Let’s Stop Romanticizing Serial Killers

The second annual Gala for The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was full of bold fashion statements and served as the ultimate date night for Hollywood's most elite power-couples. The event presented by Rolex raised $10 million for the arts, sciences, and artists of movie-making. The four individuals honored were Miky Lee, Sir Steve McQueen, Julia Roberts, and Tilda Swinton, with the event being co-chaired by Halle Berry, Lupita Nyong'o, Ryan Murphy, and Jason Blum.

The co-creator of Netflix's "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" disagreed that the show was "sympathetic" to the man labeled the "Milwaukee Cannibal." The Netflix limited thriller series depicts the life of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who was known for committing murder and other heinous acts, including necrophilia and cannibalism, between 1978 and 1991. "I think we show a human being," co-creator Ian Brennan explained to Page Six during the premiere of his new Netflix series "The Watcher." He’s monstrously human, and he’s monstrously monstrous and that’s what we wanted to sort of unpack. "We tried to show an objective portrait as possible," he noted.

With the release of the Ryan Murphy-produced true-crime series “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”, family members of some of the notorious serial killer’s victims are expressing their displeasure with the dramatization.

A mother of one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims is speaking out following the release of Netflix’s "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story." Dahmer is played by Evan Peters in the series.  Shirley Hughes, the mother of Anthony Hughes, spoke to the Guardian briefly on Monday and said the way the show portrayed her son’s death and the aftermath "didn't happen." "I don't see how they can do that," Hughes, 85, shared with the outlet. "I don't see how they can use our names and put stuff out like that out there." The outlet noted that Hughes said it was difficult to talk about her son's murder and politely hung up the phone. The infamous serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, is played by Evan Peters, left, in the Netflix Series "Monster." (Getty/Netflix) Netflix did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.

The Guardian that she hadn’t seen the series in its entirety, but “it didn’t happen like that.”“I don’t see how they can do that,” Hughes, 85, said. “I don’t see how they can use our names and put stuff out like that out there,” she added, before saying it was difficult to discuss Tony’s murder and ending the interview.Tony, who was deaf and could not speak, was picked up by Dahmer at a Milwaukee gay bar on May 24, 1991, when Tony was 31. Dahmer took him home, drugged him, dismembered his body and kept his skull, according to the Associated Press.“When it first happened, I thought I would lose my mind,” Shirley told AP in 1992.In the Netflix series created by Ryan Murphy, Dahmer (Evan Peters) is seen donating money to the search effort for Tony (Rodney Burford) while, behind closed doors, cooking and eating his liver.

Netflix series about the serial killer.Speaking to The Guardian, Shirley Hughes said that she hadn’t seen all of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which focused one of its 10 episodes on her son. However, she concluded that the events depicted “didn’t happen like that,” before questioning how such a show came to be made.“I don’t see how they can do that,” Hughes said.

Jeffrey Dahmer continues to grow following the release of the Netflix true-crime limited series,, he is the subject of the new docuseries,, which offers additional perspectives on the serial killer’s murders. One of them is Wendy Patrickus, who was a young attorney when she was tasked with spending over 30 hours with Dahmer, interviewing him about his life and crimes. “I felt like Clarice Starling in ,” Patrickus says in the first episode of the three-part documentary, before detailing her experience sitting across the table from her client from July to October 1991, trying to absorb all the gruesome details Dahmer revealed about the 17 men and teenage boys he killed over a 13-year span. In order to get all the information that she got out of him, Patrickus says she had to convince him “that I’m not somebody sitting here judging him.” In fact, she had to build a trust with him so that he felt comfortable opening up to her for as long as he did.

Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment, where he was handcuffed and held captive by the serial killer. His escape is what led police to finally arresting Dahmer, who up until that time, murdered 17 men and teenage boys since 1978. Now, over 30 years later, Edwards’ former defense lawyer, Paul Ksicinski, is speaking out now that the harrowing encounter has been recreated in Ryan Murphy’s true-crime Netflix series,. In an interview with Fox News Digital, Ksicinski said the tragic events “destroyed his life.”  “He could never get his life together again after that.

Despite his upbringing, Dahmer’s faith was often left out of reports about him, something Dahmer seemed to take issue with.

Although serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is long deceased, his name has caused a buzz again in the news, this time in conjunction with pop stars Katy Perry and Kesha. In the wake of "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" being released just under a week ago on Netflix, climbing to the top spot on the streaming service, fans are critical of two songs, sung by Perry and Kesha, that made crude references to the cannibalistic acts of Dahmer.

https://t.co/0O60tPrtxS“Adnan’s case was a mess — is a mess. That’s pretty much where we were when we stopped reporting in 2014,” Koenig said.