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Sep 21, 2022 · Dahmer was a prolific and particularly brutal serial killer and sexual predator who preyed on young men. In addition to murder and rape—which, obviously, are horrific enough—Dahmer also engaged...
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- Dahmer Did Get Angry About Tadpoles He Gave A Teacher
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One of the biggest changes to real events is the character of Glenda Cleveland (Niecy Nash). In the show, she lives adjacent to Jeffrey Dahmer (Evan Peters), who resides in apartment 213 in the Oxford Apartments on 25th Street in Milwaukee. The real-life Cleveland lived in a building next door. It seems likely that the show attempted to amalgamate ...
For as many details as the show gets right, it makes some curious choices on its newscasts. The first words you hear in the series are from a television news program being watched by Cleveland, starting with, "Five white police officers stand accused of beating a fellow officer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a Black man on undercover assignment," going o...
Dahmer indeed showed the movie "The Exorcist" to Tracy Edwards (Shaun J. Brown), the man who escaped Dahmer's apartment and later led police back to the scene where Dahmer was discovered (though in one interview he said it was "The Exorcist III"). Another of Dahmer's preferred movies, "Return of the Jedi," is also mentioned in the series.
The episode chronicles the night of July 22, 1991, when Dahmer was captured after 32-year-old Tracy Edwards escaped his apartment and flagged down police. Edwards is shown on the show fiddling with the locks and trying to escape, which actually became a point of contention in real life. Edwards' story changed throughout the aftermath of Dahmer's ar...
The episode pulled a real-life anecdote from Dahmer's childhood, when he became upset when the tadpoles he gifted a teacher were handed off to a friend. Even more sinister than the show portrayed, Dahmer said he angrily went to the friend's house and killed the tadpoles by pouring motor oil into their jar.
Dahmer revealed in his testimony that in 1978, after killing his first victim at age 18 (Steven Hicks), he was pulled over near his Ohio hometown with garbage bags in the backseat that contained Hicks' remains. Though he was swerving and pulled over at 3 a.m., Dahmer convinced the officers to let him drive off. This interaction is portrayed in the ...
Dahmer in real life did say that he became fascinated with an area jogger and thought about attacking him with a baseball bat, though it doesn't appear he ever did, vowing that if the jogger came by again, he'd finally act (but the jogger never came back). In the show, Dahmer winds up stalking the jogger and approaching him aggressively with the ba...
As portrayed on the show, Steven Tuomi (Dahmer's first victim in Milwaukee) was murdered at the Ambassador Hotel, though Dahmer was never forthcoming with details about that night, saying that he'd blacked out. It's portrayed that way on the show. Dahmer was not officially charged with Tuomi's death because no remains were ever recovered, though Da...
In Schwartz's book, Dahmer said he didn't eventually decide to kill Ron Flowers — a man he led back to his grandmother's house in West Allis and drugged — because Flowers weighed 250 pounds and Dahmer wasn't sure he could move the body. The Ron Flowers in the show (Dyllón Burnside) isn't that imposing, but he does get saved thanks to vigilant atte...
Again, the TV news reports in the background are interesting; one mentions a house fire in Stafford (a community that does not exist) and another cites the Allis-Chalmers plant shutting down its tractor operation by the end of the year. Allis-Chalmers closed in 1985 before the events depicted.
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Sep 30, 2022 · Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story uses victims' first-hand insight to tell one of America's most grisly stories — but what's fact and what's fiction?
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Sep 21, 2022 · What is real and what is fictional? We explain the case of Jeffrey Dahmer for first-time viewers to understand Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
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Oct 12, 2022 · Anne E. Schwartz, the reporter who broke the Dahmer story in the Milwaukee Journal in 1991, told the UK-based Independent that the Netflix series wasn't accurate in some ways.
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Dahmer is about the life of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer (Evan Peters). Other main characters include Dahmer's father Lionel (Richard Jenkins), his stepmother Shari (Molly Ringwald), suspicious neighbor Glenda (Niecy Nash), and grandmother Catherine (Michael Learned).
Monsters: Created by Ian Brennan, Ryan Murphy. With Evan Peters, Richard Jenkins, Cooper Koch, Javier Bardem. An anthology series, centered on the stories of cannibalistic serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and convicted murderers Lyle and Erik Menendez.
