An employee at the Medina County Health Department in Ohio reported Dahmer’s death, writes the local newspaper Akron Beacon Journal.
The cause of death is not yet known, but according to The Sun the 87-year-old had been in a nursing home since October. After the death of his wife Shari earlier in January, Dahmer’s health is said to have gradually deteriorated.
Lionel Dahmer was unexpectedly and involuntarily thrown into the international spotlight after his son was arrested in 1991.
DAHMER: Trailer for the Netflix series “The Jeffery Dahmer Story”. Video: Netflix Show more
Dahmer vowed to “always support” his son, even after details of his son’s crimes became public knowledge.
Dahmer was convicted of murdering 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. His murders involved rape, mutilation, necrophilia and cannibalism.
MURDERED: On November 28, 1994, Jeffrey Dahmer was beaten to death by an inmate at Columbia Correctional Institution. Photo: Milwaukee Police Department/Zuma Press Show more
The cannibal’s last victim – that’s how it went
Father and chemist
Lionel Dahmer was the son of Herbert and Catherine Dahmer. He was born on July 29, 1936 in West Allis, Wisconsin.
He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1959. That same year he married Joyce Flint and together they had a son, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, on May 21, 1960.
The family bought a house and moved to Ohio in 1968. Deceased then worked as a chemist for PPG Industries.
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Turbulent
Following The Beacon Journal the marriage must have been turbulent. Lionel moved to a hotel after filing for divorce, alleging gross neglect. Flint moved to Wisconsin with their younger son, leaving Jeffrey alone in the summer of 1978. He killed his first victim, Steven M. Hicks, on June 18 of that year.
After the divorce was finalized in July 1978, Lionel married Jeffrey’s stepmother, Shari, and moved to Medina County, Ohio.
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Shari died of health complications on January 13, 2023, at a nursing home near the couple’s home in Ohio.
Dahmer lived the last years of his life at home in Ohio and was cared for by a caregiver.
TRIAL: Lionel Dahmer, father of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, speaks with his wife, Shari, during one of Dahmer’s 1992 trials in Milwaukee. Photo: AP Photo/Jim Gehrz/NTB Show more
Rage against Netflix
Father and son
In September 2022, the series, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, was released on Netflix.
The series, with several controversies, portrayed, among other things, Jeffrey’s close bond with his father. Father and son, among other things, dissected dead animals together throughout their upbringing.
SERIAL KILLER: Jeffrey L. Dahmer is in court where he was charged with eight more murders, bringing the total to 12. His bail was also increased from $1 million to $5 million. Photo: AP Photo/Jack Orton/Pool/NTB Show more
He had a special interest in dead animals. No one knew that it was a foreshadowing of the terrible things he would do later
Insane
Jeffrey Dahmer had been arrested four times before he was charged as a serial killer in 1991 and admitted to having killed 17 young men and boys.
– How can someone be polite, kind and otherwise quite normal and still do these things unless they are incredibly crazy or insane? the father told the Beacon Journal in 1991, after his son’s arrest.
The murders did not match the boy he remembered as a child. Jeffrey “wasn’t born a monster.”
Lionel visited his son in prison every month before he was beaten to death by a fellow inmate in 1994.
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