2. Interview with Jeffrey Dahmer:
What were you like as a child?
As a child I was shy and unhappy according to my parents. One habit I had was collecting road kills and dissecting
them and collecting their bones. I felt in power when I did this which gave me a un-describable feeling. I use to have
a habit of hiding in the woods with a base ball bat, watching joggers going past. This gave me urges to explore my
killing urges due to trying to come to term with my sexuality.
Why did you kill these victims?
I killed my victims through sexual curiosity and wanting to be in control. I felt lonely and isolated . This is why I
began my obsession of eating my victims. This was because It made me feel like they were apart of me which gave
me sexual pleasure from this. It became an obsession, a addiction which led for me to explore my sexual desires
which lead to cannibalism and torture.
How do your parents feel?
They blame themselves. They believe they didn't’t bring me up correctly for me to be like this. They knew I was
different. I don’t believe parents should blame themselves because this is who I am as a person. I was even having
thoughts at the age of 14 which were sickening which is why I found it hard to speak out which I feel like lead to my
outbursts.
Did you consider talking about your sexuality openly? Do you feel like this hindered your killing sprees which turned
even more gruesome as it went on?
I never considered talking about it because it was shameful and sinful to be gay. I didn't have the greatest
relationship with my dad so I felt like I would have been disowned and shamed upon. This is why I found my own
way to understand and be in control of the situation, which led me to the obsession I had with killing.
3. Interview to the class on what they know about Jeffery Dahmer?(Fin):
Are you interested in Serial killers? If so why?
I am some what interested in serial killers in the fact that why do they do it and what has led them down this
path, and how they chose there victims. And also something else would be the drive to it because you have
to be insane to continue killing people.
Have you heard of Jeffrey Dahmer? If so where from?
Yes i have heard or Jeffrey Dahmer from some of my friends and also parents, the only reason I have really
heard of it from them would be because it was interesting.
Do you have sympathy for him even if he killed 17 people?
No I don't have any sympathy for him because it was his own decision to take those 17 life's and he suffered
the consequences and also I don't have any sympathy on the way he killed because he was brutal and a
maniac.
What other serial killers are you specifically interested in? why?
I have only heard of a few other serial killers the main one being Jack the Ripper because he was one of the
biggest serial killers in England and I learnt about him in School.
4. Interview on the class on Jeffrey Dahmer (Sim):
Are you interested in Serial killers? If so why?
I am interested in serial killers because it is intriguing on why serial killers do what they
do. Another aspect that is interesting about them is their background because there is usually
some form of reason from their family background to why they have killed.
Have you heard of Jeffrey Dahmer? If so where from?
Actually I have, but not too sure on what he has done. there is a movie about him but apparently
it gives him sympathy for Jeffrey.
Do you have sympathy for him even if he killed 17 people?
Everyone has there reasons for doing things in life, however when it comes to murder the line
stops. So no, I do not have any type of sympathy for him.
What other serial killers are you specifically interested in? why?
Jack the ripper because the he was never found yet he had murdered a load of women in
Whitechapel.
5. Case Study On Jeffrey Dahmer:
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Dahmer
Name: Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer.
Born: May 21, 1960 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
Death: November 28, 1994 Columbia Correctional Institution, Portage, Wisconsin,
United States.
Cause Of Death: Homicide (Serve Head trauma).
Parents: Lionel Dahmer and Joyce Dahmer.
Siblings: David Dahmer.
Dahmer’s first murder was just after graduating high school in 1978. The victims name was known as Steven Hicks.
Dahmer took this man home and proceeded to get him drunk at his parents home. This lead to Dahmer hitting him
over the head and strangling him with a barbell. He then dismantled the body and buried him in his parents garden.
This was his first taste of blood. He was slowly becoming a raging alcoholic which lead for his father to suggest the
army. He began the army in December 1978, until his was discharged for continuing his alcoholism In 1981. His next
victim was taken in September 1987. His name was Steven Tuomi. Dahmer doesn’t recall this murder but soon
disposed of the body after masturbating on the corpse.
Then in March 1989, Dahmer lured and drugged Anthony Sears by strangling him. He then photographed,
dismembered, sodomized and then disposed of the body.
Over the following Two years, Dahmer went on a killing spree, bringing his total from 4 to 17. He then started
experimenting with how he killed his victims. This lead to crude lobotomies, drilling in the victims skulls, cannibalism
and torturing the victims by injecting them with acid.
This lead to his arrest in July 22nd, 1991.
6. May 29:
Ricky Beeks, 33 was one of many victims. Dahmer met him at a club and offered him money to pose for nude pictures. He drugged and strangled him and had sex with the body. The victim's
painted skull was recovered from Dahmer's apartment after his arrest.
June 1990:
Edward W. Smith, 28, killed. Dahmer met him at a bar and offered him money for sex and pictures. After sex, Smith was drugged and strangled. Dahmer took some pictures during the process of
dismembering the body.
September 2 1990: Ernest Miller, 24, was last seen alive. He met Dahmer in front of a book store. Dahmer offered him money to come home with him. After sex, Dahmer drugged him and cut his
throat. He took pictures of the body and dismembered it, putting the biceps in the freezer. He bleached the skeleton and painted the skull.
