During 1996 Jeffrey Dahmer's family moved to 4480 West
Bath Road in Bath Township, Ohio. An average woodsy midwestern
neighborhood surrounded by open forest, a limitless playground
for any young child. It was around this same time that
his mother gave birth to her second son, Jeffrey Dahmers
brother, David Dahmer. Little has been said or is possibly
even known about David Dahmer, most likely due to the
fact that his birth had very little, if any impact on
Jeffrey Dahmer. From what I know, Jeffrey Dahmer was
seemingly unaffected by his brothers existence. Needless
to say they were never very close.
At the age of 8 another boy molested Jeffrey Dahmer
from his neighborhood. This may have had a greater affect
on him than the birth of his brother. The details on
the actual occurrence are unknown and I have read many
conflicting accounts of "the facts" but from
what I've gathered it damaged to Jeffrey Dahmer both
mentally, and sexually. Perhaps still years from coming
to terms with his sexuality or maybe in the midst of
discovering these feelings.
Jeffrey Dahmer was a homosexual; this was about as
easy to change as the color of his eyes. This being as
it was his fear, anger, and shame at these completely
natural homosexual feelings likely began to haunt him
at this young age. These same feelings that would continue
to haunt and oppress him for years to come, resulting
in a terrifying hatred towards homosexual men. Whom coincidentally
was who he, Jeffrey Dahmer, as a gay man was attracted
to. This deep-seeded mixture of emotions coupled with
the natural feelings and fears dealt with by normal homosexual
children were obviously too much for Jeffrey Dahmer and
they only worsened with age.
Some two years later Jeffrey Dahmer began to explore
his more gruesome curiosities. It began innocently...
as innocently as can be said when referring to a 10 year
old child whose experimental explorations included dissecting
road kill, decapitating rodents, bleaching chickens bones
and cutting open goldfish to see how their innards worked.
He began a collection of sorts, the bones of the smaller
animals he kept on display in a backyard shed. An act
he would repeat later on with his human victims. By the
age of 15 these "curiosities" were now more
of a deadly intent to kill and mutilate. By 1975 Jeffrey
Dahmer was nailing live frogs to trees for the simple
pleasure of watching them die. He also began to perform
impromptu surgery on stray cats and dogs. He ended up
killing and skinning the vast majority of these surgery
victims, then using acid to scrape the meat from the
bones, then burring the remains in his own private 'pet'
cemetery. One time he went as far as to drag the circus
of a dog into the woods behind his house, then after
beheading it and nailing the body to a tree, he mounted
the head on a stake which he planted near the tree.
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