A Fathers Story, Lionel Dahmer
A Fathers Story, Lionel Dahmer
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A Father's Story

Author: Lionel Dahmer

Narrator: Scott R. Pollak

Unabridged: 5 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2024


Synopsis

Raising a serial killer

A Father's search for answers

In July of 1991, the country was shocked by the unfathomable crimes of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. But no one was more shocked than his parents. In A Father's Story, the listener becomes witness to the incremental unraveling of a parent's image of their child, and the thousand different reactions that follow. In his attempt to understand the nature of his son's psychosis, Lionel Dahmer methodically scrutinizes every possible contributing factor to his son's madness. His desperation is palpable as he searches for clues in the emotional, psychological, and genetic landscape of his son's life.

Riveting and soul-wrenching, this unprecedented memoir is the confession of a father who must confront the saddest truth a human can know—that his child has somehow crossed the line that separates the human from the monstrous.

©1991 Lionel Dahmer. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on September 25, 2022

This is a very difficult meditation on blame and a dignified, moving and quite riveting exercise in soul-baring and self-laceration by a stoic harshly condemning his own stoicism and trying with his scientist’s rationalism to be even-handed whilst facing the hardest question : how did this human bei......more

Goodreads review by Shaun on August 20, 2016

This book presents a rare opportunity to see an evil man, whom most of us dismiss as an abomination, through the eyes of a loving parent. It's hard enough to wrap one's head around the atrocity known as serial murder, now imagine that that the serial murderer is your son. Except Lionel Dahmer didn't......more

Goodreads review by Joshua Nomen-Mutatio on September 11, 2010

The most interesting and emotionally challenging book I read during my bygone period of fascination with the sorts of issues that delve into the supremely dark sewers of human nature -- and serial killers certainly fit and (greatly define) the bill. It's heartbreaking and of course covers all the ob......more

Goodreads review by Monzy on March 10, 2011

This is one of the most underrated and rarest books, it took me forever and great effort to find it but it was well worth it. Lionel Dahmer shares his and his son's tragic and sad story and provides some theories on why his son came to be a pedophile and necrophiliac monster, you could sense while......more

Goodreads review by Tiff on May 08, 2023

Blasted through this audio book in less than 24 hours! While I don't feel I learned much more about Jeffrey Dahmer, seeing a new perspective of his life was highly interesting and extremely sad. A side to the story we rarely get to hear when the infamy of someone's crimes overshadows who they were a......more