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The Truth Behind Our Obsession With True Crime Stories<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s impossible to truly process what Jeffrey Dahmer<\/strong> did<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s at least part of the reason why the serial killer who dismembered 17 boys and young men between 1978 and 1991\u00a0has been revisited so many times over the past 30 years<\/a>, including in the 2012 film\u00a0Dahmer<\/em>, starring Jeremy Renner<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0as the unassuming-looking destroyer of so many lives.<\/p>\n

A reminder that the obsession with true crime didn’t start with Netflix<\/a> or podcasts<\/a>, evil-among-us\u00a0stories have been fueling content\u2014scripted and otherwise\u2014for decades.\u00a0Though\u00a0the rebirth of the genre as high-brow, polished\u00a0and award-winning\u00a0is<\/em> a little newer.<\/p>\n

And now the Ryan Murphy<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and Ian Brennan<\/strong>-created\u00a0DAHMER\u2014Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story\u00a0<\/em>(in case there was any confusion as to what the show is about),\u00a0starring Evan<\/strong> <\/a>Peters<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>has become one of Netflix’s most-watched original series of all time<\/a>\u00a0and is nominated for four Golden Globes<\/a>, including Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.<\/p>\n

Call it the height of morbid fascination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“The interest in true crime, I’m not so quick to say it’s all very prurient and awful,” Anne E. Schwartz<\/strong>,\u00a0author of\u00a0Monster: The True Story of the Jeffrey Dahmer Murders<\/em>\u00a0and the reporter who broke the story for the Milwaukee Journal\u00a0<\/em>in 1991, told E! News in an interview. “I think we’re trying to figure out why<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

She attributed some of the enduring interest in Dahmer, as well as his nearly instant infamy after he was caught, to the fact that nothing about him\u2014other than the very average “Sure, he was strange” impression of him\u2014set off alarm bells.<\/p>\n

“There is nothing about his background,” Schwartz said, “until we go back and really cherry-pick everything we can, that makes us go, ‘Oh, here’s the foreshadowing.'”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cherry-picking is what\u00a0Monster<\/em>\u00a0does\u2014and, as the author pointed out, it’s\u00a0easy now<\/em> to pinpoint every glaring red flag and missed opportunity to catch him.\u00a0(Schwartz was not involved with the making of the Murphy series; her publisher retitled her book Monster<\/em>\u00a0for its 2021 reissue.)<\/p>\n

“We do like to play the blame game, because it always has to be somebody’s fault,” Schwartz said. “And if we look into these cases long enough, we’ll find it.”<\/p>\n

The fact that most of Dahmer’s victims were Black and he preyed on members of\u00a0Milwaukee’s marginalized queer\u00a0community is often cited by critics of the investigation as the main reason why police didn’t suspect they had a serial killer in their midst sooner. (That\u00a0characterization has been roundly denied by those involved with the case.)<\/p>\n

Still, even events viewed through a hyperaware 21st-century lens have disturbed some who would prefer that Dahmer’s crimes be laid to rest for good.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Why has\u00a0Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story\u00a0<\/em>sparked controversy?<\/h2>\n

Objections to the dramatization of\u00a0a traumatic true story are not unusual, with scripted retellings of cases ranging from the O.J. Simpson<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0trial to the Manson <\/strong>Family\u00a0killing spree<\/a> to the unsolved murder of JonBen\u00e9t Ramsey<\/strong><\/a> having had their share of repulsed detractors<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the\u00a0Monster<\/em> backlash has felt\u00a0particularly heated, with\u00a0Rita Isbell<\/strong>, whose brother\u00a0Errol Lindsey<\/strong> was murdered by Dahmer in 1991, calling the series\u00a0“harsh and careless<\/a>.” Alleging that Netflix just wanted to\u00a0“get paid,” Isbell told\u00a0<\/a>Insider<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>that\u00a0Monster <\/em>recreated her reading of a victim impact statement<\/a> at Dahmer’s 1992 trial without giving her so much as a heads-up.<\/p>\n

“I feel like Netflix should’ve asked if we mind or how we felt about making it,” she said. “They didn’t ask me anything. They just did it.”<\/p>\n

The show has also upset members of Milwaukee’s Black queer community, some of whom\u00a0were living in the city when Dahmer was cruising\u00a0the local nightlife for victims, starting in 1987. He didn’t stop\u00a0until his arrest on the night of July 22, 1991, when 32-year-old Tracy Edwards<\/strong> managed to escape\u00a0from soon-to-be-infamous unit\u00a0213 at the Oxford Apartments and flag down two police officers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Ryan Murphy has just been so amazing for the community,” Eric Wynn<\/strong>, 59, who used to perform in drag shows at a club Dahmer frequented and knew victim Tony Hughes<\/strong>, told NBC News<\/a>. “And then to turn around and just slap us like this for profit and sensationalism\u2014I was so disappointed.”<\/p>\n

