Eventually, Jeffery Dahmer’s brain and body were cremated and the ashes were divided between his mother and father after a judge decided the brain should be cremated. His father, Lionel Dahmer, favored cremation, saying that is what his son wanted. His mother, Joyce Flint, wanted the brain studied to determine whether biological factors were behind her son’s homicidal behavior, which included necrophilia and cannibalism.
Convicted of killing 16 boys and men, Dahmer was arrested after body parts were found in his Milwaukee apartment in July 1991.Īfter Dahmer’s death, his brain was kept in formaldehyde in the state pathologist’s office while his divorced parents disagreed over what to do with it.
There was no public funeral.īundy requested in his will that his ashes be scattered over Washington state’s Cascade Mountains, where the remains of at least four of his victims were found.ĭahmer was beaten to death by a fellow inmate while serving life prison sentences in 1994.
