{"id":3930,"date":"2018-12-02T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T21:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2018-12-05T09:23:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T14:23:55","slug":"jeffrey-dahmer-the-milwaukee-cannibal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=3930","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Dahmer: the Milwaukee Cannibal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jeffrey Dahmer is a prime example of a conundrum in modern life \u00e2\u0080\u0093 how something so disgusting can also be so fascinating\u00e2\u0080\u00a6 at least for students of crime, and astrology. Dahmer was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed 17 men and boys over a period of 13 years, many of his murders involving sex with corpses, cannibalism of his victims, and the preservation of their body parts, typically portions of the skeleton.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his youth, Dahmer had been a quiet and timid child whose high-strung mother had found breastfeeding exhausting, and therefore refused to feed him this way. When he was in grade school, she became ill and anxious, and once attempted suicide by overdosing on prescribed tranquilizers. His father was absent much of the time, working toward a university degree in chemistry.<\/span><\/p>\n

In grade school, Dahmer became fascinated with small animals. He initially collected large insects and stored them in jars but later moved on to roadkill, dismembering the animals and keeping their parts in jars too. He was fascinated by bones and once asked his father, a chemist, to show him how to bleach chicken bones for preservation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Dahmer began drinking at age 14, beer and hard liquor, sometimes smuggling \u00e2\u0080\u009chis medicine\u00e2\u0080\u009d into high school. At puberty he began having same-sex fantasies and once lay in wait beside a jogging trail with a baseball bat to render unconscious someone he wanted to use sexually, but his target didn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t run that day, and Dahmer never tried the tactic again.<\/span><\/p>\n

His parents divorced before he graduated from high school and Dahmer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s drinking got worse. That summer, June 1978, while both his parents were away and Dahmer was living alone in the family house, he picked up a hitchhiker and invited him home for drinks. When the young man eventually tried to leave, Dahmer bludgeoned him to death with a barbell. The next day, Dahmer dissected his victim, and over the space of a few weeks, dissolved the flesh in acid, crushed the bones with a sledgehammer and scattered them in the woodland behind the family home.<\/span><\/p>\n

That fall Dahmer went to university but, after a semester of negligible study and heavy drinking, he dropped out. His father convinced him to enlist in the US Army. He did two years of service as a combat medic stationed in Germany, where he raped at least two fellow soldiers, having drugged one of his victims.<\/span><\/p>\n

After an honorable discharge, Dahmer returned to the USA, working various jobs \u00e2\u0080\u0093 at a delicatessen, blood plasma center, chocolate factory \u00e2\u0080\u0093 meanwhile continuing to drink heavily while living with his grandmother. He became a regular in Milwaukee gay bathhouses, but his membership at his local was revoked after they discovered he was routinely drugging his partners with a cocktail of liquor, sleeping pills and sedatives, after which he raped them while unconscious.<\/span><\/p>\n

In November 1987, Dahmer awoke one morning from a drunken stupor to find himself lying in a hotel room atop a dead man whose chest was caved in. Although he had no memory of it, he realized he must have beaten his victim to death. He bought a large suitcase, transported the body to his grandmother\u00e2\u0080\u0099s house and over the next week, dismembered the body, separated the flesh into garbage bags and crushed the bones with a sledgehammer. He bleached the skull to keep as a souvenir and a stimulus for masturbation.<\/span><\/p>\n

And so it began\u00e2\u0080\u00a6<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Over the next six months, Dahmer lured another two young men to his grandmother\u00e2\u0080\u0099s house, drugged them, raped them, killed them and dismembered them. In September 1988, his grandmother asked him to move out, complaining of his bringing young men home late at night, and the foul smells coming from the basement and garage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dahmer found a one-bedroom apartment of his own. In March 1989, he killed another young man, disposing of the body as with previous victims. But this one was so \u00e2\u0080\u009cexceptionally attractive\u00e2\u0080\u009d that Dahmer preserved his head and genitalia in acetone as a long-term memento.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pattern was set. In 1990 Dahmer killed another four young men, and in 1991, another seven. In most cases, he took photos during the dismembering process, refrigerated some flesh or organs to eat, and preserved the skulls as keepsakes, meanwhile destroying the rest of the flesh in acid, and crushing the bones for disposal.<\/span><\/p>\n

But in July 1991, one of his intended victims, a handcuff dangling from one arm, managed to flee Dahmer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s apartment and flag down a police car. Upon entering Dahmer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s apartment, the police encountered a stench of decaying flesh in a barrel of acid, and discovered frozen body parts in the fridge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dahmer confessed to the crimes but when his case came to trial in 1992, he pleaded insanity. The jury rejected the idea and found him guilty on all counts. He was sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms. Two years later, Dahmer was murdered in prison, bludgeoned to death with a steel bar from a barbell in the inmates\u00e2\u0080\u0099 weight room.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although deemed sane to stand trial for his crimes, Dahmer was initially diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, subject to psychosis and schizophrenia. Although his chart doesn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t display the more obvious signatures of mental disturbance, there\u00e2\u0080\u0099s enough there to register concern.<\/span><\/p>\n

The manas<\/em> is that part of the mind that acts as an operating system for the body and the personality, governing glandular function, monitoring sensory input, registering likes and dislikes, and providing a behavioral compass. The state of the manas<\/em> can be judged via an analysis of three factors: the 4th house, the 4th lord, and the Moon. Any influence by the destabilizing (crazy-making) malefics Saturn and Rahu upon those three factors are warning signs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"In Dahmer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s chart, the 4th house is occupied by its own lord Jupiter, and by Saturn, both of which are retrograde. Thus, in one stroke, we see both the 4th house and its lord Jupiter destabilized by the association of a strong Saturn. Meanwhile, the Moon (karaka<\/em> for the manas<\/em>) is dark and waning, being less than four tithis<\/em> from the Sun. Overall, this is cause for concern, but not so abnormal that it could explain such horrible acts.<\/span><\/p>\n

All people are governed by moral principles of some kind. These are seen via the status of the 4th house (mother\u00e2\u0080\u0099s influence, and socialization via primary education), and the 9th house (father\u00e2\u0080\u0099s influence, dharma, societal law, etc). As noted, the state of the 4th reflects damaged goods. As for the 9th, its lord Venus has gone 12 away to the 8th, and the 9th house itself is occupied by the Sun, lord of the 12th, a trikasthana<\/em> of self-undoing.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for Dahmer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s temperament, note that his ascendant is aspected by the Moon, Mars and Saturn. The latter two are prime malefics, and show the potential for inflicting harm, largely under the influence of sexual fantasies as suggested by the dark moon in Pisces.<\/span><\/p>\n

Compared to a study I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve recently completed on the charts of 200 homicides, I was intrigued to note a few commonalities between them and Dahmer:<\/span><\/p>\n