The case of Jeffrey Dahmer

The case of Jeffrey Dahmer - student project

Jeffrey Dahmer is the child of Lionel Dahmer and his wife Joyce Dahmer. Lionel was known as a chemist and during the pregnancy of his wife, Joyce suffered from anxiety and depression. Joyce was consuming pills that could affect Jeffrey’s birth and health. When Jeffrey was born, he has been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Jeffrey was always alone, had difficulty understanding subjects in school and were always failing in class. Jeffrey even had a weird way of walking as his knees were inwards and dragging his feet like in the so called way of a “zombie”.

Jeffrey Dahmer sounds like an ordinary person but he is actually not. Soon or later he was known as the serial killer that shocked the whole world back in July 22, 1991. Jeffrey murdered 15 men and 2 children. He was sentenced to prison for life. In the beginning of Jeffrey Dahmer’s life during his childhood was pretty lonely. He didn’t have any friends and he was always interested in collecting animal carcasses. Jeffrey was very interested in using acid to disregard the flesh from the bones as his father was the one who taught him how to do it. Jeffrey was very intrigued in human anatomy hence; he started to kill men in order to discover the human body more. Jeffrey started to build up a friendship with those men in the bar, brought them back to his apartment, drugged their drinks and that is where he started to murder each of them.

However, many reports and studies suggested that Jeffrey Dahmer’s condition was like this due to his mother’s mental health state during her pregnancy with Jeffrey. Scientist and researchers wanted to study his brain after his death to find out answers to his wrong doings but was not given consent by his father to do so.

 In my opinion, I felt that it was because of his parents’ divorce. Jeffrey was left alone, neglected during the argument both of his parents. Lionel Dahmer and Joyce Dahmer did not spend most of their time doing activities, going for vacations and more with Jeffrey Dahmer. Therefore, Jeffrey ended up in this situation where he does not react to what he has done and never had friends. I do believe that Autism Spectrum Disorder child, adolescent and adults tend to be more aggressive. However, if they are nurtured and educated in the right way, they are able to adapt, learn their daily routine in the proper way and be more aware of it.