1000 Facts About Jeffrey Dahmer E-Book

Simon Speed

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

In 1991, an American serial killer named Jeffrey Dahmer was captured in Milwaukee. Even by the grim and gruesome standards of serial killers, Dahmer's crimes shocked the world. He was not only a prolific serial killer but a necrophile and cannibal to boot. The macabre crime scene in his apartment was nightmarish beyond belief.   1000 Facts About Jeffrey Dahmer contains ALL you could ever want to know about this notorious, harrowing, and enduringly famous man.

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Contents

Introduction

1000 Facts All About Jeffrey Dahmer

References

INTRODUCTION

The facts which follow cover all aspects of Dahmer's life and crimes. There have been many books and articles about Jeffrey Dahmer but hopefully this book will justify its existence and supply plenty of Dahmer trivia which you were not previously aware of. Be warned that some of the facts which follow are not for the faint of heart.

1000 FACTS ALL ABOUT JEFFREY DAHMER

(1) Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1960.

(2) Dahmer's mother Joyce was a Teletype Machine Instructor.

(3) Jeffrey Dahmer's chemist father Lionel taught him how to preserve animal bones when he was a boy. Dahmer would later use these skills on human bones.

(4) When he was a boy, Dahmer became very interested in taxidermy and decomposition. You might say this was rather Norman Bates.

(5) Dahmer said he first had a fantasy about killing someone when he was in high school.

(6) Jeffrey Dahmer collected insects as a kid.

(7) Dahmer was a fairly bright kid and had an IQ of 121 as an adult.

(8) Relatives of Jeffrey Dahmer say that his personality seemed to suddenly change after he had hernia surgery at the age of four.

(9) Dahmer attended Revere High School in Ohio.

(10) Jeffrey Dahmer said his necrophiliac desires began when he was fourteen. A necrophiliac is a person who is sexually excited by or attracted to dead bodies.

(11) Dahmer said that when he was eighteen he tried to steal a corpse from a graveyard but his plan was foiled because the ground was too hard to dig up. Dahmer had read in the obituary section of the newspaper that a local teenage boy had died.

(12) It is a popular thread with many serial killers that their sexual fantasies from a young age were about people who are restrained or can't move or struggle. Social scientists say that the desire for absolute control and dominance we see in serial killers like Dahmer often stems from an unhappy childhood where they felt weak and vulnerable. Dahmer was said to be irritated when his lovers moved too much. He wanted them perfectly still. In fact, he REALLY wanted them dead.

(13) When he was growing-up, Jeffrey Dahmer once stole a mannequin from a store and kept it in his bedroom for a couple of weeks. Sadly, this mannequin only served to make him wish he had a real inert body to lie down with.

(14) Dahmer developed a drinking problem at a preposterously young age - which seemed to blight whatever potential he had.

(15) Dahmer's former classmates say you could often smell Scotch on his breath at school. He would also sometimes take a bottle of vodka to school with him.

(16) Jeffrey Dahmer’s childhood home in Akron, Ohio, is still there. You can rent or buy this property. It is said the house has sometimes proved difficult to sell.

(17) Jeffrey Dahmer was apparently known as a prankster when he was at school. It seems though that he was egged on to do this and, having no real friends of his own, was eager to please whoever took an interest in him. Dahmer's pranks at school betray a desperate need for some sort of attention.

(18) Jeffrey Dahmer was an avid reader as a teenager. He was said to love reading The Lord of the Rings most of all.

(19) Dahmer played the clarinet in high school.

(20) Jeffrey Dahmer said he felt jealous of the attention given to his younger brother David when he was a boy.

(21) Jeffrey Dahmer and his brother David apparently had almost nothing in common. David was outgoing and cheerful - the complete opposite of Jeffrey Dahmer.

(22) Dahmer was gay and so all of his future victims would be men that he had picked up in bars or developed a casual friendship with. Heterosexual male killers nearly always kill women and gay male serial killers nearly always kill men.

(23) Dahmer went on a date with a girl at a prom when he was a teenager. He knew he was gay though so had no interest in making a habit of this.

(24) Bridget Geiger, Dahmer's prom date, said he was very shy and a little bit weird.

(25) Bridget Geiger said that Dahmer did not kiss her when they went to the prom. He merely shook her hand at the end of the night.

