Jeffrey Dahmer is a known, serial killer from Milwaukee, US. This PowerPoint makes it easy to understand the criminal mindset, psychological disorders and psychological study associated with it.

1. JEFFREY DAHMER
PRESENTATION BY: B SAI LIKHITA

2. WHO IS JEFFREY DAHMER?
• Born : 21 May 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
• Date of death: 28 November 1994 (34)age in
Columbia Correctional Institution (Wisconsin)
• Convicted serial killer and sex offender
• He murdered 17 boys and men
• He strangled them and engaged in sexual acts with
the corpses before dismembering them.

3. QUICK FACTS
ALCOHOLIC MURDERED 17 PEOPLE KEPT BODY PART
DROP OUT TAKING SKULL TO WORK CANNIBALISM

4. CHILDHOOD
• Dahmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 21, 1960, to Lionel and
Joyce Dahmer.
• He was described as an energetic and happy child until the age of 4, when
surgery to correct a double hernia seemed to effect a change in the boy.
• He was neglected by his parents and especially by his mother.
• Noticeably became quiet after the birth of his younger brother
• The family's frequent moves.
• Dahmer used to collect bones of the animals when he play alone in woods.
• He started by capturing insects and keeping them trapped in jars
• picking up pieces of roadkill and dismembering them out behind the family
house
• Thinking his son was genuinely curious rather than developing a psychosis,
his father taught him how to strip a carcass and preserve the bones.

5. • He started consuming alcohol at the age of13. This drinking
occurred before, during, and after school.
• When he reached puberty, Dahmer discovered he was gay.
He never revealed his identity to his parents
• From then onwards he began sexually fantasizing about
dominating and controlling a completely submissive male
partner.
• Dahmer parents dissolved there marriage and his father left
the home and Dahmer said in a interview that they always
fight Infront of him and his brother.
• Dahmer was left alone in the house alone as his birth
mother got the custody of his brother. Since Dahmer was 18
they didn't have to figure out the custody of him
ADOLESCENCE AND HIGH SCHOOL

6. FIRST MURDER STEVEN HICKS 18
• 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.
• Dahmer said “steven wanted to leave, and I didn't want him to.“
• Dahmer killed him by striking him in the head and strangling him with
a barbell.
• Dahmer dismembered the corpse of his first victim, packed the body
parts in plastic bags and buried them behind his parents' home.
• He later the crushed the bones with a sledgehammer and scattered
them across a wooded ravine.

7. • He also began developing fantasies of total control over his sex
partners, especially if they were unconscious. This paraphilia would
prove to be his undoing.
• Jeffrey was arrested in 1982 for exposing his genitals to children. He
served some time, was released, and drifted between odd jobs, never
fitting in and feeling an intense, gaping loneliness that consumed
him.
• He committed his first murder in 1987. It would be nine years until his
next, and at that point his inner monster was unleashed.

8. SECOND MURDER
• Dahmer’s father sent him to Army but discharged due to
drinking problem and sent him to live with his grandmother
• After shifting he started reading pornography in the library
• Bathhouses and Gay club--- ‘relaxing place’
• September 1987 Dahmer took his second victim, Steven
Tuomi. They checked into a hotel room and drank, and
Dahmer eventually awoke to find Tuomi dead.
• 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.
• But Dahmer alleged that it was never intentional and he had
no memory of it.

9. • James Doxtator :Strangulation … dismembered, head boiled, then pulverized.
Doxtator was a 14-year-old Native American male hustler Dahmer enticed back to
his apartment in exchange for $50 to pose for nudes. At Dahmer’s place, they had
sex, then Dahmer drugged him and strangled him to death.
• After his third murder, killing became his habit.
• Dahmer slowly became skilled in killing and luring men to have sexually involved
with him.
• He started keeping head and genitals as trophies and bones as ornaments.
• Holes drilled into skull, hydrochloric acid injected into brain in an attempt to turn
them into a “zombie.”
• He later tried to inject boiling water in the skull of one of his victims, which sent
him to the coma. He died two days later. Dahmer says this is his only victim to
die with his eyes open.

10. POLOROIDS & CANNIBALISM
• After killing the victims or when they are unconscious Dahmer was addicted to take
photos of their naked body parts.
• Storing Photos of the victims to keep remembering them to look at their physical beauty
“If I could not keep them with me at least I can keep their
skeleton and other body parts”
• Eating of heart and heart muscles that way he felt they were the part of him.
• Dahmer said at first it was only curiosity then it became compulsive.
PROCESS OF KILLING
• Go to gays club if he didn’t find and go to bath club and offer money for a night
• Having drink with sleeping pill mixed in it and when they are unconscious he would
strangled them
• His evil compulsion was uprise he even took a victims head to the work place (Ambrosia
Chocolate Factory).
• He kept it in the locker because he wanted them to be with him.

11. LAST VICTIM ESCAPE AND
DAHMER,S DEATH:
• TRACEY EDWARDS “he was listening to my heart beats and he
told me that he’s gonna eat my heart, then I hit him and ran
away”.
• CHIRTOPHER SCERVER “some people who are in prison are
repentant-but he was not one of them”

13. • Borderline Personality Disorder – This means that people who experience BPD feel
emotions intensely and for extended periods of time, and it is harder for them to return
to a stable baseline after an emotionally triggering event. As evidenced by his extreme
urge to keep his lovers with him permanently. That’s why he killed them, because he
didn’t want them to leave.
• Schizotypal Personality Disorder - Magical thinking. and weird sensory experiences.He
thought he could create zombies by injecting acid into people’s brains, he wanted to
build an alter dedicated to himself made out of skulls, he blacked out totally for one of his
murders, he liked talking to dead people and thought that eating parts of them would
make them a part of him permanently.
• Necrophilia: sexual intercourse with or attraction towards corpses.
• Antisocial personality disorder: Antisocial personality disorder is a mental health
condition in which a person has a long-term pattern of manipulating, exploiting, or
violating the rights of others. This behavior is often criminal.
• Obsessive compulsive disorder - he went through the same lengthy dismemberment
and dissolving procedure for every victim, even when it was getting impractical and too
expensive.
PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS

14. • BOWLBY THEORY OF MATERNAL DEPRIVATION: Early separation of
the child from his mother prevents effective social development from
taking place. Without effective social development children will
develop long term problems in developing positive social
relationships and will instead develop antisocial behavior pattern.
• GOTTFREDSON AND HIRSCHI’S GENERAL THEORY OF CRIME: Low
self control, internalized early in life, in the presence of criminal
opportunities explains an individual’s propensity to commit crimes.
PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES