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Do you think ppl often over simplifiy Jeffrey's killing motives as just "a racist white dude who wanted to kill black men because he viewed them as less human?"

Yes, people absolutely oversimplify it — and it’s frustrating.

Dahmer didn’t kill because of racial hatred. He targeted men he was attracted to, men who were vulnerable, quiet, and less likely to draw attention. Sadly, systemic racism meant many of those men were Black, Latino, or marginalized.

But he didn’t choose them because of their race. He chose them because they fit a certain emotional and physical pattern he was fixated on. Saying he was just “a racist white dude” completely erases the psychological and emotional depth of his crimes — and honestly, it’s lazy.

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While living with his religious grandmother, Jeff Dahmer began to show interest in the Satanic Bible by Anton Lavey. Satanism teaches to acknowledge the most basic human needs and lends a hand in accepting the tainted parts of human nature.

Jeffrey had been working at the Milwaukee Blood Plasma Center at that time, taking blood from patients. Out of curiosity, he smuggled a test tube out of the center, to try the taste of human blood. He immediately spat it out, not liking the taste.

Even though Dahmer never considered himself a Satanist, he seemed to have found in that moment, if not subconciously, a prompt in their ideas. His mind always searching for a way to connect to another person, would attempt it the most “human” and primitive way. But with the blood he literally spat out satanic philosphies. He never tried drinking blood again, but would find interpersonal connection in another way of basic, yet primitve human nature. 

- The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer by Brian Masters

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Some lesser known Jeffrey Dahmer facts:

Jeff had air fresheners throughout his apartment when tenants in the Oxford Apartments complained about the smell (of the bodies), he blamed it on his freezer breaking and meat spoiling

He went to Ohio State, with his father paying for him to study in business but he failed to turn up to most of his classes and when he did, he was drunk, his roommates back in college described him as “weird” and told of a few times they were sure Jeff stole from them to supply booze for himself

As a teenager him and a friend of his, Jeff Six were cautioned for driving over somebody’s front lawn while high on marijuana 

When Jeff was in the army (where he later got discharged for alcohol problems) he frequently drank and got into trouble a few times, the worst of these times was when several men turned on Jeff and beat him up severely, he was bloody and his ear-drum was broken, causing him to suffer periodic attacks of ear-ache even ten years later

He worked at Sunshine Subs (a sandwich place) when he was in Miami, he also worked at a blood plasma center as a phlebotomist (where his job was basically taking blood from volunteers) in Wisconsin, he worked at a temp agency for a while and then moved onto his job as a mixer in a chocolate factory

Jeff didn’t like the taste of blood, when he worked at the blood plasma center he took a vial of blood up to the roof and drank it, he said he spat it out and didn’t like it

He once wrote “When my father came home I was happy.” “When my mother came home, I was watching TV.”

When asked if he loved his grandmother he strangely replied “Yes, she’s lived in that house a long time”

Jeff took up smoking in the army and when he returned he was smoking a pack a day

He once made a sexual advance on his brother David when he was 24 and his brother 18, when they were sharing a bed, Jeff said about the situation “He didn’t go for that at all, that’s for sure. He told me so in the morning”, Jeff said he made an apology to his brother, and that he felt embarrassed and disappointed

Jeff once said “It would have been better if I’d just stuck to the mannequins, much much better”

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“It’s just like a big chunk of me has been ripped out and I’m not quite whole. I don’t think I’m over dramatizing it, and I’m certainly deserving of it, but the way I feel now, it’s just like you’re talking to someone who is terminally ill and facing death. Death would be preferable to what I am facing. I just feel like imploding upon myself, you know? I just want to go somewhere and disappear.” - Jeffrey Dahmer

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At the end of that third day of talking to him before he was going to go into court, he said to me, ‘You know, I’m a little bit concerned. You know I have to go to court tomorrow’ and he already knew by then that there was news media all over the place because I would be in the paper and be like; ‘oh look at what they’re saying about you’. He was concerned about that he looked all greasy and funky and will I need to go on this paper dress suit. So I went home that night, and I had my oldest boy at the time was a sophomore in high school and he was damn near 6’1. 6’2, 285 pounds. So I asked him, I said, ‘Oh hey Pat, do you have a shirt and some pants that you don’t like’. Of course he pulled out this blue striped shirt, he goes; ‘Yeah, this is the one you gave me for Christmas that I will never wear’. He goes you have this one, and he also had a pair of black jeans that he gave me, right. So the next day when I went in, as we were preparing for court, I gave those to Jeffrey Dahmer and he put them on. Well that’s the shirt that’s on People Magazine, the blue and white striped shirt, where people say, ‘Oh look how he’s dressed, like a tennis player.’ They made all those assumptions about his choice, but that was my son’s shirt and pants that he wore there. They took him back in the judges chambers and the holding cell where they hold prisoners. He started to get out of those clothes, and get into, because now he was going to go to the county so he was putting on his orange jumpsuit. He tried to hand me back the shirt and the pants and at the time I said, ‘Oh no Jeff, that’s alright you can keep them’.

