Jeffrey Dahmer is an American serial killer. Biography, psychological portrait

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Maniac killers arouse unhe althy interest in society. From the point of view of science, they are not given a separate psychiatric diagnosis, often they do not have a pronounced personality disorder. For a long time they lead a dual life, they seem to be quite educated, intelligent people and law-abiding citizens. But the crimes they commit will never be committed by a normal individual.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, the killer of 17 men, not only took life cruelly and mercilessly. He sexually perverted, experimented on corpses, ate organs, drank blood. His sick mania and obsession had few human victims, he liked to examine the insides of animals, rape them. Who is this antisocial psychopath: a necrophile, a zoophile, a cannibal, or just a “devil in the flesh” sent to people?

Childhood of the Milwaukee Monster

The killer-eater was born on May 21, 1960 in an ordinary family of Americans in Wisconsincity of Milwaukee. All of his atrocities, with the exception of one, from 1978 to 1991 will be associated with this city. Although there is a version that the atrocities of the maniac are much more, the number of 17 is the cases he discovered or recognized.

6 years after the birth of Jeffrey Dahmer, whose psychological portrait you will read in the article, undergoes surgical treatment to reduce an inguinal hernia, after which he begins to show vulnerability, isolation. Because of the new work of the head of the family in the spring of 1967, the Dahmers moved to a new house, bought in the suburbs of Ohio. The younger brother David is born here. The monster-to-be becomes close to the boy next door, a fact that is further figured in court.

Monster Puberty

From the age of thirteen, the urge to homosexuality wakes up in a guy, he will try homosexual caresses with a friend. Since 1974 (14 years old), fantasies about the murders of men and intercourse with the dead awaken in him. Behavioral deviations begin to appear. Girls avoid him, they are repelled by incomprehensible antics, because he likes to parody the feeble-minded. Classmates consider him a jester, but something monstrous comes from such antics. One of my favorite pastimes was drawing the outlines of human bodies on the ground with chalk.

He likes to "collect" the remains of unfortunate cats and dogs that died on the side of the road. He experiments with them, stores them in bottles of formaldehyde taken from his chemist father. There is an animal cemetery in the backyard. In children's photographs, the future zoophile is captured with his beloved dog Frisky. Later, from domestic animalsit will be aquarium fish. Then the infliction of pain, suffering was less interesting to Dahmer, the excitement caused the motionless-dead.

Among teachers, he is reputed to be a quiet, reserved guy who does not frankly with anyone. The Rivera school archives remember him as "a good player on the tennis team." He plays the clarinet in the school band. He plans to continue his studies at the university, after becoming a businessman. At the end of the year, Jeffrey Dahmer, an 18-year-old boy, kills the first victim.

The beginning of the criminal atrocities of the cannibal maniac

June 18, 1978, after the divorce of his parents, a terrible chronicle of the maniac's perversions begins. Jeffrey meets hitchhiker Stephen Hicks and invites him home. There they use alcohol and drugs, whether there was sex or not is a moot point. After 10 hours, Hicks decides to leave, Dahmer does not agree with this. He hits the young man on the head with a heavy object, then strangles him. Then he dismembers the body, puts the parts in plastic bags, buries them near the house.

In the fall of 1978, he began studying at Ohio State University. By the end of the school year, he is expelled for not attending classes. Unrestrained drunkenness interferes with learning. It is known that he donated blood to find money for alcohol.

January 1979 - Maniac Jeffrey Dahmer is in the army. According to the recollections of acquaintances, he dreamed of becoming a military policeman. But he becomes an orderly at the Baumholder base in Germany. There, the Milwaukee maniac receives a speci alty and knowledge of anatomy. His nickname is "orphan". When werethe atrocities of the killer are revealed, army officials recalled the disappearance of several men from the district of the military base, but these facts are not confirmed. The reason for the demobilization in 1981 was drunkenness.

Autumn 1981 - The first arrest occurs for drinking in unauthorized places. For a short time, Jeffrey lives in Miami. Upon returning home, he takes out the hidden parts of the body of his first victim, crushes with a sledgehammer, hides the remains.

House with corpses

January 1982 - Killer Jeffrey Dahmer moves to Wisconsin with his grandmother, since 1985 he has been working in a factory. During this period, has two more arrests, one of them for masturbation in front of children.

