“They’re opening up the same wounds.”
, focuses primarily on the gruesome journey of a serial killer from odd child to murdering man, it also pays close attention to the systematic failures that allowed Dahmer to continue his killings. In one harrowing sequence early in the series, Dahmer lures a 14-year-old boy, Konerak Sinthasomphone , to his apartment, drugs him, and assaults him.
, a Milwaukee-based nonprofit focused on LGBTQ health care and safety. Our conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Dan Kois: As a Milwaukee native, I always feel a lot of shame when the Dahmer story comes up in conversation. It’s like the most awful thing for my hometown to be known for—not only for the killings themselves, but for what they seemed to display about the city.
. She always said he was the life of the party. I’ve been living a lot of her vicarious trauma the last few weeks.No, there are a lot of connections. After the series released on Netflix, my Facebook feed was inundated with people talking about their experiences, describing some of the victims, remembering what it was like at that time. And reconciling with the fact that that could have been us. Younger people, we are looking at our former selves. There’s no other way to put it.
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