'My Son Jeffrey: The Dahmer Family Tapes,' with new recordings, will stream on Fox Nation
A new streaming series promises "never-before-heard" conversations between Milwaukee serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and his father, Lionel.
"My Son Jeffrey: The Dahmer Family Tapes" is scheduled to begin streaming Sept. 18 on Fox Nation, Fox News Channel’s subscription-based streaming service.
The four-part documentary series is based on conversations recorded with Dahmer while he was in Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin; at the time, he was serving 15 life sentences after confessing in 1991 to a string of horrifying crimes, including murder, necrophilia and cannibalism. The recordings, made by Lionel Dahmer, have not been made public before, according to Fox Nation.
Dahmer was beaten to death in prison in 1994.
The series also will include "exclusive" Dahmer family home movies, along with interviews with a variety of other people, including Mike Kukral, one of Dahmer's high school friends from Ohio; Michael Prochaska, Dahmer's college roommate; Ronald Flowers, a man who escaped after Dahmer had drugged, sexually abused and imprisoned him at Dahmer's grandmother's house in West Allis; and retired Milwaukee Police lieutenants Kenneth Mueller and Michael Dubis, who were on the scene the night of Dahmer's arrest.
While the Dahmer story has not ever left the popular consciousness since the news of his arrest in July 1991, it gained renewed attention — and notoriety — following the release last year of "Dahmer: Monster — The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" on Netflix.
One of that streaming service's most-watched shows, "Monster" won a Golden Globe for best actor in a miniseries or TV movie for Evan Peters for his portrayal of Dahmer. The series received 13 nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards; because of the strikes in Hollywood, that ceremony has been pushed back until Jan. 15.
The Emmy nominations drew a rebuke from Thomas M. Jacobson, the attorney who represented eight of the families of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims. He told entertainment industry news site The Wrap that nominations for shows like Ryan Murphy's series contributed "to glamorizing or desensitizing violence and crime in society."
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This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: 'Never before heard' 'Dahmer Family Tapes' will stream on Fox Nation
