Lionel, however, isn't happy with the "perfect storm" scenario, which is admittedly vague and non-specific. Joyce, in a later interview, was shocked at the things Lionel said about her and she said to Stone Phillips in the interview on youtube that the things in the book were false. 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.

When I think back on the interview I gave to Inside Edition so many months ago, I hear the interviewer's question once again: “Do you forgive your son?I was shocked to find Lionel Dahmer's writing so compulsively readable, well-written, and hauntingly open. During these strange seizures, her eyes would bulge like a frightened animal, and she would begin to salivate, literally frothing at the mouth.

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.Not always the parents are monsters, not always they are responsible for their children becoming what they end up becoming. Awkward and insecure, plagued by a grave sense of my own inadequacy, as a child I had conceived of the world as something hostile and suspicious, a place that sometimes confused me, and which, because of that, I had come to regard with a sense of grave uneasiness.

Maybe it's because secretly I am a sicko who wants to know more about the minds of serial killers and their families.She left him her car and he promptly picked up hitchhiker Steve Hicks and murdered him and cut him up. Everything that Lionel ignored, now comes back to haunt him and he's like, "Oh, so that's what it meant. He says very firmly that all this shoving the responsibility onto this person or that person or alcohol or drugs, it’s all bullshit.