hello this is Dr Grande today's question is can I analyze the case of Jeffrey Dahmer just a reminder I'm not diagnosing by this video only speculating about what could be happening in a situation like this if you enjoy this video please like it subscribe to my channel and consider supporting me on patreon I will put the link to patreon in the description for this video Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most notorious serial killers who ever lived is in the company of other horrible offenders Like Richard Ramirez Gary Ridgway Ted Bundy David Berkowitz John Wayne
Gacy Dennis Rader Harold Shipman and Joseph James D'Angelo first I'll look at the background of Jeffrey Dahmer move to the timeline of the crime then offer my analysis there are many facets to the Jeffrey Dahmer case in this video my analysis will Center on his life experiences like how did those experiences predict or contribute to his later Behavior starting with the background Jeffrey Dahmer was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin on May 21 1960 his father Lionel was a chemistry student at that time his mother Joyce was a teletype machine instructor her pregnancy was difficult perhaps a
sign of things to come in 1966 Joyce had a second son his name was David Jeffrey was largely ignored as a child because his mother sought a lot of attention one of his teachers believed Jeffrey was showing signs of neglect like no one was looking after him just before he turned four years old Jeffrey had double hernia surgery which was undoubtedly a painful experience Jeffrey kept to himself in school but he did have a few friends he developed an interest in animal bones from an early age when he was four years old he saw his
father cleaning out animal bones from underneath of the house in October 1966 about two months before his brother was born the family moved to Doylestown Ohio after earning his PhD in analytical chemistry in November of that same year Lionel found a job in Akron as a chemist the family moved to a house in Bath Township Ohio in 1968 in 1970 Jeffrey's father showed him how to bleach and preserve animal bones Jeffrey started collecting dissecting and preserving dead animals later Lionel would say that he was not aware of what Jeffrey was doing whatever success Jeffrey experienced
socially when he was in elementary school ended when he entered High School by this point he was viewed as a bizarre loner who would frequently play pranks Jeffrey started drinking various types of alcohol including beer he would hide the alcohol in his jacket when he was in school initially the high school teachers did not have the same negative opinion of Jeffrey they found him to be intelligent and polite although his crates were only average for a while he was in the band and played tennis around the same time Jeffrey realized that he was gay he
kept this information to himself for the most part for example he did not tell his parents he had a brief relationship with a teenage boy but no sex was involved Jeffrey started having fantasies about sexual domination he even earned himself with a baseball bat and hidden bushes with the intent of attacking a jogger but the jogger did not pass by the location on that particular day if the man had come by it appears as though Jeffrey would have attacked him and this would have been the beginning of his homicidal career by 1977 the relationship between
Jeffrey's parents was in serious trouble they went to counseling but it did not help enough to save the marriage Jeffrey's mother had an affair in September of 1977 Jeffrey's parents decided to divorce toward the end of his time in high school Jeffrey's academic performance decreased dramatically but he still managed to graduate in June 1978 this was two months before his parents divorce was finalized Joyce and Jeffrey's younger brother David moved to Chippewa Falls Wisconsin Jeffrey was left alone to his own devices it did not take him long to begin his career as a serial killer
on June 18 1978 Jeffrey used alcohol to lure a hitchhiker to his house and murdered him with a 10 pound dumbbell he disposed of the body through the use of cutting acid and a sledgehammer six weeks later Jeffrey enrolled at Ohio State University he wanted to study business but he mostly studied drinking after one semester his GPA was .45 he never returned for a second semester Jeffrey enlisted in the army he was discharged in March 1981 due to his excessive alcohol use Jeffrey spent a few months in Miami Beach Florida before moving back to Ohio
he was arrested two weeks later for drunk and disorderly conduct Jeffrey's father tried to help him to stop drinking but nothing seemed to work in December 1981 Jeffrey was sent to West Allis Wisconsin to live with his grandmother Lionel believed that her affectionate nature would convince Jeffrey to stop drinking in Wisconsin Jeffrey found the job as a phlebotomist but he was laid off after 10 months on August 7 1982 just before Jeffrey lost his job he was arrested for indecent exposure his grandmother supported him financially until he found work again in January 1985. so a
few years later he worked in a chocolate factory Jeffrey was having difficulty controlling his sexual desires throughout this time at one point he took a male mannequin from a store and used it for gratification he spent a lot of time in bath houses in Milwaukee and frequently had sex Jeffrey was irritated when a partner would move during sex it sounds like he was still holding on to feelings for the mannequin Jeffrey started drugging his partners with alcohol and sedatives the bath house is revoked his membership Jeffrey tried to dig up the corpse of an 18
