enlist into the Army but not for very long he had got kicked out of the Army for his drinking problem that he had acquired from back in high school. Having a stable home was hard for Jeffrey Dahmer to find after the Army. He had moved down to Florida but while down there he had live...

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...ividuals working treatment programs for Jeffrey Dahmer. During his teen age era is what made Jeffrey Dahmer stand out from with everyone else with the alcohol problem he had enquired growing up. Jeffrey’s father had tried to treat his son’s problem with alcohol by making him enlist into the military. There was noticeable risk factors growing up for Jeffrey Dahmer but no one was in the power or will for him to get the right treatment programs that might have could be vital help for him. Even though Jeffrey Dahmer tried to get mentally insane for his role in the crime, the judge did the right thing by giving him nine hundred plus years. It is safe to say now that Jeffrey Dahmer spree is long past history. The passing of Jeffrey Dahmer would have given some much needed remorse from the families of the victims since he had been proven of murdering their family members.

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