The Story of Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer was one of the most notorious serial killers of the 20th century. He was convicted of murdering 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, and his crimes sparked widespread public outrage and media fascination. Dahmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 21, 1960.

His parents were middle-class, and he was raised in a stable, loving home. However, Dahmer began showing signs of mental illness at an early age. He was a loner who had trouble making friends, and he was fascinated by dead animals. Dahmer later said that he first fantasised about killing and dismembering someone when he was just 14 years old. As a teenager, Dahmer began drinking heavily and experimenting with drugs. He was arrested for public intoxication and disorderly conduct on several occasions.

After graduating from high school in 1978, Dahmer enlisted in the Army but was discharged a year later due to his drinking problem. Dahmer returned to Milwaukee and began working at a local bakery. It was during this time that he committed his first murder. In 1978, he lured a 19-year-old hitchhiker named Steven Hicks back to his home, where he bludgeoned him to death with a barbell.

Dahmer then dismembered Hicks’ body and buried the remains in his backyard. Over the next 13 years, Dahmer would go on to kill 16 more victims. Most of his victims were young men or boys, and many were of African or Hispanic descent. Dahmer typically lured his victims to his home with the promise of alcohol or money, and then he would drug and strangle them. He would then dismember their bodies and often engage in necrophilia and cannibalism. In 1991, Dahmer’s crimes were finally exposed when one of his would-be victims, a 32-year-old man named Tracy Edwards, managed to escape from his apartment and flag down a police officer.

Edwards led the police back to Dahmer’s apartment, where they found evidence of his gruesome crimes. Dahmer was arrested and later confessed to all of his murders.

At his trial, Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison. He was killed by a fellow inmate in 1994. Dahmer’s crimes shocked and horrified the nation, and he remains one of the most notorious serial killers in history.

Do you believe he should’ve been studied, or left to rot in his prison cell.