Jeffrey Dahmer

Who is Jeffrey Dahmer?

• Known as the Milwaukee Cannibal
• American serial killer and sex offender
• responsible for the rape, murder, and dismemberment of 17 boys

Early Family Life

• 1st child of the family
• His mother was always greedy for attention
• His father was very busy in university studies
• His mother tried to kill herself with an overdose on Equanil
• His parents didn't have a lot of time for him

Where it starts to get weird

• Manifested an interest in animals
• collected insects and placed them in jars
• later collected roadkill to dismember and store in jars
• "curious about how the animals fit together
• Oddly thrilled by the removal of animal bones beneath the family home

High School

• Seen as an outcast
• drank alcohol during school hours
• played tennis
• observed by teachers to be polite
• due to alcohol use, his grades declined

Sexual Discovery

• discovered he was homosexual
• began to fantasize sexually about dominance and control
• conceived a fantasy about rendering a male jogger unconscious and raping him
• Didn't end up carrying out the plan

1st Murder; the Hitch Hiker

• picked up a Hitch Hiker and brought him home to drink
• Hitch hiker wanted to leave, so he hit him with a dumbell and strangled him
• stripped off his clothing and masturbated over his dead body
• buried remains in the backyard and several weeks later, dug it back up
• pared flesh from bones, dissolved flesh in acid, and crushed bones

MILITARY Enlistment

• forced to go into military by father
• trained as a medical specialist
• deployed to Germany as a combat medic
• "average or above average soldier"

Return home

• Came home to live with his grandmother after being arrested
• found employment as a phlebotomist
• arrested for indecent exposure
• hired as a mixer at the Milwaukee Chocolate Factory