Jeffrey Dahmer, was born in Bath, in Ohio, where he had an obsession with death that started early in his childhood. Jeff used to take dead animals and skin them, use chemicals on them to remove all the flesh, leaving the bones. He also cut off a dog's head and put it on a stick, leaving it in the woods. By the time he was 16, he had already become an alcoholic. Fellow classmates described him …showed first 75 words of 475 total…

…showed last 75 words of 475 total…fellow inmate while in prison, and was found with a mop handle stuck in his eye. A controversy surrounded the use of his brain for research. His father said his brain should be examined, to possibly find out the causes of these behaviors, and possible stop other serial killers from killing. Dahmer's mother was against this, as was the judge, who ruled against this, preventing a possible look into what makes a serial killer kill.