Shari Dahmer, stepmother of notorious cannibal killer Jeffrey Dahmer, dead at 81 trends now
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The stepmother of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer died on Friday at age 81.
Shari Dahmer passed away at the nursing home in Seville, Ohio, where she had been living near the home she shared with her husband and Jeffrey Dahmer's father, Lionel.
She is believed to have died from complications related to a downturn of health she had experience in recent years, according to the US Sun.
Shari was known for staying with her husband, now 86, even as the horrifying truth of his son's brutally violent cannibalistic crimes came to light.
Shari Dahmer passed away at the nursing home in Seville, Ohio, where she had been living near the home she shared with her husband and Jeffrey Dahmer's father, Lionel
Shari sits alongside Lionel Dahmer during Jeffrey Dahmer's trial
Shari and Lionel married in 1978 after he divorced Jeffrey's mother.
She never had children of her own, but said she felt an immediate desire to mother Jeffery when she married Lionel.
Shari said her impression of Jeffery was that he was a 'vulnerable' young
