Along the way, Derf asks pertinent questions about why nobody – especially the adults– ever saw the warning signs of what Dahmer was becoming. edited to add: I do think there is potential in an examination like this, but it's a task for someone believably invested in the human experience, which Backderf, clearly, is not.

Consummate Liar: Derf notes that Jeff is great at deceiving others, which would become a very useful skill once he becomes a Serial Killer.So now I'm supposed to believe that the author was his friend, knew Dahmer's inner demons, and there are even at times when he wonders if their bunch could have prevented Dahmer from committing his atrocious crimes? Netflix's dramatization was created by American Horror Story architect Ryan Murphy, reuniting with cast alumni Evan Peters, who previously portrayed real-life killers in AHS.

The penultimate scene shows late-teens Jeff, fresh off his first murder, walking up the same country road and being given a ride by Derf's friend Mike. There are no excuses made for what Jeffrey Dahmer eventually became, just a sort of filling in the blanks of the timeline of his downward spiral into insanity .Inside the classroom, a hippie-dippie teacher instructs bored students, unaware and not all that interested in a teenage fuck up desperately trying to drink his pain away.

He was extradited to Ohio to stand trial for the murder of the hitchhiker, to which he plead guilty. Rather, it's the sad account of an odd kid who didn't even fit in at home, much less the dog eat dog world of high school. Jeff was all set on the jogger who ran past his house being his first victim, but on the day he waited for him, he didn't jog by, unknowingly sparing himself from being the first of many victims.In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer—the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper—seared himself into the American consciousness. Written (and illustrated) by a classmate of one of America's most notorious serial killers, Jeffrey Dahmer, My Friend Dahmer depicts the teenage years of Dahmer's life and his slow downward spiral into murder.