Jeffrey Dahmer’s father lifeless at age 87

The embattled father of America’s most notorious cannibal handed away at an Ohio hospice care facility in Medina County on Tuesday.

Lionel Dahmer, the daddy of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, died from unknown causes on the age of 87, the native well being division instructed the New York Submit. A supply near the Dahmers confirmed the dying to Fox Information Digital. 

Lionel was thrust into the nationwide highlight in 1991 after police uncovered the grotesque proof of his son’s crimes – together with two complete skeletons, 4 severed heads and three dismembered torsos in a 57-gallon drum – on the convicted serial killer’s Milwaukee condo. 

Dahmer, a intercourse offender who murdered 17 males and boys between 1978 and 1991, was handed 15 life sentences the next yr. A lot of his later murders concerned necrophilia, cannibalism and the preservation of physique elements. 

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Lionel Dahmer is pictured with second spouse Shari at his son’s 1992 sanity trial. The 87-year-old father-of-two died on Dec. 5. (Curt Borgwardt/Sygma/Sygma through Getty Photos)

At 34 years previous in 1994, the youthful Dahmer was bludgeoned to dying by a fellow inmate at Wisconsin’s Columbia Correctional Establishment. 

In an interview with The Solar final yr, Lionel’s caretaker mentioned the aged man “obtained p—ed” each time his son’s killer’s title, Christopher Scarver, was introduced up. 

“He’s nonetheless very indignant about it,” the caretaker, Jeb, instructed the outlet. “So far as I do know, and the final time I talked to Lionel, he believes the guards appeared the opposite manner and let it occur.”

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Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed 17 males and boys between 1978 and 1991, was handed 15 life sentences in 1992. His father Lionel, who died on Tuesday, continued to like and assist his notorious son all through his jail sentence and after the killer’s homicide behind bars. (Eugene Garcia/AFP through Getty Photos         )

Lionel, a chemical analyst, visited his son in jail month-to-month after his conviction, per the Akron Beacon Journal. 

“I nonetheless love my son, I am going to at all times stick by him – I at all times have,” the father-of-two instructed Oprah Winfrey in 1994. 

The daddy’s real efforts to assist and perceive his son after studying of his grotesque crimes was evidenced by recorded jailhouse telephone calls made public by FOX Nation.

“What was the very first fantasy, I used to be questioning, that you possibly can bear in mind having which you thought to your self was sort of odd or disturbing?” Lionel requested his son in one of many tapes, per “My Son Jeffrey: The Dahmer Household Tapes.”

“I had bizarre ideas too, in my childhood,” Lionel instructed his son. “You are similar to me, Jeff.” 

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Dahmer was “not born a monster,” Lionel instructed the Akron Beacon Journal in 1991, and the daddy couldn’t fathom how his son may develop up “well mannered and type and fairly regular in any other case and but do this stuff until they’re extraordinarily troubled and insane.”

Born on July 29, 1936, in West Allis, Wisconsin, Lionel earned a bachelor’s diploma in chemistry from the College of Wisconsin in 1959. He married Joyce Flint that very same yr, and the couple had Dahmer on Might 21, 1960.

After Lionel divorced Flint and moved right into a resort, alleging gross neglect on his ex-wife’s half, the lady moved out of their household dwelling with Dahmer’s youthful brother in the summertime of 1978, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. In that interval, Dahmer picked up hitchhiker Steve Hicks, 18, and murdered him within the household residence.

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Lionel Dahmer, pictured exterior Wisconsin’s Columbia Correctional Establishment in an undated picture, was adopted by his son’s notoriety. (Steve Kagan/Getty Photos)

When Dahmer was sentenced to 5 years of probation for molesting a toddler in 1989, Lionel reportedly requested the choose to present his son the utmost sentence, per the outlet, writing that it “could also be our final probability to institute one thing efficient.”

Hicks’ household would later sue Lionel, Flint and stepmother Shari Dahmer for $50 million in 1992, claiming that their negligence in elevating their son led to Hicks’ dying, per Deseret Information. 

Lionel’s dying comes almost a yr after Shari’s, who died at a Seville nursing dwelling on Jan. 13, 2022, in line with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, about 25 miles exterior of Akron. 

Flint died of most cancers at 64 in 2000 and tried suicide a minimum of as soon as beforehand, the Los Angeles Instances reported.

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Lionel Dahmer, pictured with second spouse Shari, tried to know his son’s psyche in jailhouse telephone conversations and visits. (Steve Kagan/Getty Photos)

Dahmer’s youthful brother, David, modified his surname and lives anonymously after his brother’s crimes surfaced. He was photographed earlier this yr by The Solar – the outlet selected to not reveal the most important metropolis the place he lives to keep up his privateness. 

In “A Father’s Story,” Lionel’s confessional about his notorious son’s upbringing, he wrote that he operated on “a degree of obliviousness, or maybe denial, that was scarcely conceivable” relating to his son’s life. 

However after Dahmer’s conviction, Lionel labored to know his son’s psyche and pinpoint when issues went awry: 

“What’s actually been puzzling me is how come I simply did not know something about this?” Lionel requested his son in one other jailhouse dialog. 

“I just about was in my very own little world,” Dahmer instructed his father. “Amazingly, all of the occasions I ought to have been caught, I by no means was.”

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer proven in a police mugshot from his 1982 arrest on the Wisconsin State Truthful for indecent publicity. (Ralf-Finn Hestoft/Corbis through Getty Photos)

Regardless of his makes an attempt to stay a personal life, Lionel was adopted by his son’s infamy till the top of his life. 

After Netflix ran successful dramatization of Dahmer’s life final yr, the eye was reinvigorated, the New York Submit reported, with followers leaving vicious – or, generally, lusty – messages on the senior citizen’s dwelling regardless of futile “No Trespassing” indicators surrounding the agricultural Ohio property. 

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“We had a girl cease on the finish of the driveway, take off her panties and throw them within the yard,” caretaker Jeb instructed The Solar. “The lady appeared like she was in her early 20s and was shouting ‘I really like you Lionel.’”

Upset that he was by no means consulted relating to Netflix’s “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” and its use of recordings with out his permission, the daddy reportedly thought of suing the streaming platform.

The sequence portrayed Dahmer’s relationship together with his father, portraying the killer’s mum or dad’s strained relationship and Lionel’s makes an attempt to attach together with his son by dissecting roadkill.