Jeffrey Dahmer, born May 21, 1960, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is one of the most infamous serial killers in history! Dahmer killed 17 men over a 13 year span without being captured! Crazy, right? What I find so fascinating about him is that he can so casually tell reporters, prosecutors, and media outlets what he did is wrong, but not feel the need to try and hide what he’s done. Maybe the guy had a larger-than-life ego or was just dumb. As far as I know, serial killers normally try and cover their tracks. Sources say that he was unassuming.

Dahmer claims one of the reasons for his sick perversions is due to the sense of isolation he felt as a child. As a result of his parents constant bickering and eventual divorce. Oh, come on man, that’s not an excuse. A lot of people have divorced parents.

A more prevalent factor would likely be his mother, Joyce, who suffered from mental illness all her life. As a child Dahmer was fascinated with animals, but not in the way you would think a serial killer would be. He was quite gentle with them. However, later in his childhood he developed a fascination with dead animals and developed a taxidermy hobby. His father, a scientist, was thrilled about this because he thought his son would have a future career in biology. But I don’t know, if my kid suddenly developed a fascination with dead things, I would be concerned. Wouldn’t you?

In high school, Dahmer was very much a loner. He was constantly drunk at school and masked his anti- social tendencies by being the class clown. He would often pretend to have epileptic seizures and pretend to have Cerebral Palsy. Woo hoo, an ablest serial killer. YAY!

By the time he was 18, his parents finally divorced. This took a major toll on Dahmer. His anti social tendencies grew ten-fold. Dahmer was gay and could not express his sexuality given that he grew up in the 60’s. Dahmer first discovered his feelings for boys when he was in his teen years. He invited another boy to come to his tree house, where he asked the boy if he could kiss and touch him. Even though he didn’t kill this boy, he still sexually assaulted him. Jeffrey Dahmer’s first murder victim was Steven Hicks. Dahmer was infatuated with Hicks, eventually giving into his urges, and strangling him, beating him with a barbell, and later dismembering Hicks’ body and stuffing his body parts into a trash bag.

The weird thing is, after Steven Hicks, he didn’t kill his next victim until 9 years later.

After dropping out of college, Dahmer had a brief stint in the military, where he was discharged for disorderly conduct related to his drinking. It’s scary to think that one of the most horrible, disgusting people could ever have been in the American Military. But then again, is it really that surprising?

Jeffrey Dahmer had many ways of acquiring victims; some he met at gay bars, some were prostitutes, some he met at bath houses, luring men in to take pictures of them. Before doing anything to them he would inject some with hydrochloric acid into their brain to put them into a “zombie-like” state. Some say Dahmer wanted to turn men into sex zombies to carry out his dark fantasies.

Over time Dahmer became even more twisted.  Not only did he preserve his victims’ bodies and freeze them, but he also began to eat the body parts, adding seasoning and condiments to make it a meal. YUCK!

As for the Jeffrey Dahmer show on Netflix, I don’t know how in detail it is as it’s missing many “interesting” facts, but I can tell you that I will always think of Jeffrey Dahmer when I hear the phrase “relax, I’m just taking a picture.”

Hi, I’m Amy Claire Lawford. I am a Professional Writing student at Algonquin College. I am the resident disabled history buff. History in high school was rather boring, all they talked about was WW1 and WW2. Let’s be honest though, the interesting side of history is the dark side. I can’t wait to show you all the dark and twisted things, that I have in store for you. Brace yourselves. Let’s hope that you don’t get nightmares.