In the consult, we discuss cases involving violence, sexual violence, abduction, and murder.

Sometimes the cases we discuss involve children.

Listener discretion is advised. Welcome to the consult.

I'm Julia Cowley, retired FBI agent and profiler.

And today is part two of our case study on serial killer

Jeffrey Dahmer. Joining me again are my colleagues, Angela Serser and Bob Drew, who are also

retired FBI profilers and we work together in the FBI's behavioral analysis unit. We're also

joined again by our special guest

for this series, Dr. Page Wilcoxson, a forensic psychologist who worked in the FBI's behavioral

analysis unit while completing her doctorate. This series is a bit different from our usual format

because we are examining this offender through both a behavioral and psychological lens.

Our case study focuses on Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and his arrest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1991. When investigators searched his apartment,

it revealed what can only be described as a house of horrors. In part one, we walk through the

timeline of Dahmer's crimes and the circumstances surrounding each victim. We also examined the investigative context at the

time and identified several missed opportunities that may have allowed law enforcement to intervene

earlier. In today's episode, we are going to turn our focus to Dahmer's developmental background.

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