After Jeffrey was killed in prison by another inmate in November 1994, Dahmer wrote an additional chapter on the death of his son. [9] The new edition was published by Avon Books. I did not like the book because I did not like Lionel. There were flashes of attempted sincerity, but overall I felt he wanted me to think him a hero and was manipulating the book even to the point of confessing his own arson and his high-school bombing that had not been discovered so that I would approve of him. I do not. There were signs he should have seen but he denies them. I thought he wanted to blame the mother Joyce, who no doubt was mentally unbalanced also. Lionel seems to me to be a psychopath. A Father’s Story cannot claim to have discovered the ultimate solution to the enigma of either the criminal or his deeds. It is, in fact, not the story of Jeffrey Dahmer at all, but of a father who, by slow, incremental degrees, came to realise the saddest truth that any parent may ever know: that following some unknowable process, his child had somewhere crossed the line that divides the human from the monstrous. Indeed, Lionel and Joyce had no idea that Jeffrey made a habit of collecting roadkill. As they later told Larry King during a CNN interview, Jeffrey never told them that he spent his days looking for dead animals when he was between 12 and 14. To them, he just seemed like a shy little boy.

DOES contain adult theme(cannibalism, pedophilia, alcohol abuse, drug overdose, rape, depression, suicide, anxiety)at least as much as Lionel could describe through his eyes.It's not just the serial killings that have marked Jeffrey Dahmer's complex personality, and I must say: there is no excuse to harm, abuse, and kill a human. In July 1991, research chemist Lionel Dahmer was informed by the Milwaukee Police Department that they were investigating a homicide involving his son Jeffrey. Dahmer initially thought Jeffrey was a murder victim, not a murderer. He learned the grisly details of his son's crimes during the trial before which his son was found to be legally sane and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment in February 1992. [6] Lionel shares Jeffrey and David with his first wife, Joyce, but the two divorced when Jeffrey was 18, according to The Tab. Lionel married his second wife, Shari, in 1978. Who plays Lionel Dahmer in the Netflix show? Might be a good alert/warning to other parents, but I can’t help but be skeptical about his attempt to state that his son in the end had anything good to add or share with others. natural curiosity, or was it a harbinger of the horror that was later to be found in Apartment 213?

What did Jeffrey say about this matter of blame and responsibility? He’s asked this question in the interview. He says very firmly that all this shoving the responsibility onto this person or that person or alcohol or drugs, it’s all bullshit. I did it. The blame is mine and mine alone. But wait… he says a little more than that : I WILL NOT BE GIVING MY OPINIONS ON THIS BOOK, BECAUSE ITS NOT MY RIGHT TO SAY ANYTHING. ALL THE INVESTIGATIONS AND ALL HAVE BEEN DONE. THE CONVICT IS DEAD. WE CAN DO NOTHING BUT ACCEPT WHATEVER HAPPENED. BUT, I WILL DEFINITELY TELL YOU EVERYTHING THAT THE BOOK HAS DISCUSSED ABOUT JEFFREY. The father and son bonded over an odd activity: bleaching animal bones from rodents they found dead under their house. For Lionel, it was nothing more than scientific curiosity. But for Jeffrey Dahmer, the dead animals seem to have left a lasting impression. A final chapter, added after Jeffrey's death in prison, simply adds a film of utter loathing to the reading experience, as father somehow contrives to tie in a possible redemption for his son with an incoherent, self-serving diatribe about the righteousness of intelligent design. I don't like that the brunt of blame is put on Joyce. I don't believe that how Jeff turned out was solely because of her mental illnesses and the medication she took while pregnant with him.

Lionel Dahmer wrote a book called A Father’s Story and it’s available to buy right now

Lionel, however, isn't happy with the "perfect storm" scenario, which is admittedly vague and non-specific. After all, this is his son, his offspring, his responsibility. It was he, Lionel Dahmer, who unleashed Jeffrey on this world. He needs answers. Real answers. Ultimately, he feels guilty and he needs to know if he is somehow to blame. Let me tell you that, Lionel married twice in his life. As per his IMDb profile, Lionel firstly married his wife named Joyce Dahmer on 22 August 1959. Let me tell you that, Joyce worked as a manager in a retirement home. Not only this, but Joyce was also a teletype machine instructor. Lionel and his wife Joyce Dahmer