![]() Marc Meyers's My Friend Dahmer is a sobering riposte to these earlier, often sensationalised representations. He has subsequently inspired books, plays, documentaries, a novel, by Joyce Carol Oates, and two rather glamorous biopics: The Secret Life, from 1993, and Dahmer, starring Jeremy Renner, from 2002.ĭahmer didn't have to wind up a monster, if only the adults in his life hadn't been so inexplicably, unforgivably, incomprehensibly clueless and/or indifferent He raped, murdered and dismembered 17 boys and men, sometimes preserving their body parts as mementoes, sometimes dabbling in cannibalism. ![]() "It's hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I've done," he said, "but I know that I did it."Ī serial killer and sex offender, Dahmer became known in the tabloids as the Milwaukee Cannibal. By the time the authorities caught up with Jeffrey Dahmer, in 1991, even the perpetrator was astonished by his crimes.
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