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Jeffrey Dahmer

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Monstrous Appetites:   The Life and Crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer  DAHMER’S CHILDHOOD HOME 1966 – JULY 1979 THEN  Dahmer lived here with his parents, Lionel and Joyce, and his younger brother, David.  During his childhood, Dahmer purportedly nurtured a peculiar obsession with animal bones, which gradually escalated into him actively amassing collections of them as he…

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Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield

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Ed Gein was an American murderer and body snatcher who gained notoriety in the 1950s. Born in 1906 in Wisconsin, Gein’s crimes were discovered in 1957 when police investigated the disappearance of a local woman, Bernice Worden. They found Worden’s decapitated body hanging in Gein’s shed, alongside other gruesome evidence of his crimes. Gein’s acts…

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