Childhood When I was a little kid I was just like anybody else. Jeffrey
Lionel Dahmer came into the world at 4.34pm on the 21st of May at the
Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in Milwaukee 1960. Little did his parents know at
the time of his birth that there son would become one of America's most famous
serial killers not only for the amount of victims which he had killed but also
for dismembering them and his necrophilic tendencies.
Jeffrey's childhood started like any other he had two parents who loved and
adored there son dearly giving him what ever his heart desired. Joyce Dahmer
started a scrap book on her son recording events that happened in his life, his
first step, his first accident, his first tooth, his first haircut and even his
first scolding. While Jeffrey was still very young his father worked long hours
in his laboratory and his mother worked as a teletype machine instructor.
But the carrying of Jeffrey had been hard on Joyce Dahmer and every little
thing seemed to annoy her. So Lionel being the the husband that he was and
wanting the best for his wife they moved to his mothers house in West Allis, but
the crack's in the marriage started to show early. There were constant fights
between Joyce and Lionel Dahmer and Jeffrey took each of these fights to heart.
Little did they realise that there constant fighting would be the one of the
reasons for Jeffrey's downfall.
I decided I wasn't ever going to get married because I never wanted to go
through anything like that A short time before Jeffrey's fourth birthday,
Jeffrey was diagnosed with a double hernia that needed to be operated on. This
operation left Jeffrey feeling open and exposed nobody explained to Dahmer what
was going on. He felt scared by the operation, complete strangers coming up to
him and exploring his body. This experience is said to have marked his
subconscious forever.
But like every little boy of Jeffrey's age he was just like anybody else
climbing apple trees, riding his bike and playing in coal dust and coming home
dirty. Though he was painfully shy while growing up he over came this in time.
By the time Jeffrey turned six his mother gave birth to a second son who she
called David.
Though this did not have a dramatic effect on Dahmer's life he stayed pretty
much neutral to his brothers existence and they never became close. By the time
of his second son's birth Lionel Dahmer and his family moved into there own
house at 4480 West Bath Road, surrounded by open forest where Jeffrey could lose
himself in a world of make believe.
As Jeffrey grew towards puberty, his sinking isolation and shyness was
confirmed once again. An early sexual experiment with a another boy proved to be
disappointing and joyless. Jeffery should have come to a time in his life where
he wanted to experience the joys of life and the companionship of friends, but
Jeffrey withdrew into himself and kept his life somewhat of a secret. Jeffrey's
Dahmer's life conditioned him for the hard struggle that lay ahead, little did
he know that in just over 16 years he would become one of America's most famous
serial killers having murdered 17 people, dismembering them and sleeping with
there corpses and keeping parts of his victims for trophy's.
