T.Netflix’s new Jeffrey Dahmer series has sacrificed accuracy for drama, according to the journalist who first reported the sensational story more than 30 years ago.
Anne E. Schwartz said Independent that filmmaker behind Monsters: The Story of Jeffrey Dahmer The series received an “artistic license” with many important details, saying that it “doesn’t bear much resemblance to the facts of the case.”
“When people watch Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series and say, ‘Oh my God, this sucks.’ I want to tell them it didn’t always turn out that way,” she said.
Schwartz worked as a crime reporter milwaukee journal In 1991, a police source called and said that a human head and body parts had been found in an apartment in the city.
Schwartz, who rushed to the scene, said he had arrived to find several police officers there, and went into the Oxford apartment building to take a closer look.
“I walked up to Dahmer’s apartment because you’re a journalist and you want to know,” she said. Independent.
“I think what was strange was that it didn’t seem strange.”
She said officers slowly began to understand the scale of the crime scene when Dahmer discovered Polaroids of the victims in various stages of amputation.
“They didn’t know what they were finding,” she said.
“I was a crime reporter for five years, so I know what it smells like when you walk into a building with a dead body or a decomposing body. This was not. This was very chemical.” It smelled bad.”
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Anne E. Schwartz broke down the Jeffrey Dahmer story and wrote two best-selling books on murder while working as a crime reporter in Milwaukee.
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Schwartz, who worked for the Milwaukee Police Department and the Communications Division of the Wisconsin Department of Justice, said it was not correct to portray the city’s police officers as racist and homophobic.
“I spent a lot of time with them and interviewed people who were on the scene. , is not very useful.”
In the Netflix series, Glenda Cleveland, who tried to call the police on the Dahmer serial murders, is depicted living in the apartment next door. In reality, Cleveland, who died in 2011, lived in another building.
“In the first five minutes of the first episode, Glenda Cleveland is knocking on the door. It never happened,” says Schwartz.
“I struggled with the buy-in because I knew it wasn’t accurate. But people don’t see it that way, they watch it for entertainment.”
After publishing a bestseller about the case in 1991, The Man Who Couldn’t Kill EnoughMs. Schwartz said she received a call from Dahmer in the newsroom of the television station she worked to file a complaint.
Several psychiatrists who interviewed Dahmer told Schwartz that his behavior could be attributed to his parents.
“He hated it. For someone who doesn’t show his emotions and doesn’t seem to care about anything, he was very protective of his parents, especially his mother,” she said. Independent.
The call was “very quick and very to the point”.
“His voice had no intonation. He was so vanilla, so flat. Said.
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Mr. Schwartz said that Mr. Dahmer’s method of choosing his victims was very “cunning.” preyed on men.
This, along with his gruesome corpse-disposal skills, helped him murder 17 boys and men before the crime was discovered.
Additionally, in the 1980s and early ’90s, crime victims in Milwaukee’s gay community rarely reported crimes to the police for fear of being pulled out by family members or employers, she said.
After the murder drew national and international attention, people regularly came to Oxford Apartments for souvenirs.
When Dahmer’s apartment was demolished that year, some tried to remove bricks and dirt debris, but the lot is still empty and surrounded by a high fence.
The Dahmer series Broke Netflix first week record Schwartz said that for most of the time it was watched, Milwaukee was “perfectly done hearing about the case.”
“People in Milwaukee think this is a terrible wound in the city and they don’t want people to think about it.”
Last year, Mr. Schwartz wrote a revised edition of his 1991 book and re-interviewed key figures to gather their thoughts 30 years later.
Her new book, which came out last October, Monsters: The True Story of the Jeffrey Dahmer Murder.
* Monsters: The True Story of the Jeffrey Dahmer Murder Released by Union Square Publishing Available on Amazon.