B.J. Daniels<\/strong>, a Milwaukee-based drag performer, told WISN<\/a>, “I know a lot of my friends, and a lot of people who lived through this period, will not be watching it. They will not be putting money into somebody’s pocket that is literally disturbing the graves of victims.”<\/p>\n

Murphy\u2014known also for the likes of Glee\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Pose<\/em>, and\u00a0whose American Horror Story: Hotel<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>featured\u00a0a\u00a0host of serial killers<\/a>, including Dahmer (Seth Gabel<\/strong>)\u2014didn’t comment immediately on the backlash, but at an Oct. 27 promotional panel for the show he countered that they\u00a0did<\/em>\u00a0try to contact victims’ family members<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It’s something that we researched for a very long time,” said Murphy,\u00a0who will be presented with the\u00a0Carol Burnett Award honoring his body of TV work at the Golden Globes on Jan. 10. “And we\u2014over the course of the three, three and a half years when we were really writing it, working on it\u2014we reached out to around 20 of the victims’ families and friends trying to get input, trying to talk to people and not a single person responded to us in that process.”<\/p>\n

Murphy also expressed his displeasure at Netflix’s decision to quietly remove the “LGBTQ” category tag<\/a> from Monster\u00a0<\/em>after the show’s premiere (though they made the rare move of releasing its stellar viewing numbers), telling The New York Times<\/em><\/a> in October, “I didn’t like it and I asked why they did that and they said because people were upset because it was an upsetting story. I was, like, ‘Well, yeah.’ But it was a story of a gay man and more importantly, his gay victims.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Peters, a Golden Globe nominee for performance by an actor in a\u00a0limited series, anthology series or TV movie,\u00a0is about as disturbingly spot-on as you would expect of the Murphy series regular.\u00a0He has said that the\u00a0show\u00a0also focuses on the greater\u00a0issues\u00a0that\u00a0allowed Dahmer to carry on for as long as he did\u2014even after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy.<\/p>\n

“It’s called The Jeffrey Dahmer Story<\/em>,\u00a0but it’s not just him and his backstory,”\u00a0he told\u00a0Netflix Queue. “It’s the repercussions; it’s how society and our system failed to stop him multiple times because of racism and homophobia. Everybody gets their side of the story told.”<\/p>\n

To lean into those angles required some\u00a0artistic license<\/a>, such as turning Glenda Cleveland<\/strong><\/a>\u2014played by also-nominated\u00a0Niecy Nash-Betts<\/a><\/strong>\u2014into\u00a0the\u00a0<\/em>neighbor who knew something was horribly wrong\u00a0long before Dahmer was arrested. Murphy told the cast, according to Peters,\u00a0that the story “would never be told from Dahmer’s point of view.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Episode six of Monster<\/em>\u00a0unfolds from the perspective of the 31-year-old Hughes (Rodney Burford<\/strong>), a deaf, mute, fun-loving\u00a0aspiring model who actually knew Dahmer for some time before meeting an especially grim fate at his hands on May 24, 1991.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the overall city of Milwaukee, where\u00a0people have been\u00a0historically loath to relive the Dahmer case, not that\u00a0they’ve had much of a choice.<\/p>\n

“What happens every time you talk about the Jeffrey Dahmer case is we lay bare all of the pieces of the city that people don’t necessarily want to talk about,” Schwartz, who grew up in Milwaukee, explained. “We don’t like to talk about the state of policing, we don’t want to talk about whether there is racism in the city, whether there’s homophobia in the city. And it is just frankly a nasty story.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meanwhile, Netflix\u00a0doubled\u00a0down on Dahmer with the Oct. 7 premiere of Conversations With a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes<\/a><\/em>, the third installment of the Joe Berlinger<\/strong>-directed docuseries that previously\u00a0probed the behavior of serial killers Ted Bundy<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and John Wayne Gacy<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Framed around never-before-heard recordings of\u00a0talks\u00a0Dahmer had in prison with defense lawyer Wendy Patrickus<\/strong>, co-counsel for lead attorney Gerald Boyle<\/strong>, the four-episode series\u00a0is the more straightforward recap of events\u2014laced with 21st-century-era perspective from men who\u00a0knew some of the victims, local journalists, including Schwartz, and others who could attest to the cultural climate at the time that made the Dahmer case a multitentacled tragedy of epic proportions.<\/p>\n

