'My Brother was Murdered by Jeffrey Dahmer - What Was It Like Watching the Netflix show?'

[trekkiepetrelli]

My brother was murdered by Jeffrey Dahmer. Here's what it was like watching the Netflix show that recreated the emotional statement I gave in court. https://t.co/PrSGdinjAI
- philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 26, 2022

• Rita Isbell, sister of Errol Lindsey, who was one of Jeffrey Dahmer's victims, gave an emotional victim impact statement in court

Comments

[formisscaulker]

this is awful but i'm glad she was able to share this. i don't think true crime is ever going away but at least (?) victims families have more space to share their side if they want to. i recently read this memoir and the author mentions how she gave an interview about a murdered family member even when she didn't want to because she knew they would make a tv episode about her anyway and she wanted to at least have her family's perspective in it.

[kimda]

I actually just posted the YouTube video of the families’ impact statements on Facebook to give everyone an idea of the raw, unending grief they all still feel and how this show is hurtful and exploitative and sick and unnecessary. They act like they’re paying service to the victims by providing more from their POV and I find that even MORE exploitative and reprehensible.

My love is with her, and all of the families of his victims that are being retraumatized by this garbage.

[thereinventions]

How can they get the families POV when they were NEVER contacted about it??

[kimda]

I meant the victims’ POV. It disgusts me.

[kimda]

Basically, I’m grieving my brother right now really really profoundly. His 4 year death anniversary is on the 20th of October. If he’d been murdered and it was depicted in a TV show on Netflix, I would be so traumatized that it makes me cry just thinking about it. Her statement about her brother really got me.

[queencersi]

this tweet is a great example of how true crime in media has been twisted into a weird exploitative way of memorialising serial killers. this is not just a scene, this is a real life encounter that led to the brutal death of konerak sinthasomphone at the age of 14 https://t.co/VCzGo1VA2X
- roy family therapist (@goobaliciou_s) September 23, 2022

[swoon_song]

Like the tone of the netflix tweet, that fucking fannish blather-y tone, it's sad.

***edit

Like, this was before my time, and my parents were not involved, but I remember them talking about Dahmer when I was a kid and how it was so horrifying this specific thing happened. It was one of the first lessons about not trusting the police. That people are like, omg can't stop thinking about that, and watching a reenactment, it's fucking horrifying.

Just my parents relaying the bare facts was scary enough.
When I read about this case when I was older, was even more terrifying.
I wouldn't be interested in all in watching it happen as a reenactment, and what is the value here?

[deja_vu822]

see, this is the complicated thing to me because i truly did not know that happened and i feel like the devastating fuck-up (even that feels to light for what they did) the police made shouldn't be forgotten, so in that way I'm thankful more people know about it now, but it's gross how they're talking about it

[snovasam]

One of the cops who let him take his victim back inside the apartment was the head of the Milkwakee police force for several years as recently as 2017….

[deja_vu822]

I watched this show over the weekend and I thought it was way better than I expected it to be. I really did feel like they took care not to sensationalize the violence and I was often very relieved they cut away before showing a lot of it. It focused on who the victim's were and the systematic failures that led Dahmer not to be caught and if a story like this is going to be told, I'm glad that was the focus.

That said, I thought this court scene was the weirdest and I'm not super into frame by frame recreations of things that happened in real life. They very easily could have left that scene out and still had a strong show, imo.

I hope that memorial park finally gets made now.

[itsme_eloise]

semi-related to true crime, there's an interesting article in the Hollywood Reporter about ethics and compensation in documentaries since the genre is blowing up right now. I haven't finished it but it's good so far.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/documentary-streaming-age-filmmaker-debate-ethics-payments-1235221541/