The Story of Jeffery Dahmer-The Friendless

If You read or watched interviews with serial killers, most of them either come across as slight deranger or at least very creepy. But the focus of today's article seems kinda likable in the interviews. Watch the one in 1994 where Jeff tells all while sat next to his loving father. 

"My childhood wasn't filled with any great tragedies," he told the interviewer, but then explains his predilection for dissecting dogs and cats as a kid. It could have led to a normal hobby like taxidermy, he added. But it didn't, and soft-spoken Jeff turned his efforts towards killing and taking apart human beings in an unimaginable fashion. 

"I acted on my fantasies and that's where everything went wrong," he said. In today's article, we'll see how wrong it went, The story of Jeffery Dahmer-The Friendless.

                                                                            Movie poster-My Friend Dahmer.

If you have seen the recent movie about our killer, called "My friend Dhamer", you'll see he is portrayed as a bit of a loner in the school with some strange habits. He has few friends but he doesn't seem to have violent impulses... You'd probably not even notice him if you went to the same school. The movie was based on a graphic novel of the same name written by Derf Backderf(pen name). He researched Dahmer, and this is what he had to say, "There was a surprising number out there who viewed Jeffery Dahmer as some kind of anti-hero, a bullied kid who lashed back at the society that rejected him. This is nonsense. Dahmer was a twisted wretch whose depravity was almost beyond comprehension." 

So, how did this quiet boy became a twisted serial killer?  

                                                                              Jeffery Dahmer-The Friendless.

Well as you already know, Dhamer had a penchant for dissecting animals that he had found on the road. After dissection, he would often dissolve the bodies in a barrel of chemicals. This was at his family home in Ohio. Dahmer had called this time of his life intense, starting that his mother was often frantic and his dad always busy. He got little attention at home, and this seems to have been a catalyst to his problems. Psychologists might say Jeff grew up within a dysphoric family, which kinda means a family mess. It's said at one point that young Dahmer had tried to take his own life. He had a few buddies, and they would later tell the authorities, media, and book writers, about how Jeff would find insects and small animals and dissect them. Dhamer had admitted that he wanted to see how they "fitted together".

His dad said as a kid his son fell in love with bones; he loved hearing the sound they made and spent much of his time looking for them. Yep, perhaps the busy father should have looked into the morbid fascination with dead bodies and their different parts. The writing was on the wall, but it's said his dad, who was an analytical chemist, just thought Jeff had a curious mind-as all scientists should. But despite all his weirdness, he played tennis regularly and was in the school band for a while. He also turned up to school sometimes sticking of booze. He was a bit of a class down, sometimes acting out seizures or pretending he had cerebral palsy; this became known as "Doing a Dahmer." This is was when he was in his early teens. It's then that the real trouble started. 

Jeff realized that he was gay sometimes around the age of 14. Due to the prevailing culture of that time, he had to keep that secret. He would sometimes watch a male jogger run down the road while he was hidden in the bushes. He fantasized about this guy, but he wasn't thinking about candlelit dinners and nights in front of the TV watching "Happy Days". No, young Jeff jumped the shark, so to speak, and imagined somehow making this runner unconscious and then having sex with the lifeless body. He even once planned to actually go through with it, waiting in the bushes armed with a baseball bat, but the jogger didn't run that day. At age 17, with his parents still screaming at each other continually, his grades are going downhill and his drinking getting worse, Dahmer was at the height of his unhappiness. He did graduate though, right at the time his parents divorced. It's right after graduation, a matter of a few weeks, that Dahmer graduated from dissecting animals to dissecting humans.

                                                                                        Jeff Dahmer's Victims.

