From the director of
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes comes
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes. This crime documentary series directed by Joe Berlinger. This three-part documentary series from director Joe Berlinger explores the warped mind of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer through newly-unearthed recorded interviews with his legal team, revealing the ways that race, sexuality, class and policing allowed him to prey upon Milwaukee’s marginalized communities.
On May 21, 1960, American serial killer and sex offender, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster) was born. Dahmer committed the murder and dismemberment of seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Many of his later murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism, and the permanent preservation of body parts — typically all or part of the skeleton. Although he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, and a psychotic disorder, Dahmer was found to be legally sane at his trial. On February 17, 1992, he was convicted of fifteen of the sixteen murders he had committed in Wisconsin and was sentenced to fifteen terms of life imprisonment. Dahmer was later sentenced to a sixteenth term of life imprisonment for an additional homicide committed in Ohio in 1978. On November 28, 1994, Dahmer died after he was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver, a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin.
Fascinating true-crime fanatics all over social media, but the new docuseries makes me want to look over my shoulder like I did during Dahmer's reign of terror. The series draws its strength precisely from what many have misunderstood as an error that serial killers are perfectly capable of integrating as the neighbor next door. Contains audio interviews with the killer, which have been leaving viewers "terrified". I wouldn't go that far, but it is a fascinating look into the killer's mind as well as the societal factors which drove him to commit such evil. The experience of watching the series is characterized by prurience, self-obsession, and, ultimately, a failure to hold to account the men who should have investigated these crimes properly. Berlinger handles the material with the significance it deserved. His use of archival footage, images, and interviews paint a full and complete picture of the events. Berlinger brings new facts to light here including new details, expert witness interviews with people speaking out for the first time and 100 hours of Dahmer's audio tape interviews with his legal team. The series, though, is far from a passionate crusade against capital punishment; featuring hours of Dahmer's unimaginable crimes, the movie makes death seem like the only fitting option. If we are judging the series on just the merits of where it stands with its true crime brethren, the best thing to say is it's enjoyably familiar. And yes, that is a compliment. The project gives relatively short shrift to one of the creepier aspects of Dahmer's story -- namely, the spectators, many of them young men, who were drawn to the case -- a fascination, clearly, that continues.
Simon says Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes receives:
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