By Bond Robertson 
Lionel Dahmer died at a nursing home not far from his home in Ohio, a source close to the family said this week. A health care system employee confirms they were notified of Lionel’s death.
The retired chemist was in poor health and had been hospitalized repeatedly over the past year. He is also said to have been deeply affected by the death of his second wife, Jeffrey Shari’s stepmother, in a nursing home in January.
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He asked about his son
Lionel is survived by his youngest son, David, and David’s two children.
-Early this morning, I was told that Lionel died in hospice. He just fell asleep. He had been in a nursing home since October after his health deteriorated and he was transferred to a hospital in Medina, Ohio. A source close to the family said that Lionel was suffering from heart problems and was taking medication.
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– In recent months he had been receiving intensive treatment and had hallucinations that he saw Jeff. He was incoherent and asked if people had seen Jeff. He said Jeff came to see him. He also asked about Shari, and it was as if he was trying to remember the good times, continues the source.
The source explains that Lionel’s health began to deteriorate after Shari’s death last January the sun.
-At first it was slow, but he didn’t want to get up and move around much. It was as if he was ready to die. There are a lot of people who have a lot of respect and admiration for Lionel because of what he went through with Jeff and how he handled it. The source explains that it is a very sad day for those who cared for him.
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Lionel Dahmer stood by his son after he was exposed as a serial killer and sex offender. He himself received a lot of attention after he wrote the book “A Father’s Story” about his experience with Jeffrey.
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-We became very close to each other after his arrest. I still love my son. “I’ll always support him, I always have,” he said in a 1994 interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Horrific murders
Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison for killing and mutilating 17 men and boys in Wisconsin and Ohio between 1978 and 1991.
Many of the murders involved cannibalism, necrophilia, and storage of body parts.
The serial killer was beaten to death at the age of 34 by an inmate in a Wisconsin prison in 1994.
The story of Jeffrey Dahmer has continued to horrify and fascinate ever since the details of the serial killer became public knowledge. Last year, Netflix released the drama series “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.”
The series became Netflix’s second most popular English-language series of all time, and the following month, Netflix released the documentary series Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes.
According to the source, the renewed interest in his son was a challenge for Lionel.
– The repercussions of the Netflix series and the documentary series last year affected him. People started coming to his house, and he was getting calls at random times of the day about this, which made him nervous. He was worried about his safety.