Research Paper

Abstract (revise)

In understanding the darkness of human behavior, one need to know what triggers a person’s mental that lead them to become a serial killer. There is a growing curiosity about serial killers which criminologist is still trying to understand the motive. Depictions of a serial killer are insane, mentally disturbed, antisocial, and no remorse for their actions. The fulfillment serial killers gain is during the killing of their victims. The gratification a serial killer get is different compared to a person who killed only one time. Serial killers have a chronic and overwhelming desire to commit murder. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as Milwaukee cannibal or monster, was a sadistic serial killer and sexual predator in the late 1970s and early 1990s. Jeffrey raped, tortured, and dismembered his victims. Psychologically, Jeffrey was a troubled child and issues with social skills. During his upbringing he experienced no attention and had unusual desires about cadavers. In Dahmer’s adulthood, his psychosocial current situation didn’t change and was in fact aggravated. This paper will briefly discuss Dahmer’s life from childhood to adulthood. The usage of three criminological theories that explains the relationship between Dahmer’s personality using Freud’s theory of the id, super-ego and ego, Fromm’s theories form clear cut explanations and understanding why Dahmer was a sadist and necrophiliac; and Adler’s different theories explaining his violent and impulsive behaviors and thoughts. Biblical content will also explain Dahmer’s spiritual behavior.

Keywords: Loneliness, nemesis, narcissistic tendencies, psychopathy, serial killer, malignant narcissism, lust killer

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Most serial killers are not always isolated, socially awkward, monsters, and may not be viewed as strange. Serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer thrived for control, fantasy, power, paraphiliac and sadistic. In Romans 12:21 says, “Don’t let evil control you, but do good to conqueror it” (KJV, 1970). He said that at times he lay next to the corpses of his victims, kissing them. “No one shall go near a dead body or defile it no matter who it is” (Lev.21:11, KJV, 1970). Jeffrey would have sex with his dead victims that made him unclean and displayed a behavior of necrophilia. He attributed the motivation for his actions to lust. Sexual sadism seemed to be based on his desire to keep his victims sedated while sexually abusing them and drilling holes into their skulls. The latter was done to inject muriatic acid into their brains to dissolve the brain substance and obtain, as he wished, a perfect non-sectioned skull. He claimed that occasional anthropophagy climaxed some of the brutal scenes. In 1 Thessalonians 5:22 states that, “Keep away from all types of evil” (KJV, 1970). Abstinence from all forms of evil intentions keeps your path good with God.

Fantasy was another of Jeffrey’s dilemmas. He was asked about his fantasies' central theme, he replied that they were more about lust than power and said that he believed that he had made them the most powerful thing in his life. Luke 1:37 says, “Nothing is impossible for God” (KJV, 1970). God is the all-powerful and nothing can compare to his glory. He admitted to getting a thrill from the killing. He drank moderate amounts of an alcoholic beverage while carrying out his criminal acts but said that he was always aware of what he was doing. He demonstrated only lip-service remorse for what he had done.

Afterward, while they were still under the effect of the soporific substance, he killed them and he later dismembered their bodies (Lax, 2018). The survivor of his last encounter stated that Dahmer had been charming, calm, and completely normal in his behavior when he invited him to his apartment. He described him as the opposite of the person who dismembered his victims’ bodies, boiled the body parts to destroy the flesh and to keep the bones and skulls as fetishes, and/or photographed symbolic body parts and whole naked bodies in sexually suggestive positions, a typical signature for him, since, he later said, he wanted to keep them as mementos—to keep him company.

In the author’s view, Dahmer’s destructive behavior and his symbolic fetishes were the expression of his deep ambivalence about his own homosexual behavior and a love–hate relationship with his victims. He was clearly sadistic in his cruelty to his victims. His sexual involvement with his victims was paraphilic in nature. Even though his behavior was not due to psychosis, he showed ananchastic features; and it was of a programmed, meticulous, distorted sexual type (Lax, 2018). With his tendency to act on weekends, he showed calculated planning with risk avoidance. Because most of his victims were black, he told the author; the media interpretation that his behavior was racially oriented concerned and frightened him. He was afraid of possible retaliation by the Black prison community. In that, he seemed to have foreseen the future because he was eventually killed in prison by a Black inmate. Luke 12:3 says, “what is done in the will be brought to the light even things in private” (KJV. 1970). God see all that is done in the dark and in the light. God knows your beginning and end he wrote your book. Repentance is at hand.