![]() Running down a Milwaukee street with a pair of handcuffs dangling from one wrist, Tracy Edwards told police that Dahmer was trying to kill him. Many of his later murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism, and the permanent preservation of the skeleton.Įvan Peters as Dahmer in ‘Monster’ (COURTESY OF NETFLIX)ĭespite having been arrested numerous times in his life, once for groping a young boy, authorities only discovered Dahmer’s murderous activities when he was arrested after one of his victims escaped in 1991. He moved out into an apartment in Milwaukee and the murders and dismemberments continued into the Nineties. ![]() ![]() He then started to carry out assaults and murders in his grandmother’s home.ĭahmer’s grandmother asked him to move out, largely because of his drinking, his habit of bringing young men back late at night and the foul smells coming from both the basement and the garage – where Dahmer would store and dispose of his victims. In the late Eighties he committed his second murder, this time of a man he brought back to a hotel. In 1981, he was discharged, and in the mid-Eighties, back in Milwaukee, he started to frequent gay bathhouses where he sedated men and assaulted them. Shortly afterwards, Dahmer joined the US army for a few years. He later dug up the body so he could dissolve it in acid and crush and scatter the bones. Dahmer then strangled Hicks to death, stripped him, masturbated, dissected the body and buried the remains in a shallow grave in his back garden. One day in June, he picked up 18-year-old hitchhiker Steven Mark Hicks, lured him to his house for a “few beers”, and bludgeoned him with a dumbbell. Jeffrey Dahmer in 1991 (AFP via Getty Images)ĭahmer committed his first murder three weeks after he graduated from high school in 1978. He later admitted he fantacised about dominating a submissive male partner, and that these fantasies had started to involve dissection. In his early teens, Dahmer had a brief relationship with another teenage boy, but he did not tell his parents he was gay. Having previously been quiet, he started throwing fake fits and mocking people with cerebral palsy. While it was thought by teachers that he had good academic potential, his grades were average. He drank heavily and called alcohol his “medicine” to classmates. His father showed him how to bleach and preserve animal bones, and Dahmer started to collect road kill so he could dissect them and add more bones to his collection.Īt high school, Dahmer was an outcast. He began to collect insects and the skeletons of small animals, such as squirrels, and preserve them in jars of formaldehyde. The family moved to Ohio when Dahmer was about six, and his younger brother David was born.ĭahmer was interested in dead animals, specifically animal bones, from an early age – something thought to have begun when he saw his father removing animal bones from beneath their home. Dahmer’s parents eventually got divorced when he was 18.ĭahmer was a quiet child, who underwent double hernia surgery at the age of three. ![]() His mother suffered from depression and attempted suicide, and his father was away studying for much of his childhood. There are conflicting reports on whether Dahmer was neglected as a child or if he was doted upon, but there appears to be no doubt he was from a broken home.
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