Jeffrey Dahmer Research Paper
“This is the grand finale of a life poorly sent and the end result is just overwhelmingly depressing…..a sick pathetic, miserable life story, that’s all it is.” (Dahmer) On November 28, 1994 Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was murdered by 25-year-old Christopher Scarver with an iron bar from an exercise machine while cleaning the bathroom, which was adjacent from the prison gym. The blow to his skull killed him instantly. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, born May 21, 1960 at the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in Milwaukee, later became known as the Milwaukee Cannibal. Dahmer was a normal child up until he was 4-years- old when he was diagnosed with a double hernia that needed to be operated on. Jeffrey felt exposed and open before and after the operation. He felt uncomfortable with a group of people working on
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It left a mark on his subconscious forever. His mother and father never paid much attention to Jeffrey, his father worked long hours in his laboratory and his mother worked as a teletype machine instructor. The Dahmer family moved to West Allis, His mother, Joyce Dahmer, and his father, Lionel Dahmer, Started having marriage problems. Jeffrey took the constant fighting to heart. At the age of 6, his mother gave birth to a second son named David. Jeffrey was neutral to this change in his life. His mother actually let Jeffrey name David. Jeffrey was molested in 1968 by a neighbor boy; it’s believed that the incident may have played a pivotal role in understanding his subsequent crimes. At age 10 is when Dahmer started messing with dead animals: bleaching chicken bones with acid, pulling apart rodents, nailing a dog’s carcass to a tree and mounting its head on a stake. People were worried, but didn’t
It left a mark on his subconscious forever. His mother and father never paid much attention to Jeffrey, his father worked long hours in his laboratory and his mother worked as a teletype machine instructor. The Dahmer family moved to West Allis, His mother, Joyce Dahmer, and his father, Lionel Dahmer, Started having marriage problems. Jeffrey took the constant fighting to heart. At the age of 6, his mother gave birth to a second son named David. Jeffrey was neutral to this change in his life. His mother actually let Jeffrey name David. Jeffrey was molested in 1968 by a neighbor boy; it’s believed that the incident may have played a pivotal role in understanding his subsequent crimes. At age 10 is when Dahmer started messing with dead animals: bleaching chicken bones with acid, pulling apart rodents, nailing a dog’s carcass to a tree and mounting its head on a stake. People were worried, but didn’t