Jeffrey Dahmer and theories that explain his behavior Jeffrey Dahmer is a notorious man and it is for all the right reasons that he has been labeled infamous. From 1987 to 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer killed, sexually assaulted, and hacked to death seventeen young men. He has been called many different things: necrophilic, sadistic maniac, psychotic, and many more. There were many signs that led to his deviant behavior. A look at his adolescence will show some of those clear signs. Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960. He was born in Milwaukee to Lionel and Joyce Dahmer. Her father was an extremely severe alcoholic and was very distant and uninvolved with his wife. His mother had problems with the pregnancy and began taking medications to treat her illness. Dahmer had leg problems shortly after birth and was unable to move until he was about four months old. His mother eventually began to show signs of instability. His mother resorted to taking even more antidepressants and psychotropic medications. Dahmer, by contrast, was growing up normally. In the first years of his parents' marriage, Dahmer and his family moved six times. In 1962, they ended up in Iowa because Dahmer's father was accepted into a doctoral program in chemistry. Dahmer became seriously ill during this time and ended up needing many injections to treat the infections from which he succumbed. “Toward the end of his third year, he contracted a series of infections – ear, throat, mild pneumonia – that left him crying all night” (Nichols, 2006, p246). Dahmer was shy when he started kindergarten. When Dahmer was four years old, his father found some dead animals that were decomposing... middle of paper... identified and labeled as many different things, there are two things we know for sure: 1) Dahmer was a serial killer and 2) Dahmer was a sex offender. References Cyriax, Oliver. 2009. Dahmer, Jeffrey L. (1960-94). Encyclopedia of crime. p86-88.Nichols, David S. June 2006. Tell Me a Story: MMPI Responses and Personal Biography in the Case of a Serial Killer. Journal of personality assessment. vol. 86 Issue 3, p242-262.Saborsky, Amy L. & Ramsland, Katherine. 2013. Remote Diagnosis: Can We Really Tell If Dahmer Had Asperger's Disorder? Forensic Examiner, vol. 22 Issue 2, p42-48. Terry, K. J. (2013). Sex crimes and offenders: theory, practice and policy. (2nd edition) Ullman, Joan. “I've Gone Too Far, That's For Sure”: A First-Person Account of Jeffrey Dahmer's Insanity Trial. Psychology today. P1.