serialkillers

Serial Killers

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer

You can't call it a passion for Serial Killers, it's no obsession either, no thrill, no kick or whatever,I'm no prison groupy either, but I have been very interested in Serial Killers for the last 11 years and I still am.
Like most people who are "into Serial Killers" I have my "favorites" too. Mine are Jeff Dahmer and Ed Kemper.
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Why Serial Killers and why Kemper and Dahmer? I think for a big part the reasons are personal. Both their isolation as well Dahmer's lonelyness and Kemper's hate for his mother are things I understand very well.....

What interests me the most is WHY, not WHAT or HOW or WHO. I have been surrounded by quite a number of (little) sociopaths in my life, suffered from them too.
Most Serial Killers are sociopaths, some others are psychotic.
Both Dahmer and Kemper were sick little boys already: they fantasised about death and violence and loved (to kill) dead animals.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer

Edmund Kemper III

In Milwaukee, in 1960, Joyce and Lionel Dahmer gave birth to their eldest son, Jeffrey. He was a happy young child that enjoyed playing with his stuffed bunnies, his wooden blocks, and his dog, Frisky. Although Jeff was unusually sickly, he seemed to take a sincere joy in his life. His father recalled that once the entire family took part in nursing a small bird. When they released the bird, Jeffrey was elated.

Soon a different interest in animals came forth in Jeff's personality. When he was 4 he helped his father sweep the remains of some small, dead animals out from under the house, and apparently he was quite fascinated with them. Jeffrey began to play with the bones, which set off a warning signal in Lionel Dahmer's head. Naturally, this mental caveat was only in retrospect.

In 1966, at the age of 6, Jeff had surgery for a double hernia, and he was apparently never quite the same again. He became more isolated from his environment. He seemed weaker, somehow vulnerable.
Also in 1966 Joyce and Lionel had their second child, David, and the family moved to Akron, Ohio so Lionel could attend graduate school. At this point, Jeff became a little bit afraid of others, and he displayed a general lack of self-confidence.

In 1967 the Dahmer family moved into a new house and Jeff developed a close friendship with his neighbor, Lee, and found a liking for one of his teachers. Jeff gave the teacher a bowl of tadpoles he had caught, which she then gave to Lee. Dahmer found out about the transfer of his gift, so he poisened all of the tadpoles with motor oil.

Dead animals excited the young Dahmer. Contrary the rumor, he apparently did not torture living creatures; he just waited until they were dead to play with them. By the time he was 15 he would strip the flesh off and once he even mounted a dog's head on a stake. Throughout this period of his life Jeffrey became less concerned with his surroundings, and his fantasies obviously took over to a certain extent.

When Jeff was 18 his parents' rocky marriage ended in divorce. That next summer he first killed a man. The two had been drinking and making love, and when his partner wanted to leave, Jeff clubbed in the head and burried the body. Only years later would Dahmer return to pound the rotten corpse with a hammer.

Jeff was an alcoholic at a very early age. After failing out of college his first semester because he was never really sober, his father and new stepmother gave Jeff the ultimatum of sobering up or enlisting in the army. Jeff became Private Dahmer in 1979 but was discharged for alcoholism shortly thereafter.

After getting out of the army, Jeff moved in with his grandmother, and used her basement to hide a few bodies.
In 1989 he was convicted of child molestation, but convinced the judge to take it easy on him. Dahmer spent 1 year in a program where he would go to work during the day and return to jail at night. He was realeased to his grandmother's house with the provision he find a residence of his own.

On may 14, 1990, Dahmer moved to 924 North 25th Street, apartment 213 and a true killing spree began. Dahmer murdered and raped 12 men in his apartment before his apprehension in 1991.

Jeffrey Dahmer's conviction was by no means drawn out, and the serial killer was murdered during a work detail on 28 Nov. '94 by a fellow inmate, Christopher Scarver.

Ed Kemper was born in December of 1948 in Burbank, California. He had 2 sisters. His mother and father fought constantly; eventually they divorced. It was after the divorce that Ed began having problems. His mother, who was well liked, respected and known for her kindness at the university she worked at, was very mean to Ed. She called him names and essentially blamed him for all of her problems.

When he was 10 years old, he came home from school to find that his room had been moved to a windowless room in the basement. His mother's reason for doing this? She claimed that his sisters were afraid of him because he was so large. He was an out-cast among his own family.

It was during the time in his basement room that a cycle of fantasies, which were violent, murderous and deviant, began. As time progressed, those fantasies were no longer enough for Ed and he began committing acts on cats; he dismembered 2 of the family cats. He also began a "death ritual" game with his sister which involved him dying. It were these acts which prompted his mother to send him to live with his father.

However, Kemper ran away from his father's house, back to his mother. His mother clearly did not want him living with her and so sent him to live with his grandparents, who lived in a desolate area of the California Sierra foothils. Again Ed was faced with isolation, only this time he was away from his peers at school as well. His fantasies continued.

In August of 1963, Ed was 15, he shot his grantmother and grantfather. It is believed that he killed his grandfather because he knew his grandfather would not find the murder "acceptable". Ed spent 6 years in an institution, until 1969. Although isolation was certainly a contributing factor to these acts, one also wonders if, in his young mind, he saw this as a way to get back to his mother.After his release from te institution Ed (21) was returned to his mother.

At the age of 21, Ed Kemper was 6 feet, 9 inches tall and weighed some 300 pounds. He was a very large, big man with a high IQ.. For the next few years, everything appeared to be ok.. Although he picked up hitchhikers, there were no reports of killings for 3 years.

In 1972 Kemper picked up 2 girls, roommates from a local college. He stabbed them both to death at a remote area and took the bodies back to his (mother's) house. He dissected their bodies, examined their internal organs and took pictures. Afterwards he put the bodies, or what was left of them, into plastic bags and burried them in the mountains at Santa Cruz. For some reason though, he threw their heads alongside a road. He continued this pattern with 6 more victims, all college girls (which is how he obtained the title:"the Co-Ed Killer") .

Although his methods of killing changed, such as shooting one, suffocating another, he always took them back to the house. With each victim his acts towards the bodies progressed: having sex with the corpses for example.

Ed was seeing a psychiatrist during the time of the murders, in fact, during 1 session, he had the head of 1 victim in his car. Ed's last victim but one was his mother. While she was asleep he killed her with a claw hammer. He decapitated and raped her headless corpse. Right after that he called a friend of his mother's and invited her to a "surprise" dinner. When se arrived, he be-headed her too. The next morning,, he drove away and expected to be famous now. When he realised he wasn't, he called the Santa Cruz police and turned himself in. He was convicted of 8 counts of first degree murder.