Detective Pat Kennedy

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this is so funny in a yes jeff please do it way

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"... He wanted death for himself. He was sentenced to sixteen years to life in Ohio and Wisconsin (941 years)".

"In addition to a few family members who mourned his loss, a handful of law enforcement experts and individuals who study serial killers believe that what made Dahmer unique from others was his willingness to answer questions, his participation in trials and discussions, and his willingness to take full responsibility for his crimes. But in the early weeks of December 1994, as news of Dahmer's death spread around the world, People magazine's article about his murder was headlined: "The Final Victim: Haunted by his dark legacy of murder and cannibalism, Jeffrey Dahmer, like the families of many of his victims, felt he deserved to die." Jack Levin, a noted professor of criminology at Northwestern University in Boston, was quoted as saying: "Most serial killers are pathological liars. Dahmer was different. He was willing to reveal his experiences with murder and we could have learned even more from him." But the article also suggests that even though he had confessed and the state had punished him for his crimes, Dahmer should not have died in prison. He was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison and natural causes should have ended his life".

"His family, those who had become friends in prison, and indeed even Pat Kennedy, felt his loss. His mother, Joyce, was quoted at the time of his murder as saying, "Is everybody happy now? Now that he's been beaten to death, is that good enough for everybody?"

"Most serial killers fight to survive, to stay alive — appealing their death sentences and often remaining in solitary confinement if they and others fear for their lives in the general population, with the desire to live as long a life as possible — even if it is behind bars. Dahmer wished to die several times and did not fight back when attacked. Apparently, his last words as he was being beaten were, "I don't care whether I live or die. Go ahead and kill me." He watched another man being killed in front of him before the killer turned his attention to himself and allowed himself to be killed".

"During the autopsy, the pathologist found no bruises on Dahmer's arms, which are typically found if a victim tries to defend himself".

"Dahmer had been marked from the moment he entered the penitentiary and his murder was almost inevitable — he was told this before he was released from solitary confinement. His need to be around other people kept him from being afraid and he simply didn't care anymore".

(Griiling Dahmer: The Interrogation Of The Milwaukee Cannibal — Patrick Kennedy and Robyn Maharaj).

Note: Jeffrey dealt with depression early in his life and long before he was discovered he had already expressed suicidal thoughts in sessions with psychologists (his statements were duly recorded). His will to live had long since failed and it is clear that his request for transfer to the public wing of the prison was an attempt to actually get what he wanted.

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A soldier took this picture of Dahmer on his barracks bed in west Germany in 1979. “Biginning Friday afternoon he would drink, pass out, wake up and start again,” said the former Army barracks roommate. “He’d be in his own little world”.

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Jeffrey Dahmer Documentaries

The Jeffrey Dahmer Files

To Kill And Kill Again

Everyman: Jeffrey Dahmer

A&E Jeffrey Dahmer

The Strange Case of Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer - Mind of A Monster

The Milwaukee Cannibal - Serial Killer Files

Jeffrey Dahmer - Born To Kill

Encounters With Evil

Jeffrey Dahmer - Der Kannibale (German)

Fresh Meat - Killing Dahmer

The Family Tapes

Jeffrey Dahmer - Serienmörder (German)

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Music Jeffrey Dahmer liked to listen to:

Neil Sedaka (during High School. He went with a friend to "Blossom Music Center" in Ohio in 1976 or 1977)

Def Leppard - Hysteria (the cassette was found in his apartment 213)

Iron Maiden (in Germany he decorated his room with posters of the band)

Black Sabbath (mentioned in various articles)

Clock DVA (according to a newspaper article their album "Buried Dreams" was on repeat the time he got arrested)

The Beatles - I Am The Walrus (a fellow college student told that Jeff listened to this song over and over again)

Motley Crew - You're All I Need (mentioned in articles)

In prison:

Mint Condition - Breaking My Heart (according to Lyfe Jennings, who was a fellow inmate of Jeff's, Dahmer asked him to sing this song to him since 'he liked R&B')

After his death various cassettes were found in his cell: Mozart, Handel and Tchaikovsky (Haven't come across any evidence he actually listened to 'whale sounds' as the Netflix series claims. A female pen pal recommended 'whale songs' to him, and Dahmer replied that he hasn't tried it out yet.)

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In January 1982, still living at his grandmother's house, Dahmer bought a gun from a store in Milwaukee. It was a .357 snubbed-nose Magnum with a black rubber-grip handle and a silver body, weighing about a pound and a half.

Dahmer used it only for target practice. Something he was interested in since his days in the army.

Yet his family didn't like the idea and a 'family conference' was helt as soon as his grandma found out about Jeff having the gun. His father Lionel, together with grandma Catherine and his aunt Eunice, decided that it would be better for Jeff not to keep the gun.

"Once my dad and grandma got wind that I had that, they didn't think it was a good idea, so my dad took it away and ended up selling it down in Ohio."

Jeffrey Dahmer had kept the gun for about six months.