In high school he became an alcoholic, bringing alcohol to school and hiding it in his locker. It was also around this age that his parents went through a divorce, which most people believe to be the reason he started his violent actions. Dahmer’s first murder was at the age of 17, when he picked up a hitchhiker and brought him back to his parents’ house. When the hitchhiker tried to leave, Dahmer strangled the man, dismembered his body, and spread the remains in a forest behind his parents’