Most serial killers don't interact well and rarely date as teenagers (Husain & Kurtis, 1999). His father recalls that during this time, he became very shy and tensed up when approached by other people. He was starting to experiment with alcohol and drugs and pushed away what few friends he had. He stayed home .
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alone in his room or stared at the television for hours. He would not speak to his parents except to answer their questions with hardly audible one word answers with a permanent expression of disengagement. Jeffrey spent most of his time moping around or skulking though the woods alone. His father reported that also during that time, he and Jeffrey's mother were fighting a lot (Bardsley, 2003). Jeffrey may have resorted to walking through the woods to escape his parents" shoving and screaming and perhaps violent household. He seemed to be suffering from near isolation. He was not a typical rebellious teenager. He never argued with his parents because nothing seemed to matter to him. He was of superior intelligence but didn't live up to his potential. At school, he would disrupt class and act like the class clown. He was considered an oddball and was often ridiculed by his classmates. His classmates considered him a loner and an alcoholic.
Sexual Deviation.
Many serial killers abuse animals during their childhood (Husain & Kurtis, 1999). Jeffrey Dahmer fit this aspect of the profile. He was fascinated with death. In his younger years, he was fascinated with dead creatures. This .
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fascination continued into his teenage years at a time when he was starting to have sexual thoughts and arousal. The dead animals, in their stillness, would later become the primary objects of his growing sexual desires. Dahmer confessed to being obsessed with dissection as an adolescent (Husain & Kurtis, 1999). He drove around looking for road kill to take home, dissect and examine the anatomy.