At age 18, he picked up a guy Steven Mark Hicks, who hitchhiking to a place called Lockwood corners, Ohio, to see a concert. He was 18 the same age as Jeff. So, it doesn't seem out of the ordinary that this young guy would agree to go back to Dahmer's pad and do some drinking. Only Jeff wasn't too happy when the guy called his own bell and said he should go. No, Jeff didn't like that at all. He knocked him out with a dumbbell and then finished him off by strangling him with the bar of the dumbbell. he then masturbated over the corpse. when that was done he chopped-up the body and put various parts in bags and buried them. Later he would dig up the parts and slice off the flesh from the bones. He then crush the bones and scattered what left in the woodland, like one would scatter the ashers of someone they loved. That was Jeff's first murder, and as we say it's hard to believe the man in the interviews could sit in his house pairing flesh from bones.  From that date in 1978 until he was arrested in 1991, he ha killed 17 people, so I can't detail every murder. 

What I will say is that Dhamer has few equals in the milieu of the total depravity. He didn't kill for a while as he established in the army. That lasted from 1978-1981 as he kicked out for his heavy drinking. At the time, the army didn't know or choose not to believe Jeff was a rapist. he worked in the medic unit with a guy of similar age named Preston Davis. Davis believed that Dhamer drugged him and raped him. He told the press, "I was raped by Jeffery, I am just thankful to be alive to tell the story." He was replaced by a 17-year old named Billy Joe Capshaw, who bunked with Dhamer. Capshaw later told the press that Dahmer tied him up and raped him several times.  

"I was there for another 17 months with Jeff, being raped and tortured," Capshaw said he even used a rape kit to prove it to his officers, but it seems the army didn't believe him.

Once Dahmer is out of the army, what does he do next?

                                                                                       Dhamer's Apartment.

During the years until his next murder, you could say he was still active, regarding his devotion to being evil. He drugged young men and then had sex with their unconscious bodies. It's thought he did this around a dozen times. He also fantasized about digging up dead bodies and doing things to them. This, of course, was not convenient and so Jeff was about to start making his own dead bodies. He waited until 1987 and then killed and dismembered another young man while living with his grandmother. Again he masturbated over the corpse. He took it a step further though. Dhamer always said he didn't mean to kill the first of those victims at his Gran's place and he just woke up with a bloodied dead man in his bed. Nonetheless, he didn't exactly get on the phone to the cops and fractionally explain that there's been a terrible accident. On the contrary, he chopped up the body, put parts in a suitcase, and then boiled the flesh from the severed head in chemicals. When he had a shiny head at the end of his cooking, he used that as a masturbation tool. After a while, he crushed that and scattered the bits. While staying with his grandmother, he killed again employing a similar module Operandi of drugging, strangling, having some kind of intercourse with the corpse, dismembering the body, and keeping the skull after boiling. 

One lucky guy he brought home didn't get killed, only because his gran discovered that Jeff had a company that evening. His grandmother quickly threw him out because he was drunk, and because he brought young men home late at night ...and because of some reason she smelt something foul emanating from Jeff's room. As you can imagine, when living in his own place, things got worse. He was actually arrested and later charged for drugging and sexually molesting a 13-year old, and then arrested on a similar charge again, but prior to being sentenced, he killed again.

                                                                        Dhamer's little Zombie Experiment.

This time he found a very handsome chap who was a male model. He met him in a gay bar and even though Dhamer said he had not intended to kill that night, he felt he didn't have much choice as the model came and flirted with him. Again after laying the dead body and smashing up the bones, Dhamer got rid of what was left. only this time he kept the genitals and head fully preserving them in acetone. He said he did this just because the guy was so good-looking. In 1989, he got 5 years of probation for his sexual offenses with children. This is when he went on a bit of killing spree, almost always drugging young guys and making his unique kind of love to the corpse, then laying the bodies, or dissolving the parts in acid, and sometimes keeping the skulls. He was building a skull collection, something the cops would later find to their horror. He branched out, too, in terms of what he did to the bodies. Sometimes he would take photos of himself with the dead, and sometimes he would just keep the heads for a while and chat with them and kiss them. He would also take photos, sometimes at each stage of the dismembering process. But perhaps the pinnacle of Dahmer's weirdness was when, after drugging one young man, he decided not to kill him outright, but to drill a hole through his skull, pour in warm water,  and so ender the victim in a vegetative state. Then he could have a kind of living slave. 

