UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE NUEVO LEON

FACULTAD DE DERECHO Y CRIMINOLOGIA

Competencia Comunicativa en Ingles

“JEFFREY DAHMER CASE”

Alma Vega Iglesias

Matricula 1626142

Aula 112

San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, 14 de Abril del 2019

 INTRODUCTION
Im going to talk about a famous serial killer in the US he comitted massive crimes mostly
young men, he was Jeffrey Dahmer, a notorious serial killer in the late 70’s throughout the
early 90’s. What made him stand out from most serial killer’s was what he did to the bodies
of his victims. During this research paper, I will cover his childhood life, what led to his
lifestyle of killing and cannibalism and also the crimes that were committed during his
murderous acts.
 1.- Life

Jeffrey Dahmer, an American serial killer and sex offender, was born on May 21, 1960.
Between the years of 1978 and 1991, Dahmer murdered 17 males in truly horrific fashion.
Rape, dismemberment, necrophilia, and cannibalism were all parts of his modus operandi.

By most accounts Dahmer had a normal childhood; however he became withdrawn and

uncommunicative as he got older. He began showing little to no interest in hobbies or social
interaction as he entered adolescence, turning instead to examining animal carcasses and
heavy drinking for entertainment. His drinking continued throughout high school but did
not stop him from graduating in 1978. It was just three weeks later that the 18-year-old
committed his first murder. Due to his parents’ unfolding divorce that summer, Jeffrey was
left in the family home alone. He seized the opportunity to act on the dark thoughts that had
been growing in his mind. He picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks and offered to
take him back to his father’s house to drink beer. But when Hicks decided to leave, Dahmer
hit him in the back of the head with a 10 lb. dumbbell. Dahmer then dissected, dissolved,
pulverized, and scattered the now imperceptible remains throughout his back yard, and later
admitted to killing him simply because he wanted Hicks to stay. Nine years would pass
before he killed again.
Dahmer attended college that fall but dropped out due to his alcoholism. After that his
father forced him to enlist in the army, where he served as a combat medic in Germany
from 1979 to 1981. However, he never kicked the habit and was discharged that spring,
moving back home to Ohio. After his drinking continued to cause problems, his father sent
him to live with his grandmother in West Allis, Wisconsin. By 1985 he was frequenting
gay bathhouses, where he would drug men and rape them as they lay unconscious.
Although he was arrested twice for incidents of indecent exposure in 1982 and 1986, he
only faced probation and was not charged for the rapes.

Steven Tuomi was his second victim, killed in September of 1987. Dahmer picked him up
from a bar and took him back to a hotel room, where he woke up the next morning to
Tuomi’s beaten dead body. He later stated that he had no memory of actually murdering
Tuomi, implying that he had committed the crime on some sort of blacked out impulse. The
killings occurred sporadically after Tuomi, with two victims in 1988, one in 1989, and four
in 1990. He continued to lure unsuspecting men from bars or solicited prostitutes, whom he
then drugged, raped, and strangled. At this point though, Dahmer also began carrying out
particularly disturbing acts with their corpses, continuing to use the bodies for intercourse,
taking photographs of the dismemberment process, preserving with scientific precision his
victims’ skulls and genitals for display, and even retaining parts for consumption.

During this period, Dahmer was arrested for an incident at his job at the Ambrosia
Chocolate Factory, where he drugged and sexually fondled a 13-year-old boy. For this he
was given a sentence of five years’ probation, one year at a work release camp, and was
required to register as a sex offender. He was released two months early from the work
program and subsequently moved into a Milwaukee apartment in May of 1990. There,
despite regular appointments with his probation officer, he would remain free to commit
four murders that year and eight more in 1991.

Dahmer began killing around one person each week by the summer of 1991. He became
infatuated with the idea that he could turn his victims into “zombies” to act as youthful and
submissive sexual partners. He used many different techniques, such as drilling holes into
their skull and injecting hydrochloric acid or boiling water into their brains. Soon,
neighbors began to complain about strange noises and awful smells coming from Dahmer’s
apartment. On one occasion, a lobotomized victim left unattended even made it out onto the
street to ask several bystanders for help. When Dahmer returned, however, he successfully
convinced the police that the irrational young man was simply his extremely intoxicated
boyfriend. The officers failed to run a background check that would have revealed
Dahmer’s sex offender status, allowing him to narrowly escape his fate for a little while
longer.

Dahmer was indicted on 15 murder charges and the trial began on January 30, 1992. Even
though the evidence against him was overwhelming, Dahmer pled insanity as his defense
due to the nature of his incredibly disturbing and uncontrollable impulses. Following two
weeks of trial, the court declared him sane and guilty on 15 counts of murder. He was
sentenced to 15 life terms, for a total of 957 years in prison. In May of the same year, he
entered a guilty plea for the murder of his first victim, Stephen Hicks, and received an
additional life sentence.

