Mass Murderer Dahmer

Mass Murder

Murder is a terrible event that has been occurring in society for thousands of years, there are a vast number of reasons why individuals commit murder. I intend to show those reasons through out this report, by giving examples of a few individuals who have committed murder. Jeffery Dahmer Ed Gein Charles Manson and John Wayne Gacy as well as Aileen Wournous are all mass murders or serial killers. Jeffery Dahmer was born to fundamentalist Christian parents. Some believed that repressed homosexuality may have contributed to his hatred of homosexuals. When he was a child Dahmer had reportedly dissected animals that were already dead. Dahmer suffered with extremely low self esteem and alcoholism. His first victim was a 19 year old hitchhiker by the name of Steven Hicks, after picking him up Dahmer invited him to his house for drinks he killed him because “he did not want him to go”. Jeffery attended Ohio state university but he dropped out after one term, his father hen forced him to enlist in the army he was then discharged after two years because of his excessive drinking. In 1982 he moved in with his grandmother in West Allis, Wisconsin.

In august of 1982 he was arrested for exposing himself at a state fair, four years later he was charged again with public exposure after 2 boys accused him of masturbating in public, he was sentenced to a year in prison he served only ten months. Again in 1988 he was arrested for sexually fondling a 13 year old girl named Cassandra baker. He served ten months and a year in a work release camp and was required to register as a sex offender, he also convinced the judge that he only needed psychological help and he was released with five year probation on good behavior. On may 27 of 1991 a 14 year old Laotian Konerak Sinthassomphone was discovered walking on the street in the nude, Dahmer told the police that he had an argument with Sinthassomphone while he was drinking and that he was his 19 year old gay lover. Against Konerak’s wishes the police turned him over to Dahmer later that night Dahmer killed him and dismembered the body keeping his skull as a souvenir.

Dahmer killed seventeen men between 1978 and 1981. Most of his victims were young, homosexual or bi-sexual black men who Dahmer subjected to sexual assaults prior to murdering them. Dahmer achieved notoriety after his arrest following the discovery of his victims decaying bodies in acid vats in his apartment, including severed heads in his refrigerator and other human body parts around his home. Dahmer took photos of each stage of his victim’s death, including the sexual explicit acts he performed on his victims at each stage. Jeffrey Dahmer was officially indicted on 17 murder charges, which were reduced to 15. The murder cases were already so notorious that the authorities never bothered to charge him in the attempted murder of Edwards. trial began in July 1992. With evidence overwhelmingly against him, Dahmer chose not to plead guilty but insanity, arguing that his necrophiliac urges were so strong that he could not control them. The court found Dahmer guilty and sane on 15 counts of murder and sentenced him to 15 life terms, totaling 937 years in prison. At his sentencing hearing,