People are thirsting for Jeffrey Dahmer after Netflix show turns killer into sex symbol

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.

Netflix show ever. The platform’s statistics for the week of Oct. 3rd to the 9th showed that the drama, starring Evan Peters as notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, drew in 205.33 million hours of viewing time worldwide.

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.

Joe Berlinger is certain Jeffrey Dahmer had a "death wish" when the serial killer requested to be moved to general population. It was February 1992 when Dahmer arrived at Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin, to serve 15 consecutive life sentences. His horrific crimes had drawn worldwide attention, and he was nicknamed the "Milwaukee Cannibal." Police officials decided to put Dahmer in protective custody out of concern that an inmate would attempt to make a name for himself by targeting the killer.

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.

Whether it’s a documentary detailing the heinous crimes of the world’s most despicable serial killers or a dramatical exploration of what makes a murderer tick, the Netflix generation has no doubt become addicted to true crime shows. Netflix’s Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has become one of the most successful series for the streaming giant, with almost 500m hours viewed since its launch.

true-crime scripted series,, the gruesome murderer is now the subject of, the third installment in the ongoing docuseries about notable serial killers from director and executive producer Joe Berlinger. Ahead of its debut, the longtime true-crime filmmaker spoke to ET about the recent attention surrounding Dahmer and his efforts for the stories recounted in the docuseries to be “responsibly told and sensitive to the victims,” while also acknowledging why the families of those killed did not want to participate here.  While Ryan Murphy’s dramatization of Dahmer’s life and crimes has become the platform’s biggest debut, with audiences logging over 196 million hours in its first week of streaming, it has also drawn backlash from relatives of the victims, who say that they’ve been retraumatized by the limited series and that they weren’t contacted about the project. When it comes to the three-part documentary, which is largely told through Dahmer’s own words via previously unheard audio recordings and on-camera appearances by his legal team, friends of the victims and various experts, Berlinger’s team had “a massive grid” of everyone they reached out to.

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.

Netflix's series on the disturbing story of Jeffrey Dahmer, a serial killer who operated from 1978 to 1991 and claimed the lives of 17 people, has been watched by thousands of dans worldwide. The gripping, and often incredibly traumatic show, examines the vile murderer's crimes but not all of the scenes shown are entirely based on facet. The journalist who first broke the story more than 30 years ago has pointed out a series of inaccuracies in a new interview.

The father of satanic cannibal serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer said he would have liked his wicked son to meet the same cruel end as his innocent victims. The infamous killer, also known as the 'Milwaukee Cannibal' murdered 17 young men and boys who he then cut up and even sometimes ate between the years of 1978 and 1991.

Netflix has removed the LGBTQ tag from series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story after it was criticised by viewers.The series was categorised with the LGBTQ tag when it was first released on September 21, but it was removed two days later on September 23, according to Variety.At the time of its release, the show was also tagged under “ominous”, “psychological”, “horror”, “vintage crime” and “dark”.As reported by the Los Angeles Times, the tag’s attachment to the series was criticised by some viewers. While Dahmer fits the category as a serial killer who was a gay man, as one viewer on TikTok noted, “this is not the representation we’re looking for”.On Twitter, a viewer wrote: “Why would Netflix put the dahmer story under lgbtq….

Telling the truth. Jeffrey Dahmer’s victim’s family spoke out about the two new Netflix shows about the serial killer. Rita Isbell, brother of Errol Lindsey who was one of the last victims of Dahmer, wrote an essay for Insider about how she and her family were impacted by the show.