Difference Between Serial Killers
Murder, the word sends chills down our spines and fear shooting through our veins. However, how can a word that sends so much fear into us cause so much obsession as well? As human beings, we are obsessed with things we can not understand, with things that are too awful to even imagine. There are many different types of murders out there but there are two that seem to be the most important and focused upon in todays society, Mass Murder and Serial Murder. People can’t seem to turn away from these awful acts and they are constantly craving to know more. Yet, many of these people who say they are obsessed with learning more could not even tell the difference between the two. There is a difference between a mass murderer and a serial killer but
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is there a difference between what caused killers such as James Hubert, George Hennard, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer to be this way? Mass Murder involves the murder of four or more people within a single event in a very short span of time. (Geberth) Often the murderer will die at the place of the crime. They will either commit suicide or cause a scene that will force the police to kill them. It is very rare for the murderer to turn themselves in for the actions they’ve committed. When a mass murder is committed the community as well as the nation is alerted right away. This explosion from the media leads to a lot of false information being released to the public and can cause chaos. Things like school shootings have become so big and frequent that it has become its own category within mass murder. When most people think of a mass murder it is true that they immediately think of school shootings like Columbine or Sandy Hook. George Hennard and James Huberty are two men who committed mass murder and alone killed more people than in the Columbine and Sandy Hook shootings put together. James Huberty was born in Canton, Ohio on October 11, 1942. When he was three he contracted polio. Although he recovered and made leaps of improvement Huberty would always have difficulties walking. Hubertys’ father bought a farm in the 1950’s. The farm was located in Pennsylvania in Amish country. Hubertys’ mother refused to live in Amish country so she abandoned the family. This abandonment greatly affected Huberty growing up leaving him distant and alone. Huberty went to college and gained a degree in sociology and then later went on to receive his embalming license from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science. He met his wife Etna at the Mortuary school, they settled down and had a family in Massillon, Ohio.
Unfortunately their happy life in Massillon wouldn't last long. They were forced to move when their home burned down. They moved to Canton and soon reports of violent behavior from Mr. and Mrs. Huberty began to emerge. Some of the reports included Etna telling her daughter to get in a fight with a young girl. Etna then got in an altercation with the mother of the young girl and apparently threatened her with a pistol. Huberty even shot his german shepherd in the head when a neighbor complained that the dog had damaged their car. The family then once again had to move due to Huberty no longer being able to continue his welding job in Canton after he was in an motorcycle accident.
They lived briefly in Mexico until settling in San Ysidro, a small community in California. Huberty got a job as a security guard but was eventually let go. Two weeks later, he called a mental hospital, he claimed that he felt something was wrong and he needed help. The receptionist felt that it was not an emergency and filed it in a pile that would be called back in 48 hours.
One morning Huberty and his family went to the zoo and had McDonalds for lunch. A few hours later, Huberty walked back into that McDonalds and opened fire on the people inside. When he had left his house before the event his wife had asked him where he was going and he responded with “Hunting humans”. Huberty entered the McDonalds with a 9 mm Uzi semi-automatic, a Winchester pump-action 12-gauge shotgun, and a 9 mm Browning HP. He killed 21 people and injured 19 others.(Dietz) The massacre lasted 77 minutes until swat finally took Huberty down. The police would have arrived sooner but the person working dispatch gave the officers the wrong address.
Huberty had some clear psychological problems but the actual reason behind the shooting is unknown except people have been saying it was revenge shooting. Before the shooting Huberty had said “society had it’s chance”. (James) His call to the mental hospital was in a way a warning that something bad was going to happen. The abandonment that Huberty felt from his mother may have also been reflected in the mental hospital seeing his problems as not important. Whatever the reason, Huberty committed one of the biggest mass murder that America would see until George Hennard.
