Essay about Jeffery Dahmar

Jefferey Dahmar

Timothy Lowe
Criminal Profiling
October 9, 2014
1730-2030

Jeffery Dahmer, a convicted serial killer, committed 17 homicides. The victims, men ranging from teenagers to adults, had been taken back to Dahmer’s residency were they would be drugged for sexual pleasure, then killed right before awakening out of a deep sleep. Once killed, Dahmer would cut open the victims body, severe body parts, and freeze body parts to eat at a later time. Dahmer grew up in a middle class neighborhood. His father, a chemist with a PhD. D, spent most of his time away from home at work. His mother had mental issues, suffered from depression, and spent most of her time locked away in her room isolated from the world. Dahmer’s family structure was poor. His parents always argued in front of him and they never spent time with him. Dahmer fulfilled his void for human interaction and curiosity with dead animals. Around the age of 7 or 8 years old, Dahmer became fascinated with the internal structure of dead animals, he would come across. Dahmer would take the dead animals back to his home, cut, and examine the organs of the animals. Since his parents rarely showed any attention to Dahmer, the sadistic actions being practiced on animals went unnoticed. Even after speaking with his father on how to preserve bones with the application of bleach, his father never checked to see what his son was doing, his father was only intrigued by the interest of his son’s question pertaining to science As puberty begin to set in around the ages of 13 to 14, Dahmer begin to act out his sexual impulses with an individual around the neighborhood, which was another boy. Dahmer figured he was attracted to the opposite sex due to the strong arousal he received when kissing the other boy. Dahmer wanted to conceal his sexuality and sinister thoughts from himself and everyone else in high school so he began to drink. Noticing alcohol suppressed his thoughts, he began to drink very heavily. Dahmer would come to school smelling like alcohol and at the verge of being drunken. On top of that, he was bullied at school by other peers, and even hit in the back of the head with a club walking down the street by a student one day. Dahmer could not catch a break. His home life was a wreck, grades were failing, and he spent most of his time alone away from everyone. After turning 18 years old, Dahmer’s parents filed for divorce. Dahmer’s father left the house to live in an hotel, and his mother went to stay out of town with another family member. Since Dahmer was 18, no parent had custodial rights over him, he was left at the house by himself. At this time Dahmer begin having strong sexual fantasies to have intercourse with a dead man, or one that was on conscious. Dahmer begins to strategize how he could get away with killing his first victim. He would wait in the bushes with a bat on a running trail for a particular jogger, but the jogger never came through the part of the trail on this particular day. Next, Dahmer is driving down the road and notices this 16 year old hitch hiking. He stops, picks him up, then takes him back to his home. After being in the home for awhile the young male ask to leave. Dahmer does not want the young male to leave. A struggle occurs, Dahmer picks up a barbell weight in an attempt to knock him out, but kills him in the process. Dahmer chops the body up, then puts them into trash bags. An officer pulls him over for a traffic violation, notices the bags, ask Dahmer what he is doing with the bags,

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