<P> Ultimately, he dismembers the bodies into several pieces, stows them and the plastic sheeting in black, heavy duty, biodegradable garbage bags, then adds rocks from the dock where he keeps his boat as anchor weight, and seals the bags with duct tape . He then takes the wrapped bags out on his boat and disposes of them by dumping them overboard into the ocean at a defined location; in the TV series, his dumping ground is a small oceanic trench just offshore . In one episode, the dump site and remains are inadvertently discovered by scuba divers, so he changes tactics, cutting the bodies into smaller pieces and dumping them further offshore, where they will be dispersed by the Gulf Stream . The books give less detail about disposal, with Dexter usually improvising depending on the victim . He has dumped some victims into the ocean due to the victim's owning a boat and doing the same with their own victims, but uses anchors to weight the bags . He disposes of another body in a vat of hydrochloric acid . </P> <P> Dexter was born on February 15, 1971 . At the story's outset, Dexter knows very little about his life prior to being adopted by Harry Morgan (a Miami detective) and his wife Doris . Harry only tells Dexter that his parents were killed in a car accident, and Harry brought him home from the crime scene . When Dexter is seven, Harry discovers that the boy has been killing neighborhood pets and realizes that Dexter is a sociopath with a deep need to kill . Consequently, Harry decides to channel the boy's homicidal urges in a "positive" direction by teaching him to be a careful, meticulous killer of people who "deserve it"--murderers who had escaped justice and deserved to die . Doris died when Dexter was 16, and Harry died when Dexter was 20 . In the second season, Dexter's nemesis, Sergeant James Doakes, discovers that Dexter forsook a career in medicine to pursue blood spatter analysis, despite being top of his class at medical school . He also notes that Dexter studied advanced jujutsu in college . </P> <P> Both the television show and the first novel gradually reveal Dexter's complete back story . Dexter was born out of wedlock in 1971 to a young woman named Laura (Laura Moser on the show), although a later episode says he graduated high school in 1991 . In the novels, Laura was involved in the drug trade . On the show, Laura was a police informant for Harry Morgan and his secret mistress . Dexter's father (named Joseph Driscoll on the show) was in the US Army and served in the Vietnam War, but later became a drug - addicted criminal . Dexter also had an older brother, named Brian . On October 1, 1973, Dexter and Brian witnessed their mother's brutal murder at the hands of three drug dealers . For two days, the brothers were left in a crate, surrounded by dismembered body parts and sitting in a pool of blood . Harry adopted the three - year - old Dexter, while Brian was left to the child welfare system . </P> <P> Dexter only remembers his mother's murder later in life, when he is called to an extremely bloody crime scene left by his brother--who has also grown up to be a serial killer . In the novel, Brian escapes Miami, but returns in Dexter Is Delicious . On the show, however, Dexter catches and (reluctantly) kills Brian, aware that Brian would never stop trying to kill Debra or other innocent people . </P>

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