Criminal Profile: Jeffrey DahmerJEFFREY DAHMER Jeffrey Dahmer shown in a police mug shot from his 1982 arrest at the Wisconsin State Fair for indecent exposure. Photo by Ralf-Finn Hestoft/Corbis
By Gary C. King Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys, most in the rough, seedy area of Milwaukee, Wis., where he lived, according to police and court records. His gruesome crimes of rape, torture, dismemberment, cannibalism and necrophilia earned him the nicknames of "The Milwaukee Cannibal" and "The Milwaukee Monster." A known sex offender, Dahmer was arrested in 1988 for taking lascivious photos of a 13-year-old minor. He was released on bail a week later. Most of his murders occurred during the next three and a half years. Dahmer's Background Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960, in West Allis, Wis. Police and court records indicate he grew up a withdrawn lad, and had little interest in hobbies or socializing, preferring instead to ride his bicycle around his neighborhood looking for dead animals. When he'd find one, he would take it home and cut it up. He once impaled a dog's head on a stake. He began drinking as a teenager, and was considered an alcoholic before he graduated high school. Failing at college and a two-year stint in the U.S. Army because of alcoholism, Dahmer moved in with his grandmother in 1982 and remained at her West Allis home for the next six years. The Murders Dahmer committed his first murder in 1978 after driving a hitchhiker to his father's home, where Dahmer then resided. The man did not want to drink with him and wanted to leave, but Dahmer had other plans. He bludgeoned the man to death with a barbell and buried the body in the back yard, according to court records. His next murder occurred nine years later, and then he killed two more men in 1988 and another in 1989, keeping the latter victim's skull. He typically picked up his victims in gay bars, and his modus operandi frequently included having sex with them before killing them. He left his grandmother's home in May 1990 and moved into Apartment 213 of the Oxford Apartments in Milwaukee, where the Post-Tribune of Northwest Indiana reports he murdered the rest of his victims over the next two years. |
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