Well Andy, I guess I’m a Serial Killer

Well Andy, I guess I’m a Serial Killer THE NOVEMBERPROJECT

SERIAL KILLERS World Geography Warning: This project may be graphic in nature. Fall Semester 2013

THE NOVEMBER PROJECT • 25 SLIDES-details of the case-biography, 1st kill, modus operandi, number of fatalities and who. • 5 SLIDES-how the killer utilized the five themes of Geography: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, region. • 15 slides-how police caught the killer: what method, five themes used?, GIS/GPS software used and how? • KEEP IT ALL SCHOOL APPROPRIATE-approval by me for anything and everything • MUST USE THE SLIDES ON MY WEBSITE ONLY!

RESEARCH WEBSITES • Serial Killers General Search • Serial Killer Database • Five themes of geography • Serial Killer Facts • Death Maps • Tracking • Psycho-Geographical Profiling • Infectious Disease Model • Borrow Ideas • GIS Development

Jeffrey Dahmer-early years Early On--- An all American Kid? • Jeffrey Dahmer had a fairly normal childhood living with his parents in the Mid-West. • Dahmer, an attractive, shy kid, did okay in school, and kept to himself. • None of the folks that knew him would have thought him capable of the horrors he committed against young males.

Dahmer-teens & young adulthood • During Dahmer’s adolescence, his parents went through an acrimonious divorce. It was during this time that Dahmer killed his first victim, a hitch-hiker named Stephen Hicks. He didn’t kill another person until 9 years later. • After graduating from high school, Dahmer went to college briefly before dropping out. Feeling a lack of direction, Dahmer joined the Army, but was thrown out for being a drunk. • Jeff, in need of money & direction, got a job in a chocolate factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Dahmer was arrested and convicted of child molestation in 1989. • He received probation & went on with his life. • When this occurred, Lionel Dahmer, Jeff’s father, wrote, “I could not imagine how he had become such a ruined soul. For the first time, I no longer believed that my efforts and resources alone would be enough to save my son. There was something missing in Jeff. We call it a ‘conscience.’ That had either died or had never been alive in the first place.”

Dahmer’s Modus Operandi • Dahmer frequented gay bars to pick up his victims, young gay or bisexual males who were predominantly African American, Asian, or Hispanic. • Dahmer offered his victims money to pose for pictures or he just invited them to come back to his apartment to watch videos or to drink. • He drugged his victims by lacing their drinks & once they were asleep, he would either strangle them or stab them to death. • Following this, Dahmer usually dismembered them with a hacksaw.

Dahmer’s MO (contd.) • A. Victims bodies • Dahmer kept the victims heads and genitalia as trophies. He froze these body parts. • Dahmer also froze the victims’ biceps and other muscles which he would later eat. • The rest of the body was boiled down using chemicals & acids, which were disposed of via the drain.

Dahmer’s MO (contd.) • B. Dahmer’s experiments • Sometimes Dahmer wouldn’t kill the victims outright. Instead, he would perform experiments on his “drugged” alive victims. • He lobotomized a number of his victims. Most died immediately. However, he claimed that 1 victim lived, following an experiment, where Dahmer drilled a whole into the victim’s skull & poured muriatic acid into it. Dahmer argued the man was turned into a zombie & lived for several days.

Dahmer’s MO (contd.) • C. Rituals • Dahmer believed in the occult & planned to create a shrine to an evil force he thought influenced him. Dahmer used his skulls, other human trophies, & a statue of a griffin that he owned. He thought the shrine would give him special powers & energies to help him socially & financially.

GIS STUFF • DAHMER’S APARTMENT AND AREA • GOOGLE EARTH MAP OF DAHMER’S BLOCK • INTERVIEW

FIVE THEMES OF GEOGRAPY-example • Location-Milwaukee, Wisconsin: middle of the city. • Place-Urban U.S. city, residential • Human-Environment Interaction-Dahmer lived and operated anonymously in a population dense are • Movement- Numerous colleges/universities • Region-Midwest

Dahmer’s Victims Over 17 young men were killed by Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer killed from 1978 to 1991 when he was finally caught.

The Victims • Stephen Hicks – Jun 1978 Matt Turner- 6/91 • Steven Toumi- Sep. 1987 Jeremiah Weinberger-7/91 • Jamie Doxtator – Oct. 1987 Oliver Lacy- 7/91 • Richard Guerrero- March 1988 Joseph Bradeholt- 7/91 • Anthony Sears – Feb. 1989 • Eddie Smith- June 1990 • Ricky Beeks- July 1990 • Ernest Miller- Sep. 1990 • David Thomas – Sep. 1990 • Curtis Straughter, Feb. 1991 • Errol Lindsey- April 1991 • Tony Hughes- May 1991 • Konerak Sinthasomphone- May 1991

Five Themes of Geography-The Police Location- Place- Human/Environment Interaction- Movement- Region

When it all finally ended How Jeff got caught The one who got away…… • Tracy Edwards, 52, helped bring Jeffrey Dahmer to justice after he escaped from his bedroom and called police when he saw pictures of mangled bodies and smelt death. • Dahmer was convicted of the murder, mutilation and cannibalisation of 16 young men and boys

Trial • Dahmer admitted to all 17 murders • Blamed nobody but himself • Tried to plead insanity but the court rejected his appeal • He was killed in prison by an inmate • City of Milwaukee raised $400,000 to burn all of his possessions in 1996

Well Andy, I guess I’m a Serial Killer