Jeffrey Dahmer

Dahmer had homosexual orientations which he always hid from his parents.

While in prison, he was secluded from other inmates but he easily adjusted to the way of living in prison.

He was also permitted by the Columbia Correctional Institution to be baptized by local preacher.

Jeffrey Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 to Joyce Annette and Lionel Herbert Dahmer in West Allis, Wisconsin.

Dahmer’s mother, a teletype machine instructor by profession and his father, a student of chemistry at the Marquette University did not have a happy marriage, the effects of which were clearly evident in Dahmer’s behavior.

During his schooling at Rivere High School, he was known to be a boy of an above average intellect. His interest in tennis was known and he was also a part of the school band.

With his surgeries for hernias and the birth of his sibling, he became very insecure and became a shy and timid boy who had very limited friends.

He was always attracted by animals ever since childhood. He was reported to have captured insects and butterflies which he stored in jars. Fascinated by animal anatomy, he would store animal carcass which he dismembered to satisfy his curiosity.

Post his graduation in 1978, Dahmer got addicted to alcohol due to which he had to give up his education at Ohio State University in 1979.

In the year 1978, he committed his first murder of a hitchhiker, Steven Hicks whom he took home, made him drink and hit his head with a barbell when he tried to escape. He stored his body in plastic bags after dismembering it.

On his father’s recommendation, he joined the Army in 1978 and moved to Germany. His alcoholism couldn’t take him further in the Army too and he was discharged in 1981.

His unruly behavior landed him in prison a couple of times, because of which he was sent to live with his grandmother in Wisconsis who also could not take his habits and threw him out in September, 1988.

Dahmer’s second victim, Steven Toumi was murdered in a hotel room post drinking whose corpse was moved to his grandmother’s basement in a suitcase. It is believed that Dahmer sexually abused the body before dismembering; although the body was never discovered.