There are few guarantees in life. The sun will rise and set each day taxes the fact we are hurtling towards an inevitable demise and of course Netflix releasing their annual serial killer true crime binge that everyone seems to have watched apart from you. In recent years Netflix has thrown up Killer Inside The Mind of Aaron Hernandez Making a Murderer The Ripper as well as the incredibly successful Conversations with a Killer series, which has featured the likes of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. The most current is Conversations with a Killer The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes.
Additionally there has been a massively popular and weirdly titled dramatization Dahmer Monster The Jeffrey Dahmer Story which has gripped our morbid curiosity arguably more than any series before it. There is this quenchless thirst for documentaries and true crime series about killers and their macabre homicides which is undoubtedly down to a fascination with a way of life that is so grotesquely alien to the average person. What is it that possesses these people that they are driven to commit the most heinous unspeakable crimes against others? What is it about Dahmer in particular? Does Conversations with a Killer The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes and Dahmer Monster give the convicted serial killer an easy ride?
The case of Jeffrey Dahmer was feasibly one of the most disturbingly harrowing of the many serial killers throughout the 20th century. It was also, concomitantly one of the most interesting. Raised in a sleepy suburb of Milwaukee, before moving to a similar town in Ohio Dahmer by all accounts had a relatively normal childhood, raised by his two parents who eventually divorced.
As a teen his sexual fantasies became increasingly concerning, often involving the complete submission of his partners thoughts of sex murder, and mutilation became freakishly intertwined. Conversations with a Killer retraces Dahmer is steps by his own horrifying admissions with spine chilling audio personally detailing the lengths he went to in order to kill mostly young gay men and to live out his deepest darkest fantasies.
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