Maniac killers cause unhealthy interest in society. From the point of view of science, they are not given a separate psychiatric diagnosis, often they do not have a pronounced personality disorder. For a long time they lead a dual life, they seem to be quite educated, intelligent people and law-abiding citizens. But the crimes they commit will never be made by a normal individual.
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, the murderer of 17 men, not only took his life cruelly and mercilessly. He sexually perverted, conducted experiments on corpses, ate organs, drank blood. His sick mania and obsession were few casualties, he liked to consider the insides of animals, rape them. Who is this asocial psychopath: a necrophile, a bestiality, a cannibal, or simply a “devil in the flesh” sent to people?
The childhood of the Milwaukee monster
The cannibal killer was born on May 21, 1960 in an ordinary Wisconsin family of Americans in Milwaukee. All of his atrocities, with the exception of one, from 1978 to 1991 will be associated with this city. Although there is a version that the maniac’s atrocities are much greater, the number 17 is the cases disclosed or recognized by him.
6 years after the birth, Jeffrey Damer, whose psychological portrait you will read in the article, undergoes surgical treatment to correct an inguinal hernia, after which he begins to show vulnerability, isolation. Due to the new work of the head of the family in the spring of 1967, the Damers move to a new house, bought in the suburbs of Ohio. Here is born the younger brother David. The future monster is approaching a neighbor guy, this fact is further featured in court.
Monstrous puberty
From the age of thirteen, a guy wakes up to homosexuality, he will try homosexual affection with a friend. Since 1974 (14 years old), fantasies about the murders of men and relations with the dead have been awakened in it. Behavioral abnormalities begin to appear. Girls avoid him, they are repelled by incomprehensible tricks, because he likes to parody the weak-minded. Classmates consider it a jester, but something monstrous comes from such antics. One of my favorite activities was the depiction by chalk on the earth of the outlines of human bodies.
He likes to “collect” the remains of unfortunate cats and dogs who died on the side of the road. He experiments with them, stores in bottles with formaldehyde taken from his father-chemist. At the backyard arranges a cemetery of animals. In children's photographs, the future bestial is captured with Frisky's beloved dog. Later, he will have aquarium fish from domestic animals. Then the pain, suffering less interested Damer, excitement caused still dead.
Among the teachers, he is known as a quiet, reserved guy who does not openly speak with anyone. Rivera’s school archives hold memories of him as a “good tennis player”. He plays the clarinet at the school ensemble. He plans to continue his studies at the university, after becoming a businessman. At the end of the year, Jeffrey Dahmer, an 18-year-old guy, kills the first victim.
The beginning of the criminal atrocities of the cannibal maniac
June 18, 1978 after the divorce of parents begins a terrible chronicle of perversions of a maniac. Geoffrey meets hitchhiker Stephen Hicks, invites him home. There they use alcohol and drugs, sex or not was a moot point. After 10 hours, Hicks decides to leave, Damer does not agree with this. He hits the youth with a heavy object on his head, then strangles him. After it breaks up the body, puts the parts in plastic bags, bury it near the house.
In the fall of 1978, he began his studies at Ohio State University. By the end of the school year, he is expelled for not attending classes. Hard drinking makes it difficult to learn. It is known that he donated blood to find money for alcohol.
January 1979 - maniac Jeffrey Damer serves in the army. According to the recollections of acquaintances, he dreamed of becoming a military police officer. But it becomes a nurse at the base of Baumholder Germany. There, the Milwauk maniac receives a specialty and knowledge of anatomy. His nickname is “orphan”. When the murderer's atrocities were uncovered, army officials recalled the loss of several men from the military base district, but these facts were not confirmed. The reason for the 1981 demobilization is drunkenness.
Autumn 1981 - the first arrest for drinking in unapproved places. Shortly Jeffrey lives in Miami. Upon returning home, takes out the hidden parts of the body of his first victim, crushes with a sledgehammer, hides the remains.
House with corpses
January 1982 - the killer Jeffrey Damer moves to Wisconsin with his grandmother, since 1985 he has been working in a factory. During this period, has two more arrests, one of them for masturbation in front of children.
September 1987, the second of the serial killings of a Milwaukee monster takes place. 24-year-old victim Stephen Tuomi will meet him with a gay bar. After an impressive drinking party, homosexuals rented the apartments of the Ambassador Hotel. In the morning, the maniac could not remember the details of the crime, he takes Steven's body in a taxi. An unsuspecting driver carries heavy luggage into the old woman’s house. There, Steve’s remains are in the basement for almost a week. While a relative is absent at church for the weekend, the killer cuts the corpse, takes it to the trash.
January and March 1988 are two more crimes related to a Wisconsin home. Affected: 15-year-old Native American guy Jamie Dokstaytor and 25-year-old man Richard Guerrero.
Unsuccessful attempt and cowardice of judges
September 25, 1988 - Damer returns to his hometown, settles on North 24th Street. Just a couple of days later he was arrested at work, the accusation brought: sexual claims against Lao 13-year-old guy Anukon Sintasomfon. By a strange coincidence, his younger brother in 1991 will be killed by a maniac. He lured Anukon for $ 50 for posing naked in front of the camera. After alcohol with a dose of sleeping pills and caresses, the boy managed to escape, he told everything to his parents.
January 1989 - the killer admits only what he photographed, and he considered the guy much older than his years. The prosecutor requests a 5-year sentence, but the court sentenced him to a year at a correctional institution, where he comes to spend the night, and can work during the day. The sentence is too soft. Damer's lawyer generally demanded that the psychopath be placed in a medical institution, insisting that he was ill.