George Hennard was the murderer behind what is known as Luby’s Mass Shooting. George killed 22 people and injured 23 others. He never really seemed like he was a normal person. He was said to be very distant and he seemed to have a strong dislike towards women. He was enlisted in the U.S navy for two years until he was honorably discharged in 1976. After that he enlisted in the merchant marines but was dismissed from service after he was arrested for drug possession. A year later, he was arrested again for marijuana possession. It was around this time that his hostility and dislike for women began to emerge more and more. On October 16, 1991 he drove his pick up truck right into the window of Luby’s Cafeteria and opened fire on the 140 people that were inside. It was revealed that 14 of the 22 people that were killed were women. (Terry) Which led to the belief that he did it because of his hatred towards women. Hennard was stopped when a police officer had run onto the scene and shot him in the back 4 times. Hennard then put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. It was never actually discovered why Hennard did what he did, he took his reasoning to the grave with him. People have said that he fits the “classic profile of a mass killer; a lonely man with guns” (Daly) Psychologically, Hennard may have been dealing with some mental issues that lead to him cracking and killing all of those people. There were warning signs that Hennard was up to no good. Two sister had received a five page letter from him stating that he had been watching them. He even referred to them as “vipers” but praised them on their virtue. A few days after the sisters had received the letter they ran into Hennard yelling at them across the street. He seemed very angry and was yelling about how he could not believe that one of the sisters had danced with G.I.s at a bar. He even grabbed one of them on the wrist and acted like he was going to hit her but he never did.(Terry) Hennard had obviously been stalking the girls for a very long time and had continued to do so up until his death. Hennard’s mass murder left America in shock and he surpassed Huberty in the largest mass murder that anyone had experienced.
Serial Murder is the murder of different victims with spaces of time in between the murders.
Sometimes the time gap can be days or even months. The periods of times in between are usually referred to “cool off” periods. (Geberth) There is also a typical image for a serial killer and that is a caucasian heterosexual male usually from ages 18-32. However there are a few exceptions, Jeffrey Dahmer for example was homosexual. (Whittington- Egan) There are serial killers all over the world and it does not affect any one race. It is undeniable that America has the largest amount and widest variety of serial killers. Serial killers are arguably more terrifying than mass murders due to the fact that no one knows exactly when their next kill will be or even where. They also go to extreme lengths to stay hidden and to not be caught. Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy are on the top lists of infamy for serial …show more content…
killers.
Theodore “Ted” Bundy was born on November 24th, 1946 in Burlington,Vermont. Right from the beginning Bundy’s life was turned upside down. He had been raised believing that his mother was his sister. His “sister”, Eleanor Cromwell was pregnant at twenty- two years old and she was unmarried. Her parents were extremely religious so they were disappointed in their daughter. She ran away to have Ted at a home for unwed mothers in Vermont.(“Ted Bundy” Bio) She then brought him back to Philadelphia and he was raised believing his grandparents were his real parents. Bundy was always a little different and these signs began to show when he was three years old. One night Eleanor's younger sister woke up surrounded by knives from the kitchen. She looked up and saw a three year old Bundy smiling at her. As a child, Bundy was shy but very smart. He didn’t do well with other children. As he entered his teen years his personality became darker. He had no problem looking in other people's windows and even stealing things. Bundy attended the University of Washington after high school. It was here he fell in love with a pretty girl from california. He thought she had everything, looks, wealth, influence. They dated for a while but when they finally broke up he was devastated. It was around this same time that Bundy found out about his sister being his mother. This was the turning point for Bundy and evidence of his murderous rampage began to surface. No one exactly know when he started killing or exactly how many he killed. His victims all had the same thing in common, they resembled his college girlfriend. Bundy lured his victims to his car by acting injured the kindness they showed him was their fatal mistake. (Murderpedia) In June 1977, Bundy stole a car and ended up getting caught in the mountains of Washington. While in jail, Bundy came up with an escape plan. He somehow gained access to a hacksaw blade and sawed a hole in his prison and he escaped. He then committed his final murder. He kidnapped a twelve year old girl named Kimberly Leach. He abducted her, raped her and then murdered her. When he was done he ditched her body under a pig shed. He almost made it out of Tallahassee until a cop pulled him over to check the plates on his car. When Bundy tried to make a run for it he got in a fight with the cop was eventually subdued by him. He was sent back to Tallahassee and was immediately charged with the murders from Tallahassee and Lake City.Then he was sent to Miami to be charged with the Chi Omega Murders. Bundy had gotten messy during one of the Chi Omega murders and that was his downfall. He was found guilty of the two Chi Omega murders and for killing Kimberly Leach and was given three death sentences.
