/r/JeffreyDahmer

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Community for discussions regarding Dahmer's life and crimes, or the 2022 Netflix drama series


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/r/JeffreyDahmer

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Did Jeffrey Dahmer know any other languages?

Is there evidence that he knew any language other than his native language?

4 Comments
2024/10/28
09:08 UTC

5

I can't see the number 213 the same anymore

Anything dealing with this number, it just invokes a thought of Dahmer. Because that was his apartment number.

6 Comments
2024/10/23
19:18 UTC

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I need advice.

I recently watched the Jeffrey Dahmer show on Netflix (I know I'm late.) and I just cannot get it out of of my head. I feel so bad for all of the victims. Especially Konerak. I don't know how to get it out of my head. I feel so bad for the victims it's killing me inside. I hate Jeffrey Dahmer so much.

7 Comments
2024/10/17
19:07 UTC

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could Everything Jeffrey Dahmer did have been a whole psychotic episode?

As we know he had an untreated BPD before he get arrested so… It’s possible that somehow everything or a half of it could have been a psychotic episode? (For some reasearch I did I know that -“Psychotic outbreaks can lead a person to dangerous and violent behaviors, including the risk of harming or killing others, but it is not an inevitable consequence.”- Could someone who suffers from BPD or some PD explain this? TT

4 Comments
2024/10/13
22:38 UTC

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Must read

1 Comment
2024/10/14
08:34 UTC

5

Did Jeffrey Dahmer know how to drive?

Did you have a driver's license? Did you know how to drive?

1 Comment
2024/10/13
13:01 UTC

6

blame

Do you really think he felt guilty? He says in the interview that he feels great regret... but he says it with extreme apathy.

2 Comments
2024/10/12
08:25 UTC

7

How many other people do you suspect Dahmer killed?

Such as Dean Vaughn, or the 5 unsolved murders in West Germany

13 Comments
2024/10/11
01:51 UTC

69

Hot take: Jeffrey Dahmer should have been put in a mental hospital not prison.

The man had several mental disorders including delusions verging on psychosis. If we still had state run mental health facilities, our prisons wouldnt be over populated. Hell, if we focused more on treating mental illness instead of throwing people away like trash, maybe the murders never wouldnt have even happened had he gotten help in his teens. Not trying to sympathize with a killer, just trying to understand how throwing people in a zoo like animals and treating them worse than animals helps anything. Its just a band-aid over the societal problems

14 Comments
2024/10/08
23:37 UTC

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Is this real and what’s it from?

5 Comments
2024/03/09
06:57 UTC

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Muse.

"So is dahmer your muse?" this is my favorite line in the whole MFD movie. I mean there's litterally a movie based off of this guy, plus countless tv shows, books, comics, and even more movies. I write poetry and while watching the movie i filled out like 5 freaking pages describing the scenes and emotions i felt. I drew dahmer a glasses while bored at school. There's something about him that makes people create, like an orbital field.

4 Comments
2024/03/08
01:21 UTC

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question about the netflix series

i heard a second one was on its way. is this true? ive seen no other official sources for it and the series seemed to end gracefully

5 Comments
2024/03/07
14:54 UTC

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Sheep? What?

OK so I watch any documentary that comes on about Jeffrey. The stories are all the same. However, I will say that one reason I watch them, regardless, is because I always learn something new each time. There’s always that one little tidbit that you didn’t know from another documentary.

I am watching the A&E Biography of Jeffrey Dahmer. It’s on Hulu. Came out in 1996.

Near the beginning of the show, they were talking about Jeff’s childhood with Lionel. And at one point they mentioned that they raised sheep for competitions? What? I have never heard that and have never seen that anywhere else.

Anyone else heard that before? It just seems so random. 🤷🏼‍♀️

8 Comments
2024/03/04
15:31 UTC

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Part of FBI Transcript

5 Comments
2024/03/01
04:25 UTC

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Wasn't Dahmer baptized as a child?

I recently learned that Dahmer was baptized in prison shortly before his death. This surprised me very much. I thought he was raised in a Christian home and was baptized shortly after birth. Or am I wrong? If anything, I don’t understand Protestantism. I heard that Anabaptists and Herrnhuters do not baptize children.

9 Comments
2024/02/28
20:20 UTC

6

dahmer

does anybody shed sympathy for dahmer?

4 Comments
2024/02/28
00:47 UTC

10

About steven mark hicks, 1st victim of jeff,

On the internet I searched about exact details on what happened to steven, I know the basics like he was hichiking to a concert in ohio and was unalived by barbell but all the other things are different in everywhere I went, can someone tell the exact truth. Please ( I love truecrime content and am making a documentary)

8 Comments
2024/02/26
15:27 UTC

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Jeffrey Dahmer second language

This might seem random, but does anyone have any idea of what Jeffrey Dahmer's second language was? Or what he was taught in school? I am into learning languages and I was curious about this.

3 Comments
2024/02/25
12:36 UTC

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Do people really relate to Dahmer?

I see so many reddit posts about relating to Dahmer (in his early, lonely life) but do people actually relate to him? Is it weird to relate to him?

7 Comments
2024/02/24
21:38 UTC

1

This guy ⛓️ Jeffrey?

