Jeffrey Dahmer
Austin Schmitz and Cole Yerkes
 Born May 21st 1960 West Allis
Wisconsin
 Normal childhood until the age of
six
 Suffered from a double hernia
 After surgery was never the same:
more quite, sitting alone for long
periods of time, face motionless.
 Killed small animals
 Liked the sounds of bones rattling
 Fascinated in dead bodies of
animals
 Got in trouble at school during
recess for killing animals
 Lack of self confidence
 Very deep, distant, and shy
 Increasingly bad posture, often
moped around purposeless and
disengaged
 Never diagnosed, but thought by
his father that he was mentally
insane
 Suspected that a move from Iowa
to Ohio uprooted him from familiar
settings
 Parents divorced at age 18
 Alcoholic at a young age
 Not motivated to pursue any
careers, education, or starting
families
 Convicted his first murder at 18
 Parents enrolled him in Ohio Sate
University, but soon dropped out
from excessive drinking
 Forced to find a job or enroll in
Armed Forces
 Diagnosed as an alcoholic but
never received treatment
 Two years into Armed forces he
was discharged for alcoholism
 Was homosexual and did not
marry or have children
 Killing spree lasted 13 years
 African American gay men
 Had sex with the victim then
murdered them
 Lured into grandmothers basement
with promise of money or sex
 Gave victims alcohol laced with
drugs and strangle them
 Have sex or masturbate on the
dead body
 Dismember and dispose the body
keeping their genitals or skulls as
souvegners
 Killed 17 young men throughout
killing spree
 Used canibalism on some of his
victims
 Arrested for convicting many crimes
 Always compliant to the sentencing
 Plead guilty for some rape charges,
pleading that the 13 year old boy looked a lot older
 1981 Father forced him to move in
with his grandmother because of a
disorderly conduct charge involving
alcohol
 1986 arrested for masturbating in
front of two young boys and was
put on a one year probationary
charge
 Very calm in court
 Placed in bullet proof glass and
steel in trial to isolate from the
gallery
 Courtroom swept for bombs and
metal detectors were
administrated
 Tried to protect Dahmer as best
they could because of how many
people hated him
 Plead that he was guilty but insane
 Made the jury confused as to
weather he could control his
actions or not
 Sentenced to 15 consecutive life
terms or 957 years in prison
 Charged for 15 murders
 Found in the toilet area next to the
prison gym
 Laying in blood
 Massive head injuries
 Broom stick found nearby
 November 28th 1994 pronounced
dead
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