Article: Confessions of a serial killer's father. (Lionel Dahmer, father of Jeffrey Dahmer)

The worst imaginable nightmare for most parents is to discover that one of their children has been murdered. For Lionel Dahmer, the discovery that Jeffrey Dahmer, his son, had murdered so many other people's children is what has turned his life into an unimaginable nightmare. Arrested at his Milwaukee apartment in 1991 and sentenced to 957 years in prison, Jeffrey Dahmer had taken the lives of seventeen men, dismembered many of them (storing body parts in the basement of his grandmother's house and in his own refrigerator), and, toward the end of his bloody career, even begun to cannibalize his victims. It is to those seventeen men and their families that Lionel Dahmer has ...

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