Jeffrey Dahmer
I bet most of you didn 't know but according to Pyschology Today, Jan Feb 2002. America has 76% of the world 's serial killers. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, was an American notorious serial killer, who went from being a normal kid, to a cannibal, a murderer, and then to necrophilia (which means he had sexual attraction to corpse). Who murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Then was eventually charged and killed. He was born on May 21, 1960 in Wisconsin. He came from a normal family who treated him like any other kid. His parents eventually began constant fights between each other. Being a young child and watching this, Jeffrey took each of these fights to heart. Neither parent realizing that this fighting would be one of the reasons to Jeffrey 's downfall in later years. His parents finally divorced and Dahmer continued to live with his father who eventually got remarried. After Dahmer had a hernia operation, the 6 year old 's behavior changed profoundly. He became remote, fearful, and distant, he would sit for hours in front of the television without moving. Even his body language changed. It all started at the age of 10 Dahmer began to "experiment" with dead animals by decapitating rodents, bleaching chicken bones with acid, nailing a dog 's body to a tree and mounting its head on a stake. He had many problems his teenage years. Just after Dahmer graduated high school and his parents had both fled from him. He was later attending college. In June 1978 his "experimentations" turned into murder. His first victim was a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks. He took him to his house where they drank beer, had some laughs, and had sex. When Hicks tried to leave, Dahmer crushed his skull with a barbell, strangled him, and then dismembered his corpse in plastic bags and buried them in the woods behind his house. There would be nine years before he took his second victim.
In January 1979 Dahmer flunked out of Ohio State University after only one semester, due to
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