*Ryan Murphy of “American Horror Story” fame has announced his next project will center on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
Netflix has picked up “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” a limited series co-created by Murphy and his longtime collaborator Ian Brennan.
The grisly story will be told from the point of view of Dahmer’s victims and on the “police incompetence and apathy” that enabled Dahmer to kill 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, the year he was finally arrested.
Dahmer had sex with many of the corpses and he ate portions of his victims. Police found boxes of body parts inside his home and three heads in a refrigerator. He was eventually sentenced to 15 life terms. He was killed in prison in late 1994.
Carl Franklin will direct the first episode and Janet Mock will write and direct multiple episodes.
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Ryan Murphy has set a limited series about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer as his next project for Netflix. https://t.co/Q9O6ByvvzN
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) October 3, 2020
Richard Jenkins has been tapped to star as Dahmer’s father. A casting search is currently underway for the role of Dahmer himself.
In an 1993 interview with Inside Edition, Dahmer said he would continue his killing spree if he was a free man.
Dahmer’s slayings began in 1978 when he killed and dismembered 18-year-old Steven Hicks.
“I always knew that it was wrong after the first killing,” said Dahmer told Inside Edition. At the time he was 33-years-old and imprisoned at the Columbia Correctional Facility in Portage, Wis.
“As the years went by, and the compulsion became stronger and the obsession more intense, it became the main focus of my life,” said Dahmer.
“The first killing was not planned. I had had fantasies about picking up a hitchhiker and taking him back to the house and having complete control and dominance over him.”
Dahmer curbed the killing while he was in the Army for nine years.
“There was just not the opportunity to fully express what I wanted to do,” he said.
If released, Dahmer said he would repeat his crimes.
“I can’t think of anything that would have stopped me,” he said.
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