There\u00a0will always be those who\u00a0say enough is enough whenever\u00a0a story like this\u00a0is retold, Schwartz said, but “there’s also another camp, which is, let’s try to understand. Let’s learn more about mental disease and defect. Let’s take a good look at where we were as a police department, at where we were when it came to investigative techniques, or places where there could have been an intervention\u2014because there could have been an intervention from other parts of our system besides the police.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Why did Jeffrey Dahmer kill people?<\/h2>\n

By all accounts,\u00a0including Dahmer’s in\u00a0Conversations with a Killer<\/em>, what he was seeking\u00a0all those years was a person who wouldn’t leave him.<\/p>\n

He\u00a0told Patrickus that he’d known since he was about 13 that he was gay, but it wasn’t something he was proud of or readily able to share with his conservative family growing up in Bath Township, Ohio. Investigators\u00a0didn’t find a history of mental illness in his family, though there was alcoholism on his mother’s side, and Dahmer was admittedly a heavy drinker. Parents\u00a0Lionel<\/strong> and Joyce<\/strong>\u00a0split up when he was\u00a015\u2014and when he was 18, his mother moved away and he said he never spoke to her again.<\/p>\n

A childhood friend, Eric Tyson<\/strong>, recalled\u00a0Dahmer collecting\u00a0animal carcasses they’d find when they want hiking. Dahmer would cut them open\u2014he recalled\u00a0taking\u00a0home the head of a fetal pig he dissected at school\u2014and keep the bones, though he didn’t actually kill any animals himself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He recalled some consensual experiences kissing other guys when he was 14 or 15.\u00a0But as he got older, he said, he started having\u00a0fantasies about, not just sex, but having total control over another man.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Who was Jeffrey Dahmer’s first victim?<\/h2>\n

On June 18, 1978, three weeks after he graduated from high school in Ohio, Dahmer picked up 18-year-old hitchhiker Steven Hicks\u00a0<\/strong>and brought him back to his parents’\u00a0house.<\/p>\n

When Hicks got up to leave, Dahmer “lost all feelings,” he recalled in the tapes, and hit Hicks in the head with a barbell and then strangled him with it. Talking to Patrickus in 1991, he said he felt a combination of excitement, control and “curiosity mixed with a lot of fear.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He hid Hicks’ body in the crawlspace under the house and dismembered him, disposing of the garbage bags in the woods.<\/p>\n

And yes, as seen in\u00a0Monster<\/em>, he was pulled over after his car crossed a center divide.\u00a0He told the\u00a0officer that he was a bit distraught because his parents were splitting up and he was just throwing away some trash.<\/p>\n

“Those are the kinds of things that make the story difficult for me,” Schwartz said, referring to that frustrating scene and the finger-pointing it’s provoked. “The fact that Dahmer slipped through the fingers of law enforcement\u2014my goodness, he was a serial killer.\u00a0It’s why serial killers go so long without getting caught, because they’re master manipulators.”<\/p>\n

Hicks’ family\u00a0wouldn’t know what happened to him for 13 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How did Dahmer become a serial killer?<\/h2>\n

So Dahmer was already a murderer when he moved to Milwaukee in 1981 to live with his grandmother\u00a0at her house in the suburb of West Allis. But he meekly blended in, getting a nightshift job as a mixer at the Ambrosia Chocolate Factory and stealing a mannequin from a department store to lie with at home.<\/p>\n

As far as authorities know, he didn’t kill again until 1987, when he met Steven Tuomi<\/strong>, 25, on the night of Nov. 21\u00a0and they rented a room at the Ambassador Hotel. Dahmer later told investigators he had been drinking a lot and blacked out, so he didn’t remember what happened.<\/p>\n

But when he woke up, Tuomi was dead, so Dahmer went out and bought a trunk to transport the body out of the hotel.\u00a0He said that the cab driver who drove him back to his grandma’s house even joked that he\u00a0must have had a dead body in\u00a0there since it was so heavy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What happened after the murder of Steven Tuomi?<\/h2>\n

“I wanted more,” Dahmer calmly told Patrickus, mentioning\u00a0his\u00a0“warped sex drive” and fruitless quest for fulfillment with a chillingly flat affect. “I was always searching for something more.”<\/p>\n

On Jan. 17, 1988, he\u00a0killed James Doxtator<\/strong>, 14, and then\u00a0Richard Guerrero<\/strong>, 22, on March 27, 1988\u2014both at his grandmother’s house. Some people\u2014such as Tuomi\u2014willingly went with him for the promise of a hook-up, but he lured\u00a0others, such as Doxtator,\u00a0by promising $50 if he could photograph them.<\/p>\n