2 Comments
2024/02/22
17:44 UTC

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Billy Capshaw & Preston Davis on A&E 3 months ago - More Victims of Dahmer?

I saw this program on A&E and while I'm familiar with Capshaw and Preston Davis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi7kL5D9v44

I wonder if A&E did any fact-checking and source vetting before these interviews. I would think that they would right? I would imagine that they made sure that these men were in fact stationed with Dahmer in Germany. I wonder how many soldiers were stationed with Dahmer there. I would imagine that they would have also talked to other soldiers at the base to see if these stories are plausible. I can't imagine that this would be too hard to do, to find a list of names of people who were stationed with Dahmer and then conduct interviews.

Does anyone know if that work has been done by anyone? I bet that there are a ton of victims who were raped by Dahmer who have not spoken up about their experience. Probably, mostly because their stories aren't all that interesting as they were passed out for most of the experience. I wonder if more stories will come out of the woodwork as time passes.

21 Comments
2024/02/21
18:29 UTC

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The Real Reason Why Dahmer Murdered People

I agree with the mainstream view that Dahmer's paraphilia concerning corpses developed from his childhood experiences with animal bones and carcasses. I believe that Dahmer's sexual control and dominance issues developed from issues related to his relationship with his mother and father and their divorce.

I take these two stories as a metaphor for his behavior:

  1. Dahmer's parents would argue. His mother would hit his father. Dahmer would go outside and hit trees with a stick.

  2. Dahmer was fishing with his friends. They caught a fish. Dahmer hacked the living fish into pieces with his knife. His friend angrily asked why. Dahmer responded that he wanted to see what it looked like.

I think that his anger from feeling a lack of control and power in his own life and his sexuality were repressed into a fantasy world until Dahmer could no longer separate the two. The murders were not only the fulfillment of sexual fantasies but also an expression of anger and the seizing of control and power.

I understand that in interviews that Dahmer didn't depict his murders as expressions of rage but I think that his "second" murder, where he beat a man to death and blacked out the memory is telling, though I am very cautious about believing anything that Dahmer says.

Am I right or am I wrong? Let me know. Do you think that anger didn't play a part in his murders?

10 Comments
2024/02/20
19:53 UTC

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A lot of what we know about the murders comes from Dahmer. Why do we trust Dahmer?

Dahmer painted an image of himself to psychologists and journalists as a man who didn't like to kill his victims, a man who didn't like to see his victims suffer. He indicated that he was just lonely and wanted a victim that he could both control and that would keep him company. It seems like a great deal of the evidence that use to understand the Dahmer murders is simply coming from Dahmer himself and I question the wisdom of trusting a man who constantly used lying and misplaced trust as a weapon to take advantage of people.

What are the possibilities that Dahmer lied often about the things that he thought that he could lie about in order to paint himself in a more sympathetic light?

Anger and violence also seem to be heavy components in his murders. I don't think that Dahmer was looking for a fight but he did bludgeon at least two of his victims to death. He described how he woke up after having beaten one of them to death with his hands while he was sleeping which to me indicates a lot of repressed anger.

I have read people here talking about how he was gentle with animals, including fish (he had a fishtank) based on a story Dahmer told about not being able to kill a dog but Derf Backderf describes how when he was fishing with Derf that Dahmer stabbed a fish over and over, chopping it into bits and when another friend got angry and asked Dahmer something like "why the hell did you do that?" Dahmer said that he just wanted to see what it looked like. We know that Dahmer would go outside and hit trees and there is a report that he was screaming angrily at something in his 213 apartment. What if Dahmer was angry at life and taking it out on the things around him but hid his violence as much as possible including in his interviews?

I am curious about another thing. For one thing, he seemed to downplay his interest in Satanism and demonic possession. His last victim, Tracey Edwards, describes how Dahmer watched the third Exorcist movie with him and wanted to be like a character in the movie. I believe that it was a character that was demonically possessed? He was also building a shrine, also described as an altar, which I believe was dedicated to Satan. Tracey Edwards also described how Dahmer seemed to behave as if he were in some sort of trance at time, (I don't believe in Demonic possession) rocking back and forth and chanting to himself, even seemingly forgetting that Tracey was there at one point. If anyone has any theories to explain the chanting and rocking back and forth I am very curious about why that was happening.

21 Comments
2024/02/17
18:51 UTC

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Jeffery’s spoon on eBay?

I wanted to ask y’all, someone on eBay is selling a spoon they claim is from apartment 213 with a COA… I thought everything from Jeffrey’s apartment was auctioned off and destroyed? Is it possible the spoon is legit. The auction is going on right now if you want to check it out, they have pictures.

“ Jeffrey Dahmer’s tablespoon from apartment 213 with COA” and the seller is “p5gmr-63” …. I kind of want to bid on it, but not sure if it’s legit.

3 Comments
2024/02/15
16:58 UTC

1 Comment
2024/02/12
20:14 UTC

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Has Jeffrey Dahmer ever gotten into a fight in his life?

Did Jeffrey Dahmer ever get into a fight? Whether at his school, on the street, etc.

8 Comments
2024/02/06
14:11 UTC

53

How old was Dahmer in this photo?

What month was the photo taken? Was he already 18?

9 Comments
2024/02/05
06:50 UTC

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