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EPISODE · Nov 5, 2025 · 34 MIN

Jeffrey Dahmer: Feeding the Void

from Splintered Minds: The Psychology of the Unthinkable · host Sebastian Gray

Inside Apartment 213, loneliness took physical form. Jeffrey Dahmer wasn’t driven by rage or revenge—he was driven by the fear of being left alone. This episode of Splintered Minds peels back the myth of the “monster” to reveal the psychology beneath: how obsession with control twisted into ritual, how the hunger for connection became an act of possession. Through real case detail and clinical insight, we explore how a man trying to preserve love ended up preserving bodies. This is not a story about madness—it’s about the breaking point where the need to hold someone becomes the need to consume them.

Inside Apartment 213, loneliness took physical form. Jeffrey Dahmer wasn’t driven by rage or revenge—he was driven by the fear of being left alone. This episode of Splintered Minds peels back the myth of the “monster” to reveal the psychology beneath: how obsession with control twisted into ritual, how the hunger for connection became an act of possession. Through real case detail and clinical insight, we explore how a man trying to preserve love ended up preserving bodies. This is not a story about madness—it’s about the breaking point where the need to hold someone becomes the need to consume them.

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