![]() ![]() The timing of Netflix’s release of Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes really emphasizes our fascination and constant appetite for crime stories, for better or worse. Listening to the serial killer talk about his murders in his own words is absolutely terrifying, likely enough to cause some nightmares, particularly with how open and non-defensive he is about what he did. "I really made a sincere effort to change the way I was living, to change my desires, to get rid of the homosexual feeling that I had," Dahmer says in the tapes. Wendy Patrickus also points out that it was a "struggle" for Dahmer to come out, recalling that he told her, "I don't like being gay." While we hear Dahmer try to understand why he had the desire to kill 17 men, Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes takes you back to his childhood, often being neglected and left alone by his parents, his drinking, and transitioning to the particular dynamics of evading police as a white man preying on gay men of colour. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Kenneth Mueller, a former lieutenant with the homicide division at Milwaukee P.D., states in the series that the way Dahmer is able to recall every detail of his murders is “incredible.” The murdering someone and disposing of them right away gives no great lasting pleasure or a feeling of fulfillment, and yet I still felt the compulsion to do it throughout these years.” ![]() What I was searching for that would fill the emptiness that I felt. “I had wondered why I was compelled to do all the murders. “It’s something that I’ve kept buried within myself for many years.” “It’s not easy to talk about,” Dahmer says in an early recording we hear in the docuseries. She added that she knew the importance of building trust with him and not being judgemental in order to be “a good defence attorney.” “He was very polite, I was somewhat surprised, I guess, at how cordial Jeff was.” “I felt like Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs,” Patrickus says in Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes. She got a call from her boss, Gerry Boyle, who said they have a new case and he needed her to go to the police administration building to talk to someone he had represented in the past, describing Dahmer has a “nice man.” Patrickus remembers Boyle saying, “don’t worry he won’t bite your head off.” She had just moved to Milwaukee, lived alone and didn’t have many local friends. Patrickus was just a young lawyer in her 20s at the time. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival, following the release of a teaser trailer that attracted widespread criticism for seemingly framing Bundy as a sexy bad boy.(L to R) Wendy Patrickus and Jeffrey Dahmer in Conversations With A Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile stars Zac Efron in the role of Bundy, and is told from the perspective of his fiancée, Elizabeth Kloepfer (played by Lily Collins). That being said, if you enjoyed (as much as one can) Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes and want to see a dramatized take on Bundy's life, show creator Joe Berlinger has also made a feature film about the serial killer. ![]() The Ted Bundy Tapes generally relies on supplementary footage and interviews in its effort to build a picture of Bundy, but there isn't much there that we didn't already know. Reviews of the documentary series generally agree on the point that the much-hyped tapes do not offer any real insight into Bundy's motivations or psychology, as he doesn't even acknowledge that he killed anyone and in general seems to be putting on a performance rather than being honest. The problem is that what Bundy had to say in the recordings was, to put it bluntly, not very interesting. The tapes in Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes were recorded by journalist Stephen Michaud while Bundy was on death row, and the total audio amounts to about 100 hours - which seems like obvious material for a second season. ![]()
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