Netflix’s new sensation, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, has given us much to reflect on and has even made us investigate details that the series mentions to us. If any of you have wondered what happened to the family of this feared serial killer and the surviving victim, here we answer this question.
Let us remember that Jeffrey Dahmer is considered one of the bloodiest serial killers of the 20th century and is also known as the “Milwaukee Butcher”, since he killed 17 young people and children between 1978 and 1991. As if this were not enough , kept some parts of their corpses and even committed acts of cannibalism. Captured in 1991 and sentenced to 16 life sentences, his story has been told multiple times for decades and doubts about his family have also been constant.
Lionel Dahmer and Joyce Annette Flint were the parents of the “Milwaukee Butcher”. Currently, Lionel resides in Ohio, he is 86 years old and in 2020 he decided to move away from public life after he had shown his opinion about Jeffrey’s crimes for many years. In 1994, a few months after his son was murdered, he published a book titled The story of a fatherwhere he describes how his crimes affected him and delves into the relationship he had with him.
In his book, Lionel suggests that the medications his wife was taking during pregnancy could have negatively affected the baby’s brain. Furthermore, he questions whether Jeffrey’s shyness as a child was a sign of his murderous tendencies that he failed to see. In addition to this, the father blames himself for not having given him the emotional attention that he surely required.
During Jeffrey’s time in prison, when his father visited him, which, by the way, were constant visits, they always started with a hug. He possibly tried to enjoy the short time that he could be with his son.
On the other hand, Joyce, Jeffrey’s mother, died in 2000 from aggressive breast cancer. According to her, there were never any warning signs and she described her son as “a normal child”. Shortly before she died, she wanted her son’s brain to be donated to science so that it could be investigated if there was any physicochemical cause behind the cannibal’s brutal character. However, Lionel opted for cremation.
It is understood from some of his testimonies that he never got over his son’s criminal record and even tried to commit suicide months before he was murdered, because on one occasion he turned on the gas oven and left the door open. In addition, she left a note in which her unconditional mother’s love could be read and, between the lines, it was evident how difficult her situation was for her.
I still love my son. I never stopped loving him. He was a beautiful baby. He was a wonderful child. He was always loved.
Fortunately, it was found in time. While his parents tried to cope with the situation individually and with its emotional and psychological ups and downs, when the serial killer was arrested and his heinous acts were announced in the media, his younger brother decided to change his mind. identity. To this day his name is still unknown, but in 2004, in an interview, Lionel reported that David had a career and children; he is currently 56 years old.
Now that we talk about the Dahmer family and how difficult it was or has been for them, we could not leave out the only survivor who was able to escape from the hands of the “monster”. Tracy Edwards was the person the police were able to apprehend the criminal for and now, 30 years later, Tracy’s former attorney, Paul Ksincinski, has spoken out for the victim.
According to her story, Tracy was never able to rebuild her life after everything she lived through, as she abused drugs and alcohol, was homeless and went from one place to another. According to her attorney, her whereabouts are unknown and based on her background, she does not believe that she was able to recover from the trauma.
In addition, he added that the horror he experienced does not compare to what was recreated on television with the Netflix series, since Tracy described that when he entered the apartment, he smelled “death” and Jeffrey put his head on his chest to hear the heartbeat. Give Your Heart. She finally threatened him with “I’m going to have to eat your heart.”
Paul has been the last person to speak on behalf of the victims, while relatives of one of them, Errol Lindsey, have criticized the series for reliving his trauma.