desecrated souls - jeffrey dahmer

When Jeffrey thought his abandonment was over, his father came back on July 24, 1978, to tell him that he and Jeffrey’s mother were getting a divorce. Jeffrey took the divorce hard, as most children do. At this time Jeffery was eighteen so the court didn’t decide which parent he would live with. Lionel and Joyce were fighting over who would get custody of David. This enraged Jeffrey because once again he felt unwanted, like they didn’t care where he lived. To him he just saw it as being abandoned by his own parents. It ended up that Joyce got full custody of David and they moved to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Jeffrey stayed in the same house in Bath Township and his father was nowhere to be found. A while later Lionel returned with a new girlfriend to live in the same house with Jeffrey.

Shortly after, Jeffrey started college at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He stayed there only long enough to finish out the first quarter of his freshman year. On December 29, 1978, Jeffrey started a three-year hitch in the U.S. Army. Not even a year later Jeffrey completed his training as a medical specialist and was assigned post in Baumholder, Germany. About two years later, on March 26, 1981, he was discharged from the army in South Carolina because he was drinking so heavily and was always depressed. After that he somehow found his way to South Florida. In 1982 Jeffrey moved back West Allis, Wisconsin, to live with his grandmother. Things began to look better for a while. He had stopped drinking so heavily and was thinking that he would like to get married and maybe start a family. That little fantasy didn’t last very long. It all changed when he exposed himself at the Wisconsin State Fair, and was arrested for indecent exposure. In 1985 he was hired at the Ambrosia Chocolate Company as a laborer. A year later, he was arrested once again for urinating in public.