A family of one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims has admitted that they were blindsided by the new Netflix series.
The family has opened up about the reality of the series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
Keep reading to find out more.
The new Netflix original series that everyone seems to be talking about is called Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
It’s pretty straightforward as to what the series is about…
The story of one of the world’s most notorious serial killers told from the perspective of his victims.
In the series, Dahmer is played by actor Evan Peters.
Fans wonder if the show is accurate to real-life events…
Or whether some parts were glossed-over.
As any fan of true-crime television will tell you, “based on a true story” can often mean a wide range of interpretations of the facts.
However, this series played things faithfully to the reported information. But there are a few things that divert away from reality. Nonetheless, this will be right up the alley for someone who enjoys murder/mystery series.
But while fans are currently loving this new show, they’re also sad about the shows that are leaving the streaming platform this month…
Family favorite How to Train Your Dragon 2 is leaving early this month.
The second installment of the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy has an all-star cast, including big names like Cate Blanchett and Jonah Hill. Don’t miss this one before it leaves this month.
Epic war movie Dunkirk is going too.
Watch Harry Styles’ acting debut in the critically acclaimed film before it leaves Netflix.
Australian show Offspring will also be gone this month.
The comedy-drama stars Asher Keddie as an obstetrician trying to juggle her work, crazy family and search for a partner.
Fan favorite Saved by the Bell is leaving on September 14.
Get your retro fix in sooner rather than later, as all of Netflix’s Saved by the Bell shows are leaving halfway through the month. This includes everything from the original seasons, to the spinoff show The College Years and the 2 TV movies Hawaiian Style and Wedding in Las Vegas.
Netflix Original Schumacher is leaving on September 15.
The 2021 documentary about the legendary driver is a must-watch for any Formula 1 fan out there.
Blade Runner: The Final Cut is leaving on September 25.
The full-length version of the original movie is currently on Netflix, but it won’t be for long!
The 2017 reboot Blade Runner 2049 is also leaving on the same day.
Why not a Blade Runner marathon and watch them both back to back before they leave?
Emmy-award-winning show Gotham is set to leave on September 29.
Get your fix of the superhero crime drama series before it goes.
Watch 2012 thrillet hit Argo before it leaves on September 30.
Directed by and starring Ben Affleck, this movie won big time at the 2013 Oscars. Awards included Best Adapted Screenplay and even Best Motion Picture.
Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed 2002 hit Catch Me If You Can leaves Netflix on September 30.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks star in this Oscar-nominated film.
Classic movie Dirty Harry is also set to leave at the end of September.
Clint Eastwood plays the titular role in this neo-noir thriller.
Dumb and Dumber will disappear at the end of the month too.
Watch Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey in their original iconic roles from the 1994 movie before it goes.
The cult classic Boogie Nights is sadly also going.
The movie’s all-star cast includes Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore.
Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 hit Full Metal Jacket is being taken off at the end of the month.
The drama focuses on the Vietnam War, and is essential viewing for any movie buff.
Keanu Reeves’ classic Constantine is another movie that’s leaving Netflix.
The superhero horror film is going on September 30.
Will Smith film I Am Legend will also disappear from the streaming service.
Get your fix of the post-apocalyptic flick before it leaves at the end of this month.
Insidious is another movie to be leaving Netflix.
The horror movie from 2010 is set to leave before the end of the month, so you better be quick to get your fix of this one before Halloween hits.
The classic comedy Mean Girls is going too.
The 2004 smash hit stars everyone from Lindsay Lohan to Rachel McAdams in what is one of the most quintessential high school movies ever.
Another comedy classic, Old School, is disappearing from Netflix.
Starring Will Ferrell, Luke Wilson and Vince Vaughn, this is guaranteed to give you great laughs.
Another cult classic movie, Seven, will be going on September 30.
Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, this thriller is essential watching.
The Sweetest Thing is set to go at the end of the month too.
The 2002 comedy film stars Cameron Diaz, Selma Blair and Christina Applegate.
The classic Robert De Nero flick Taxi Driver is another movie that’s leaving Netflix.
You have until September 30 to watch it before it leaves the streaming service.
The Talented Mr. Ripley is also set to disappear.
The Oscar-nominated movie stars everyone from Cate Blanchett and Philip Seymour Hoffman to Jude Law and Matt Damon.
Many viewers have praised Evan Peters for his amazing portrayal of Jeffrey Dahmer.
So much so, that people have found it “creepy as hell,” and others have called it “bone-chilling.”
While people have found Peters’ portrayal of Dahmer creepy…
Some have become wary of glamorizing the serial killer because of Peters’ portrayal.
One user took to social media and said: “Dahmer is out, let’s not romanticize Jeffrey Dahmer just because he is played by Evan Peters. Remember the victims.”
Another user added: “It’s okay to praise Evan Peters for his performance, he is a brilliant actor. But do not romanticize him in the role as Jeffrey Dahmer.”
However, there are already comments surfing online as people continue to romanticize the serial killer.
One user tweeted: “Honestly though why’s Evan Peters still low-key hot as a serial killer?”
A second wrote: “Need Evan Peters to play a character that isn’t a serial killer so bad so I can find him hot in peace.”
But now, a man has revealed shocking details surrounding the murder of Jeffrey Dahmer.
According to LADbible, Dahmer was convicted of the brutal killing of seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991 and admitted to eating the flesh of his victims.
After being sentenced to 16 terms of life imprisonment in both Wisconsin and Ohio, Dahmer was beaten to death at Columbia Correctional Facility in Wisconsin by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver in 1994.
Scarver’s son spoke about the bizarre reality of knowing his parent had put an end to Dahmer’s life in a 2014 interview with CNN…
He recalled how at first he didn’t fully comprehend the magnitude of what had happened and even described the time he found out his father had murdered Dahmer.
