Jeffrey Dahmer Recalls the Locked Box His Father Nearly Opened

One of the chilling stories that your dad tells-

Mm

... is about the box he had found.

Can you give me your, your perspective on that?

Uh, I had a box in my, uh,

bedroom closet,

and, uh, it,

it, uh, contained, uh, the mummified head and,

and, uh, genitals of,

uh, a young man I met in one of the bars down

in

Milwaukee,

and it was a locked metal box.

Uh, my dad, uh, one week came to visit,

and happened to see it, and, uh, we got into, uh, a

bit of an argument because I wouldn't open it up.

He, uh,

took the, the locked box down to the basement

and was about to, uh, smash it open.

What, what were you thinking as he was making his way downstairs to open the

box?

Well, I was outside, and I was

thinking, "I've got to stop this from happening."

Uh,

uh, I didn't know what I'd do or say. I didn't know what would happen.

I thought,

"You know, it's all gonna come crashing down now."

And, uh,

but the box was never opened,

uh, not in my dad's presence.

And so the, uh, the lies continued.

The whole scenario just

continued for years after that.

Were there ti-

All right, see you later, Dad.

After the interview at the prison,

Dahmer casually showed us something a

little

unsettling.

Just a point of interest. That, that's the type of box.

This is, this is the type of box?

Exactly.

He wanted us to know

that box looked strikingly like the one

his

father had found,

the one Jeffrey had used to hide body

parts.

Thank you, Jeff.

All right.

Jeffrey, take your coffee with you