The father of satanic cannibal serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer said he would have liked his wicked son to meet the same cruel end as his innocent victims. The infamous killer, also known as the 'Milwaukee Cannibal' murdered 17 young men and boys who he then cut up and even sometimes ate between the years of 1978 and 1991.
The new 10 part Netflix series 'Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story' has left viewers horrified as the show documents how Damher targeted his victims before carrying out the chilling crimes that he got away with for so long. In February, 1992 he was sentenced to fifteen terms of life imprisonment but was killed in prison two years later, aged 34 after another convict beat him to death, the Daily Star reports.
The sickening killer's father, Lionel Dahmer, recounts in his book, 'A Father's Story' the horror and the emotions he felt when he was informed of his son's heinous crimes. In the opening pages, Lionel empathises with the parents of his son's victims, comparing how they must have felt to how he felt when the grim crimes came to light.
He says he would have thought about his son "differently" if police had said he'd been killed. He continues: "If they'd told me that a strange man had lured him to a seedy apartment, and a few minutes later, drugged, strangled, then sexually assaulted and mutilated his dead body - in other words, if they'd told me the same horrible things that they had to tell so many other fathers and mothers in July 1991, then I would have done what they have done.
"I would have mourned my son and demanded that the man who'd killed him be profoundly punished. If not executed, then separated forever from the rest of us." Lionel goes on to describe how he would have thought of his son "warmly" if he had been killed, visiting his grave and being a "custodian of his memory".
However, he wasn't told what the other parents were. He laments the fact he was told the opposite. "Instead, I was told my son was the one who had murdered their sons," Lionel writes.
"And so, my son was still alive. I couldn't bury him. I couldn't remember him fondly. He was not a figure of the past. He was still with me."
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