In a new documentary series, much frightening concrete evidence from the Jeffrey Dahmer case has already been made public. The bloodthirsty serial killer had dominated social media since the last month when Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story became available on Netflix. In the television series, Evan Peters played the heinous part of the murderer. He killed 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991.
Conversations with a Killer
After the dramatization, Netflix recently made available Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes (October 7). Interviews with significant players in the case are included in the three hours series, including Wendy Patrickus, the attorney who defended Dahmer after his arrest in 1991.
Most people would concur that being required to defend such a heinous murderer is a difficult job in and of itself, but Patrickus’ first defense assignment added to the difficulty. The documentary series intercuts recordings of her chats with Dahmer as he admits and details his misdeeds, which included murder, necrophilia, and cannibalism. To put it mildly, it’s distressing to watch shows where the dramatization did not alter any of the specifics; if any, they were understated.
Dahmer’s Capture
After Dahmer’s capture, officers first discovered a genuine home of horrors at the murderer’s apartment, which they took after survivor Tracy Edwards made it out. Images display every aspect of the instruments and supplies he used to disembowel his captives to the corpses and scorched skulls that were some of them.
The trial for Dahmer began on January 30, 1991, after a jury indicted him on 15 counts of murder. Dahmer claimed insanity as a defense due to the overwhelming amount of proof against him, but the defense contended that his urges were irrepressible. After a two-week trial, he was declared sane, accused of all 15 murder charges, and given 15 life sentences—one for each victim.
