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Jeffrey Dahmer: Neighbors of serial killer claim he had ‘intense interest’ in slain animals since an early age

'The hut had tons and tons of jars of animals and pieces of animals,' a person who lived nearby Dahmer claimed

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, more infamous as ​​the Milwaukee Cannibal, was fascinated with violence and killing since he was a child, his neighbors have reportedly claimed. As per reports, Dahmer was very young when his family came to Ohio from Wisconsin and soon after they moved in, pet animals from the neighborhood started to go missing.

Children who lived near the criminal’s house had reportedly said that Dahmer had an "intense interest" in slain animals. He was so obsessed with them that he would go on roads just to find “chipmunks, hogs and other critters that had been run over. In Dahmer's time on the block, numerous reports were made of cats and dogs disappearing,” The Sun reported.

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According to a neighbor who spoke with Arizona Republic in 1991, “He would collect these animals, dismembers them, separate them by body parts and put them in jars. The hut had tons and tons of jars of animals and pieces of animals. And he seemed to be fascinated by the decomposition.”

Another neighbor named Jim Klippel recalled the time when Dahmer was just 15 and he and his girlfriend saw a dog's head stuck into a stick. He added, “About 100 yards away, there had been a large fire and 13 little fires around it. It looked so much like a cult worship that it scared us to death.”

Eric Tyson, who also lived near Dahmer’s house, noted that he was so engrossed in all those things that he even had an animal graveyard near his place. “A number of neighbours recalled seeing animals, like frogs and cats, impaled or staked to tree,” Tyson revealed. However, not just the neighbors, Dahmer’s family also reportedly knew about his sick nature. Even when he went to live with his paternal grandmother in Milwaukee in his initial days of 20s, he did not stop there as his grandmother once complained to his father about a weird smell coming from the garage. When the sex offender was confronted, he apparently stated, “I just had too much time on my hands and I just wanted to see what chemicals would decompose the chicken I bought,” to which his father fired back, “God, Jeff, this is strange. This is weird.”

These details came as Netflix released ‘Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story 2022’ on September 21. The documentary has created a lot of buzz with people taking to social media to share their views. A user tweeted, “The crime series Dahmer, in a week of its release on Netflix, achieved 196.2 million views, and is considered one of the largest openings of the network, about a true story of the killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who terrified the world with the power of his crimes!” 

Another user shared, “Before watch don't eat anything please🙏.” “Those who glorify Jeffrey Dahmer and do not give a fck abt the victims are like those who deny killings during Marcos' martial law happened. PSYCHO,” the third one wrote and the fourth one added, “ppl are now considering dressing up as jeffrey dahmer for halloween….. that series was the worst thing that could’ve happened.”