“I was about 10, and I saw it on TV. And that’s how I found out,” he said.
“A big picture of him popped up, and I was just shocked at that point,” he added.
“When I was young, I didn’t know what it meant, obviously. But that name has been around me for my whole life,” he continued.
As per reports, Scarver was born just after his dad committed a murder that landed him in jail with Dahmer.
Reporter Jean Casarez also asked about how there was still a question as to whether or not his dad had been set up by guards because Dahmer should not have been left alone with the 2 men in prison…
Scarver’s son replied: “I think about that all the time. It makes me wonder if he even did it.”
However, he also believed his convicted murderer father was the one who helped him when he was most vulnerable.
“I was actually starting to go down the wrong road, and that’s why I wrote [to] him,” he said.
“I didn’t know what to do, I needed some guidance. And I just told him everything I was going through, and how I felt about me and his relationship – all these built-up years, all that pain that I had, I finally just let it go and just talked to him,” he added.
He said his dad wrote back and told him that tough times don’t last.
“Tough times don’t last. Tough people do. And you are the toughest kid I know,” he said.
And since then, his father has opened up about why he killed Dahmer as an old interview has resurfaced…
According to reports, Christopher Scarver said he grew to despise Dahmer…
As he would fashion severed limbs out of prison food, drizzle on ketchup as blood, then display them.
“He would put them in places where people would be,” Scarver told the New York Post back in 2015.
“He crossed the line with some people — prisoners, prison staff. Some people who are in prison are repentant — but he was not one of them,” he added.
He also revealed that when he arrived at Wisconsin’s Columbia Correctional Institution around the same time as Dahmer in 1992, he knew to keep his distance from the killer.
“I saw heated interactions between [Dahmer] and other prisoners from time to time. There was no impression,” Scarver said, adding that he didn’t think much of the killer at first.
As per reports, Scarver said he never interacted with Dahmer because he didn’t want to become a victim of his sick humor.
But that all changed on November 28 1994 when Scarver, Dahmer, and a third prisoner, Jesse Anderson, were led unshackled to clean bathrooms by correction officers who left them unattended.
“I asked him if he did those things ’cause I was fiercely disgusted. He was shocked. Yes, he was,” Scarver told the news outlet.
“He started looking for the door pretty quick. I blocked him. He ended up dead. I put his head down,” he said.
Scarver then approached Anderson, 37, and “pretty much the same thing [happened] — got his head put out,” Scarver said of Anderson, who was serving a life term for killing his wife in 1992.
The New York Post reported how Scarver saw Anderson as a racist as he defaced a portrait of the legendary civil-rights leader, Martin Luther King, and tried to pin his wife’s murder on 2 black men.
Reportedly, Scarver didn’t believe it was an accident that he was left alone with Dahmer as prison officials knew he hated him but did not elaborate on the suggestion.
And now, Jeffrey Dahmer’s father has recently opened up about his son’s behavior…
Dahmer’s father, Lionel, speculated that his wife, Joyce, had a significant impact on Dahmer’s behavior as she was taking medication.
However, the information has not been backed up with any scientific evidence.
“You do know that pills are what started this whole thing,” Lionel says in the Netflix series.
He adds: “How many pills you think she was on when she was pregnant with him? Thousands.
“She was on sleeping pills, sedatives, seizure medication.”
There were also situations after Dahmer was born when his mother showed signs that she didn’t want anything to do with him.
At one point, she never wanted to hold him when he was just a kid.
Lionel continues: “She never even held him. She scared the s*** out of him. And then she just left. She got in her car, she drove away, she left that kid in that house all summer.”
Lionel in the series seemed to have referenced an interview by the actual father of Dahmer when he said: “My ex-wife had been taking about 26 tablets of different medications about one month after becoming pregnant.”
As well as blaming his wife…
Lionel also felt as if he had a part in why Dahmer turned out the way he did.
According to The Tab, Lionel blamed himself for not giving enough to Dahmer emotionally.
Since then, the family of one of Dahmer’s victims has opened up about the series…
According to UNILAD, they said they weren’t informed that a series about a man who scarred their family for life was being made.
Rashad Robinson, the president of nonprofit civil rights advocacy organization Color of Change, told Tudum that the series tried to offer a way to “understand and see the humanity of those who were murdered by Jeffrey Dahmer.”
However, Rita Isbell, a sister of one of Dahmer’s victims said she didn’t know anything about this and didn’t have a say.
Isbell’s brother, Errol Lindsey, lost his life to Dahmer.
According to Insider, Isbell said she was “never contacted about the show.”
“I feel like Netflix should’ve asked if we mind or how we felt about making it,” she said.
“They didn’t ask me anything. They just did it.
“But I’m not money hungry, and that’s what this show is about, Netflix trying to get paid,” she added.
Another of Lindsey’s relatives, Eric Perry, has also spoken out about the show.
He shared a post on Twitter that included a clip of the new series and described it as “retraumatizing.”
“I’m not telling anyone what to watch, I know true crime media is huge rn, but if you’re actually curious about the victims, my family (the Isbell’s) are p*ssed about this show. It’s retraumatizing over and over again, and for what? How many movies/shows/documentaries do we need?” he wrote.
Perry then went on to shame Netflix, talking about the utter failure of reaching out to the family prior to making the series.
According to Perry, he only found out about it when everyone else did.
“It’s all public record, so they don’t have to notify (or pay!) anyone. My family found out when everyone else did. So when they say they’re doing this ‘with respect to the victims’ or ‘honoring the dignity of the families’, no one contacts them.
“My cousins wake up every few months at this point with a bunch of calls and messages and they know there’s another Dahmer show. It’s cruel,” Perry wrote.
What do you think?