1. Jeffrey Dahmer By: Thompson Grant

2. Family Life Parents got divorced and his mom left him He suffered from low self esteem and was very shy Being abandoned by his mother left him with feelings of loss and rejection After he graduated from high school his was left home alone

3. Early Life As a kid he impaled heads of animals on stakes in his front yard He would strip their meat with acid and had necrophilia desires His neighbor molested him

4. The Beginning… In 1978 he committed his first murder at the age of 18 He picked up a hitchhiker and killed him with a barbell at his home He smashed his bones with a hammer because “he didn’t want him to leave” It would be nine years before he killed again

5. How He Killed He would go to gay bars to pick up his victims He would drug his victims into a deep sleep with spiked drinks Stab or strangle them Have sex with their corpse Cut their body to pieces with a hacksaw

6. How He Killed Cont. Kept their heads and genitals as trophies Freeze biceps and other muscles to eat later Boiled rest of body with chemicals and acid Sometimes performed lobotomies

7. His Victims Most of his victims were minorities because he lived in an ethnic area All were male Killed 17 males from 1978-1991

8. How He Was Caught One of his victims escaped with a handcuff on one hand He led cops to Dahmer’s house Police found pictures of bodies and other parts on fridge Found one skull in the freezer and three in the fridge Also found other skulls in his closet along with male genitalia preserved in formaldehyde

9. Trial Dahmer admitted to all 17 murders Blamed nobody but himself Tried to plead insanity but the court rejected his appeal He was killed in prison by an inmate City of Milwaukee raised $400,000 to burn all of his possessions in 1996

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