The famous Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who committed the murder and dismemberment of seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

From an early age, Dahmer manifested an interest in dead animals. His fascination with dead animals may have begun when, at the age of four, he saw his father removing animal bones from beneath the family home. According to Lionel, Dahmer was “oddly thrilled” by the sound the bones made, and became preoccupied with animal bones, which he initially called his “fiddlesticks”. He occasionally searched beneath and around the family home for additional bones and explored the bodies of live animals to discover where their bones were located.

In 1968, the family moved to Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio. This address was their third in two years, and the Dahmers’ sixth address since marriage. The home stood in one and a half acres of woodland, with a small hut only a short walk from the house where Dahmer began collecting large insects such as dragonflies and moths and the skeletons of small animals such as chipmunks and squirrels. Some of these remains were preserved in jars of formaldehyde and stowed within the hut.

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Jeffrey Dahmer wife

Dahmer never had a wife as he wasn’t romantically interested in women. Dahmer started drugging men and having sex with their unconscious bodies. In September 1986, he was arrested for masturbating while watching two twelve-year-old boys. Authorities sentenced him to a year of mental health counseling and probation.

Most of Dahmer’s victims were young men he seduced at gay bars. He would drug them before strangling them, having sex with their corpses, and dismembering them.

Jeffrey Dahmer children

Jeffrey Dahmer has no children.

Jeffrey Dahmer parents

Jeffrey Dahmer’s parents, his father, Lionel, and his mother, Joyce

Jeffrey Dahmer siblings

Jeffrey Dahmer has one younger brother David Dahmer. David Dahmer is the younger brother of American serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s more than six years younger than Jeffrey, and the Dahmers actually let Jeffrey name his little brother, David, when he was born, per Distractify.

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