Victims

Name - Age - Date Murdered

Stephen Hicks 18 June 1978

Steven Tuomi 26 September 1987

Jamie Doxtator 14 October 1987

Richard Guerrero 25 March 1988

Anthony Sears 24 February 1989

Eddie Smith 36 June 1990

Ricky Beeks 27 July 1990

Ernest Miller 22 September 1990

David Thomas 23 September 1990

Curtis Straughter 16 February 1991

Errol Lindsey 19 April 1991

Tony Hughes 31 May 24, 1991

Konerak Sinthasomphone 14 May 27, 1991

Matt Turner 20 June 30, 1991

Jeremiah Weinberger 23 July 5, 1991

Oliver Lacy 23 July 12, 1991

Joseph Bradeholt 25 July 19, 1991

On the morning of May 27, 1991, police officers Joseph T. Gabrish and John Balcerzak of
the Milwaukee Police Department responded to an odd call.

Three women had called 911 from the corner of 25th and State, where they stood with a
crying, disoriented Laotian boy who was naked and bleeding. When police arrived on the
scene, the women were hysterical, telling them that the boy had been hurt and someone had
to help him.

They were also, at that point, joined by a tall white man with blond hair and striking blue
eyes. The man told officers that the Laotian boy was 19, and a lover of his. He said that the
boy was just drunk, and so the officers led the two of them back to the man’s apartment,
while the semi-lucid boy attempted to struggle.

When the women tried to object, pointing to the bleeding from the boy’s buttocks and his
obvious intent to get away, the officers told them to “shut the hell up” and “butt out” of this
“domestic” dispute. Despite these protests, the police then left the boy in the care of this
man and drove off.

An audio recording of the officers talking to their dispatcher afterward revealed that they
joked about the two “lovers” before heading back to the station. Two months later,
authorities would discover that the boy they had turned over was 14-year-old Konerak
Sinthasomphone, and the man they had returned him to was Jeffrey Dahmer.

The 31-year old Dahmer would soon stand accused of murdering Sinthasomphone as well
as 16 other victims that he had drugged, killed, dismembered, and sometimes even eaten.
Had police run a background check on Jeffrey Dahmer, they might have discovered that he
was a sex offender on parole for molesting the older brother of the very boy that was
returned to him. However, that act of molestation proved to be among Dahmer’s least
revolting crimes.

Jeffrey Dahmer from a young age, he became fascinated with all things related to death and
even began collecting the carcasses of dead animals. His father would even note how his
son was “oddly thrilled” by the sounds of clanking animal bones.

By the time Dahmer was in high school, his family had moved to Bath Township, a sleepy
suburb of Akron, Ohio. There, Dahmer was an outcast who soon became an alcoholic,
drinking heavily at school, often hiding beer and hard liquor in his army fatigue jacket.

To fit in, Dahmer would often pull practical jokes like pretending to have seizures. He
would do this so frequently that pulling off a good practical joke became known around the
school as “doing a Dahmer.”

During this time, Dahmer realized that he was gay, and as his sexuality blossomed, so too
did his increasingly abnormal sexual fantasies. Dahmer began fantasizing about raping men
that he saw, and became aroused by the idea of completely dominating and controlling
another person.

As he grew less able to control his desires, his fantasies became reality. Three weeks after
his high school graduation, Dahmer would commit his first murder.

By this time, his parents had divorced, forcing his father and brother to live at a nearby
motel. And when his mother had an occasion to leave town, Jeffrey Dahmer would have
full run of the house.

It was then that he picked up 18-year-old hitchhiker Steven Mark Hicks, who was on his
way to a rock concert in nearby Lockwood Corners. Dahmer convinced Hicks to join him at
his house for some drinks before going to the show.

After hours of drinking and listening to music, Hicks attempted to leave, a move that
enraged Dahmer. He then bludgeoned Hicks from behind with a 10-pound dumbbell and
strangled him to death. He then stripped Hicks naked and masturbated on his lifeless
corpse.

Afterward, Dahmer brought Hicks down to the crawl space of his house and began
dissecting the body. Afterward, Dahmer would go even further by removing the bones,
smashing them to powder, and dissolving the flesh with acid.
After high school, Dahmer briefly attended Ohio State University but dropped out after one
term due to his constant drinking. He then joined the U.S. Army, where he served as a
combat medic for two years before being discharged for, again, his alcoholism. After being
honorably discharged, he returned to his grandmother’s house in West Allis, a suburb of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

It would later come to light that during his time in the military, Dahmer drugged and raped
two other soldiers.

When Jeffrey Dahmer returned to civilian life, he continued carrying out sexual assaults,
including masturbating in front of children and drugging and raping men at gay bathhouses.
These kinds of crimes continued until one day in 1987 when he killed 25-year-old Steven
Tuomi.

Dahmer met Tuomi at a bar and convinced the young man to go back to his hotel room with
him. Dahmer claims that he had just intended to drug and rape the man, but awoke the next
morning to find his hand bruised and Tuomi’s bloodied corpse underneath his bed.