While still under investigation, before sentencing, he takes the life of a 24-year-old black Anthony Sears, who himself offers to have sex. In the morning, the psychopath strangled Anthony, shredded his body, packed his head and penis into cans of a chemical substance. He took the containers to the chocolate factory, where he hid them. For nine months, terrible "trophies" were there.
Victims of Jeffrey Damer
From May 1990 to July 1991 after his release, Jeffrey settles in apartment number 213, where he kills another 12 victims:
- Ricky Bix (30 years old), sixth victim.
- Eddie Smith (28 years old), his corpse was placed in the oven, enjoying the sound of a crunch of bones, dismembered the remains, thrown into the trash.
- Ernst Miller (23 years old), his killer cuts his throat.
- David Thomas (23 years old), killed for fear that he could hand over the criminal to the police.
- Curtis Struter (17 years old), the maniac will paint his skull, will be stored as a trophy.
- Errol Lindsay (19 years old).
- Anthony Hughes (32 years old), a deaf-mute guy, the corpse will lie a couple of days before the pervert cuts him, the skull will also be painted.
- Konerak Sintasomfon (14 years old), the corpse of Damer exposes sex, dismembers, and paints the skull.
- Matt Turner (21 years old), the acquaintance takes place at a gay parade, after the killer dismembers the corpse, sends his head to the refrigerator, the rest in an acid container.
- Jeremy Weinberg (24 years old), he faces a terrible death, live Damer drills his head, pours boiling water into a hole, the victim of Geoffrey Damer tormented for two days, treating parts of the body as with Turner's corpse.
- Oliver Lacy (25 years old), strangled, commits an act of violence with a corpse, his head cut off, his carved heart stored in a freezer.
- Joseph Bradhoft (25 years old) last 17 victim.
On July 22, 1991, the atrocities of the Milwaukee monster end. The arrest occurs unexpectedly, a dark-skinned man escaped from him in handcuffs, who was noticed by a police patrol. The victim reported a man trying to eat his heart. Entering the apartment, law enforcement officers heard a terrible stench, in the freezer they found three heads, a heart, other organs and frozen blood. All this horror was neatly stuffed into packages, sealed with tape. In the toilet room there are various containers with acids, in banks with formaldehyde the genitals. On the toilet cistern - two skulls, next to the pan with hands, penises.
Guilty Parents or Inappropriate Excuse
Jeffrey Damer's parents marry in August 1959. It is known that his father, Lionel, a chemist by profession, defended his doctoral dissertation in 1966, what his mother was doing, almost never mentioned. The killer commits his first crime a couple of weeks after the parents divorce, when his mother, Joyce, leaves with his younger eleven-year-old brother David. My father was also absent. Jeffrey, longing alone, without money, travels around the car in search of reassurance. That's how he met the first victim.
In 1978, Lionel Damer married a second time. But the father still takes part in the fate of his son. After a shameful expulsion from Ohio State University at Columbus, Damer Sr. insists that Jeffrey enlist in the army. After conviction and early release from prison (1990) for exemplary behavior, it is the father who asks that the eldest son should not be released until he has completed the full course of treatment. Later, Lionel will broadcast about the experienced sexual abuse of his eight-year-old child from a neighbor's boyfriend, whom the future maniac in Ohio became close to. However, Jeffy himself denies this statement.
During the divorce proceedings, Damer Sr. talked about the mental disorder of his first wife, accused her of indifference to the family, cruelty. Perhaps a maternal mental disorder has become the main reason for the formation of the antisocial personality of a killer maniac. But the father also did not take his guilt off, he argued that he had to contact more often, take an interest in life, and pay visits to his own child. As a parent, he was deeply ashamed, he could not compare the image of his son with his crimes.
Individual portrait of a maniac
Any maniac has his own special individual “style”, which is expressed:
- the choice of crime scene, weapons;
- election of the victim;
- crime method;
- time.
A classification has been developed that allows you to distribute the committed offenses by motive. The breakdown of maniacs into groups is relative, often criminals can not be attributed to the same psychotype, each of them can have several motives.
The Milwaukee monster is closer to the hedonists. They commit violence to satisfy their own needs, to receive pleasure. For perverts, sacrifice is a source of pleasure. Hedonists are:
- “Mercantile” kill with material, individual calculation;
- “Destroyers”, who more often rob victims, but commit misconduct in causing suffering without sexual violence;
- “Sexual” criminals take their lives for the sake of sexual perverse satisfaction, and the “handwriting” will depend on the preferences of the maniac and his fantasies, they play an important role, the killer enjoys directly from the process of violence or torment, strangulation, beating.
Jeffrey Dahmer - a pronounced sexual hedonist with the perverted fantasy of a serial killer maniac.
Asocial psychotype with a pathological disorder
The story of Jeffrey Damer is unique among similar stories of serial perverts. It is believed that childhood trauma is the main cause of psychological abnormalities. His childhood usually passed, the parents of Jeffrey Damer also seemed quite normal people. As a teenager, he, like most at this age, was shy, had an inferiority complex and craving for alcohol, could not establish the right relationship with his peers. But these reasons do not make a person a killer with necrophilic inclinations. There were no shock shocks with him, such as occur at the sight of corpses and murders, which subjected the psyche to deformation. The source of a deep distortion of the personality is, most likely, a genetic, or congenital, disorder.
He had his own tactics for finding victims, mainly representatives of sexual minorities. Often the acquaintance took place in bars, then he pumped drugs, alcohol, and choked. Later, he showed necrosadite inclinations, not only did he force the mutilated corpses, he liked to make “trophies” from the remains of the body. Damer made lovers of zombies, made experiments, made a primitive lobotomy, drilled holes in the skull with the help of tools, then filled them with acid.
