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Jeffrey Dahmer US serial killer’s father almost found severed head
A previously unpublished interview with the serial killer’s father shows that many murders could have been prevented.
Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer raped, murdered, and cannibalized 17 young men in the US states of Wisconsin and Ohio.
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Dahmer’s close relationship with his father, who was very supportive, was portrayed in the controversial Netflix series Monster.
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Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer raped, murdered, and cannibalized 17 young men in the US states of Wisconsin and Ohio. The story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer has been repeatedly reworked in various films and documentaries, most recently in the ten-part and extremely successful Netflix series “Monster”.
Father almost discovered secrets
Now a previously unpublished interview with Jeffrey Dahmer’s father has surfaced, revealing explosive details of the story and putting the case in a different light, such as «Daily Mail» reported. Because: The father almost discovered his son’s horrible secret.
Jeffrey Dahmer’s father, Lionel, reflected in an interview with famed American psychologist and television host Dr. Phil on the missed opportunity to uncover his son’s serial murder.
Three-day special shows new backgrounds
Dahmer’s close relationship with his father was portrayed in the controversial and hugely successful Netflix series Monster. dr Phil aired the three-day special “In The Presence of Evil: Face to Face with Jeffrey Dahmer” in the US this week, which aims to tell the killer’s “true story” and explore what made him a serial killer.
In the interview, which was recorded in the 1990s, the now 86-year-old father recalls an incident that nearly exposed his son. Because Jeffrey barely stopped the father from opening a wooden box containing the severed head of Anthony Sears (26), who was murdered in 1989.
Father suspected pornography in his son
Lionel Dahmer suspected that the box contained pornographic material, about which the mother had repeatedly complained. He looked for a tool to open it, but Jeffrey caught his father and complained that he wasn’t given “one square foot” of his own space.
Eventually, Jeffrey convinced his father to wait until the next day to open it. Also to protect the grandmother, who was sitting in the room next door and had overheard the argument between the two. But it should never happen that Lionel throws a look in the box.
“Somehow I’m happy, but somehow not”
“Somehow I’m glad, but somehow not, that I didn’t ask more about it at the time. Because I would probably have gone crazy if I had seen the content,” says Lionel. The next day Jeffrey allowed his father a look – and there were pornographic magazines in the box.
After Jeffrey’s arrest, father and son discussed the incident again. “I asked him, ‘What would you have done, Jeff, if I had opened it?’ and he said something like, ‘It would have been game over,’ something unemotional, noncommittal.” And that’s why Lionel is certain: He could have saved lives if he had taken more action at the time.