Bundy fought hard to not be put to death. He appealed his case many times and even tried to offer up information about other cases that were unsolved. (Ted Bundy Bio) He could not avoid the fate that awaited him. On January 24, 1989 bundy was put to death in “old sparky” the electric chair. People outside the prison cheered and celebrated his death. By the time he died he had admitted to killing Thirty- six women but experts do believe that the total actually may be closer to one hundred.
There were many aspects of Bundy’s life that could have caused him to do what he did.
However these aspects were not revealed until much later in Bundy’s life. Bundy is the classic case of “Can you be born a serial killer?”. He started showing signs from when he was three that he was dark, twisted and violent. Many people even believe that he had first killed someone when he was fourteen years old. In his mind he didn’t see things the way most people do and he may have justified that the things he did were right or that it just wasn't a big deal. The events that he experienced when he was in college may have been just enough to push Bundy off the edge and send him on a murderous rampage that he may have always been
fighting.
Not long after Bundy emerged Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 in West Allis, Wisconsin. Dahmer was a neglected child and it could be seen in school. There he was a shy child that kept to himself. He did however have a small group of friends. His homelife was tense and his mother was to blame. His father was busy with his studies so he was often away, but when he was home Dahmer’s mother demanded all of the attention. She would work herself into states of anxiety just to get the attention from her husband. As a child, Dahmer developed a love for animals, he began by collecting bugs and other insects and then started collecting dead animal bodies from the side of the road. He then would take the dead animals and dismember them and store the parts in jars in his families work shed. This strange obsession is said to have started around the age of four when he helped his father remove animal bones from under the house. (Murderpedia) The family then moved to Ohio where Dahmers mother had her second child. Dahmer became more distant and friendless after the move. In his teens, he began drinking and by the time he graduated high school he could technically be considered an alcoholic. He became to be a problem in high school due to his drinking.
At this same time, Dahmer committed the first of his many murders. He picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Mark Hicks. Dahmer lived in his family home alone so he took Hicks back to the house, together they drank, listened to music and planned to have sex. However when Hicks tried to leave Dahmer hit him over the head twice with a ten pound dumbbell and Hicks died. Dahmer stood over the corpse and masturbated. The next day Dahmer dissected the body and buried it in the backyard of his family home. His father forced him to enlist in the military after he graduated. Dahmer was kicked out of the military however due to his drinking problem. Dahmer then returned home and destroyed the remains of Hicks even more and scattered them farther. He then went to Florida where he spent most of his time in a hospital but was kicked out because of his drinking. He then traveled to live with his grandmother in Wisconsin. His drinking continued and he was eventually arrested for masturbating in front of two boys in a public place. In September 1987 Dahmer claimed his second victim. Dahmer met Steven Toumi in a gay bar, together they got a hotel room together and drank quite a lot. When Dahmer woke up the next morning Toumi was dead. He bought a giant suitcase and transported the corpse back to his grandmothers where he had sex with and masturbated on the corpse before dismembering it and getting rid of it. (“Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer” Bio)
Dahmer continued this killing spree for about 13 years. His victims were mostly African American gay men he would meet at a bar. He would lead them back to his grandmother's basement with the promise of sex or money and then drug them and strangle them to death. He would then continue the pattern of having sex with the corpses or masturbating on them, dismembering them and then disposing of them. Dahmer would keep “souvenirs” of his killings like the skull or the genitals. He also took pictures at different parts of each murders so he could later “relive” the murders.(Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer Bio) Dahmers’ Grandmother had no idea what was going on in her basement but she was tiring of Dahmers late night drunkenness and forced him out of the house.