Dahmer would always say later that all he wanted was a company for the men not to leave. However, his victim woke up and was not exactly vegetized, telling to Dahmer,

"I have a headache, what time is it?"

Apparently, it was time to die, as Dahmer gave him some more spiked drink and strangled the man. He tried this again with a 14-year-old, only this time injecting hydrochloric acid into the young boy's skull, the frontal lobe to be exact. He then took the semi-conscious boy to his bedroom, where his previous victim's body was still laying. It's said the boy saw the corpse but was too messed up to do anything. Dahmer left the boy alone at one point to get some beers, only to find on his return that the kid was out in the street talking to three women. They noticed the boy was bleeding from the backside and that he was in a bad way, but when a cop turned up, Dahmer said the kid was his boyfriend. The cop didn't even think to investigate. Unbelievably, despite the women's protests, the cop told Dahmer to wrap the kid up and take him back home. That he dutifully did and injected the kid's brain again with more acid. 

This time he died. Dahmer kept his skull and added it to his skull collection. He killed again and again, and not surprisingly the neighbors complained of a stink and also noise pollution, saying that some dude uses a chainsaw at night indoors. Dahmer had so many body parts, and sometimes he would leave the fresh dead around so long he got a maggot infection. With one body, he tries keeping it for weeks in water and salt, so he could keep it fully intact, but that didn't work. It should be known that Jeff kept cuts of human flesh and organs in the fridge, so he could eat them later. There's even a story in the media about one of his neighbors who to this day thinks the meat sandwich Dahmer gave her could have been human meat. 

Dhamer finally met his match with a man named Tracy Edwards, whom Dahmer almost killer but the sensible Edwards, who was 32 at that time, knew what was coming. He assured Dahmer he wasn't going to leave him, even though Dahmer had picked up a knife, used handcuffs on him( on only one hand), and Edwards knew what the foul smell was and what te steel drum had been used for. He stayed with Dahmer 5 hours with swinging handcuffs as Dahmer occasionally held a knife to him and even said he was going to eat his heart. When he got his chance, Edwards punched Dahmer and ran for it. He told cops what happened and what he had seen, two cops went to Dahmer's place. There they found the polaroids, with an astonishing cop telling his partner that they were certainly not fakes. Dahmer tried to fight but was held down, whereupon a search was performed, and a fresh head with flesh was quickly found. Dahmer then told the cops,

"For what I did I should be dead."

                                                                             Dhamer's Polaroid Collection.

Investigators searching the house later found hearts, other organs, hands, penises, bits of tissue, an entire torso, skeletons, and of course skulls. For his handy work, he got 15 consecutive life terms in prison. he admitted everything and every detail, some say so he would get away with being insane. That didn't happen. Psychiatrists said he was sadistic and had an antisocial personality disorder, but he was sane. They also said he was amiable, charming, and amusing to chat with. inside the prison, he read a lot of books and turned to religion, and even though he'd been separated from the general population, he persuaded the authorities to move him with the others. That was Dahmer's downfall, as he was murdered by a fellow inmate and fellow murderer Christopher Scarver with a metal bar from the weight room. Scarver killed another guy too. Dahmer's killer later told the press that he wasn't happy about what Dahmer had done, but was also bugged out that Dahmer would make what looked like severed body parts from the prison food as a way to piss off other prisoners. It's even said he added ketchup to his macabre art to imitate blood. 

                                                                                       'Doing a Dahmer' Face!!!

I'll leave you with the Dahmer quote: 

"Killing was a means to an end. That was the least satisfactory part. I didn't enjoy doing that. That's why I try to create living zombies with uric acid in the drill, but it never worked. No, the killing was not the objective. I just wanted to have the person under my complete control, not having to consider their wishes, being able to keep them there as long as I wanted."

                                                                    Jeff Dahmer sitting next to his Father.

This was quite a lengthy article but the crazy story of Dahmer deserves it. Countless plays, books, films, TV shows, and documentaries have been made about this man. So what do you think about him? Can you explain why he did such things? Is there anyone worse in terms of utter strangeness? Let me know in the comments.