The Conversations With a Killer series by Netflix has just launched its third instalment. The series began with a focus on the serial killer Ted Bundy, which was followed up with one on John Wayne Gacy. The third instalment of this series takes a look at another infamous American serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer.

This docuseries comes right after the release of the dramatised series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. This has naturally helped gather interest in the series but also puts forward the question of whether serial killers are being glorified with so much content being produced on them.

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Buzzfeed has reported that many of the family members of Dahmer’s victims had come out to say that Ryan Murphy’s series, Monster, made them relive the trauma they had gone through when the incidents first came to light. Now with another series following suit, some might wonder whether Netflix is adding to the trauma of these people.

The official synopsis of Conversations With a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes reads, “Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind.” 

Throughout the three episodes of the series, we get to hear several recorded conversations between Dahmer and his legal team, in which the infamous serial killer talks about his crimes. Dahmer, who was later killed in a jail by fellow inmates, says during the course of the conversation that he himself cannot be sure why he ended up committing so many murders.

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Joe Berlinger, the man behind the Conversations With a Killer series, told CNN that he felt it important to tell the story of Dahmer because, unlike his two former subjects Gacy and Bundy, Dahmer apparently showed “a modicum of remorse” in the tapes that were discovered.

Regarding the importance of the series, Berlinger said, “If you walk away from any one of my shows, you see these people for the horrible human beings that they are”, further adding, “But it’s a larger attempt to understand where they fit in the human condition.”