When Milwaukee police entered Jeffrey Dahmer's North 25th Street apartment in July 1991, they discovered that for some time this quiet, undemonstrative man had been living amidst the debris of an orgy of killing. A severed head lay in the refrigerator. A freezer contained two more heads and a human torso. Two skulls and a complete skeleton were found in a filing cabinet. A styrofoam box concealed two more skulls, and a large blue plastic drum was found to contain three further human torsos in various stages of decomposition. This is the story of the mass murderer, Jeffrey Dahmer. Brian Masters's subjects for biography have ranged from John Aspinall to E.F. Benson, from Marie Corelli to Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire. His study of mass murderer Dennis Nilsen, "Killing for Company", won the Gold Dagger Award for non-fiction in 1985.
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27 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent,
By Jake "dan" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer (Paperback)
An excellent book about a Mr. Dahmer, who had so much potential -- good looks, intelligence, good work ethic. The review below me seems rather strange. I have studied philosophy for years, and I cannot see the validity of your interpretation. You seem to be focusing on tangential issues of the book, such as Freud etc, instead of seeing the book as a whole.
Brian Masters offers a very sound profile of all the facts involved in the Mr. Dahmer case. It is extremely well written, and is very humanistic in it's tone. Frankly, this, along with Lionel Dahmers book, is THE best Dahmer book....one that that is in stark contrast to many other books on Dahmer, which offer hearsay, rumours, and sometimes, plain nonsense. I believe Mr. Masters was very astute in the writing of this book, and agree with him on almost every point he makes with regards to Mr. Dahmer, the case, the courts, etc. The respect he shows towards Jeffrey is also admirable. He doesn't lower himself to gutter media, in which Dahmer is labelled, "a monster", a "devil" etc etc Such labels are hyperbolic and do nothing except creat more hate and pain -- something which the world has enough off already. In summary, and excellant and dignified book.
36 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gripping Read,
By A Customer
This review is from: Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer (Paperback)
Brain masters seems to start where most author forget, before they killers were born and how the parents relationships develope. The author has done a lot of research into jeffry dalmers life before he turned the into lonley psycotic killer that america most feared. The fact that the author gives the eerie detailed account of what happened to the unfortunate individals who were at jeffrey dahmers mercy. when reading the book, Brian Masters takes into the victims familes and freinds and how he was able to keep the murders hidden from the police for so long. All in all this book is a must any for seriel killer reader
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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One of the better books about Jeffrey Dahmer.,
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This review is from: Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer (Paperback)
This is one of the better books about Jeffrey Dahmer. It contains much more detail then the other two books I've reviewed on Amazon, but on the other hand it doesn't have certain details that those other two books offer. It quickly breezes through his time in the army and his stay in Florida and when it comes to describing the murders themselves the author doesn't hold anything back.
The book itself is very well written and describes in the first chapter some of the items that were found in Dahmer's apartment, like videotapes ranging from Tropical Heat Wave and Return of the Jedi to an episode of The Bill Cosby Show. I learned a few new things about Dahmer that I didn't know before, such as during his trial he was taken to and from court every day in a wheelchair because of the weight of the shackles on his legs (there's even a picture showing him being wheeled from the courtroom), and that the apartment he rented at the Oxford was a furnished apartment. The only mistake I noticed was in the pictures section where their is a page of all of the victims and one photo is identified as Konerak Sinthasomphone but the picture is of his brother, Somsack. Since the book was written in 1993 it doesn't cover Dahmer's murder in prison, but it does foreshadow it. The last chapter, called "The Shrine" isn't that good because the author spends most of it talking about the history of cannibalism by ancient tribes, indians, etc. and only briefly at the end does he focus on the shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer. A dull last chapter that ends a great book. But it still deserves five stars.
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