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New documentary series My Son Jeffrey: The Dahmer Family Tapes will share never-before-heard conversations between the notorious serial killer and his father.
Jeffrey Dahmer murdered at least 17 men between 1978 and 1991, becoming known by notorious nicknames like the “Milwaukee Monster” and the “Milwaukee Cannibal.” Despite this, his father,...
Lionel Herbert Dahmer (/ ˈ d ɑː m ər /; July 29, 1936 – December 5, 2023) was an American chemist and author known as the father of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. [2] In 1994, he wrote A Father's Story , a non-fictional account on his son's upbringing, subsequent progress to become a world-wide-known serial killer and its aftermath. [ 3 ]
The unending trauma of the victims' families aside, how did Dahmer's own closest family try to process everything he did and was? What did Lionel and Joyce Dahmer have to say on the matter after their son's arrest, imprisonment, and murder, as they too sought to comprehend it?
For Jeffrey Dahmer — who gruesomely killed 17 young men and boys between 1978 and 1991 — that family was his father, Lionel Dahmer, and his mother, Joyce. Of Jeffrey’s two parents, Lionel spoke out the most about his infamous son before his own death at age age 87 on December 5, 2023.
When society tried to comprehend the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, the cannibalistic serial killer convicted of murdering 17 boys and men from 1978 to 1991, criminologists turned to his mother, Joyce Dahmer, for insight.
In 1994, shortly after his son was killed by Christopher Scarver, Lionel Dahmer penned a memoir called A Father’s Story, which detailed the complicated feelings he had about his infamous...
