The Character Of 'Milwaukee Monster'

 

While recent American history is littered with serial killers who have killed hundreds of people, the truth is that the methods Dahmer used to kill and dispose of their bodies are truly remarkable.  , this made him the center of attention of crime investigators and ordinary citizens alike.Dozens of television series, movies, and dramas have been made about his life and crimes, and that's not counting the writings that have been written, from reports of the events to the testimonies of his high school classmates and books. A new series based on Dahmer's crimes and the story of his childhood and youth called 'Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story' has been aired on Netflix for ten episodes.But who was Jeffrey Dahmer and why do his crimes still capture people's attention?

A 'normal' childhood

One thing that caught the attention of police officials and the doctors who treated Dahmer was that, unlike most serial killers, he had not experienced any abuse or maltreatment, or traumatic events, in his childhood.He was born on May 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.His father, Lionel Dahmer, who visited him in prison even after his criminal activities became public, was a chemist and his mother, Joyce Annette, worked as a telegraph operator.According to various biographies of him, including his life story published on the American channel 'A&E', some of his teachers noticed a change in his behavior when he was ten years old.He believed that his change in behavior was related to his mother's diagnosis of mental illness and his father's absence from him.  However, it was in his teenage years that he began to show some changes in his behavior that marked him in his later years.

His father, Lionel Dahmer, who visited him in prison even after his criminal activities became public, was a chemist, and his mother, Joyce Annette, worked as a telegraph operator.Dahmer had always been interested in dissecting dead animals.  Most of them were animals that died after being run over by vehicles on the highway near their homes.Shari Dahmer, who later became Dahmer's father's wife, told the Times magazine that she knew Jeffrey used acid to decompose the flesh of dead animals and remove the bones.  He did the same with the murderers.

According to Dahmer's statement to authorities, which was later published in local media reports, his parents' divorce, which occurred when he was about to graduate from high school, left him feeling alone.  had deepened, which had been felt by his teachers as a child. It was during this period that he committed his first murder, in June 1978 when he killed 18-year-old Steven Hicks who was attending a music concert near Dahmer's home. Dahmer himself was 18 years old at the time and saw Steven driving by the house and offered to give him a ride to the concert venue, but before Dahmer invited him to his house for a jam.

 After bringing him home, he hit Steven twice on the head with the weights he used for exercise.  Dahmer told police years later that he hit Steven Hicks because he was in a hurry to get to a concert and didn't want to sit next to him. Jeffery treated Steven Hicks' body with the same brutality that he later treated the bodies of other victims.  He cut up Hicks' body, put it in acid, and after the flesh decomposed, removed the bones and preserved them. According to Geoffrey's own account, in the case of Hicks, he kept a complete head of it so that he could consider it later.For nine years, Dahmer was not found guilty of any further crimes.  He enrolled at Ohio University where he was expelled after the first semester due to poor grades and absenteeism.

 His father, who has given several interviews about his son, said that after he was expelled from the university, he sent his son to the army.  However, he was also expelled there due to his addiction to alcohol.In 1981, Dahmer moved with his grandmother to a house in the suburbs of Milwaukee.  There he had his first sexual relations with other men, devoted himself to gay bars and was unemployed for a long time due to his addiction to alcohol.In November 1987 he committed a second murder, that of 25-year-old Steven Toomey.  According to a statement given during his trial, Dahmer met Toomey at a bar and persuaded him to accompany him to a hotel room.Dahmer said in his deposition that he did not remember how he killed Toomey, but that when he woke up the next morning, Toomey's body was lying next to him and his hands were bruised.

From here, Dahmer began his killing spree, bringing his victims from the bar into the house or living room and killing them.  At first he would bring the young men to his grandmother's house, but he was eventually kicked out and moved to a cheap apartment in the suburbs of Milwaukee where he would bring his victims, drug them and strangle them.He would bring home men whom he sexually seduced in bars.In this way, he killed Richard Guerrero, James Dokstatter, Antony Sayers, Raymond Smith, Edward Smith, Ernest Miller, David Thomas, Curtis Stratford, Errol Lindsay, Conoric Synthasophon, Tony Hughes, Oliver Lacy, Matt Turner and Joseph Brodhoft.

When Dahmer killed someone, he would cut up their body, put the body parts in a refrigerator to preserve them, and put them in a saline solution. He did all of this in the apartment he rented on the outskirts of Milwaukee, and for five years the police were unable to solve the crime, despite constant complaints from neighbors about the smell.In July 1991, Dahmer convinced Tracy Edwards, a 32-year-old black teenager, to pay him $100 to walk home with him and take nude photos.During the trial, however, he testified that Edwards was able to escape from the apartment after realizing Dahmer's intentions.  He informed two police officers who immediately rushed to the spot.

Dahmer was arrested after police recovered photographs of mutilated bodies from his flat. In his statement to the police, he admitted that he had killed 11 people in this manner.  Officials found the heads of four people and the body parts, hearts, etc. of others from his flat, while drums of acid were also found from his flat. He also said in his confessional statement that he used to eat the human flesh of the murdered and had sex with the dead bodies.After this short-lived trial, he was found guilty of 15 murders and would be sentenced to death 15 times.  He was sent to an Ohio state prison.However, two years later, he died of a head injury during a fight with a colleague in prison, ending a serial killer.