September 1987, the second of the Milwaukee Monster Serial Murders occurs. 24-year-old victim Stephen Twomey will meet him at a gay bar. After an impressive drinking bout, the homosexuals rented an apartment at the Ambassador Hotel. In the morning, the maniac could not remember the details of the crime; he takes Stephen's body in a taxi. The unsuspecting driver carries heavy luggage to the old woman's house. There, for almost a week, Steve's remains are in the basement. While a relative goes to church for the weekend, the killer butchers the corpse, takes it to the trash.

January and March 1988 are two more crimes involving a Wisconsin home. Victims: 15-year-old Indian boy Jamie Docstator and 25-year-old man Richard Guerrero.

Unsuccessful attempt and cowardice of judges

September 25, 1988 - Dahmer returns to his hometown, settles on North 24th Street. Literallya couple of days later he is arrested at work, the charge being made: sexual claims to the Lao 13-year-old boy Anukon Sinthasomphon. By a strange coincidence of life, his younger brother in 1991 will be killed by a maniac. He lured Anukon for $ 50 for posing naked in front of the camera. After alcohol with a dose of sleeping pills and caresses, the boy managed to escape, he told his parents everything.

January 1989 - the killer admits only that he photographed, and considered the guy much older than his years. The prosecutor asks for a 5-year term of imprisonment, but the court sentences him to a year in a correctional institution, where he comes to spend the night and can work during the day. The sentence is too soft. Dahmer's lawyer generally demanded that the psychopath be placed in a medical institution, insisting that he was sick.

While still under investigation, before sentencing, he takes the life of 24-year-old black Anthony Sears, who himself offers to have sex. In the morning, a psychopath strangled Anthony, chopped up his body, packed his head and penis in cans of a chemical. He took the containers to the chocolate factory, where he hid them. For nine months, the terrible "trophies" were there.

Jeffrey Dahmer's victims

From May 1990 to July 1991 after his release, Jeffrey moves into apartment number 213, where he kills 12 more victims:

• Ricky Beaks (age 30), sixth victim.
• Eddie Smith (28 years old), his corpse was placed in the oven, enjoying the sound of the crunch of bones, the remains were dismembered, thrown into the trash.
• Ernst Miller (23 years old), his throat is slit by the killer.
• David Thomas (age 23), killed due to-for fear that he might hand over the criminal to the police.
• Curtis Strouter (17 years old), his skull will be painted by a maniac, will be kept as a trophy.
• Errol Lindsey (age 19).
• Anthony Hughes (32), deaf and mute guy, the corpse will lie for a couple of days before it is butchered by a pervert, the skull will also be painted.
• Konerak Sintasomfon (14 years old), Dahmer's corpse is subjected to sex, dismembered, skull crumbled.
• Matt Turner (21 years old), acquaintance takes place at a gay parade, after the killer dismembers the corpse, puts the head in the refrigerator, the rest in a container of acid.
• Jeremy Weinberg (24 years old), he suffers a terrible death, live Dahmer drills into his head, pours boiling water into the hole, Jeffrey Dahmer's victim suffers for two days, treat body parts as with Turner's corpse.
• Oliver Lacey (25 years old), strangled, commits an act of violence with a corpse, severed head, carved heart stored in the freezer.
• Joseph Breidhoft (25) last 17th victim.

July 22, 1991 The Milwaukee monster's atrocities end. The arrest occurs unexpectedly, a black man escaped from him in handcuffs, who was noticed by a police patrol. The victim reported a man trying to eat his heart. Upon entering the apartment, the law enforcement officers heard a terrible stench, three heads, a heart, other organs and frozen blood were found in the freezer. All this horror was neatly shoved into packages, sealed with adhesive tape. There are various containers with acids in the toilet room, genitals in jars with formaldehyde. There are two skulls on the toilet tank, next to a saucepan withhands, penises.

Parental guilt or inappropriate excuse

Jeffrey Dahmer's parents marry in August 1959. It is known that the father, Lionel, a chemist by profession, defended his doctoral dissertation in 1966, what his mother did is practically not mentioned anywhere. The killer commits his first atrocity a couple of weeks after the divorce of his parents, when his mother, Joyce, leaves with his younger eleven-year-old brother David. The father was also away. Geoffrey, yearning for loneliness, without means, travels around the district in a car in search of solace. That's how he met his first victim.

In 1978, Lionel Dahmer marries a second time. But the father still takes part in the fate of his son. After a disgraceful expulsion from Ohio State University in Columbus, Dahmer Sr. insists that Jeffrey enlist in the military. After his conviction and early release from prison (1990) for exemplary behavior, it is the father who asks that the eldest son not be released until he has completed a full course of treatment. Later, Lionel will broadcast about the experienced sexual abuse of his eight-year-old child by a neighbor's boyfriend, with whom the future maniac became close in Ohio. However, Jeffy himself denies this statement.

