Helen Wang, Donna Fok & Yuki Xiao

Childhood
Born May 21
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1960 in Milwaukee to Lionel & Joyce Dahmer
Double hernia surgery scarred subconscious
Moved to Ohio; sexually molested by neighbour boy
Experimenting with dead animals by age 10
Fantasies about killing and mutilating men as a teen
Developed addiction to alcohol in high school, gentle until
drunk
Parents divorce at age 18 feeling rejected and abandoned;
mother left with brother
Shari Dahmer, stepmother
Lived alone
Criminal Record
Enlisted for six-year term military service, discharged for
drunkenness after two
Sexually assaulted 13-year old in 1988 sex offender
Indecent exposure
Urinating in public
Actions & Murders
First murder hitchhiker Steven Hicks
didnt want him to leave
Established method by third murder months later
Lure victims home from gay bars
Necrophilia
Dismember & dispose bodies skulls for souvenirs
Murder spree: one victim per week by 1991
Sinthasomphone near escape, 911 call by witnesses
Tracy Edwards escape led patrolling police to apartment
Arrested July 22, 1991


Murdered total of 17 men between 1978 and 1991
All but two were black
Involved rape, dismemberment, necrophilia, lobotomy and
cannibalism
Sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences
Nov. 28, 1994, Portage: murdered by Christopher Scarver
during prison duties
A Sociologists POV
How were Dahmers relations with
his peers and how did their
treatment affect him?

Lack of friends
Viewed him as weird and strange
Majority of high school skipping and drinking
Sought attention with drunk behaviour scenes
Doing a Dahmer
What was the common outcome of
broken families in Dahmers
society?

Antisocial behavior, aggression, anxiety, and school
problems
Higher dropout rates
Alcohol and drug addiction

What determined his
neighbourhoods crime rate and
how was he involved?
Mix of blacks, Hispanics and Asians victim ethnicities
Low economic status
Crime rate high enough for officers to disregard probation
checks, 911 calls
Took advantage of police functions
Christian at
points of his life
Lack of
communication
with family
Homosexuality was
not brought up
Bottled up
uncertainty
Anthropologist question
Revolution and drastic
changes
Acceptance to new
American lifestyle
Coverage of vietnam war

Anthropologist question
Fantasies turned into nightmares
Looked for answers that no one had
Abused alcohol to numb his super ego
Understood and felt guilty
Didnt blame anyone for his crimes
Became Christian again in prison, but
murdered by inmate