Jeffrey Dahmer’s father dies in hospice care at age 87

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By Alyssa Guzman

Infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s father has died in hospice care in Ohio on the age of 87.

Lionel Dahmer handed away from unknown causes whereas below care in Medina County, Ohio, the native well being division confirmed to The Put up Tuesday.

The precise date of his loss of life is unknown.

Lionel, a chemical analyst, stated he all the time caught by his son, regardless of Dahmer — dubbed the Milwaukee Cannibal — killing 17 individuals.

He advised Oprah in 1994: “I nonetheless love my son. I’ll all the time stick by him – I all the time have.”

His loss of life comes nearly a 12 months after his spouse Shari died on Jan. 13 at a nursing house in Seville — roughly 25 miles exterior of Akron.

The daddy-of-two was an everyday customer to see his son in jail till he was overwhelmed to loss of life with a metallic bar by fellow prisoner Christopher Scarver in 1994, lower than a years after he was convicted on his heinous crimes.

Lionel’s caretaker told The Sun in 2022 the aged man nonetheless bought “pissed” each time Scarver’s title bought introduced up.

“He’s nonetheless very indignant about it,” Jeb, his caretaker stated on the time. “So far as I do know, and the final I talked to Lionel, he believes the guards seemed the opposite approach and let it occur.”

Lionel had divorced Dahmer’s mom, Joyce Flint, in 1978 when Jeffrey was round 18 and his brother David was 12.

He wrote a e-book “A Father’s Story” which advised how he had introduced up Dahmer from his perspective and tried to look at what made him commit the crimes he did. He admitted to being conscious of his sons heavy consuming, aimless nature and fascination with lifeless animals.

He additionally stated he had made many makes an attempt to get by way of to him and encourage him to dwell an regular life, however may discover little motive for why he grew to become a assassin in his account.

“At first, I couldn’t fathom how he turned out to be this far down the continuum. I imply, we’re all on a continuum, all of us do dangerous issues, all of us sin,” Lionel told Dr. Phil in an interview which wasn’t aired till 2022.

“He was on the excessive of the continuum. I couldn’t at first perceive how he may have completed these issues.”

Regardless of dwelling a personal life, Lionel couldn’t escape his son’s title, particularly after Netflix dropped a collection on the murders.

Deranged followers would present up at his door, performing “hostile and aggressive” and one lady even left her underwear on his garden.

“Something Dahmer-related blows up. It looks like each time a film or collection comes out, that’s when a number of the loopy begins taking place with the fanboys and the fan ladies,” Jeb advised the outlet.

Lionel had additionally thought of suing the key streaming platform for glamorizing his son’s crimes in a dramatic collection and for not contacting his son’s authorized group to get entry to tape recordings utilized in a documentary.