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All this Jeffrey Dahmer content has pointed out how twisted the lust for true-crime entertainment has become.
Netflix’s limited series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has been picking up so much heat (becoming even bigger than Squid Game in its first week on the platform) that it has landed in hot water, repeatedly.
The problem is not just that it is re-traumatising the victims’ families, as we initially covered when the backlash started picking up, but that it is also drawing the worst of people out of the woodwork.
Social media, TikTok in particular, has been encouraging the Dahmer and true-crime obsessed to basically compete over who can handle the most gore, with far too many feigning indifference in the face of the horrifyingly disturbing murder spree that Dahmer went on.
Between 1978 and 1991, the American serial killer targeted and murdered 17 men (many of whom were people of colour and LGBTQ), dismembering, having sex with, and taking photos of their corpses.
Per Woman’s Health, he kept a few horrendous souvenirs from the killings, which included a series of infamous Polaroid photos. These only came to light after his arrest in 1991.
The magazine also has a list of Dahmer’s victims and the lives they were planning before Dahmer killed them.
He would lure his victims to his apartment with the promise of sex or money, kill them with a poisonous drink, and then have his way with them:
When his crimes were discovered, authorities also found ″many Polaroid shot of males of different stages of dress, poses and surgical excisions,″ according to a report by Forensic Investigator Shirley Gaines… The report also stated that he kept a photo diary.
One study from The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology said that Dahmer would pose the bodies “in sexually suggestive positions” because he “wanted to keep them as mementos to keep him company.”
Those who aren’t entertained by these images share a similar sentiment:
The story of Jeffrey Dahmer was disgusting enough, but seeing the actual crime scene and polaroids he took has me SICK.
— Buss Down Techianna. (@ctrlALTsamara) September 23, 2022
Distractify has more on the Polaroids:
…one of the polaroids “showed a man’s head, with the flesh still intact, lying in a sink.”
A second photograph “displayed a victim cut open from the neck to the groin, like a deer gutted after the kill.”
Other polaroids show Dahmer engaging in sexual acts with the corpses
Around 80 of these Polaroid images were found in his bedside table drawer.
Some photos show a blood-soaked mattress and another depicts the tools that Dahmer would use to mutilate his victims:
There was also a child-like drawing illustrating Dahmer’s plan for an altar made from his victims’ skulls.
People are appropriately upset with all the Dahmer content and they’re asking Hollywood to stop glorifying real-life serial killers in films and television shows:
Jeffrey Dahmer content is something I just can’t watch. Everything about that man makes me sick and I really don’t like Netflix advertising and capitalizing on it being some quirky dark tv show
— spooky syd 🎃 (@spuffysatellite) September 22, 2022
Them polaroids they found in Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment are beyond gruesome, dude was really a monster he had that man’s head, hands and penis neatly assorted next to each other like props, Hollywood gotta stop glamorizing these types of people
— Joseph 👨🏽🏭 (@drivingeyeballs) September 26, 2022
we have absolutely too much dahmer media lol. like every 4 years there’s a new piece and all it does is remind the victims families of their trauma and allow weirdos to call him cute. he was evil and we know the story. let’s stop giving him content.
— ꕥ don ꕥ (@dreamwurId) September 24, 2022
Netflix has just released more content about Dahmer, a doccie called Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes, which will go into even more depth with never-before-heard tapes with Dahmer’s defence team.
And so the hunger for true-crime goes on…
[sources:distractify&woman’shealth]
