


Dahmer convinced Hicks to join him at his house for some drinks before he went to the show.Īfter hours of drinking and listening to music, Hicks attempted to leave, a move that enraged Dahmer. He picked up 18-year-old hitchhiker Steven Mark Hicks, who was on his way to a rock concert in nearby Lockwood Corners. On one such occasion, Dahmer took advantage of his newfound freedom.
DAHMER THE MONSTER WITHIN FULL
Whenever Dahmer’s mother was out of town, he had full control of the house. His father and brother decided to move into a nearby motel, and Dahmer and his mother continued living at the family home. Jeffrey Dahmer’s parents divorced the same year he graduated high school. Public Domain Eighteen-year-old Steven Mark Hicks, Jeffrey Dahmer’s first known victim. Just weeks after he graduated high school, Dahmer committed his first murder. Dahmer began fantasizing about raping men and became aroused by the idea of completely dominating and controlling another person.Īs Dahmer’s violent fantasies grew stronger, his control weakened. As his sexuality blossomed, so too did his increasingly abnormal sexual fantasies. He would do this so frequently that pulling off a good practical joke became known around the school as “doing a Dahmer.”ĭuring this time, Dahmer also realized that he was gay. To fit in, Dahmer would often pull practical jokes, like pretending to have seizures. He drank heavily at school, often hiding beer and hard liquor in his army fatigue jacket. There, Dahmer was an outcast who quickly became an alcoholic. At a young age, he became fascinated with all things related to death and began collecting the carcasses of dead animals.Įerily, Dahmer’s father noted how his son was “oddly thrilled” by the sounds of clanking animal bones.īy the time Dahmer was in high school, his family had moved to Bath Township, a sleepy suburb of Akron, Ohio. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960, to a middle-class family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Wikimedia Commons Jeffrey Dahmer’s high school yearbook photo.