And he did take pictures\u2014horrific, graphic Polaroids, some of which were neatly organized in an album when police finally caught up with him in 1991.<\/p>\n

Seeking total control in his unhinged manner, he drugged his victims and strangled them while they were unconscious. He’d sexually violate the corpses and then cut them into pieces, saving numerous skulls, bones, organs and pieces of tissue along the way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to Schwartz’s book, there was a whole head in the refrigerator when he was arrested, plus\u00a0heads\u00a0in a deep freezer, a skeleton dangling from\u00a0the showerhead,\u00a0assorted skulls on a kitchen shelf, hands in a stockpot, genitalia floating in jars and, in the corner of the bedroom, a big blue vat of…something.<\/p>\n

“Just to look at the barrel and know\u00a0what was inside made me nauseated,” Schwartz wrote.<\/p>\n

All of which meant that his victims, to the outside world, simply disappeared. This is what happened to\u00a0Anthony Sears<\/strong>, 24, in March 1989; Raymond Smith<\/strong>, 32, in May 1990;\u00a0Eddie Smith<\/strong>, 28, in June 1990; Ernest Miller<\/strong>, 22, in September 1990; David Thomas<\/strong>, 22, three weeks after Miller; and Curtis Straughter<\/strong>, 17, in February 1991.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then, according to authorities and the killer himself, he wondered if there was\u00a0a way he could get someone to stay without killing him.\u00a0Starting with 19-year-old Errol Lindsey in April 1991, Dahmer drilled a small hole in the young man’s head while he was unconscious, and injected what he said was muriatic acid into his brain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lindsey woke up,\u00a0according to Dahmer, but he re-drugged and strangled him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Why does the\u00a0murder of Konerak Sinthasomphone stand out from the others?<\/h2>\n

In the early morning hours of May 27, 1991, Sinthasomphone\u00a0escaped from Dahmer’s apartment while the killer went out to buy beer, but was escorted\u00a0back<\/em> by police.<\/p>\n

The 14-year-old was unable to communicate, both from being drugged and from having a hole drilled in his head, and despite objections from two young women\u00a0outside the apartment building\u00a0who insisted the teen was in trouble, police believed\u00a0Dahmer\u00a0when he told them Sinthasomphone was his boyfriend and they’d just had an argument.<\/p>\n

Glenda Cleveland, who lived nearby but not in the same building, was the mother of one of those girls and she called 911 to report that a boy was being abused, and ended up calling police multiple times.<\/p>\n

“He was let down as low as he could get,” she\u00a0told a reporter\u00a0after Dahmer’s arrest in a\u00a01991 interview<\/a>. “And that was to his grave. You can’t get much lower than that.”<\/p>\n

Cleveland’s daughter, Sandra Smith<\/strong>, who had tried to intervene that night, told the\u00a0<\/a>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>when her mother died in 2011, “I try not to think about it because it should have been different. A lot of things could have been prevented. I try not to dwell on that.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Portrayed in\u00a0Monster<\/em> as\u00a0the most reprehensible decision made by law enforcement in this case, reporters countered in the Berlinger docuseries that the two officers, John A. Balcerzak<\/strong>\u00a0and Joseph T. Gabrish<\/strong>,\u00a0probably thought they were being magnanimously tolerant of a lifestyle they knew nothing about.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There’s a recording played in\u00a0Conversations With a Killer<\/em> of the officers joking afterward to the dispatcher about what they’d just witnessed, one saying, “My partner’s gonna get deloused at the station.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, if they had peeked into the bedroom when\u00a0they accompanied the killer and victim back to the apartment, they would have seen Hughes’ body still lying there.<\/p>\n

After Dahmer’s arrest, Balcerzak and Gabrish were fired, but successfully appealed and were reinstated three years later, with a recommendation from a judge that they each receive $55,000 back pay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But somehow, this\u00a0part of the story actually gets more bizarre.<\/p>\n

Police actually did\u00a0<\/em>catch up with Dahmer long before he was ultimately put away. He\u00a0pleaded guilty\u00a0in January 1989 to second-degree sexual assault and enticing a child for immoral purposes\u00a0after drugging a\u00a014-year-old Laotian boy (a “Eurasian kid,” Dahmer remembered him) in September 1988.\u00a0The teen, whose name wasn’t public, managed to get away and when he got home, still groggy, his parents called the police.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors wanted Dahmer locked up for six years, according to E. Michael McCann<\/strong>, who served as district attorney of Milwaukee County from 1969 until 2007. The judge instead sentenced him to one year of work release. He killed Tony Sears before he had to report for sentencing.<\/p>\n

