Dahmer Quotes

“It was a level of obliviousness, or perhaps denial, that was scarcely imaginable, and yet it was real. It was as if I had locked my son in a soundproofed booth, then drawn the curtains so that I could neither hear nor see what he had become.”
― Lionel Dahmer, A Father's Story

“Dahmer was as manipulative and calculating as the other killers we've covered in this book, demonstrating a keen understanding of how to evade capture the vast majority of his victims were Black men, not because Dahmer was exclusively attracted to the them but because he knew that police were much less likely to investigate their disappearances. In this, he was absolutely correct, harkening back to the "less dead" theory we discussed in Gacy's case. When you add gay and poor to that victim profile as many of Dahmer's victims were, you've got the perfect trifecta of investigative apathy.”
― Marcus Parks, The Last Book On The Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History’s Most Notorious Serial Killers

“When I was a little kid, I was just like anybody else.”
“I made my fantasy life more powerful than my real one.”
“I carried it too far, that’s for sure”
― Jeffrey L. Dahmer

“I should have gone to college and gone into real estate and
got myself an aquarium. That’s what I should have done.”
― Jeffrey L. Dahmer

“trained myself to view people as objects of potential pleasure instead of people.”
― Jeffrey L. Dahmer

“Yes, I do have remorse, but I’m not even sure myself whether it is as profound as it should be. I’ve always wondered myself why I don’t feel more remorse”
― Jeffrey L. Dahmer