After high school, Dahmer briefly attended Ohio State University but dropped out after one
term due to his constant drinking. He then joined the U.S. Army, where he served as a
combat medic for two years before being discharged for, again, his alcoholism. After being
honorably discharged, he returned to his grandmother’s house in West Allis, a suburb of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

It would later come to light that during his time in the military, Dahmer drugged and raped
two other soldiers.

When Jeffrey Dahmer returned to civilian life, he continued carrying out sexual assaults,
including masturbating in front of children and drugging and raping men at gay bathhouses.
These kinds of crimes continued until one day in 1987 when he killed 25-year-old Steven
Tuomi.

Dahmer met Tuomi at a bar and convinced the young man to go back to his hotel room with
him. Dahmer claims that he had just intended to drug and rape the man, but awoke the next
morning to find his hand bruised and Tuomi’s bloodied corpse underneath his bed.

After returning from jail in 1990, Dahmer moved into his own place in downtown
Milwaukee and would bring the dismembered pieces of Sears with him.

Over the next two years, Dahmer would commit the bulk of his 17 murders. He would lure
back young men, often offering them money to pose nude for him, before killing them.
However, as the crimes continued, it wouldn’t be long before his routine would increase in
its depravity.

After taking photos of the corpses and dissolving their flesh and bones, Dahmer would
regularly keep the skulls of his victims as trophies. He also began experimenting with
various techniques to preserve these trophies. He even once accidentally exploded the head
of one of his victims, Edward Smith, when he tried to dry it out in the oven.

At this time, Dahmer also began to dabble in cannibalism and would keep body parts in the
refrigerator so that he could occasionally feed on them.

He began drilling holes into the heads of his victims while they were drugged but still alive.
He would then pour hydrochloric acid onto his victim’s brain, a technique that he hoped
would put his victims in a permanent, unresistant, and submissive state.

He attempted this procedure with numerous victims, including Sinthasomphone which,

along with being drugged, is why the boy was unable to communicate with the police.

Throughout all of this, Dahmer was still in contact with his parole officer, but the officer
suspected nothing.

On July 22, 1991, Dahmer lured in his last victim, 32-year-old Tracy Edwards, who he
offered to pay to let Dahmer take nude photos of him. Dahmer then handcuffed Edwards
and threatened him with a knife, telling him to undress and let Dahmer take photos of him.

Dahmer continually told Edwards that he would cut out and eat his heart while placing his
ear against Edwards’ chest and rocking back and forth.

Terrified, Edwards attempted to appease Dahmer, telling him that he was his friend and
getting him to watch TV with him. When Dahmer was momentarily distracted, Edwards
punched him in the face and ran out the door.

He flagged down a police car and led them to

the apartment. There, the officers discovered
polaroid photos of dismembered corpses
clearly taken in the very apartment that they
were now standing in. “These are for real,” said
the officer who uncovered the photos as
he handed them to his partner.

As the police moved to grab Dahmer, Jeffrey Dahmer attempted to resist but was quickly
detained.
A search of the apartment found four severed heads in the kitchen, and a total of seven
skulls, many of them painted. Inside the fridge, they found numerous body parts as well as
two human hearts. It was one of the grisliest crime scenes in recent history.

Dahmer was brought into the station where he quickly admitted to all 17 of his murders.
Likewise, at trial, he pled guilty to 15 of the charges and was given a mandatory sentence
of life imprisonment plus 70 years. He would spend the next three years imprisoned at
Wisconsin’s Columbia Correctional Institution,
where he would be interviewed by the media
multiple times and become known as one of the
worst serial killers in history.

During his time in prison, Dahmer would have

constant thoughts of suicide — but he would never
get the chance. On November 28, 1994, a fellow
inmate and convicted murderer, Christopher
Scarver, beat Dahmer to death with a metal bar in
the prison bathroom.

According to Scarver, Dahmer neither fought back nor made a sound during the attack, but
instead appeared to accept his fate. “If he’d have had a choice, he’d have let this happen to
him,” Dahmer’s mother told the MilwaukeeSentinel soon afterward. “I always asked if he
was safe, and he’d say, `It doesn’t matter, Mom. I don’t care if something happens to me.'”

“Now is everybody happy?” Dahmer’s mother added. “Now that he’s bludgeoned to death,
is that good enough for everyone?”
 CONCLUSION

In my opinion i think there are a lot of people there are sick so i think he was sick since he
was a little boy, he didnt got the help he needed thats why he started to do that kind of stuff
because in my investigation its said that when he was a kid he showed a lot of weird
symptoms, so in that moment i would have taken him to a psychologist maybe if he would
have answered all of his questions about his sexuality and his desires he would have helped
himself, im not minimizing all the things he did but there are studies that shows when you
are sick of your brain so youre not in your five senses if you were, you wouldnt do that
kind of stuff so in that part i think its not his fault he didnt got the help he needed before
doing all of that stuff.