Jeffrey Dahmer Research Paper

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“Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders.” -Jess C. Scott. How can someone who has a normal childhood turn into something crazy? No one would ever believe that at the age of eighteen it was possible to takes someone’s life. In thirteen years seventeen males had had their lives taken away from them. People say sometimes with serial killers you can tell by how they act when they were young. That wasn’t apparent in the life of a cold blooded killer, whose name was Jeffrey Dahmer. Normal family life sometimes isn’t enough to keep a person sane. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960. He was born to Lionel and Joyce Dahmer. He was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin. “He wanted for nothing in his formative years, and was a happy child until the age of six, when a minor surgery to correct a double hernia seemed …show more content…

“Dahmer manifested an interest in animals.” (SOURCE) Gaining an interest in animals at a young age sounded normal for a child to do. It was what he did with the animal that was not something anyone else had ever heard of. “Dahmer would collect carcasses from the roadside: these animals Dahmer would dismember either at home or in an expanse of woodland behind the family home.”(SOURCE) When you read that quote you realize this is when the problem began. Even in Dahmer’s childhood his thoughts of dismembering things emerged. “Dahmer would dismember these animals and store the parts in jars in the family’s wooden tool shed, always explain that he was curious about how each animal fit together.” (SOURCE) He later moved to Bath Township, Ohio. Early signs of alcohol addiction started happening at the age of fifteen. Dahmer later graduated from a school named Revere High school. After graduating, it was said that, his parents saw a change in his behavior. Lionel and Joyce had been going through the process of trying to get a divorce. On

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