By, Emersyn Carter-Nathan and Stas Kondratskiy

My view on how a murder case might look-

When studying a number of different real murder cases, there was a pattern to each of the killers way of working. I studied two killers who targeted only opposite genders then one another. Ted Bundy targeted young women around college age which had a large amount to do with his sexual orientation. When studying Jeffery Dahmer, he had a similar way of controling people but because of the sex he was attracted to, he always targeted male victums of all different age ranges. 

In my own opinion, these killers main drive towards these groups of people was sex and violent ways to control another person they were attrackted to. 

A killer is someone who grew up in what might have been a great loving home or maybe they grew up being very abused. It’s hard to know where a serial killer came from based on who they were as a child but here is a sign that indicated that an individual may turn into a killer one day-

1. They killed or hurt animals

A sign that one is to become a killer one day is when they get satisfied by taking the life from smaller living organisms. There is a show on Netflix that recently came out called “Don’t F*** With Cats”. This show really makes the audience think about what kind of person could post horrific videos of killing kittens without having consequences. This show goes on to stalk this person’s social media activity to try and figure out who this guy is that is killing cats like it is nothing. After really going into a long research for this kid, they find him. This group of people on the look for him predict that a human would be his next target because sometimes animals just don’t meet the craving that they are trying to educore. 

There are a number of different types of killers and here are just a few to show the differences in motives. 

1. The Garbriel Fernandez case

Gabriel was — like most kids — a sweet child who liked to be helpful and sought the love of his family. Prior to moving in with his mother, Pearl Fernandez, her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, and two siblings in Palmdale, located north of Los Angeles, Gabriel was shuffled between the homes of his relatives. After joining his mother and Aguirre, Gabriel landed at a new school. Shortly after starting there, his teacher, Jennifer Garcia, sensed that things were not okay at home. Garcia, who appears throughout the six-part series, says that a couple weeks after he started in her classroom, Gabriel asked her, “Is it normal for moms to hit their kids?” When she pressed him, Gabriel asked if it was normal to be hit with a belt buckle. “Is it normal for you to bleed?” he asked, according to Garcia. As the school year went on, the abuse Gabriel endured worsened. He began coming to class with patches of hair missing, scabs on his scalp, injured lips from being punched in the face and bruises all over his face after his mother shot him with a BB gun. According to grand jury testimony obtained by the Los Angeles Times, Gabriel’s siblings said he was forced to eat cat litter and was kept locked in a cabinet in his mother’s room. They said Fernandez and Aguirre called him “gay” and punished him for exhibiting feminine qualities, like playing with dolls. After Pearl Fernandez called 911 on May 22, 2013 to report that Gabriel was not breathing, the paramedics who responded found him with broken ribs, a cracked skull and BB pellets stuck in his body. In the documentary, one paramedic who arrived at the scene says Gabriel’s case was the worst she ever encountered in her career. The severe abuse was immediately obvious to first responders. Gabriel was taken to the hospital and later declared brain-dead. He died on May 24, 2013.

2. Black Dahlia 

On the morning of January 15, 1947, a mother taking her child for a walk in a Los Angeles neighborhood stumbled upon a gruesome sight: the body of a young naked woman sliced clean in half at the waist.

The body was just a few feet from the sidewalk and posed in such a way that the mother reportedly thought it was a mannequin at first glance. Despite the extensive mutilation and cuts on the body, there wasn’t a drop of blood at the scene, indicating that the young woman had been killed elsewhere.

In support of L.A. police, the FBI ran records checks on potential suspects and conducted interviews across the nation. Based on early suspicions that the murderer may have had skills in dissection because the body was so cleanly cut, agents were also asked to check out a group of students at the University of Southern California Medical School. And, in a tantalizing potential break in the case, the Bureau searched for a match to fingerprints found on an anonymous letter that may have been sent to authorities by the killer, but the prints weren’t in FBI files.

The killer was never found and the case was put into the category of cold case files. 

3. Jessica Ridgeway

Jessica Ridgeway was 10 years old and was walking to her bus stop one day when a 17 year old boy came and picked her up in his car. He parked his jeep where no one could see him and he crossed the street to go get her. No one heard Jessica screaming. She was missing for 5 days when she was found cut up into pieces in the woods and she was so beat up that she was unrecognizable and the police couldn’t capture any evidence as to who killed her. They collected about 700 samples of DNA and still came back with nothing. The boy made a strange comment to his brother about how he was learning in one of his classes how to kill someone and get away with it. A friend of his mom recalled a conversation before Jessica was kidnapped about how her son’s decomposition that his mom had with her son and he practiced restraining someone with zip ties. His girlfriend would tell police that he would stay at her house once a week but he was gone four nights of that week and no one was sure where he was the other three nights of the week. In the weeks before her death the boy went out hunting with his jeep around the neighborhoods and he said his heart would start racing when he saw people. Four months before he tried kidnapping Jessica he tried to kidnap a woman jogging at a lake by shoving a chloroform soaked rag in her face but she was able to fight him off and call the police. He said that he learned from his first try that he needed to find someone smaller. The boy killed Jessica in his own room. He made her change out of her clothes and had her put on her clothes. He then strangled her and then he remembered her limbs and hid them in the pool shed behind his house. Jessica was dead before her mom even called 911. For the next 17 days they searched for her killer. The police connected evidence from Jessica’s backpack to the previous jogger. The boy put her torso in two blak garbage bags 9 miles from her home. The boy’s mom’s friend called the cops on the boy out of suspicion. The boy later on confessed to his mother about killing the young girl.