year old man who recently died but he gave up because the ground was too hard on September 8 1986 Jeffrey was arrested for lewd and lascivious Behavior later he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct on November 20 1987 Jeffrey murdered his second victim by beating him to death in a hotel in Milwaukee he used a suitcase to move the body to his grandmother's home where he disposed of it using a variety of methods Jeffrey killed two more victims over the next several months one in January 1988 and another in March he rendered his victims unconscious with
drugs and strangled them Jeffrey's grandmother kicked him out of her home in September 1988 because of his drinking Jeffrey rented a one-bedroom apartment on North 24th Street in Milwaukee he was arrested in September for drugging and making contact with a 13 year old boy but nobody knew about the murders at that point he pleaded guilty in January 1989. in March of that same year which was about two months before he was sentenced Jeffrey murdered another victim this was the only time he committed murder in 1989 in May Jeffrey was sentenced to a year in prison
and five years probation he was eligible for a work release and was able to keep his job ten months later he was released he briefly lived with his grandmother before moving to an apartment on North 25th Street Jeffrey killed four more people in 1990 one in May one in June and two in September in 1991 Jeffrey murdered eight more people one in February one in April two in May one in June and three in July Jeffrey dahlmer killed 17 people in total he was trying to kill a fourth victim in July when the man escaped
and flagged down a police car Geoffrey was arrested and eventually confessed he pleaded guilty but insane to 15 counts of first-degree murder Jeffrey had committed one murder in Ohio and there wasn't enough evidence to prosecute him for his first murder in Wisconsin Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to 15 life terms in prison he was extradited to Ohio to be tried for his first murder he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to his 16th term of life in prison Jeffrey repeatedly said that he deserved to die and did not care what happened to him in prison on November
28 1994 an inmate named Christopher scarver murdered Jeffrey and another inmate named Jesse Anderson Christopher beat them to death with a 20-inch metal bar Jeffrey Dahmer was 34 years old after moving away and leaving Jeffrey behind Jeffrey's mother Joyce worked as a case manager in California until she died of breast cancer in 2000 at the age of 64. Jeffrey's father remarried in 1978 according to the Ohio resident database 86 year old Lionel Dahmer lives with his wife in Seville which is about a half hour west of Akron now moving to my analysis Jeffrey dahlmer is
one of the most unusual serial killers in history for a number of reasons he targeted men some of his murders involved cannibalism and necrophilia his high tolerance for the odor of decaying bodies and Jeffrey was fascinated with the preservation of body parts when Jeffrey was assessed by mental health professionals they could not agree on a diagnosis the clinicians stacked on many different disorders for example alcohol use disorder brief psychotic disorder schizophrenia bipolar disorder and four different personality disorders borderline schizotypal anti-social and obsessive-compulsive some mental health clinicians said that Jeffrey did not have any mental disorders
as I've talked about many times diagnosing is a weakness of every mental health profession especially when the client may have a reason to lie even still Jeffrey seemed to be particularly perplexing to the clinicians with all this in mind let's take a look at a few items from Jeffrey's life experiences which may offer some insight into what happened in this case item number one Jeffrey's mother Joyce was described as depressed disagreeable and as having histrionic traits at one point she may have even had psychotic symptoms Joyce was always trying to be the center of attention
she spent much of her time in bed she had illness anxiety she always thought something was physically wrong with her throughout her marriage Joyce became increasingly distant from the family as she increased her use of drugs like tranquilizers after she moved to California Joyce tried to bring an end to her own life on one occasion from Jeffrey's perspective Joyce was unavailable and always anxious and irritable item number two Jeffrey's father has shared his feelings about Jeffrey a few times over the last several decades he said that he felt responsible for what happened Lionel was ashamed
of his behavior he said that he should have done more to keep track of what Jeffrey was doing Lionel tried to convince Jeffrey to find purpose in his life specifically he wanted Jeffrey to accept Jesus Christ as his savior Jeffrey was not receptive to recognizing any purpose in his life he was secretive and would never really communicate in a meaningful way when looking at the statements made by Jeffrey's father there is this sense that Lionel really wanted to help Jeffrey and understood how the intense arguments with his wife were troubling to Jeffrey Joyce never recognized
