
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, February 13, 1994                   TAG: 9402130106
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MILWAUKEE                                LENGTH: Short

DAHMER'S DAD HAD HIS OWN COMPULSIONS

The father of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer says he dreamed of committing murder as a child, and that he shoulders at least part of the blame for his son's atrocities.

"I have come to believe that some of the compulsions that overwhelmed my son may have had their origins in me," Lionel Dahmer writes in his newly published autobiography, "A Father's Story."

In the book, parts of which were quoted in Saturday's Milwaukee Sentinel, Lionel Dahmer said he was obsessed as a child with fire and bombs, and had a recurring dream about murdering someone.

The book also recounts the childhood of Jeffrey Dahmer, who is serving 16 life sentences for the mutilation murders of young men and boys.

The elder Dahmer said he once found a small wooden box that his son refused to open. He later learned the box contained the head of one of Jeffrey Dahmer's victims. - Associated Press

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