September 24 1990: David C. Thomas last seen alive. Dahmer met him on the street and offered him money to come home with him. Dahmer drugged Thomas and murdered him without sex,
taking pictures as he dismembered the body.
March 7 1991: Curtis Straughter, 18, last seen alive. Dahmer picked him up at a bus stop, offering him money to come home with him. He drugged Straughter and strangled him after sex, taking
pictures of the dismembered body. The skull, unpainted, was recovered from Dahmer's apartment after his 1991 arrest. This is at least the third sequence of events Dahmer experimented with.
Earlier, it had been sex, drugging then murder. At least once he tried drugs, murder, sex. This is drugs, sex and murder.
April 7 1991: Errol Lindsey, 19, last seen alive. Dahmer met him on the street and offered him money to come home with him. He drugged Lindsey, strangled him and had sex with the body. The
unpainted skull was recovered from Dahmer's apartment.
May 17 1991: Dahmer met 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone in front of a mall and offered him money to pose for nude pictures. After the pictures he drugged Konerak, then went out for beer.
The boy escaped, naked into the street. Neighbors called police, but Dahmer convinced them that he and the boy were lovers who had merely had a little quarrel. Police, aparently unconcerned that
Sinthasomphone was still too drugged to confirm or deny the story, returned him to Dahmer, who strangled him as soon as the police were gone. Dahmer had sex with his body, took pictures and
dismembered him. His skull was recovered from Dahmer's apartment.
When the full details of this incident became known, mild disciplinary action was taken against the officers involved. The department was also sued for a large amount of money.
May 24 1991: Tony Hughes, 31, last seen alive. Reportedly, Hughes and Dahmer had known each other for two years. By writing (Hughes was deaf and mute) Dahmer offered him $50.00 to come
home with him and pose for nude pictures. Hughes was drugged and murdered without sex. His unpainted skull was recovered from Dahmer's apartment.
June 30 1991: Matt Turner, 20, last seen alive. They met in Chicago at the bus station after a Gay Pride parade. Dahmer offered him money to pose nude, drugged him and strangled him with a
strap. After cutting the body up, Dahmer put the head in the freezer and the rest in a barrel of acid he had obtained.
July 6 1991: Jeremiah Weinberger, 23, last seen alive. They met in Chicago at a gay bar, where Dahmer offered him money to come back to Milwaukee. This murder is very unusual in that the
victim was not murdered until the day after he came home with Dahmer. When he indicated that he wanted to leave, Dahmer drugged him, strangled him, and dismembered him, taking pictures of
the process. Like the last victim, his head went into the freezer, his body into the acid.
July 15 1991: Jeffrey was fired from the Ambrosia Chocolate Co. for bad attendance.
The same day, Oliver Lacy, 23, was last seen alive. They met on the street and went back to Dahmer's apartment for body rubs. Lacy was then drugged and strangled. Dahmer had sex with the
body before dismembering it. He put the head in the refrigerator and the heart in the freezer, "to eat later."
July 16 1991: Joseph Bradehoft, 25, last seen alive. They met at a bus stop, where Dahmer offered him money to pose for nude pictures. After sex, Dahmer drugged him and strangled him with a
strap. He dismembered the body and, as before, put the head in the freezer and the body in the acid barrel.
July 22, 1991: Shortly after midnight, Tracy Edwards, 32, escaped from Dahmer with one hand in a handcuff and flagged down a police car. He lead the cops back to Dahmer's apartment. They
found photos of dismembered victims and body parts in the refrigerator and freezer.
Murder Time line (Jeffrey Dahmer) :
7. Time Line Dahmer:
Dahmer’s first murder was just after
graduating high school in June
1978. The victims name was
known as Steven Hicks. Dahmer
took this man home and proceeded
to get him drunk at his parents
home. This lead to Dahmer hitting
him over the head and strangling
him with a barbell. He then
dismantled the body and buried him
in his parents garden. This was his
first taste of blood.
Dahmer's alcohol consumption
became out of control which
lead him to drop out of Ohio
State University after the first
term. His father then made him
enlist for the army in
December 1978. He
then was posted in Germany
shortly after.
His drinking
persisted and
he was
discharged from
the army in
1981.
His second victim was taken In
September 1987. The
victims name was Steven Tuomi.
Dahmer had no recollection of
killing this victim. However, once
he realised he bought a brief case
and transported his body to his
grandmas basement. He then
dismantled the body and
masturbated on it before disposing
of the remains.
In September
1989, Dahmer had an
extremely lucky escape:
An encounter with a 13-
year-old Laotian boy
resulted in charges of
sexual exploitation and
second-degree sexual
assault for Dahmer.
In March 1989, he
lured, drugged, strangled,
sodomized, photographed,
dismembered and
disposed of Anthony
Sears, an aspiring model.
Over the following two years
(1990-1991) Dahmer's
victim count accelerated,
bringing his total from four to
17. He developed rituals as he
progressed, experimenting with
chemical means of disposal
and often consuming the flesh
of his victims.
