‘Conversations with a Killer’: Netflix’s new Jeffrey Dahmer doccie

Here's what you need to know about Netflix's 'Conversations With a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes' which released on Friday 7 October.

Oct 8, 2022 - 21:23

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‘Conversations with a Killer’: Netflix’s new Jeffrey Dahmer doccie

Three-part documentary Conversations With a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes released on Netflix on Friday 7 October. Here’s what you need to know.

‘CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE JEFFREY DAHMER TAPES’

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer has been the topic of many discussions following the release of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story on 21 September. The documentary became quite popular and trended on social media.

Netflix has since released Conversations With a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes. The three-part documentary tells the story of the serial killer’s arrest and confession to a string of crimes. These crimes include murder, cannibalism, necrophilia. He was sentenced to 15 life sentences as well as a 16th for a murder committed years earlier in Ohio back in 1992. Dahmer was beaten to death in prison in 1994.

“When Milwaukee police entered the apartment of 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer in July of 1991, they uncovered the grisly personal museum of a serial killer: a freezer full of human heads, skulls, bones and other remains in various states of decomposition and display. Dahmer quickly confessed to sixteen murders in Wisconsin over the previous four years, plus one more in Ohio in 1978, as well as unimaginable acts of necrophilia and cannibalism,” reads part of the synopsis of the series according to Netflix.

“The discovery shocked the nation and stunned the local community, who were incensed that such a depraved killer had been allowed to operate within their city for so long. Why was Dahmer, who had been convicted of sexual assault of a minor in 1988, able to avoid suspicion and detection from police as he stalked Milwaukee’s gay scene for victims, many of whom were people of color?” read the synopsis.

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The documentary is directed by veteran director Joe Berlinger. Berlinger also made the Conversations instalments on serial killers Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. The documentary features audio from interviews between the serial killer and his defence team.

“The third in a series from director Joe Berlinger (CWAK: The Ted Bundy Tapes, CWAK: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes), this three-part documentary features never-before-heard audio interviews between Dahmer and his defence team, delving into his warped psyche while answering these open questions of police accountability through a modern-day lens,” reads the synopsis.

The documentary also includes fresh interviews and sheds light on the intersection of race, class and sexuality.

“Featuring fresh interviews with investigative journalists, prosecutors, psychologists, and victims’ friends and families, Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes shines new light on the intersection of race, class, sexuality, and policing that gave rise to one of the most notorious murderers of the 20th century,” reads the synopsis.