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troubled environment to has confessed and He has been charged with killing 15 people Read on as a six-part series begins Jeffrey Dahmer is shown July 25 i during his firsfcappearance at the i Milwaukee County Circuit Court he was charged with four counts Qater to be upped) of first-degree intentional homicide t' Confessed serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer Is shown during the 1972-73 school year at Eastview Junior High Softool in Bath Township Ohio He wasinterested in cfissecting animals found dead on the roadside keith Mcknight KnighHWdw Nwwpapwi are not yet entirely dear But there are hints BIRTH OF A KILLER Dahmer was born in Milwaukee on 21 1960 10 months after Lionel Joyce Dahmer were married just that until suddenly last month it seem to matter was a fun kid to be around as a So said Ted Lehr a computer engineer who grew up in the Akron Ohio suburb of Bath Township where Dahmer spent most of his youth -Dahmer was a thin blond-haired grade school boy whom mother Sue recalled in the fondest of terms -saying he was kind of child I would had a darker side that set him apart from other kids in the neighborhood At first there were only traces of something strange something different something perhaps that was not right But if Jeffrey Dahmer had a secret i that developed into a real live Jekyll-and-Hyde personality that went undetected for 31 years not because he do enough to call attention to himself like to have In fact she said probably have hugged him at one time or another" She saw him as a child who to pleue an adult and want to do anything wrong anticipated what you expected of Yet she said she necessarily trust him I felt I knew he was a frightened If there was fright though the reasons His father was a 23-year-old chemistry 2 student at Marquette Universif niversity And his mother about whom little is known was 24 Records indicate that during first six years his father was immersed in studies i After receiving a degree in 1961 and a degree in the fall of 1962 Lionel Dahmer left Marquette in Milwaukee and enrolled in Iowa State University at Ames where he received his doctorate in 1966 fl hy would anyone 111 if I methodically kill dismember and eat a human being? Why would he boil the head -of a victim remove the flesh and paint the skull gray for a keepsake? Why would he keep 11 skulla in his apartment and body parts in vats? Maybe clues can be found in the suburbs of Akron Ohio where accused serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was raised and educated in one of the best school systems in the area Maybe dues can be found in the locked shed behind his home where he dismembered animals and experimented with add to dissolve flesh i Maybe there are answers in the bottles of alcohol he consumed while a high school student and on rowdy binges through the Or maybe there are dues in the 1 protracted and bitter divorce of his parents That year appears to have been a pivotal one in the Dahmer household It was the year the Dahmers moved to Doylestown Ohio a' distant Akron suburb so the father could be near his job with PPG Industries the first' It was the year Jeffrey began the All of us will analyze what we hear and read and we will speculate whether grade at Hazel Harvey Elementary School he was sane and wonder who is to blame There probably will be no unequivocal answer to the mystery What follows is the horror of Jeffrey 'Dahmer who grew up among us to become one of most notorious confessed serial killers: As of Friday the Milwaukee resident had been charged with killing 15 people And it was the year Jeffrey was to get a brother on Dec 18 one week before! Christmas But already there were traces of trouble in the air His mother was reportedly having a difficult pregnancy and the birth of their second son David apparently did not bring her problems to a conclusion Acquaintances are circumspect about 1 what those difficulties involved some depression some suggest i use of prescription drugs for disorders But whatever the problem may have been when 6-year-old Jeffrey started school he was said to be already harboring feelings of abandonment and he apparently grew to resent his baby v' 'it CHAPTERONE: would collect A) i these animals dismember them separate than by body parts and put them in jars He was very interested in the anatomy of the whole thing i He was more interested in some than others: He loved skulls He always kept the Grade school playmate of Jeffrey Dahmer A Photo from KRTN Photo Service He said it all began in Bath Township The childhood home of Jeffrey Dahmer hi Bath Township Ohio is where the confessed serial killer admitted to killing his first victim The door at the center lower level of the house leads to an unexcavated area where Dahmer allegedly dragged the body of Steven Kicks Before Jeffrey could complete the first grade in DoylestoWn his parents moved -1 i A FRIGHTENED child i Long before his father insisted to the world that his son is not a monster there were hints that Jeffrey Dahmer To 06 DAHMER Bleet: Today's teen-agers speak with a new vein of slang doge' I lBMfffsWnl I Evolution of along See C-6 JAY KfflSCHENMANN Al-M wrug suit wnwr girl they say "That girl is he said meaning "smooth" at HJan San Murray 15 emphasizes a fact he thinks There are sane FLY wads me THRO WED BLEETf Most agree that still to say Teen-agers shopping- 1 at De Soto Square mall said they! still say the wad a word that everyone says and been around a long time" Josh Hargis 19 of Tampa said -chewing on a straw while shop- ping for clothes also means or! Hargis said rad is getting kind of And then If you want to know more about slang there are two well-known paperback books on the subject: With such gems as the porcelain bus and your ahoes (meaning a book called Slang by Paul Dickson (Pocket Books 1990) may be ordered from most bookstores for 8995 A dictionary called American Slang by Robert Chapman (Harper ft Row) costs S1095 lt is ths abridged edition of the Mew Dictionary ot American Slang is true by i Pbikiwytbass Dunbar: fly Murray: bleet HaKrdef ing meaning Several of his friends shook their heads in agreement all saying Ya Meet HThe letter pronounced aid not meaning a male at a person on a ranch but instead': i i Pm not DISSIN you and I wouldn't be FLIEGEN about it DOGE And just because you have a lot of BASS still DEF to me Say what? Some of you understand? a translation Thera are some FINE words people are saying that HAVE ME AMAZED BELIEVE Pm not PUTTING YOU DOWN and I be LYING about it BUDDY And just because you have a WIDE REAR END still THE BEST to me Some slang may be destined to be forgotten in a few years The means "a as in wl 1 you Tre-aid Also the what are mayne Hall 14 meaning "something "Like if walking along with your friends and you see really REALLY good-looking girl I would point and say Hargis said with a grin When told his comments would appear in issue of The' Bradenton Herald he said But Shanto Garvin' 16 a that are interesting or good still them for "chill out" or calm down for convinced won over or even deceived as in got me And a girl who has a large bottom a lot of base' pronounced like the bass guitar he said leughlng and patting his rear withboth hands A few of the kids at the Boys Club took a break from their basketball game to join in the dang offerings: When DeQuan Dunbar 13 and his friends see a good-looking nounced FLY-gin Alex Pinkney and his friends say know like "That guv is or fliegen about said the 19-year-old Pal- matto staff member at the Bradenton Club in the Boys Chiba of Manatee Canity Pinkney rattled off several other ehung words that he usee including when aonaone makea a good shot in basketball (like in the a name for someone who runs to do anything you tell k- i word means at as in movie was really def" When Lawrence Hodo 13 has something that is at itls He mi ay got sane new really might But a new vein of slang out there today being spoken by teens across the nation and in Bradenton When someone is not telling the truth pro word is long gate used by soi although used by sane in a humorous way Sane people still (like) each other and things SLANG To C-6 The secret is out Just call famous son I and Michigan Tall Secrets wiA h4h-s- 1' i -1 ation of the Robin Hood legend visitors travel back to me- dieval Nottingham and a forbidding Sherwood Forest and even pretend they are members of the merry men The Tales of RoMn Hood is in Maid Marian Way in the center of Nottingham little more than an flight from the castle It is open daily and admission is about $635 For a free copy of the Shlrti Free information is available if you write or call for it Bed and Breakfast in Southern Gateways from Wisconsin Southern Gateways Bed and Breakfast 511 Walworth Ave Delevan Wis 53115 1-414-728-9090 Love New York Sullivan County Catskills Travel Guide from Travelers will find more autumn information than ever before in the new Michigan Fall Secrets guide The newly designed 64-page guide features 11 fall color tour regions which include directions for suggested tour routes a description of the area activities a calendar of eventa and map Revealed in Michigan Fall Secrets are the locatioia of some at the best pots in Noth America for foil-color viewing when to find the only hose-powered cider mill in the United States aid where to pick apples right off the tree To obtain a copy contact the Michigan Travel Bureau atP0 Box 30226 Lansing Mich 48909 phone 1-800-5432-YES television offer new renditions of the exploits of Robin Hood a city in the English Midlands is finding inventive ways of its own to recount the story of its most famous son For instance visitors can take a time machine ride back to Sherwood Forest in ths days of Robin and Maid Marian meet with the current Sheriff of Nottingham suo notorious nemesis and join in a medieval-style pageant in the famed castle At The Tales of Robin Hood a 135 millioi re-cre Sullivan County Office of Information Public County Government Center Monticello NY 12701 1-800-882-CATS ity 40 67th St New York) NY 10019-4001 phone 1-212-581-4708 Sherwood Forest: north of Nottingham i I I I.