Jeffrey Dahmer: A Terrifying True Story of Rape, Murder & Cannibalism: Volume 1 (The Serial Killer Books)

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Like most Americans, I knew about this case when it broke, simply because not a single person in the country could avoid it. This same gut reaction of avoiding confrontation and communication let Jeffrey slip further and further away. Cesare Lombroso, the founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology and considered as the father of scientific criminology, argued that criminality was inherited and that the “born criminal” could be identified by physical defects, which confirmed as criminal as“ savage,” or “ atavistic”. Backderf and his friends encouraged Dahmer to act out, including faking epileptic seizures in school and the mall and pretending to have cerebral palsy. In the wake of Jeffrey Dahmer, people who lived comfortable shielded lives had to take notice of festering problems in minority communities, groups many here did not want to admit they shared a city with.

Dahmer was out of control and was becoming progressively more out of control; and it wasn't going to be he who was going to stop it, it was going to have to be stopped by some outside force, which is exactly how it inevitably was stopped.Because Backderf worked at Akron Beacon Journal, [3] he also had access to much information about Dahmer's crimes before they became public knowledge, which, combined with his personal history with Dahmer, put him in a perfect situation to shed light on him. The father of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer describes his shock at hearing the news of his son's crimes, his entry into a world of complete denial, and how, during Jeffrey's trial, he placed himself in his son's shoes.

Lionel Dahmer reveals himself as a cold, emotionally distant father and husband who's greatest influence upon his oldest son seems to have been to create an atmosphere of such utter disregard and disinterest that Jeffrey's withdrawal into an interior landscape of cruel and twisted emotional violence is not only hastened, it is almost ensured. I was too young when it happened to really understand the horrors and after starting the series, I wanted to know more of the "why" and "how" behind it all. It truly is the memoirs of a father (along with his mother and his new bride) experiencing the most devastating experience imaginable: discovering not that his son was murdered, no, far worse. The Police department didn't do their jobs correctly because of the neighborhood and the ethnicity of these men. One review says: “This book presents a rare opportunity to see an evil man, whom most of us dismiss as an abomination, through the eyes of a loving parent.At times, her legs would lock tightly in place, and her whole body would grow rigid and begin to tremble. I found out that after this book was published that Joyce Dahmer, Jeffrey’s mother, interpreted it as a direct attempt to blame her, the mother. It expanded my knowledge on criminology, but truthfully I was just looking for a shocking, gruesome read on one of America's most infamous killers.