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Title: The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough: The Secret Murders of Milwaukee's Jeffrey Dahmer by Anne E. Schwartz ISBN: 1-55972-117-0 Publisher: Carol Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: So so account
Comment: I quite enjoyed this book, but found it was in part poorly researched. Dahmer was never cruel to animals, in fact he loved them and would look after them , as did another notorious 'cannibal' killer, Dennis Nielsen, who also killed for company. It was only dead animals eg.road kill that he dissected.
I have also read Brian Master's book , "The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer" and was more impressed, although I was surprised he would put Dahmer and Ted Bundy in the same category.
Dahmer was an extremely sick human being, but not a torturer.Sadly we will never know what mental illness made him commit these horrific crimes which ruined the lives of so many families.
I don't recommend this book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Milwaukee's Finest
Comment: This book was written by the Milwaukee Journal crime reporter who was the first reporter on the scene when Jeffrey Dahmer's personal slaughterhouse was revealed to the public on July 23, 1991. This book was published the following year and as such it doesn't have the benefit of time with which to look back on the murderer that shocked Milwaukee and the nation. Of course, Jeffrey Dahmer himself didn't have much time, either -- he was killed in prison in November 1994 by a delusional fellow inmate.
Dahmer's misdeeds are widely known, if only in part, but this book does bring forth the full horror in the very first chapter. Working the crime beat, Anne E. Schwartz, the wife of a cop who frequently got to go "under the yellow tape" for a closer look, was one of the few who actually got to stand in Dahmer's cramped, fetid apartment. Upon entering, she first noticed the general clutter and the trappings of a gay single man: potato chip bags, cigarette butts in an ashtray, and posters of muscular hunks adorning the walls. But she also couldn't help but notice the twisted and macabre additions that lurked in every room: a filing cabinet containing multiple human skulls, a scrapbook containing photos of partially dismembered corpses, containers of formaldehyde and chloroform, not to mention various bones and decomposing body parts. She knew this would be the case of a lifetime and in fact she was the one who broke the story.
Schwartz's carefully compiled narrative follows Dahmer from his younger days to the last eighteen months of his life before his arrest, a time he used to kill a dozen men. The book starts strong because the story is simply so shocking. But Schwartz has also spoken personally to many members of the victims' families. Their stories really frame the tragedy, and Schwartz does keep the book moving, but the book nevertheless begins to be less about Dahmer at this point. And while not many other authors would have had the perspective on Milwaukee to address just how badly this case fractured the city and exposed raw racial divisions, the book really ceased to be about Dahmer at this point. I felt it lost its focus. The story of Milwaukee is certainly one that needed to be told -- just not in a book with this particular title.
For those interested in "profiling" or criminal motive, this book will disappoint you. It's not a detective story, either. Schwartz does go into some depth regarding Dahmer's relationship with his probation officer (recall that Dahmer was on probation when he killed many of his victims) and these details reveal just how sad, miserable, and lonely Jeffrey Dahmer was in the last year of his freedom. But for the most part, this is a book that will appeal mostly to avid Dahmer fans or to those who want to read about the fallout from the case on the city of Milwaukee, its Police Department, and its citizens. It might also hold interest for those who are interested in how journalists work with police departments to report on crime.
Those of us who are looking for explanations might instead turn to Robert Ressler's book on serial killers, I Have Lived in the Monster. There is a lengthy interview with Dahmer perforated with Ressler's commentary that helps explain why Dahmer felt compelled to commit such acts of violence.
Rating: 5
Summary: As stated on the label!
Comment: This is not the dramatic and relatively unbeleivable account of Dahmer's actions (relatively, as this is the 11th bok I have read on/including Jeffrey Dahmer), but it is as it says on the label - A Journalistic view, and a blooming good one at that - IOW she states she was the first reporter on the scene. In my state on recieval of Anne's Book, I was ready for the 'lighter approach' yet she held my interest all the way through. A 5 on this reason, but if you need the FULL Dahmer trial, history and tantrum, you need to seek elsewhere....at least for first.
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Title: A Father's Story by Lionel Dahmer ISBN: 068812156X Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story : An American Nightmare by Donald A. Davis ISBN: 0312928408 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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