Dahmer was then caught after a 13 year old boy had escaped and the police arrested Dahmer. Dahmer was given one year probation and he could work his job during the day but he would have to return to the jail at night. Dahmer's father pleaded in an interview with CNN that Dahmer should get psychological help before being released from prison. After serving only ten months Dahmer was released from prison and never received any psychological help. After he was released his victim count rapidly increased. He killed 12 more people during this time and tried crude experiments on their corpses. One of Dahmer's victims escaped and was picked up by the police. When the police went to investigate Dahmer acted cool and claimed that the handcuffed man was his lover. He told them he would get the keys to the handcuffs. While Dahmer went to get the keys the officers looked around. One of the officers found the photos of the dismembered bodies and ordered Dahmer to be restrained immediately. There was plenty of evidence in Dahmers house to prove he had killed many men. Due to the circumstances that almost all of Dahmer's victims were African American the trial was very high tension and under heavy security. Dahmer was immediately found guilty and sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms. Dahmer never got to serve his sentence long. One day while doing mandatory work in the prison with two other prisoners, Dahmers skull was smashed in by Christopher Scarver a African American murderer who was schizophrenic.
Dahmer’s psychological problems were clear and it definitely seemed that he could have been born with dark psychological issues. His disturbing obsession with animal carcaresses and dismembering them was definitely a sign. Also his inability to want to make friends or be able to do well in social situations was another sign. However this is also common in young boys who know they are gay and do not desire anyone to know. Dahmer killed 17 men and molested almost all of them.
Men like Hennard, Huberty, Bundy and Dahmer sent America into a frenzy. People were terrified and yet they are still mentioned in the media today. Human beings are obsessed with the weird, the insane, the dark, and the gory. The thought of killing someone in cold blood baffles people and they just keep wanting to know more and more. With killers like Hennard and Huberty no one will ever be satisfied with knowing because there is no solid reason for their killings. Unfortunately people like Hennard, Huberty, Bundy and Dahmer will always be around and humans will always be obsessed with murder, the darkness we love to hate.
is there a difference between what caused killers such as James Hubert, George Hennard, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer to be this way? Mass Murder involves the murder of four or more people within a single event in a very short span of time. (Geberth) Often the murderer will die at the place of the crime. They will either commit suicide or cause a scene that will force the police to kill them. It is very rare for the murderer to turn themselves in for the actions they’ve committed. When a mass murder is committed the community as well as the nation is alerted right away. This explosion from the media leads to a lot of false information being released to the public and can cause chaos. Things like school shootings have become so big and frequent that it has become its own category within mass murder. When most people think of a mass murder it is true that they immediately think of school shootings like Columbine or Sandy Hook. George Hennard and James Huberty are two men who committed mass murder and alone killed more people than in the Columbine and Sandy Hook shootings put together. James Huberty was born in Canton, Ohio on October 11, 1942. When he was three he contracted polio. Although he recovered and made leaps of improvement Huberty would always have difficulties walking. Hubertys’ father bought a farm in the 1950’s. The farm was located in Pennsylvania in Amish country. Hubertys’ mother refused to live in Amish country so she abandoned the family. This abandonment greatly affected Huberty growing up leaving him distant and alone. Huberty went to college and gained a degree in sociology and then later went on to receive his embalming license from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science. He met his wife Etna at the Mortuary school, they settled down and had a family in Massillon, Ohio.
Unfortunately their happy life in Massillon wouldn't last long. They were forced to move when their home burned down. They moved to Canton and soon reports of violent behavior from Mr. and Mrs. Huberty began to emerge. Some of the reports included Etna telling her daughter to get in a fight with a young girl. Etna then got in an altercation with the mother of the young girl and apparently threatened her with a pistol. Huberty even shot his german shepherd in the head when a neighbor complained that the dog had damaged their car. The family then once again had to move due to Huberty no longer being able to continue his welding job in Canton after he was in an motorcycle accident.
