Jeffery Dahmer: Serial Killer

Jeffery Dahmer is one of the most famous criminals in Wisconsin to this current date. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffery Dahmer lived to be what would be called the normal life. Dahmer had grown up in a stable household and had a normal childhood until the age of four. Jeffrey Dahmer was born to Lionel and Joyce Dahmer on May 21, 1960 with one younger brother that seemed to change his life when he was born. He did not have many friends but that never stopped him from enjoying his childhood life when he was a kid. Although Jeffery’s early life was similar to any other average child’s life it is what happened later on in life that really changed his mind set and is what helped him become what he is labeled today, Wisconsin’s famous criminal.
“After his first murder in 1978, Dahmer did not kill again for 9 years. Over the next 4 years Dahmer would take 15 more lives in horrible and cruel ways. His strategies were to go to gay clubs and pick up men since in the gay community Jeffrey would be considered a "desirable" man” (Weebly, 2016). Dahmer was not clueless when it came to picking out who he was going to take back next to kill. He chose victims that were recognized as criminals because that way it would not bring suspicion to himself or the criminal if they were missing because people would be less likely to notice. He would bring them back to his grandma’s house at the time or even his own apartment after he got kicked out of his grandmother’s house. He would promise those men sexual acts or favors and even put money down in order to secure them for the
“This guy was a 32 year old African American named Tracy Edwards. The Milwaukee police decided they needed to investigate the man’s claim that a weird dude had drugged and restrained him” (Waxman, 2016). Once the police arrived at Dahmer’s apartment, he calmly went and got the keys for the handcuffs. This is where everything went downhill for Dahmer. “Dahmer was quiet with the officers, and successive searches revealed a human skull in the refrigerator, three more in the freezer and a collection of other fears, including preserved skulls, jars containing genitalia and an extensive gallery of macabre photographs” (Waxman, 2016). Dahmer was arrested quickly right on the scene after authorities found him guilty for all that he has done after seeing what he had in his