He was finally
arrested, on
July 22,
1991.
On November 28, 1994, in accordance
with his inclusion in regular work details, Dahmer
was assigned to work with two other convicted
murderers, Jesse Anderson and Christopher
Scarver. After they had been left alone to
complete their tasks, guards returned to find that
Scarver had brutally beaten both men with a metal
bar from the prison weight room. Dahmer was
pronounced dead after approximately one hour.
8. Research (Time Line):
Jeffrey Dahmer’s 17 Victims:
- Dahmer’s first murder occurred just after graduating high school, in June
1978, when he picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks and took him
home to his parents' house. Dahmer proceeded to get the young man drunk;
when Hicks tried to leave, Dahmer killed him by striking him in the head and
strangling him with a barbell. He dismembered the corpse of his first victim,
packed the body parts in plastic bags and buried them behind his parents'
home. He later exhumed the remains, crushed the bones with a
sledgehammer and scattered them across a wooded ravine.
- By the time of his first killing, Dahmer's alcohol consumption had spun out of
control. He dropped out of Ohio State University after one quarter term, and
his recently remarried father insisted that he join the Army. Dahmer enlisted
in late December 1978, and was posted to Germany shortly after. His
drinking problem persisted, and in early 1981, the Army discharged him.
- It wasn’t until September 1987 that Dahmer took his second victim, Steven
Tuomi. They checked into a hotel room and drank, and Dahmer eventually
awoke to find Tuomi dead, with no memory of the previous night's activities.
He bought a large suitcase to transport Tuomi's body to his grandmother's
basement, where he dismembered and masturbated on the corpse before
disposing of the remains.
- That September 1989, Dahmer had an extremely lucky escape: An
encounter with a 13-year-old Laotian boy resulted in charges of sexual
exploitation and second-degree sexual assault for Dahmer. He pleaded
guilty, claiming that the boy had appeared much older. While awaiting
sentencing for his sexual assault case, Dahmer again put his grandmother's
basement to gruesome use: In March 1989, he lured, drugged, strangled,
sodomized, photographed, dismembered and disposed of Anthony Sears,
an aspiring model.
- Over the following two years, Dahmer's victim count accelerated,
bringing his total from four to 17. He developed rituals as he progressed,
experimenting with chemical means of disposal and often consuming the
flesh of his victims. Dahmer also attempted crude lobotomies, drilling into
victims' skulls while they were still alive and injecting them with muriatic
acid.
- The police escorted Dahmer and the boy home and, clearly not wishing
to become embroiled in a homosexual domestic disturbance, took only a
cursory look around before leaving. Once the police left the scene,
Dahmer killed the boy and proceeded with his usual rituals. Had they
conducted even a basic search, police officers would have found the body
of Dahmer's 12th victim, Tony Hughes. Before he was finally arrested, on
July 22, 1991, he killed four more men.
9. Research:
Trial and Imprisonment
- Jeffrey Dahmer’s trial began in January 1992. Given that the majority of Dahmer's
victims were African American, there were considerable racial tensions and so strict
security precautions were taken, including an eight-foot barrier of bulletproof glass that
separated him from the gallery. The inclusion of only one African American on the jury
provoked further unrest, but was ultimately contained and short lived.
The jury chose to believe that Dahmer was fully aware that his acts were evil and chose to
commit them anyway. On February 15, 1992, they returned after 10 hours' deliberation to find
him guilty, but sane, on all counts. He was sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms in prison,
with a 16th term tacked on in May.
Dahmer reportedly adjusted well to prison life, although he was initially kept apart from the
general population. He eventually convinced authorities to allow him to integrate more fully
with other inmates. He found religion in the form of books and photos sent to him by his
father, and he was granted permission by the Columbia Correctional Institution to be
baptized by a local pastor.
Who Killed Jeffrey Dahmer?
On November 28, 1994, in accordance with his inclusion in regular work details, Dahmer
was assigned to work with two other convicted murderers, Jesse Anderson and Christopher
Scarver. After they had been left alone to complete their tasks, guards returned to find that
Scarver had brutally beaten both men with a metal bar from the prison weight room. Dahmer
was pronounced dead after approximately one hour. Anderson succumbed to his injuries
days later.
In 2015, Christopher Scarver spoke to the New York Post about his reasons for killing
Dahmer. Scarver alleged that he was disturbed not only by Dahmer's crimes, but by a habit
Dahmer had developed of fashioning severed limbs from prison food to antagonize
other inmates. After being taunted by Dahmer and Anderson during their work detail,
Scarver said that he confronted Dahmer about his crimes before beating the two men to
death. He also claimed that prison guards allowed the murders to happen by leaving them
alone.
Jeffrey Dahmer Information:
- Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known
as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American
serial killer and sex offender, who committed the rape, murder and
dismemberment of 17 men and boys from 1978 to 1991.
- Jeffrey was 6ft 0 in (1.83m).
- Criminal Penalty of 16 life years.
- He was imprisoned at Columbia correctional institutional .
- Although diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, schizotypal
personality disorder and a psychotic disorder.
- On November 28, 1994, Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher
Scarver.