Have you heard of a man named Jeffery Dahmer? If you haven’t, I would suggest that you crawl out from the rock you're under because he’s a well-known serial killer in the United States. If you are interested in learning more about Dahmer, I can recommend a few different ways. So, get cozy, grab some cocoa, and let's learn about a murderer.
The first place I would recommend learning about Dahmer would be Morbid: a true crime podcast. They have a three parter on the case of Dahmer with a total listening time of 3.13 hours. The hosts, Ash and Alaina, do thorough research and tell the story well. They do tend to banter and go off on tangents, but they manage to get back on track quickly enough that it isn’t too much of an interruption. It's been a few months since I've listened to these episodes of the podcast, but I can say that I learned 100 percent more than I knew before listening to them. The ladies do a deep dive into his case so you will get lots of good information.
If you’re just wanting to know just a little bit about Dahmer's background because you already know about his 17 victims, I would recommend taking a look at some articles about him just on the internet. I know that Wikipedia isn’t the most trustworthy site, but I believe the information on Dahmer to be true. His Wikipedia site has all of the information about his life from early childhood to his murders, to his death. It can be fun to jump down the rabbit hole and just research the heck out of a person or topic.
Finally, I’d recommend the brand spanking new Netflix series about Dahmer. Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story came out September 21, 2022. It has a total of 10 approximately 50-minute episodes. So far, I've watched about 3 of the episodes and I find them to be factual. I'm not an expert on Dahmer or anything but I can do a Google search, and I'm pretty good at deciding if I should trust a website and its articles. The first episode shows how Dahmer, played by Even Peters, ended up getting caught. The people and events seem mostly correct, but the timeline is off. Dahmer invited a man named Tracy Edwards back to his Milwaukee apartment and after about 5 hours he managed to escape the unlocked door. In the show Tracy isn’t there very long, and he has to fight through several locks on the door. But the show does get some minute details right, like how when Dahmer was on the ground after trying to run, he says "For what I did I should be dead." Or when the officer finds Dahmer’s Polaroids of dismantled bodies he says, “These are for real.”
The second episode of the series jumps around in time a bit, but they always give the year and place. They show child Dahmer, teen Dahmer and young adult Dahmer. They give a good sense of how his parents never gave him much attention and that he was a quiet, subdued child. There was a scene where his mother overdosed, and he had to call the ambulance for her, and how he became interested in animal bones and collected roadkill with his father. After he was discharged from the army, he ended up living with his grandmother and stole a male mannequin. They also showed the time where he was attempting to make sex zombies, but the kid got out and he managed to convince the police that they were boyfriends. It was kind of a jumbled episode, but it also made sense.
Overall, I'm excited to finish watching this series and I think it would be a good source of information for people wanting to learn more about Dahmer. The actor also looks remarkably similar to the real Dahmer which makes it feel more real. I'd say give this series a look or even just the true crime section that Netflix has.
Real Dahmer on the left, Netflix Dahmer on the right.
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