How Jeffrey Dahmer Almost Got Away With Murder

6. The Making Of A Maniac

They say that proclivities become embedded into a person through adverse iniquities that arise in their childhood. Maybe their parents were abusive, maybe they didn't perceive their child to be something worth taking care of, or maybe they just cradled them until suffocation set in.

Whatever the case, one thing is for certain. When adulthood hits, these raw, unfiltered emotions of a damaged psyche are catalytically channelled in the most explicit of ways.

Dahmer's father was always away on long work-based excursions, his mother was severely mentally ill - suffering from manic depression and suicidal tendencies - and the relationships he built during his time at school were less than stellar.

When his father was around, being an analytical chemist, he and his son bonded over this mutual love. The only problematic symptom of this elation was that this boy's mind was already infected with vitriolic hate. Hate that would soon evolve into an insatiable, homicidal fetish.

Jeffrey found his own therapeutic method for relieving that rage, as he developed a penchant for picking up gay men at clubs, killing them, then having the time of his life with their lifeless bodies.