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Jeff and I talked a lot about his parents.  He loved them both.  He grieved over their wrs.  After being divorced for many years, their relationship was as bitter and harsh as the day they parted.  Most of the prayers we prayed were on his parents’ behalf.  Whether his family’s turmoil gave birth to his crimes is unknowable.  But it is significant to me that Jeff’s first murder took place the summer he was abandoned by both mother and father.

Dark Journey, Deep Grace; Jeffrey Dahmer’s Journey of Faith, Roy Ratcliff, pages 172, 173