They lived briefly in Mexico until settling in San Ysidro, a small community in California. Huberty got a job as a security guard but was eventually let go. Two weeks later, he called a mental hospital, he claimed that he felt something was wrong and he needed help. The receptionist felt that it was not an emergency and filed it in a pile that would be called back in 48 hours.
One morning Huberty and his family went to the zoo and had McDonalds for lunch. A few hours later, Huberty walked back into that McDonalds and opened fire on the people inside. When he had left his house before the event his wife had asked him where he was going and he responded with “Hunting humans”. Huberty entered the McDonalds with a 9 mm Uzi semi-automatic, a Winchester pump-action 12-gauge shotgun, and a 9 mm Browning HP. He killed 21 people and injured 19 others.(Dietz) The massacre lasted 77 minutes until swat finally took Huberty down. The police would have arrived sooner but the person working dispatch gave the officers the wrong address.
Huberty had some clear psychological problems but the actual reason behind the shooting is unknown except people have been saying it was revenge shooting. Before the shooting Huberty had said “society had it’s chance”. (James) His call to the mental hospital was in a way a warning that something bad was going to happen. The abandonment that Huberty felt from his mother may have also been reflected in the mental hospital seeing his problems as not important. Whatever the reason, Huberty committed one of the biggest mass murder that America would see until George Hennard.
George Hennard was the murderer behind what is known as Luby’s Mass Shooting. George killed 22 people and injured 23 others. He never really seemed like he was a normal person. He was said to be very distant and he seemed to have a strong dislike towards women. He was enlisted in the U.S navy for two years until he was honorably discharged in 1976. After that he enlisted in the merchant marines but was dismissed from service after he was arrested for drug possession. A year later, he was arrested again for marijuana possession. It was around this time that his hostility and dislike for women began to emerge more and more. On October 16, 1991 he drove his pick up truck right into the window of Luby’s Cafeteria and opened fire on the 140 people that were inside. It was revealed that 14 of the 22 people that were killed were women. (Terry) Which led to the belief that he did it because of his hatred towards women. Hennard was stopped when a police officer had run onto the scene and shot him in the back 4 times. Hennard then put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. It was never actually discovered why Hennard did what he did, he took his reasoning to the grave with him. People have said that he fits the “classic profile of a mass killer; a lonely man with guns” (Daly) Psychologically, Hennard may have been dealing with some mental issues that lead to him cracking and killing all of those people. There were warning signs that Hennard was up to no good. Two sister had received a five page letter from him stating that he had been watching them. He even referred to them as “vipers” but praised them on their virtue. A few days after the sisters had received the letter they ran into Hennard yelling at them across the street. He seemed very angry and was yelling about how he could not believe that one of the sisters had danced with G.I.s at a bar. He even grabbed one of them on the wrist and acted like he was going to hit her but he never did.(Terry) Hennard had obviously been stalking the girls for a very long time and had continued to do so up until his death. Hennard’s mass murder left America in shock and he surpassed Huberty in the largest mass murder that anyone had experienced.
Serial Murder is the murder of different victims with spaces of time in between the murders.
Sometimes the time gap can be days or even months. The periods of times in between are usually referred to “cool off” periods. (Geberth) There is also a typical image for a serial killer and that is a caucasian heterosexual male usually from ages 18-32. However there are a few exceptions, Jeffrey Dahmer for example was homosexual. (Whittington- Egan) There are serial killers all over the world and it does not affect any one race. It is undeniable that America has the largest amount and widest variety of serial killers. Serial killers are arguably more terrifying than mass murders due to the fact that no one knows exactly when their next kill will be or even where. They also go to extreme lengths to stay hidden and to not be caught. Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy are on the top lists of infamy for serial …show more content…
killers.