During the divorce proceedings, Dahmer Sr. spoke about the mental disorder of his first wife, accused her of indifference to the family, cruelty. Perhaps a maternally transmitted mental disorder was the main reason for the formation of the antisocial personality of the maniac killer. But my faultthe father also did not take pictures, he argued that it was necessary to contact more often, take an interest in life, pay visits to his own child. As a parent, he is deeply ashamed, he could not compare the image of his son with his crimes.

Individual portrait of a maniac

Any maniac has his own special individual "handwriting", which is expressed:

• selection of crime scene, weapons;
• choosing a victim;
• crime method;
• time.

A classification has been developed that allows to distribute the offenses committed by motives. The breakdown of maniacs into groups is relative, often criminals cannot be attributed to one psychotype, each of them can have several motives.

Milwaukee monster closer to hedonists. They commit violence to satisfy their own needs, to receive pleasure. For perverts, sacrifice is a source of pleasure. There are hedonists:

• "mercantile" kill with material, individual calculation;
• "destroyers" who rob victims more often but commit misdemeanors of suffering without sexual violence;
• "Sexual" criminals take their lives for the sake of sexual perverted satisfaction, and the "handwriting" will depend on the preferences of the maniac and his fantasies, they play an important role, the killer enjoys directly from the process of violence or torment, strangulation, beating.

Jeffrey Dahmer is a pronounced sexual hedonist with a twisted fantasy of a serial maniac-assassins.

Asocial psychotype with a pathological disorder

The story of Jeffrey Dahmer is unique among similar stories of serial perverts. It is believed that childhood mental trauma is the main cause of psychological abnormalities. His childhood proceeded normally, Jeffrey Dahmer's parents also seemed to be quite normal people. As a teenager, he, like most at that age, was shy, had an inferiority complex and a craving for alcohol, and could not establish proper relationships with peers. But these reasons do not make a person a murderer with necrophilic tendencies. He did not experience shock shocks, which occur at the sight of corpses and murders, which subjected the psyche to deformation. The source of a deep perversion of personality is most likely a genetic or congenital disorder.

He had his own tactics of searching for victims, mostly representatives of sexual minorities. Often, acquaintance took place in bars, then he pumped drugs, alcohol, strangled. Later, he showed necrosadite inclinations, not only did he rape mutilated corpses, he liked to make "trophies" from the remains of the body. Dahmer turned lovers into zombies, performed experiments, did primitive lobotomy, drilled holes in the skull with tools, then filled them with acid.

The role of the homicidal maniac, media coverage

Despite an unusual trial, Jeffrey Dahmer was found to be quite sane, his sentence is 15 lifedeadlines. In 1994, the maniac-murderer was punished, he was beaten to death with a metal rod by a cellmate because of the latter’s personal dislike for the behavior, fun and strange humor of the Milwaukee monster.

Back in 1993, the media broadcast speeches by cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer with his father, where he publicly expressed regret to relatives for the suffering caused to the victims. At the suit of the relatives of 11 victims, the maniac's property was distributed among them. In the same year, the first film about Jeffrey Dahmer was released. This is the first attempt to show the biography and crimes of the monster, and rather closer to the point. It was called The Secret Life of Jeffrey Dahmer.

Then the depiction of his atrocities will serve as a prototype for villains, murder scenes, even comedic horror films. In 2008, another film about Jeffrey Dahmer was created. This was a biopic based on a book written by Father Lionel. The movie was called Raising Jeffrey Dahmer. There is an animated series "South Park", where Jeffrey is shown as Satan's henchman. Many bestsellers, music tracks have been written.

People ascribe to the deeds of a maniac killer uniqueness, originality, albeit frightening. In fact, society itself generates asocial psychopaths with its indifference, indifference, mildness of punishment for perverts. If the executive authorities of punishments de alt with the maniac properly at the first arrests, then perhaps there would not have been 17 victims of the Milwaukee cannibal.

This is such a terrible biography of Jeffrey Dahmer. All these facts terrify even the most indifferentperson. An ordinary earthly inhabitant simply does not fit in his head, how can a person do this? Is he like that? No, it is rather the devil in the flesh, designed to sow terror and fear among people. And none of mere mortals can predict and prevent it. It remains only to hope for the mercy of the Lord.