Following his cremation on Sept. 18, 1995, the serial killer's parents bickered over what to do with his brain. According to The Washington Post, Dahmer's mother, Joyce Dahmer (nee Flint), desperately wanted her son's brain examined to determine if biological factors influenced his despicable actions.
"Jeff always said that if he could be of any help, he wanted to do whatever he could," Joyce told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via The Washington Post. On the other hand, Dahmer's father, Lionel Dahmer, sought to cremate the brain because he wished to "put his son's actions behind him."
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On Dec. 13, 1995, a judge ordered for Dahmer's brain — which had been preserved at the request of Joyce in hopes of having it studied by scientists at Fresno State University in California — to be cremated. According to the Los Angeles Times, "Columbia County Circuit Judge Daniel George made his ruling during an hourlong hearing to decide what to do with the brain."
As a result, the scientists at Fresno State could never study Dahmer's brain.
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