Lionel let it go, though by this point keenly aware of how much of an “artful deceiver” his son had turned into - sprinkling just a bit of truth among a myriad of lies. When his grandmother found a gun under his bed, Jeff had insisted to his father that it was just a target pistol, for use at a shooting range. When he asked to see it, Lionel discovered it not a target pistol, but a Colt Lawman .357 Magnum with a two-a-half inch barrel - not the type found at a shooting range. Jeff explained it “didn’t matter that it was not actually a target pistol” as the range accepted any kind of gun. His grandmother later discovered him escorting a strange, staggeringly drunk man out of her house - but when Lionel questioned him of this, Jeffrey shrugged it off as another dumb thing, just him and a friend getting
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More experiments, Jeffrey would insist. No remains were ever found.
Jeffrey moved out the following fall, having made enough money from a long-term job at Ambrosia Chocolate Factory to get his own place. His first day on his own, he was arrested for drugging and raping thirteen-year-old Somsack Sinthasomphone, who had fled Jeff’s apartment and managed to get to police. For the first time, Jeff had crossed the “line which divides self-destruction from the destruction of another”. Jeff, released on bail under the condition he go back to live with his grandmother, volunteered little information of his charge to his family.
Eight months passed. Anthony Sears, 24, became the last victim drugged and strangled at Jeffrey’s grandmother’s house - as well as the first victim of whom Jeffrey kept any body parts. (Sun Journal) Lionel would hold Anthony’s head in his hands the day before Jeffrey’s sentencing - while helping Jeffrey pack his things, he’d discovered a small wooden box tightly sealed and
More experiments, Jeffrey would insist. No remains were ever found.
Jeffrey moved out the following fall, having made enough money from a long-term job at Ambrosia Chocolate Factory to get his own place. His first day on his own, he was arrested for drugging and raping thirteen-year-old Somsack Sinthasomphone, who had fled Jeff’s apartment and managed to get to police. For the first time, Jeff had crossed the “line which divides self-destruction from the destruction of another”. Jeff, released on bail under the condition he go back to live with his grandmother, volunteered little information of his charge to his family.
Eight months passed. Anthony Sears, 24, became the last victim drugged and strangled at Jeffrey’s grandmother’s house - as well as the first victim of whom Jeffrey kept any body parts. (Sun Journal) Lionel would hold Anthony’s head in his hands the day before Jeffrey’s sentencing - while helping Jeffrey pack his things, he’d discovered a small wooden box tightly sealed and