Jeffrey Dahmer was convicted of 15 Wisconsin murders and subsequently sentenced to life in prison in 1992, the serial killer is now the focus of two unsettling true-crime projects on Netflix.
As the troubling life and gruesome crimes of the “Milwaukee Cannibal” come back into focus, here’s what to know about the subject of Ryan Murphy’s scripted series,, starring Evan Peters and the true-crime docuseries,, from director Joe Berlinger.From 1978 to until his arrest in 1991, Dahmer took the lives of 17 men and teenage boys, with many of his murders involving acts of necrophilia, cannibalism, and preservation of various body parts.
His first killing took place three weeks after his high school graduation after he picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Mark Hicks.
Over a 13-year span, Dahmer took to killing men he was sexually attracted to even though he viewed them as nothing more than sexual objects.
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