Jeffrey Dahmer-

Who was Jeffrey Dahmer: 

Jeffrey was an American serial killer who killed 17 young men between 1978 and 1991. Jeffrey killed mostly African-American men from gay bars, malls and bus stops. He got them to his house by offering them money or sex and would give them alcohol that was laced with drugs before strangling them to death. He would then sexually assault the dead bodies before dismembering them and disposing of them. He often kept their skulls of genitals as souvenirs. He would often document each murder by taking pictures during and after the process. 

Dahmer was arrested in 1991 and sentenced to 16 life terms but was then killed by a fellow prison inmate. 

June 1978: Steven Hicks, 18

Dahmer killed Steven right out of high school and took him home to his parents house where he got the man drunk and then when he tried to leave, he hit him in the head and tried strangling him with a barbell. He then dismembered the corpse and packed the body parts into a plastic bag and buried them outside of his parents home. Later on, he exhumed the remains and crushed the bones with a sledgehammer and scattered them a wooded ravine. 

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/jeffrey-dahmer

September 1987: Steven Tuomi, 25

Jeff checked into a hotel room with Steven and drank together. Jeff ended up falling asleep and when he woke up, Steven was found dead. Jeff had no memory of what happened that night or how he killed Steven. He then went and got large suitcases to transport Stevens body to his grandmother’s basement. When he got the body there, he dismembered it and then masturbated on the corpse before disposing of the remains. 

The year after that, Jeff’s grandmother kicked him out because she was tired of him getting drunk in her house but had no knowledge of what other activities had happened down in her basement. 

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/jeffrey-dahmer

September 1989: 13-year-old Laotian boy

Jeff had a very lucky escape when he encountered a 13 year old boy who had gotten him caught and ended him up with sexual exploitation and second-degree sexual assault charges. He pleaded guilty but also told the court that the boy had looked much older than he was. While waiting for the charges to come through, Dahmer used his grandmother’s basement for another gruesome murder. 

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/jeffrey-dahmer

March 1989: Anthony Sears, 26

Dahmer lured, drugged, strangled, sodomized, photographed, dismembered and disposed of Anthony, a man who was trying to be an aspiring model. 

May 1989: Charges against Dahmer

At Dahmer’s trial for molestation, he was the model of contrition, arguing eloquently, in his own defense, about how he had seen what he had done wrong and that him getting arrested really turned his life around. The defense counsel argued that he needed treatment, not incarceration and the judge had agreed with them. He handed down a one-year prison sentence on “day release” which allowed Dahmer to work at his job during the day and return to the prison during the night as well as a five-year probationary sentence. Dahmer was granted an early release by the judge after only 10 months of his sentence. He then lived with his grandmother for a short amount of time after his release. He did not murder anyone else before moving back to his own apartment. 

Over a period of two years, Dahmer killed at least 17 young men. He began disposing of each body with chemicals right after consuming the flesh of his victims. Dahmer experimented on each of his victims by drilling into their skulls and injecting them with muriatic acid while they were still alive.  

May 27, 1991: Neighbor calls the police 

Dahmer’s neighbor Sandra Smith called the police to report that an asian boy was running around naked through the street. When the police showed up, the boy was incoherent. After the police left the scene, Dahmer continued to kill the boy who would be his 12th kill named Tony Hughes.

 July 22, 1991: Dahmer is arrested 

On this date, police found body parts in his refrigerator along with polaroid photographs giving away the evidence of Jeff’s murders. Two Milwaukee police officers were tipped off by Tracy Edwards, a 32-year-old African American man who had been found wandering the streets with handcuffs on his wrists. Tracy had told the police that a “weird dude” had drugged and restrained him. When the police got to his apartment, Dahmer calmly got the handcuff key and gave it to the police. Tracy had also told the police that Dahmer had threatened him with a knife in the bedroom. When the police went into the bedroom, they found the photographs. 

When searching the apartment, authorities found a head in the refrigerator, three more in the freezer and lots of other horrific things. There were preserved skulls, jars containing genitalia and an extensive gallery of macabre Polaroid photographs of his victims. 

1996-

After Dahmer was murdered in prison, a group of Milwaukee businessmen raised more than $400,000 to purchase the items that were used to murder Dahmer’s vitims. 

-blades, saws, handcuffs, and the refrigerator that was used to store the body parts. 

All the items were destroyed. 

Jeff was then sentenced to 15 life sentences in prison which eventually turned into 16. Dahmer was kept away from the other inmates but eventually he convinced authorities to gradually get him more involved with other people. His father sent him books and photos which showed him a sense of religion. Dahmer even got the authorities to allow him to be baptized by a local pastor. 

November 28, 1994: Dahmer was killed

On this date. Jeffery Dahmer was murdered by his fellow inmate Christopher Scarver. In prison, Dahmer had to work and was assigned two other inmates to work with. Christopher Scarver and Jesse Anderson were the two other prisoners working with him. These three were partnered up because all of them were convicted murderers. They had all been left alone to complete their tasks and when the guards returned, both Jeffery and Jesse had been badly beaten by Christopher with a metal bar from the prison weight room. Dahmer was pronounced dead after approximately one hour. Anderson succumbed to his injuries days later. In 2015, Scarver told the New York Post his reason for murdering Dahmer. He said that he was disturbed not only by what Jeff had done to his victims but also for his habit of fashioning severed limbs from prison food to antagonize the other inmates with. He also said that the prison had allowed the murders to happen by leaving the men by themselves.

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