He started by capturing insects and keeping them trapped in jars but later graduated to picking up pieces of roadkill and dismembering them out behind the family house. Very early on, he displayed an intense fascination with animals’ bodies. He later would refer to “extreme tension” between his family members, but never anything in the way of torture or beatings that scar the youths of so many killers.

But after receiving a double hernia surgery around age four, he gradually withdrew into himself, never to return. In early childhood, Jeffrey Dahmer was described as friendly, lovable, and outgoing. I think Jeffrey Dahmer might have been born that way. To this day his House of Horrors defies comprehension-how can someone reasonably intelligent and decent-looking, with very little in the way of head trauma or childhood emotional trauma, turn out this way? The world was rocked in the summer of 1991 when footage showed investigators removing a vat of acid and a refrigerator from Dahmer’s Milwaukee apartment, both of which contained parts of his 17 victims. It is only after you realize he is one of the most infamous serial killers in American history-a repressed homosexual who took out his frustrations by drugging, strangling, raping (after death), dismembering, and sometimes eating his victims’ body parts-that you realize under this flat and harmless-seeming demeanor lurked one of the grisliest monsters in world history. To hear Jeffrey Dahmer speak is to hear a polite, intelligent, well-mannered blond man with a wholesome-sounding Midwestern accent.

By Jim Goad Updated DecemThe Soft-Spoken Monster of Jeffery Dahmer

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