Theodore “Ted” Bundy was born on November 24th, 1946 in Burlington,Vermont. Right from the beginning Bundy’s life was turned upside down. He had been raised believing that his mother was his sister. His “sister”, Eleanor Cromwell was pregnant at twenty- two years old and she was unmarried. Her parents were extremely religious so they were disappointed in their daughter. She ran away to have Ted at a home for unwed mothers in Vermont.(“Ted Bundy” Bio) She then brought him back to Philadelphia and he was raised believing his grandparents were his real parents. Bundy was always a little different and these signs began to show when he was three years old. One night Eleanor's younger sister woke up surrounded by knives from the kitchen. She looked up and saw a three year old Bundy smiling at her. As a child, Bundy was shy but very smart. He didn’t do well with other children. As he entered his teen years his personality became darker. He had no problem looking in other people's windows and even stealing things. Bundy attended the University of Washington after high school. It was here he fell in love with a pretty girl from california. He thought she had everything, looks, wealth, influence. They dated for a while but when they finally broke up he was devastated. It was around this same time that Bundy found out about his sister being his mother. This was the turning point for Bundy and evidence of his murderous rampage began to surface. No one exactly know when he started killing or exactly how many he killed. His victims all had the same thing in common, they resembled his college girlfriend. Bundy lured his victims to his car by acting injured the kindness they showed him was their fatal mistake. (Murderpedia) In June 1977, Bundy stole a car and ended up getting caught in the mountains of Washington. While in jail, Bundy came up with an escape plan. He somehow gained access to a hacksaw blade and sawed a hole in his prison and he escaped. He then committed his final murder. He kidnapped a twelve year old girl named Kimberly Leach. He abducted her, raped her and then murdered her. When he was done he ditched her body under a pig shed. He almost made it out of Tallahassee until a cop pulled him over to check the plates on his car. When Bundy tried to make a run for it he got in a fight with the cop was eventually subdued by him. He was sent back to Tallahassee and was immediately charged with the murders from Tallahassee and Lake City.Then he was sent to Miami to be charged with the Chi Omega Murders. Bundy had gotten messy during one of the Chi Omega murders and that was his downfall. He was found guilty of the two Chi Omega murders and for killing Kimberly Leach and was given three death sentences.
Bundy fought hard to not be put to death. He appealed his case many times and even tried to offer up information about other cases that were unsolved. (Ted Bundy Bio) He could not avoid the fate that awaited him. On January 24, 1989 bundy was put to death in “old sparky” the electric chair. People outside the prison cheered and celebrated his death. By the time he died he had admitted to killing Thirty- six women but experts do believe that the total actually may be closer to one hundred.
There were many aspects of Bundy’s life that could have caused him to do what he did.
However these aspects were not revealed until much later in Bundy’s life. Bundy is the classic case of “Can you be born a serial killer?”. He started showing signs from when he was three that he was dark, twisted and violent. Many people even believe that he had first killed someone when he was fourteen years old. In his mind he didn’t see things the way most people do and he may have justified that the things he did were right or that it just wasn't a big deal. The events that he experienced when he was in college may have been just enough to push Bundy off the edge and send him on a murderous rampage that he may have always been
fighting.
Not long after Bundy emerged Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960 in West Allis, Wisconsin. Dahmer was a neglected child and it could be seen in school. There he was a shy child that kept to himself. He did however have a small group of friends. His homelife was tense and his mother was to blame. His father was busy with his studies so he was often away, but when he was home Dahmer’s mother demanded all of the attention. She would work herself into states of anxiety just to get the attention from her husband. As a child, Dahmer developed a love for animals, he began by collecting bugs and other insects and then started collecting dead animal bodies from the side of the road. He then would take the dead animals and dismember them and store the parts in jars in his families work shed. This strange obsession is said to have started around the age of four when he helped his father remove animal bones from under the house. (Murderpedia) The family then moved to Ohio where Dahmers mother had her second child. Dahmer became more distant and friendless after the move. In his teens, he began drinking and by the time he graduated high school he could technically be considered an alcoholic. He became to be a problem in high school due to his drinking.
