American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s father, Lionel, opened up about his son’s killings and missed opportunities when he could have stopped them.
In the clips obtained by TMZ, Dahmer gave an interview to Dr. Phil, which is scheduled to air in the last week of November. During the conversation, Lionel revealed two opportunities that could have told the gruesome truth of his son’s life but were eventually missed for various reasons.
When Dr. Phil asked him how he took the news of Jeffrey being a murderer, Lionel said:
“I think that at some point between the ages of 12 and 14 when he was coming out of his puberty, his s*xual engines were in high drive and he was touching the insides of these animals. He just got hard-wired, neurally, into connecting s*xual pleasure with this type of activity on trails, insides of bodies.”
He stated that, in retrospect, the indicators of a killer hiding within his kid existed but were overlooked.
Lionel Dahmer regrets not being insistent enough for Jeffrey to open the mysterious wooden box
In Netflix’s true crime series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, the serial killer’s grandmother shows him a wooden box that consisted of Lionel’s photos and achievements. The box was eventually taken by Jeffrey.
During the interview, Lionel recalled an incident involving the wooden box that Jeffrey used to store in his room while staying in Milwaukee when he had already begun his murder spree. He told Dr. Phil:
“When I made the visit to Milwaukee I saw this box in the closet in his room. I said I’m gonna open it and I started going down to the basement to get a tool to open up the box, and he kept complaining that he couldn’t even have one foot square of his own property to do with what he wants.”