(26) During a school trip to Washington, Dahmer managed to blag permission to visit the Vice-President's office in the White House.

(27) Jeffrey Dahmer quickly abandoned Bridget Geiger at the prom and vanished. He only returned hours later to take her home.

(28) Dahmer graduated from high school in 1978.

(29) Dahmer is believed to have killed for the first time when he was eighteen. Dahmer murdered a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks he had picked up by hitting him with a barbell weight.

(30) Dahmer threw the remains of his first victim Steven Hicks in the woods in garbage bags after dissecting the body. A few weeks later, Dahmer used acid to dissolve the body of Steven Hicks and crushed whatever bones were left with a hammer.

(31) Dahmer's father paid for him to go university but he dropped out after a few months. Dahmer attended Ohio State University.

(32) After dropping out of university, Dahmer became a combat medic assistant in the 8th Infantry Division and was stationed in West Germany. It was his father who insisted that he should join the army.

(33) Two soldiers who served with Dahmer claimed that he sedated and raped them in Germany.

(34) Dahmer's army record indicates that he was an excellent marksman and skilled with guns.

(35) Dahmer's army record also indicated that he was a persistent lawbreaker. He would sometimes turn up for duty drunk. He was also reprimanded for playing his stereo too loud.

(36) Jeffrey Dahmer was eventually kicked out of the army for his drinking. He refused to participate in rehabilitation schemes designed to get him sober.

(37) After his discharge from the army and a year in Florida, Dahmer eventually ended up living with his grandmother in West Allis, Wisconsin.

(38) As a young man, Dahmer was arrested for indecent exposure to children.

(39) Dahmer had a conviction for dangerous driving as a teenager. He was caught veering over the middle of the lane. Dahmer had bags containing the remains of Steven Hicks in the car at the time. He was amazed that the cops didn't search his car.

(40) Dahmer was briefly employed as a phlebotomist at the Milwaukee Blood Plasma Center.

(41) Jeffrey Dahmer was eventually employed at Ambrosia Chocolate Factory in Milwaukee. While working at the chocolate factory, Dahmer drugged and sexually fondled a 13-year-old boy. He was given five years’ probation.

(42) At the chocolate factory, Dahmer worked the night shift for $8.75 an hour.

(43) Jeffrey Dahmer was a mixer at the chocolate factory.

(44) Dahmer was eventually fired from his job at the chocolate factory for missing shifts.

(45) In 1987, Jeffrey Dahmer woke up in the Ambassador Hotel in Milwaukee with the dead body of a man next to him. He somehow managed to get the body out of the hotel using a suitcase and took it to his grandmother's home (where Dahmer lived) so that he could dissect the body and dispose of it. Dahmer became aware that it was relatively easy to pick up young men and as he was living with just his grandmother he had a relative sort of privacy at home. The victim was Steven Walter Tuomi. This was Dahmer's second murder.

(46) In the end, Jeffrey Dahmer's grandmother, though she loved her grandson, got tired of his strange behaviour and he had to leave. Dahmer eventually moved into an apartment and his killing spree then began to spiral out of control. Jeffrey Dahmer lived at Apartment 213, Oxford Apartments—924 N. 25th street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

(47) Dahmer often went to a nightclub called Club 219 to find victims. Club 219 was a real gay bar in Milwaukee. Dahmer's apartment was very close - about a ten minute cab ride away.

(48) Club 219 closed in the end. It was a combination of new rival nightclubs and the infamy of being associated with Dahmer that sunk this once profitable establishment.

(49) Dahmer would sometimes pick up victims at The Grand Avenue. This was a local Milwaukee mall which opened in 1982. The mall still exists to this day.

(50) Dahmer tends to be known as The Milwaukee Cannibal in true crime circles today.

(51) Dahmer said that he was a nervous child because there was always tension in the house between his mother and father.

(52) Dahmer's mother once suffered a nervous breakdown and is often alleged to have been an unstable person prone to eccentric behaviour. This is sometimes speculated to have had an adverse affect on Jeffrey Dahmer.

(53) Jeffrey Dahmer was always irritated by media reports or academic articles which apportioned some blame to his parents for him becoming a serial killer. Dahmer was always quick to insist that his parents were not to blame for anything.