At this same time, Dahmer committed the first of his many murders. He picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Mark Hicks. Dahmer lived in his family home alone so he took Hicks back to the house, together they drank, listened to music and planned to have sex. However when Hicks tried to leave Dahmer hit him over the head twice with a ten pound dumbbell and Hicks died. Dahmer stood over the corpse and masturbated. The next day Dahmer dissected the body and buried it in the backyard of his family home. His father forced him to enlist in the military after he graduated. Dahmer was kicked out of the military however due to his drinking problem. Dahmer then returned home and destroyed the remains of Hicks even more and scattered them farther. He then went to Florida where he spent most of his time in a hospital but was kicked out because of his drinking. He then traveled to live with his grandmother in Wisconsin. His drinking continued and he was eventually arrested for masturbating in front of two boys in a public place. In September 1987 Dahmer claimed his second victim. Dahmer met Steven Toumi in a gay bar, together they got a hotel room together and drank quite a lot. When Dahmer woke up the next morning Toumi was dead. He bought a giant suitcase and transported the corpse back to his grandmothers where he had sex with and masturbated on the corpse before dismembering it and getting rid of it. (“Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer” Bio)
Dahmer continued this killing spree for about 13 years. His victims were mostly African American gay men he would meet at a bar. He would lead them back to his grandmother's basement with the promise of sex or money and then drug them and strangle them to death. He would then continue the pattern of having sex with the corpses or masturbating on them, dismembering them and then disposing of them. Dahmer would keep “souvenirs” of his killings like the skull or the genitals. He also took pictures at different parts of each murders so he could later “relive” the murders.(Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer Bio) Dahmers’ Grandmother had no idea what was going on in her basement but she was tiring of Dahmers late night drunkenness and forced him out of the house.
Dahmer was then caught after a 13 year old boy had escaped and the police arrested Dahmer. Dahmer was given one year probation and he could work his job during the day but he would have to return to the jail at night. Dahmer's father pleaded in an interview with CNN that Dahmer should get psychological help before being released from prison. After serving only ten months Dahmer was released from prison and never received any psychological help. After he was released his victim count rapidly increased. He killed 12 more people during this time and tried crude experiments on their corpses. One of Dahmer's victims escaped and was picked up by the police. When the police went to investigate Dahmer acted cool and claimed that the handcuffed man was his lover. He told them he would get the keys to the handcuffs. While Dahmer went to get the keys the officers looked around. One of the officers found the photos of the dismembered bodies and ordered Dahmer to be restrained immediately. There was plenty of evidence in Dahmers house to prove he had killed many men. Due to the circumstances that almost all of Dahmer's victims were African American the trial was very high tension and under heavy security. Dahmer was immediately found guilty and sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms. Dahmer never got to serve his sentence long. One day while doing mandatory work in the prison with two other prisoners, Dahmers skull was smashed in by Christopher Scarver a African American murderer who was schizophrenic.
Dahmer’s psychological problems were clear and it definitely seemed that he could have been born with dark psychological issues. His disturbing obsession with animal carcaresses and dismembering them was definitely a sign. Also his inability to want to make friends or be able to do well in social situations was another sign. However this is also common in young boys who know they are gay and do not desire anyone to know. Dahmer killed 17 men and molested almost all of them.
Men like Hennard, Huberty, Bundy and Dahmer sent America into a frenzy. People were terrified and yet they are still mentioned in the media today. Human beings are obsessed with the weird, the insane, the dark, and the gory. The thought of killing someone in cold blood baffles people and they just keep wanting to know more and more. With killers like Hennard and Huberty no one will ever be satisfied with knowing because there is no solid reason for their killings. Unfortunately people like Hennard, Huberty, Bundy and Dahmer will always be around and humans will always be obsessed with murder, the darkness we love to hate.