While it has been theorized by some such as John Backderf, teenage friend and author of the award-winning graphic novel My Friend Dahmer, that Jeffrey Dahmer began drinking heavily in order to suppress his burgeoning fantasies involving murder and death, the truth is far more depressing and pathetic. Dahmer explained to detectives Patrick Kennedy and Dennis Murphy that the real reason why he began abusing alcohol in high school was to alleviate his extreme shyness. As Kennedy recounts in his novel Dahmer Detective, Dahmer told him, “I was kind of a loner and pretty shy around people. My parents were not big drinkers but they kept a fully stocked bar in the home. I was lonely and started to drink. It made me feel better; I could talk to people and fit in, but I wasn’t that good at it and would usually end up drunk and alone in my house.” By the time he reached his senior year of high school, Dahmer was a full-blown alcoholic, addicted to the soothing balm of booze. His urge to drink more than likely mirrored his urge to kill, as he had neither the will nor the emotional strength to fight it, and once he gave into it, he succumbed completely.
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