In a handful of cases, Jeffrey also experimented with pouring hydrochloric acid into holes he’d drilled in their heads. In the torturous weeks following Jeff's conviction, he continued his descent towards that harrowing point at which the line of his own life inevitably intersected with his son's. Of Men And Monsters written by Richard Tithecott and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-01 with Social Science categories.

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. In A Father's Story, the reader is witness to the incremental unraveling of a parent's image of their child, and the "thousand different reactions" that follow. Inside were the body parts of at least fifteen men--including torsos stuffed into a barrel, severed heads in a refrigerator, and skulls boiled clean and stashed in a filing cabinet. It is a document on the nature of fatherhood, the origins of madness, and the role of kinship in the legacy of evil.Their relationship devolved during Jeffrey’s childhood, leading to a divorce in 1978 so bitter that each accused the other of “extreme cruelty and gross neglect of duty.

Many of the clips in the documentary are from interviews that were conducted to gain evidence after he was imprisoned.

On July 23, 1991, Milwaukee chemist Lionel Dahmer discovered - along with the rest of the world - that his son Jeffrey was a murderer who, over a period of many years, had carried out some of the most ghastly crimes ever committed. The separation deeply affected Lionel, and he struggled to come to terms with the fractured family dynamic. The Jeffrey Dahmer Story takes you into Jeffrey Dahmer's twisted world of bizarre sexual encounters, mutilation and cannibalism--in one of history's most appalling true crime cases.

I sincerely hope that you might intervene in some way to help my son, who I love very much and for whom I want a better life. After Jeffrey was arrested in 1989 for second-degree sexual assault, Lionel wrote the judge in the case and begged him to intervene. Born on July 29, 1936, in West Allis, Wisconsin, Lionel Dahmer spent most of his life in peaceful obscurity. I wasn’t told what these other mothers and fathers were told, that their sons were dead at the hands of a murderer,” Lionel later recounted in his book. The only signs I saw was shyness and reluctance to engage in social interactions, that sort of thing.

Though Lionel was absent for much of Jeffrey’s childhood while pursuing his doctorate degree, he made a concerted effort to bond with his firstborn son. Whether he ever untangled the mystery of his son’s life is unknown, but one thing is for sure — Jeffrey Dahmer’s father never disowned him or his infamous name.