Dahmer victim’s mom speaks out against Netflix series: ‘It didn’t happen like that’

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The Guardian that she hadn’t seen the series in its entirety, but “it didn’t happen like that.”“I don’t see how they can do that,” Hughes, 85, said. “I don’t see how they can use our names and put stuff out like that out there,” she added, before saying it was difficult to discuss Tony’s murder and ending the interview.Tony, who was deaf and could not speak, was picked up by Dahmer at a Milwaukee gay bar on May 24, 1991, when Tony was 31.

Dahmer took him home, drugged him, dismembered his body and kept his skull, according to the Associated Press.“When it first happened, I thought I would lose my mind,” Shirley told AP in 1992.In the Netflix series created by Ryan Murphy, Dahmer (Evan Peters) is seen donating money to the search effort for Tony (Rodney Burford) while, behind closed doors, cooking and eating his liver.

Shirley is portrayed by Karen Malina White in the Netflix series.The sixth episode of the show, titled “Silenced,” shows viewers how Tony loses his hearing as a baby after he was misprescribed medication.

It depicts him growing up with sign language, lip reading and hand-written notes as forms of communication. It eventually brings viewers to the night Hughes meets Dahmer, showing a relationship forming.