these arguments as harmful she denied they had anything to do with Jeffrey becoming a killer Lionel appeared to be genuinely interested in figuring out what went wrong he wanted to know what led Jeffrey to become homicidal as a scientist I think that Lionel was disappointed that in the end he wasn't able to determine why Jeffrey became a killer item number three from a young age Jeffrey developed a fascination with death and bodies he would try to find animal bones and he would examine living creatures in order to figure out how their bones were situated in
their bodies he dissected and preserved dead animals eventually he even collected Roadkill Jeffrey constructed an animal Cemetery in his backyard on one occasion in 1975 Jeffrey cut up the body of a dog and impaled the head on a stick in the woods behind his house he tried to convince his friends that he just happened to find it that way as I mentioned later in life Jeffrey even tried to dig up a corpse to satisfy his desires many serial killers are resistant to the Natural reaction of being disgusted by death but Jeffrey Dahmer was more than
simply resistant he was attracted to death item number four Jeffrey went to his prom with a 16 year old classmate named Bridget Geiger he left in the middle of the dance to get a hamburger a few weeks after the prom Jeffrey invited her to a party at his house seven people were there in total Jeffrey was having a seance after he tried to contact Satan Bridget left and never saw him again she said that she felt uncomfortable around him because he was so weird and so emotionless item number five Jeffrey Dahmer was known to play
pranks in school and to harass people at a local shopping mall you would often pretend that he had various medical disorders which caused his movements to be erratic like neurological conditions most people who are shy do not engage in pranks they are not looking for attention I think that Jeffrey probably did this because he was exceptionally lonely he was tragically socially awkward but he desperately wanted some type of connection with people what's different about Jeffrey was that he didn't really care if the people were alive or dead in some ways especially later in his criminal
career Jeffrey preferred people who were not responsive for example he tried injecting victims with chemicals to make them into zombies unable to accomplish this goal Jeffrey was satisfied to spend time with dead victims item number six what do I think happened in the case of Jeffrey Dahmer this is just a theory my opinion Jeffrey was raised by a mother who was attention seeking and emotionally distant and a father who was analytical and conscientious his parents frequently had intense arguments Jeffrey would walk outside to escape the fighting he desired for the situation to calm down he
wanted everything around him to be quiet for some reason Jeffrey never developed a sense of disgust for dead animals or decaying organic matter rather he was fascinated by Death his social skills were poorly developed so he didn't have any way to understand people at an emotional level but he could understand the physical mechanics of living organisms including humans as Jeffrey Grew Older he developed an intense sexual attraction to the male chest that was the part of the body that he was fascinated with Jeffrey became a sexual domination serial killer he wanted to control his victims
completely to Jeffrey dissecting consuming and receiving sexual gratification from corpses was part of the domination these actions were an extension of his desire to dominate and were facilitated by his unusual lack of aversion to dead bodies and his desire to have no disturbances again he wanted everything around him to be calm for much of his life Jeffrey consumed alcohol excessively he was polite when he wasn't drinking but belligerent when intoxicated the alcohol removed whatever limitations Jeffrey attempted to maintain as far as his behavior Jeffrey Dahmer was not delusional but he was depressed and had extreme
personality traits he did not have a specific reason to hate his victims rather Jeffrey despised all human beings his crimes came from a place of complete selfishness and a tremendous sense of entitlement other human beings were simply objects to Jeffrey dahlmer in one sense Jeffrey also viewed himself as an object he was simply a biological robot following a set of pre-programmed guidelines just like Jeffrey wasn't able to appreciate the emotions of others he could not appreciate or understand his own emotions he did not really view his actions as a choice rather he felt as though
he was compelled perhaps he thought it was like an instinct Jeffrey never asked for Mercy after he was arrested he understood that people wanted him to be punished and to die he did not disagree with their desires and moving to my final thoughts almost every notorious serial killer had a troubled childhood but that alone is usually not enough to cause somebody to kill no matter what genetic or environmental characteristics contribute to Jeffrey's Behavior he needed more supervision and less alcohol Jeffrey was left to his own devices which permitted him to capitalize on every negative characteristic
he possessed those are my thoughts in the case of Jeffrey Dahmer please put any opinions and thoughts in the comment section they always generate an interesting dialogue as always I hope you found my analysis of this topic to be informative thanks for watching
