Jeffrey Dahmer: The Truth
by Do you know the full story of Jeffrey Dahmer? Sure he is one of America’s most famous serial killers, but what was he before he became a killer?
On the twenty-first day of May 1960 in West Allis, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born to parents Lionel and Joyce Dahmer. Just before his tenth birthday, his family moved to Bath, Ohio. According to Lionel Dahmer, his son was the typical American boy, “bright loving child…very outgoing” however, by age 7 he was “socially awkward.” This social awkwardness is attributed to the sexual molestation Jeffrey suffered at the young age of six at the hands of a neighbor. Though a former lover of Jeffrey Dahmer has made the claim that Lionel himself sexually abused Jeffrey; an allegation that Lionel Dahmer firmly denies in his book, A Father’s Story.
Just before his tenth birthday, his family moved to Bath, Ohio. Jeffrey was given the honor of naming his new baby brother, whom he named David. It was shortly after this that his mother Joyce would be hospitalized for anxiety and his parents’ marriage first began to show signs of collapsing.
At about the age of 13, Jeffrey first became curious about animals, particularly the insides of animals. He started going out in search of animal carcasses in order to investigate and dissect the animal. This was the “starting point of his downward spiral” (L. Dahmer, 1994), “and it just happened to coincide with the start of puberty.”
Dahmer attended Revere High School, where he once conned himself and classmates into the executive offices of then Vice President Walter Mondale in 1977.
It was in high school that he first realized he was only sexually attracted to men.
He would soon discover that those feelings would be forever linked to the desire to lie next to them as they lay unconscious or to the desire to kill them. He found himself sexually excited at the thought of either fantasy.
In an interview Jeffrey once stated, “it started at the age of 14 or 15. I started having excessive fantasies of violence intermingled with sex and it just got worse and worse. I didn’t know how to tell anyone, so I didn’t. I just kept it all inside.”
One of the fantasies was to lay next an unconscious man; a fantasy he was going to try to make a reality. He decided to attack a local jogger, club him and lie next to his body. He knew the jogger’s schedule and that he ran the same time everyday. For whatever reason, that jogger did not run that day and Jeffrey never tried to put that plan into motion again.
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On April 25, 2009 at 4:42 pm
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On April 25, 2009 at 4:57 pm
I observed and watched the interview with Joyce Dharmer and I am convinced that she had mercury toxicity. I have been researching mercury toxicity for over 16 years, and I am confident in my abilities to perceive it in other people.
I have learned mercury from volcanoes, to locomnotive trains, to coal burning stove, to gold/silver mining, and to fossil fuel plants and manufacturing industries. From Mascarra, to hair dyes, to tatoos, light bulbs, and dental analgram fillings, batteries and explosives.
Characteristic symptoms of mercury toxicity displayed
by Joyce Dharmer
1) Unwillingness to compromise
2) Inability to accept criticism
3) Frequent fits of anger
4) Seizures
5) Foaming/Salivation during these fits
6) Eyes were not in sycn with one another, which can be obscured from mercury lodged near the retina, and crossed eyes.
I believe that mercury toxicity was handed down to Jeffrey Dharmer from his mother, based on my observations of her behavior in the interview. Remember, that mutilation, extreme sexual eroticism, and severing limbs, are characteristic traits of mercury toxicity. I believe that Jeffrey Dharmer had mercury toxicity as a child, and it would be well worth exploring if Jeffrey Dharmer had quiet baby syndrome to help validate mercury toxicity as a precursor to this kind of behavior, so we can UNDERSTAND and PREVENT this in the future, and to know that there is no blame, just understanding. Also, learn about Jeffrey’s experiences with explosives, as they contain mercury as well, but the evidence supports the toxicity from his mother.
Icare
On June 9, 2009 at 6:53 pm
I am in a state of disbelief after reading several websites featuring Jeffrey Dahmer, many of which attempt to explain his murderous lifestyle to be the result of an unhappy childhood. Many children suffer childhood illnesses and traumas and come from broken homes, but almost none of these kill and mutilate others for personal pleasure. Jeffrey Dahmer did what he did because he was a sociopath, more prolific in murder and more damaging to society than most, but a sociopath all the same. It is time for Americans to take a hard look at what is happening around them. Sociopathy, also called psychopathy, follows the maternal DNA, and is now present in approximately 1 in 32 Americans, with no decline apparent. Although the overwhelming majority of sociopaths never murder anyone, their negative influence can still be felt in almost every company and in many households in America. I encourage everyone to self-educate by using the internet. Learn the warning signs. Protect yourselves.
NoNamer
On June 29, 2009 at 8:58 am
I feel sorry for Jeffrey because he had a bad childhood. He was a loner and his parents were constantly fighting and Lionel Dahmer said that Jeffrey was “desperate” to keep the family together. He was always fantasizing about having violent sex with a man and the fantasies got “worse and worse”. He didn’t get help because he was afraid so he kept the dreams inside his mind. Then he started dreaming about murdering a man after sex.
His parents and his only brother deserted him alone and gave him the opportunity to kill his first victim Steven Hicks. His life got worse from there. His life is sad because he was always being alone and wanting someone to stay with him as long as they could without having “to consider their wishes and demands”. When he was finally caught he realized that he was done and reality hit him and he started to fight back as police tried to handcuff him.
I think Jeffrey knew what he was doing was wrong but I think it’s blatant that he suffered from mental illnesses. His thoughts and dreams became so powerful after the second murder that he decided not to hold back his wishes and get help.
boris badanov
On October 14, 2009 at 9:37 pm
his mother joyce had a very high toxic level of mercury?, which was passed along to him directly, so then he became angry with any immediate stranger and killed them????, or it so angered him to be so unlucky as to have this toxic mercury level from his mother that he took it out on people by killiing them????
Joseph
On June 10, 2010 at 4:43 am
Interesting article. I would like to know more about the psychological reasons behind his actions. You article does not really cover that part.
Benjamin
On June 24, 2010 at 6:29 pm
I feel so bad for lionel dahmer.He must still be carrying a tremendous burden over jeffrey`s actions.I know he still blames himself as a father and wonders what he could`ve done to prevent jeffrey`s downward spiral and the murders that resulted.As much as we like to condemn jeffrey as a monster,he was a human being,like the rest of us,who ended up being overpowered by compulsions driven by a mental disease that was not his fault.
Glynnis
On September 13, 2010 at 8:05 pm
I think that it was all his parents fault they created a huge Frankingstein monster called Jeffrey Dahmer.