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Warning Signs About Jeffrey Dahmer Everyone Ignored Until It Was Too Late

The Milwaukee serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer brutally murdered 17 young men over the course of 13 years, from until his eventual capture in At his trial, the world learned of the indescribable depravity of the killings and the mutilation and dismemberment of the victim's bodies.

Dahmer retained body parts as mementoes of his crimes, necrophilia, and acts of cannibalism. As the world looked on in disbelief, Dahmer was sentenced to 16 life terms in and was expected to spend the rest of his natural life in prison with no possibility of parole. Two years later, he gay kid ignored by police serial killer victim acid murdered by a fellow inmate.

Despite the animalistic urges that underpinned Dahmer's appalling crimes, he was reportedly a young man of high intelligence — his IQ is reported as being at leastwhile some claim it was as high as However, the Milwaukee Cannibal also had obvious emotional issues.

Some are believed to have been the result of a tumultuous home life characterized by what commentators have described as a neglectful childhood. He also reportedly found his parents' divorce especially traumatic. But many people survive difficult childhoods and go on to live regular law-abiding lives.

Could anything about Dahmer have helped to shed light on his mental condition before he was too late? Here were the warning signs that everyone overlooked. For many familiar with the case, one of the more egregious aspects of the Jeffrey Dahmer murders are the crimes that he perpetrated against his victims post-mortem.

At his trial, horrified jurors heard the grisly details that police officers uncovered on first investigating the killer's home at the behest of a handcuffed man who had escaped his clutches. The near-victim raised the alarm about a "weird guy" who allegedly took him home and tried to drug him.

Dahmer's victims were generally gay men he approached in bars and public spaces, offering sex or money. After drugging and murdering them, he would dismember their bodies and retain body parts, including skulls and genitalia. Dahmer attempted to preserve many of these objects and had several body parts in his home when the police arrived, including a human head in the refrigerator.

He later admitted that he planned to make a shrine with the body parts and envisioned using the skulls as candle holders. Dahmer's predilection for dead body parts went all the way back to his childhood, when he first became fascinated with collecting roadkill and other dead animals.

From a young age, he would preserve animal bones and insect carcasses with acid and formaldehyde. He picked up the techniques from his father, who was a biologist and believed his son was developing a healthy interest in science. Jeffrey Dahmer's childhood was characterized by loneliness.

He reportedly developed a withdrawn and antisocial personality from the age of 4, when his formerly bright and playful nature had to contend with serious invasive surgery on a double hernia. This moment has been identified as a turning point for the young Dahmer.

His interest in necrophilia grew more malign as he entered his teenage years, during which time he became even more withdrawn and began drinking heavily. By the time he was 18, his drinking led him to drop out of university, after which he joined the Army and was stationed in Germany.

By then, he had already killed his first victim — a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks. Dahmer's later disturbing testimony about the murder reflected his sense of isolation at the time. He had taken Hicks back to his parents' house to drink, and he admitted that he couldn't bear to see Hicks leave, so he strangled him to death with a barbell.

For many years of his adult life, Jeffrey Dahmer lived with his paternal grandmother, Catherine, at her home in West Allis, Wisconsin. Dahmer moved in with her in his early 20s at the behest of his father and stepmother after being incarcerated in Akron Correctional Facility on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Dahmer had recently been discharged from the army as a result of his drinking problem, and it was thought that life with Catherine would offer him the stability he needed to get back on his feet and find some direction.