The boy who\u00a0survived\u00a0was\u00a0Sinthasomphone’s brother.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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How was Jeffrey Dahmer eventually caught?<\/h2>\n

After\u00a0losing his job at the chocolate factory, Dahmer went on a spree in the summer of 1991, killing Matt Turner<\/strong>, 20, on June 30, Jeremiah Weinberger<\/strong>, 23, on July 5, Oliver Lacy<\/strong>, 24, on July 15 and Joseph Bradehoft<\/strong>, 25, on July 19.<\/p>\n

On the night of July 21, he met Tracy Edwards, who accepted an invitation to a party back at Dahmer’s apartment.\u00a0Dahmer\u00a0got a\u00a0pair of handcuffs around one of Edwards’ wrists, but Edwards managed to resist the other bracelet and accompanied Dahmer into the bedroom, saying he’d pose for him. A videotape of\u00a0The Exorcist<\/em> III\u00a0<\/em>was playing,\u00a0Edwards told investigators,\u00a0<\/em>and Dahmer got distracted and started chanting to himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Edwards took the opportunity to run like hell. Milwaukee Police Officers Rolf Mueller<\/strong>, 39, and Robert Rauth<\/strong>, 41, were parked nearby and\u00a0ended up being the first members of law enforcement to see what was going on in that apartment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I’d never seen a scene like that, so quiet, when you walk up and there are that many people standing outside and that many people not speaking,” Schwartz, who was the first reporter\u00a0at the apartment after getting a tip from a\u00a0source in the middle of the night, told E!. “So it was clear that people were shocked by whatever was going on.”<\/p>\n

The first she heard from an officer was that the suspect in question had been saving body parts. “I’m thinking, Is this somebody who works in a morgue?” she recalled. “What is this?”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Edwards told the Associated Press<\/a> days later,\u00a0“He seemed so normal. He turned from Mr. Right to mister…It was like I was confronting Satan himself.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What happened to Jeffrey Dahmer?<\/h2>\n

Dahmer readily confessed to 11 murders and investigators subsequently linked him to six more, including\u00a0the\u00a01978 slaying of Hicks in Ohio, for which he was charged separately (and ultimately pleaded guilty).<\/p>\n

“Why don’t you just shoot me now for what I did?” now-retired Milwaukee Police Det. Dennis Murphy<\/strong>\u00a0recalled Dahmer\u00a0saying in the docuseries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was eventually\u00a0charged with two counts of first-degree murder and 13 counts of first-degree intentional homicide in Wisconsin. (The killing of Tuomi was left unprosecuted due to\u00a0Dahmer insisting he didn’t remember doing it.) He pleaded guilty but insane<\/a>, prompting an outcry of derision from the victims’ families.<\/p>\n

“Jeffrey Dahmer knows what he’s doing,” Eddie Smith’s sister Carolyn<\/strong> told the AP.\u00a0“He’s insulting our intelligence by saying he was insane.”\u00a0Shirley Hughes<\/strong>, Tony Hughes’ mother, called the plea “horrible.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A jury didn’t buy it, either,\u00a0and he was sentenced to life in prison on\u00a0Feb. 18, 1992.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t ever want freedom. Frankly I wanted death for myself,” Dahmer said in addressing the court for the first time. “This was a case to tell the world that I did what I did not for reasons of hate. I hated no one. I knew I was sick or evil, or both. Now I believe I was sick.”<\/p>\n

Dahmer spent his first year in prison in protective isolation, but was eventually let into the general population. On Nov. 28, 1994,\u00a0fellow inmate\u00a0Christopher Scaver<\/strong>, who was also serving a life sentence for murder,\u00a0beat a then-34-year-old Dahmer to death with a broomstick.<\/p>\n

“This is the last sad chapter in a very sad life,” McCann, the prosecutor who put Dahmer away,\u00a0said afterward.\u00a0“Tragically, his parents will have to experience the same loss the families of his victims have experienced.”<\/p>\n

The district attorney added, “I hope there will be no economic returns or celebration as a folk hero for the man that killed Jeffrey Dahmer.\u00a0God forbid, but I would not be surprised if it happened.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dahmer\u2014Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Conversations With a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes<\/em> are streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n

(Originally published Oct. 7, 2022, at 10: 22 a.m. PT<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Don’t miss the 2023 Golden Globe Awards on Tuesday, Jan. 10, at 8 p.m. ET\/5 p.m. PT on NBC and Peacock.<\/p>\n

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