His descriptions of his own childhood pyromania are pretty amazing, as are his expressions of sad, mild sympathy for his son. How do you reconcile the son you love unconditionally has ended the lives of so many other beloved sons?

In his book, "A Father's Story," Lionel Dahmer shares his personal journey and struggles in coming to terms with his son's heinous crimes. I don't believe that how Jeff turned out was solely because of her mental illnesses and the medication she took while pregnant with him. And the outcome was still a single man taking many lives and shattering so many others in the process of dissolving his own loneliness. I tried to keep my son in the role of victim, someone who had haplessly gotten ensnared in a net of terrible circumstances.

Both Apple and Google state that they ensure that only users who have actually downloaded the app can submit a review. A final chapter, added after Jeffrey's death in prison, simply adds a film of utter loathing to the reading experience, as father somehow contrives to tie in a possible redemption for his son with an incoherent, self-serving diatribe about the righteousness of intelligent design. I have read a lot if literature pertaining to Jeff's crimes , people who think they could explain it based on psychiatric judgements etc so it's refreshing to reading an account from a entirely personal view, not a doctors or a someone who poured over hours of transcripts but from his actual father.

They filed a wrongful death suit against Dahmer, his wife Shari Dahmer, and his former wife Joyce Flint, citing parental negligence as the cause for the claim. J'avais vu la série quand c'est sortie (je l'ai même écouté 2 ou 3 fois) et ce livre nous permet de suivre mais avec une autre vision que celle de Jeffrey, celle de son père. At that point, I believed that it was my son's madness that most powerfully and permanently separated us.

He can speculate; he can point a finger at this situation or that situation; he can look inward and berate himself for all his failings as a parent. I found out that after this book was published that Joyce Dahmer, Jeffrey’s mother, interpreted it as a direct attempt to blame her, the mother. An anguished memoir written by the father of a serial killer, trying to imagine what went so horribly wrong inside his family. As news of Jeffrey's crimes broke, Dahmer describes the disbelief and anguish that he and his family experienced.

He tries out the blame shoe on everybody and everything—media, drugs, Mom, school, genetics, and mostly himself.For the most part, Jeff was a fairly average kid, who grew into a awkward teen whose alcoholism went unnoticed by his parents who were distracted by their own problems. The family's struggle to reconcile the son and brother they knew with the monstrous actions he committed is movingly depicted. Dahmer's story is terrifying precisely because his blindness to his son's insanity was inseparable from his love for him. Alongside 'My Friend Dahmer', this is the best book I have read about him in terms of trying to understand what drove him to do what he did.

The side effects of this horrible tragedy claimed many additional victims, including the families of all the young men who died.

The parents of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were in the same dilemma – they suspected, they worried, they confronted, they accepted explanations they shouldn’t have, what could they do? In that sense, I'm not sure Lionel's insights into Jeff are particularly worthwhile in terms of what they reveal about Jeff, but they are certainly worthwhile in terms of what the reveal about him and about human nature in general. All through the book, Dahmer juggles his paternal love for Jeffrey with the acceptance that his son committed unspeakable acts. He remembers instances of Jeffrey's odd behavior, such as his fascination with roadkill, but admits that he did not find it alarming at the time. I always believed the lie that the theory of evolution is truth, that we all came from the slime and when we died that was it.