My Son is a Serial Killer: A Father's Story of Jeffrey Dahmer

In July 1991, the country was shaken by the incomprehensible crimes of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer: the dismemberment of young men, lobotomy, necrophilia, cannibalism, and even skulls stored on a homemade altar in his apartment... But no one was more... shocked than the parents of Jeffrey Dahmer himself – loving father, stepmother, and grandmother, who had tried for many years to help him avoid hitting rock bottom. In his candid book, Lionel Dahmer describes how Jeff's oddities gradually grew into a full-blown obsession with murder, and analyzes what he, as a father, might have done wrong. Lionel asks the question: why did his son grow into a monster? How did a person he essentially did not know live and grow in his home? This memoir offers a unique perspective on the madness of a maniac through the eyes of his family; a heartbreaking testimony that inhumane horror can lurk very close to you.