Jeffrey Dahmer was not a typical serial killer. He did not come from an abusive, impoverished, or violent background.

On the contrary, his father was a learned chemist who taught Jeffrey how to garden, play tennis, and raise sheep for competitions. He took scouting trips and played in his wooded backyard with neighborhood boys.

He spoke in a monotone voice much like his father and tended to keep his private thoughts to himself; but he always had a sense of humour.

What tormented Jeff and drove him to kill in a macabre and disturbing pattern had nothing to do with his environment. What drove Jeff was a dark sexual obsession that involved control, curiosity, dismemberment, cannibalism, and necrophilia.

There is no single catalyst that can explain the presence of evil in the likes of someone like Jeffrey Dahmer. A host of factors eclipsed each other and converged upon this man to make him what he was.