It's OK if trying to peek inside the mind of a gruesome killer feels icky and wrong. ![]() Instead, these details explain our ability to reckon with Dahmer as one of our own, a fellow member of the human race instead of an otherworldly monster. In the end, none of that really explains his compulsions, which seemed to arise from some level of personal darkness most of us never have access to. ![]() ![]() His classmates knew who he was, and some came over to his house. He had a family and went to public school. Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered, sodomized and brutally dismembered the bodies of 17 young men between 19, came from the same Midwestern middle-class background as many Americans. We always want to know where evil comes from, even though the "answer" rarely solves anything. ![]() Ross Lynch stars as Jeffrey Dahmer in My Friend Dahmer, a film based on the graphic novel by Derf Backderf.
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