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Jeffrey Dahmer: Serial Killer

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most of everyone Knows the name Dahmer from his monstrous, nauseating and unspeakable acts on 17 males. Because of his mental illnesses Jeffrey Dahmer will forever be known for his notorious killings from the late 70s to the early 90s due to what he did to the bodies of his victims, why he killed innocent people, and how he successfully kept this secret for years. Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee Wisconsin to his mother Joyce and father Lionel Dahmer. He was described as a beautiful boy, both of his parents had considered him to be a normal child. Dahmer was happy and energetic until the age of four when he had a surgery to correct a double hernia. One of his teachers saw him differently though, Jeffrey’s first grade teacher wondered …show more content…

The murder happened in June of 78’ when he had picked up a hitchhiker name Steven hicks. Dahmer then took Hicks back to his parents house when he proceeded to get him drunk. When Hicks tried to leave Dahmer killed him by hitting him in the head, and strangling him with a barbell. After the murder Dahmer dismembered the body of hicks, packed his body in a trash bag then buried his body parts behind his parents house. He later exhumed the remains, crushed the bones with a sledgehammer and scattered them across a wooden ravine. The police pulled him over with his body parts in the backseat “ I couldn’t believe it, I thought I was dreaming” Dahmer told the police after they didn’t search his car (Dundas). Dahmer had enlisted into the military in January of 1979 just one year after his first killing. Upon learning about this many people question why he was allowed to go into the army in the first place. He was honorarily discharged from the army after he completed only two years of his initial three-year enlistment. Reasoning behind this was his intensive alcohol abuse, which had just got worse with time and eventually deemed him unfit to serve in the military. After Dahmer had gotten home he was arrested for disorderly conduct which this had prompted his dad to arrange him to stay with his grandmother where

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