One of the scariest serial killers in history: Who is Jeffrey Dahmer?

Curious about the life story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed 17 people between 1978 and 1991 in America...

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, the son of Joyce Annette and analytical chemist Lionel Herbert Dahmer.

Seven years later, his brother David was born. Joyce Dahmer's pregnancy with this first son is known to be a difficult one. When Dahmer turned eight, the family moved to Bath, Ohio. Although Dahmer's early childhood behaviors were normal, after a while, especially starting from the age of 10-15, he became shy and uncommunicative. In addition, it is known that he does not tend to any hobbies or social activities. Dahmer, who often rode around the house alone on his bicycle during this period, would cut dead animals he found by bringing them home or taking them to the nearby forests and then examining them. He once drove the head of a dead dog onto a stake and planted it in the garden. Dahmer started drinking around the time he graduated from high school and soon became an alcoholic.

In 1977, Lionel and Joyce Dahmer divorced. Jeffrey attended Ohio State University, but was expelled for not attending most of his classes for a semester. During these years, he was often drinking alcohol. Dahmer's father wanted his son to join the army after this incident. Although Dahmer did well at first, he was expelled two years later in 1981 for alcoholism. As with anyone discharged from the army, Dahmer was given a ticket by the army to go anywhere. In later testimonies, Dahmer would declare that he preferred to go to Miami Beach, Florida, rather than confront his father, because he was "tired of the cold". Dahmer, who spent most of his time here working in a hospital, was also expelled from there for alcohol. Continuing to drink excessively after returning home, Dahmer was arrested in 1981 for drunk driving.

In 1982 Dahmer went to West Allis with his grandmother and lived there for six years. Dahmer, whose behavior became more and more strange at this time; once he put a mannequin, stolen from the store and decorated, in his wardrobe. Another time, his grandmother found a Magnum gun under his bed. Again after the foul odors from the basement, Dahmer told his father that he shredded a dead squirrel with chemicals. He was arrested twice for nasty display, in 1982 and 1986; The reason for his second arrest was that he masturbated in front of his two boys.

In the summer of 1988, Dahmer's grandmother asked him to leave the house because of his grandson's strange behavior, late arrivals, and the smell he left in the basement. So Dahmer found a home on the west side of Milwaukee and started working at the Ambrosia Chocolate Factory. On September 26, 1988, on the first day of his move, he was arrested for drugging and abusing a 13-year-old boy named Somsack Sinthasomphone. He was then released pending trial for five years and received a one-year prisoner work permit. Dahmer got parole two months early and moved into his new apartment. Soon after, his murders and rapes continued until his capture in 1991.

Murders

Jeffrey Dahmer committed his first murder in the summer of 1978. While he was still living with his father, he took a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks to his father's house when no one was home and suggested they have a beer and have sex together. But when Hicks wanted to go, Dahmer killed him by hitting him on the head with a 5-pound dumbbell. Dahmer buried the body in the backyard. The murder of Dahmer's next victim, Steven Tuomi, took place nine years later. After Tuomi's murder, Dahmer continued to kill intermittently. He killed two men in 1988 and one in 1989. The victims of the murders in this process are generally men selected from gay bars. After having sex with these people, Dahmer was killing them. He even kept the skull of Anthony Sears, whom he killed in 1989, until he was caught.

The house he moved to after he left his grandmother in May 1990 became famous for being Dahmer's murder base: Apartment 213, 924 North 25th Street, Milwaukee. He committed four murders during 1990 and eight during 1991.

On July 2, 1991, Dahmer invited Tracy Edwards to his home. According to Edwards, Dahmer tried to handcuff his arms by attacking him, but was unsuccessful. With a butcher knife in hand, Dahmer sent Edwards into the bedroom. Here Edwards witnessed the foul odor coming from a blue barrel, crushed body parts hanging on the wall. Edwards suddenly punched Dahmer in the face and stomach; Then he ran to the door and ran away. While running down the street with a cuff on one wrist, Edwards reached a car driven by two police officers, Robert Rauth and Rolf Mueller, and took them to Dahmer's home. Here Dahmer was friendly to the cops. Later, when the cops checked his bedroom, they arrested Dahmer after what they saw.

DISEASES

Although Dahmer was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, and psychosis, he was found to be legally sane at his trial. He was convicted of sixteen of the seventeen murders he committed in Wisconsin and was sentenced to sixteen aggravated life sentences on February 17, 1992. Three years after his arrest, Dahmer was killed on November 28, 1994, after a severe blow to the head by another inmate, Christopher Scarver, at the Columbia Correctional Detention Center.

NETFLIX MADE THE SERIES

Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story premiered on Netflix on September 21, 2022. It is about the life of Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed at least 17 men between 1978-1991 in the USA.