The sordid story behind Jeffrey Dahmer, the killer of the Netflix series

Netflix premiere Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, fiction created by Ian Brennan and Ryan Murphy. The series is based on the gruesome true story of Jeffrey Dahmer, a terrible serial killer known as the Milwaukee Cannibal which is played by Evan Peters, the Quicksilver of the X-Men saga who had already coincided with Murphy in the also very sinister American Horror Story series.

Dahmer, one of the most terrifying and notorious serial killers in black American history, committed his first murder in 1978 and his victim was Steven Hicks, a man he picked up doing hitch-hiking. The serial killer was active until 1991, killing 17 men and boys in the states of Wisconsin and Ohio.

His crimes generated a lot of commotion because, in addition to brutally murdering his victims, Dahmer also practiced necrophilia and cannibalism. He is also known as the Milwaukee Butcher, the Milwaukee Monster and even the Milwaukee Vampire, after murdering his victims. Dahmer He dismembered them and ate their remains.

A Dahmer He was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, and psychotic disorder. However, at trial he was deemed legally sane. Dahmer he was sentenced to 15 life sentences for 15 of the 16 murders he committed in Wisconsin. He was subsequently sentenced to a sixteenth life sentence for an additional homicide in Ohio.

His death was also marked by brutality. On November 28, 1994, he was beaten to death by Christopher Scarve, another inmate diagnosed with schizophrenia at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin, who killed another inmate in the same fight.

Monster: The Story of Jeffrey Dahmer It is not the first production that revolves around the figure of this mediatic and truculent serial killer. In 2002, a movie titled Dahmer, the Milwaukee Butcher, directed by David Jacobson and starring Jeremy Renner, the actor who brings Hawkeye to life in the Marvel Universe, was released.

In 2006 saw the light RaisingJeffrey Dahmer, a film focused on the reactions of Dahmer’s parents after his arrest in 1991 and in 2017 My friend Dahmer by Marc Meyers was released. There are also numerous documentaries including Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes, which is available on Netflix.