American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s father Lionel has opened up about his son’s murders and missed opportunities when he could have stopped them.
In clips obtained by TMZ, Dahmer gave an interview to Dr. Phil, which is set to air the last week of November. During the conversation, Lionel revealed two opportunities that could have revealed the horrible truth about his son’s life but were ultimately missed for various reasons.
When asked by Dr. Phil how he took the news that Jeffrey was a murderer, Lionel replied:
“I think at some point between the age of 12 and 14, when he was coming out of puberty, his sexual motors were in full swing and he was touching the insides of these animals, connecting sexual pleasure to this type of activity on the trails, inside the bodies.”
He said, in retrospect, clues of a killer hidden in his child existed but were ignored.
Lionel Dahmer regrets not pushing hard enough for Jeffrey to open the mysterious wooden crate
Inside Netflix’s True Crime Series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, the serial killer’s grandmother shows him a wooden box made up of Lionel’s photos and creations. 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 bedroom during his stay in Milwaukee when he had already begun his killing spree. He told Dr. Phil:
“When I did the tour in Milwaukee, I saw this box in his bedroom closet. I said I was going to open it and started going down to the basement to get a tool. to open the box, and he kept complaining that he couldn’t even get a square foot of his own property to do whatever he wants.”
Dr. Park Dietz, Jeffrey Dahmer’s psychiatrist, said Dahmer had a rare paraphilia known as splanchnophilia. It is when an individual finds the viscera and internal organs sexually arousing, especially in the texture and appearance of said organs. https://t.co/IPUMMUctBy
At the time Lionel was adamant about opening the box as he believed it to be pornographic material. Apparently, Jeffrey convinced his father to leave the situation alone for the night because he didn’t want to disturb his grandmother who was also in the house:
“And he actually convinced me to wait. ‘Wait until tomorrow dad,’ he said and I’ll open the door for you then, but don’t do anything now.”
According to TMZ, Lionel told Dr. Phil that the wooden box consisted of a severed human head the entire time. Jeffrey used the time that night to replace it with pornographic magazines to show Lionel what was in them.
Lionel also regretted that he hadn’t pushed enough for Jeffrey to open the wooden box that night because he would have found the lead and might have been able to stop his son’s heinous activities.
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