(54) Dahmer is most famous for the fact that he would eat parts of his victims. It is very rare for serial killers to eat the flesh of their victims. This fact makes the known cannibal serial killers all the more infamous. There are not a huge amount of killers where we know for a fact that they ate parts of their victims and so verified killers who fall into this category are (unavoidably) all the more macabre and morbidly fascinating.

(55) Dr Eric Hickey, professor of forensic psychology at Walden University, estimated that around only around five to ten out of every two thousand serial killers are cannibals.

(56) Given that his victims were mostly black, it has been speculated that there was a racist motive in Dahmer's selection of victims. The evidence for this seems weak though. It seems to be more the case that Dahmer simply targeted people who were available to him in that location and transient or vulnerable. These people often turned out to be black because Dahmer lived in a black neighbourhood.

(57) Dahmer told the police that the race of his victims was unimportant to him and not a factor in why they were chosen. According to Dahmer they just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

(58) It seems highly plausible that Dahmer might have targeted black victims simply because he was sexually attracted to black men.

(59) Dahmer said the human body parts he ate tasted a lot like beef.

(60) Jeffrey Dahmer fried the body parts of his victims in a skillet before he ate them.

(61) Dahmer used a meat tenderizer to make human flesh more edible.

(62) Dahmer said that, circa 1983, he tried to use religion to fight off his desperate urge to kill and attended church a lot. It obviously didn't work.

(63) Jeffrey Dahmer said he enjoyed his time in the army and regretted the fact that his drinking got him kicked out. Dahmer said that the routines and discipline of army life helped to keep his dark thoughts and desires at bay.

(64) Dahmer briefly lived in Florida after he was booted out of the army. Dahmer said he went there because afer living in Ohio and Germany he was tired of the cold winters and wanted to go somewhere warm for a change. Dahmer did not kill anyone while in Florida - although, as we shall see, some suspect him of killing a child while in Florida.

(65) Jeffrey Dahmer said he once planned to kill a jogger who ran past his house each day. The jogger stopped running past his house though.

(66) When Dahmer moved into his own apartment this made bringing men back and killing them much easier but it also made disposing of the evidence much harder. It was a more constrictive environment. Dahmer was soon completely lost in his own world of murder and depravity.

(67) The way Dahmer got the victims back to his apartment was to offer them money for a photo shoot or sex. They evidently didn't detect any danger from him and so took the chance to make some extra cash. Dahmer was bespectacled and mild in temperament and speech so he wasn't someone who raised obvious alarm bells or seemed dangerous.

(68) Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment was so eventually so full with victims and body parts that he put one body in the bath and had to shower over it. According to some sources Dahmer had TWO bodies in the shower in the end.

(69) Jeffrey Dahmer would sometimes get his victims handcuffed by telling them he simply wanted to take a bondage photograph.

(70) Jeffrey Dahmer said in his confession that he bought a gun once but got rid of it. He never used a gun in any of his murders. It obviously would have been impossible to shoot someone in an apartment block without attracting attention.

(71) Dahmer would often put a sedative in a coffee rum drink he gave his victims. He would then kill the victims as they slept.

(72) Dahmer told the police that his victims were all strangled - save for one who was stabbed.

(73) Radford University's 2016 report found that 21% of serial killer victims were strangled.

(74) Dahmer set up a fake security camera at his apartment to deter unexpected visitors.

(75) Dahmer said he did not sell any jewellery or valuables belonging to his victims. Dahmer was fairly shrewd and must have known this would too risky - though he would doubtless have been happy for any extra money.

(76) Dahmer said that when he lived in Florida he ran out of money at one point and had to sleep on the beach.

(77) Dahmer had casual work in Florida. He was a cook and a cleaner.

(78) Dahmer said he got mugged once when he was sleeping rough on the beach in Florida.

(79) His heavy drinking made regular employment a constant struggle for Dahmer. It's a miracle he lasted as long as he did at the chocolate factory.

(80) There would be seventeen official victims of Dahmer in all.

(81) Jeffrey Dahmer said that after his third murder he began keeping the skulls. He would boil them in a cleaning solution.

(82) Jeffrey Dahmer said that he had an exceptionally high tolerance for alcohol and that it took a lot to get him steaming drunk.