After the debut of the scripted series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Starring Evan Peters as the infamous serial killer, Netflix has unveiled the official trailer for a new docuseries about Jeffrey Dahmer. called Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapesthe series has a similar premise to Netflix’s previous one Conversations with a murderer documents targeting Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. This time, viewers get to see the full story of Dahmer’s crimes as told by the cannibalistic killer himself in three 60-minute episodes. You can get a sneak peek by watching the trailer below.
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes is directed by Joe Berlinger and produced by RadicalMedia. The series is executive produced by Joe Berlinger, Catharine Park, Jon Doran, Jen Isaacson, Jon Kamen, Rusty Lemorande, Josh Modell, Jamie Fleischel, Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor.
The three-part documentary features never-before-heard audio interviews between Dahmer and his defense team to “dive into his twisted psyche as these open-ended questions about police responsibility are answered through a modern lens,” according to Netflix. It also features new interviews with investigative journalists, prosecutors, psychologists, and victims’ friends and families. The goal of the series is to “shine a new light on the intersection of race, class, sexuality and police that gave rise to one of the most infamous murderers of the 20th century.”
Jeffrey Dahmer tells his story
An official summary for Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes is reading:
When the Milwaukee Police Department entered 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment in July 1991, they discovered a serial killer’s eerie personal museum: a freezer full of human heads, skulls, bones, and other remains in various states of decomposition and on display. Dahmer quickly confessed to sixteen murders in Wisconsin in the past four years, plus one more in Ohio in 1978, as well as unimaginable acts of necrophilia and cannibalism. The discovery shocked the nation and stunned the local community, who were outraged that such a depraved killer had been allowed to operate in their city for so long. Why was Dahmer, who was convicted in 1988 of sexual assault on a minor, able to avoid suspicion and investigation by the police when he stalked the Milwaukee gay scene for victims, many of whom were people of color?
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes starts streaming on October 7, 2022. For more information about the killer you can also stream the new script series on Netflix called Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.