![]() One day in June, he picked up 18-year-old hitchhiker Steven Mark Hicks, lured him to his house for a “few beers”, and bludgeoned him with a dumbbell. Jeffrey Dahmer in 1991 (AFP via Getty Images)ĭahmer committed his first murder three weeks after he graduated from high school in 1978. Having previously been quiet, he started throwing fake fits and mocking people with cerebral palsy. ![]() While it was thought by teachers that he had good academic potential, his grades were average. He drank heavily and called alcohol his “medicine” to classmates. His father showed him how to bleach and preserve animal bones, and Dahmer started to collect road kill so he could dissect them and add more bones to his collection.Īt high school, Dahmer was an outcast. He began to collect insects and the skeletons of small animals, such as squirrels, and preserve them in jars of formaldehyde. The family moved to Ohio when Dahmer was about six, and his younger brother David was born.ĭahmer was interested in dead animals, specifically animal bones, from an early age – something thought to have begun when he saw his father removing animal bones from beneath their home. Dahmer’s parents eventually got divorced when he was 18.ĭahmer was a quiet child, who underwent double hernia surgery at the age of three. His mother suffered from depression and attempted suicide, and his father was away studying for much of his childhood. ![]() There are conflicting reports on whether Dahmer was neglected as a child or if he was doted upon, but there appears to be no doubt he was from a broken home. **Warning: this article contains upsetting content***ĭahmer was born in 1960, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to a teletype machine instructor and a chemist.
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