Citation

Jentzen J, Palermo G, Johnson LT, Ho KC, Stormo KA, Teggatz J. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 1994; 15(4): 283-294.

Affiliation

Milwaukee County Medical Examiner, WI 53233.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7879770

Abstract

We were involved as forensic experts in the case of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. We discuss the scene and victim autopsy findings, with a brief consideration of the basic emotion of hostility. These findings support the thesis that at the basis of this serial killer's behavior were primary unconscious feelings of hate that he had channeled into a sadistic programmed destruction of 17 young men. The interview of the serial killer, the photographic scene documentation, and the autopsy findings stress the ambivalent homosexuality of the killer, his sexual sadism, his obsessive fetishism, and his possible cannibalism and necrophilia.

Language: en