I watched a documentary on Jeffrey Dahmer and it was very eye opening on several different levels regarding the case and his personality. This source is geared towards individuals who are interested in researching  the life and case of Jeffrey Dahmer and his victims. I selected this source because I had never heard what Jeffrey Dahmer sounded like in person and it gave exquisite details on the case that none of my other sources did. Over all this is one of my more valuable sources for researching this particular topic.

The documentary goes back to Jeffrey’s childhood and has an interview with his father, Lionel Dahmer, to help discover the roots of where his disturbed thoughts began. It covers each step in Jeff’s life from adolescence to teenager to adulthood. Some things were self explanatory so they weren’t covered as much, whereas things that needed explaining were either covered by Jeffrey’s father in his interview or simply answered by the narrator. They show images of his apartment, the house where he grew up in, and his grandmothers house as well. Video from the court case is also included in this documentary. This documentary covered nearly, if not all angles of the case and life of Jeffrey Dahmer. I appreciated this source as much as I did the psychological analysis and they will both be used to the fullest as to gain the best understanding of Jeffrey Dahmer and his mind. Something that I wish the documentary would’ve covered a little more was that they showed where Lionel Dahmer had taken the animal bones out from under the house; essentially where Jeffrey began his fascination with bones and anatomy.

This source is a huge contribution to my full understanding of the topic I’m researching and essentially Jeffrey himself. As I’ve said about my other sources that they’re extremely valuable, as they are, this source fills in many of the cracks and ties everything up for me as a researcher and what I needed to gather for my full understanding of the case and question that I’m researching. From this point on, I feel that I’ve done as much research as I can to fully get a grasp on the full case and Jeffrey’s sanity or insanity and essentially need to put the puzzle together and paint the full picture of all the facts.

The accumulation of all my research has gotten me to the point where I can see nearly every aspect of the case and to ultimately determine, in my opinion, whether Jeffrey was sane or not during both his childhood and when he committed the killings of his seventeen victims. Researching Jeffrey Dahmer has made me realize that he is truly one rare and extreme individual who was clearly organized and very ritualistic. Jeffrey Dahmer was not dumb or stupid, he had a clear thought in mind and worked until he felt he had reached his goal in mind, unfortunately. He is and will continue to be known as an individual who was removed from reality and pushed the limits of extremes in the world and humanistic values and ethics.

Works Cited

Jeffrey Dahmer-The Monster Within. Towers Production. A&E Television Networks, 2004. DVD.