Jeffrey Dahmer Case

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Criminal Justice Prof.Joseph Heinrich Jeffrey Dahmer By: Jesse Lankard Jeffrey Dahmer Early life and first murder Jeffrey Lincoln Dahmer also known as The Milwaukee Cannibal and The Milwaukee Monster was born May 21st, 1960 to his parents Joyce Annette and Lionel Herbert Dahmer. When Dahmer was six years old he had minor hernia surgery that afterwards changes in his behavior were reported. He went from a happy young boy to increasingly insecure and a loss in self-confidence, these changes seemed to coincide with the birth of his younger brother David Dahmer who was born seven years after him. At age eight Jeffrey and his family moved to Bath Ohio due to his father’s career as an analytical chemist. The move seemed to deepen his already increasing odd behavior and seclusion from society. By age fourteen he started to have impulsions to murder and perform necrophilia, these impulsions were amplified again when his parents ’marriage fell apart and they divorced in 1977. Dahmer’s social awkwardness extended past his withdraw from social groups and blank expressions. Instead of normal activities for kids his age like playing outside and making friends. Dahmer would routinely ride around on his bicycle searching for road kill, reportedly stripping the skin and keeping the bones, he also dissected many of the carcasses. At one point he had taken the head from a dog and placed it on a stake. Dahmer attended Revere High school, and was seen as an outcast among the schools social order. Although an average student with decent grades and a spot on the schools newspaper he still had trouble with making friends and eventually started drinking heavily, by the time he graduated Jeffrey was a full blown alcoholic. He co... ... middle of paper ... ...onerak and tried to lead him away from the women and the officers insisting that the boy was his 19 year old lover and that while drinking they had, had an argument and Konerak ran out of the apartment. The two women pleaded for the officers to take the young boy away. But instead returned him to Dahmer, they never checked the boy’s age or searched who Jefferey Dahmer was; if they had they would have seen that he was still on probation for molestation charges. Once at the apartment officers noticed a strange smell but did not seek out the source of the stench, which had been one of his previous victims. Once he was left alone with the boy he murdered him and dismembered the body, and like the others kept his skull as one of his many souvenirs. Dahmer’s need for companionship mixed with his perversions led to the idea of turning his victims into “zombies” m

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