Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994) was an American serial killer who killed 17 men between 1978 and 1991 (with the majority of the murders occurring between 1989 and 1991).

Early life

Dahmer was born to a Christian fundamentalist father in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At age eight, his family moved to Bath, Ohio, near Akron. From his earliest youth he was extremely shy and, according to his father, was molested by a neighbor. He collected dead animals and showed signs of necrophilia, but this was revealed only at his trial. He was also a closeted alcoholic and homosexual and suffered from extremely low self-esteem. His parents divorced when he was in his teens. He committed his first murder at the age of 18, killing a young man, Steven Hicks, he had invited to his house because Dahmer "didn't want him to leave."

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Christian - Fundamentalist - Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Bath, Ohio - Akron - Molested - Necrophilia - Alcoholic - Homosexual - Self-esteem - Divorce - Murder

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He later attended college but performed poorly. His father convinced him to join the military, and he appeared to recover some vitality as he became an army medic. In 1988, however, he was arrested for sexually fondling a 13-year-old boy, for which he served one year in a work release camp and was required to register as a sex offender. Shortly afterward, he began the string of murders that led to his arrest many years later.

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College - Military - 1988 - Sex offender

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