Lionel Dahmer, father of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, plans to file lawsuit against Netflix – Yahoo News

Lionel Dahmer, father of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, in the documentary The 86-year-old man criticizes the streaming giant in particular for not having asked him during the production of his series and believes that the platform is making money on his back. Jeffrey Dahmer’s dad plans to sue Netflix. As the British tabloid The Sun specifies, Lionel Dahmer wishes to file a complaint against the platform which broadcasts a series and a documentary on the story of his son, a sadly famous serial killer. The 86-year-old man, who had not hitherto never expressed in the media, criticizes in particular Netflix for not having requested it during the production of its Jeffrey Dahmer series. He also believes that the platform exploits in the documentary Conversation with a Killer, audio documents of his son’s lawyers, without his consent.” From what I understood and what I witnessed, Lionel does not has ever been contacted about these programs,” Lionel Dahmer’s caregiver, who lives in Ohio, told The Sun. The caregiver, who goes by the name Jeb, also reports that fans of the Netflix series would have tried to break into the property of Lionel Dahmer, which would make him “at the end of his tether”. Anger of the close victims of a series and a documentary, which return to the crimes committed by the serial killer, for which he was sentenced to life in 1992. In 2020, Lionel Dahmer had participated with his face uncovered in the documentary Mind of a Monster broadcast on Prime Video. But this time, in the series, produced by Ryan Murphy, the father of the man nicknamed the “Cannibal of Milwaukee” is played by Richard Jenkins, actor nominated for an Oscar for his role in The Visitor in 2009. Jeffrey Dahmer, him , is played by Evan Peters. Becoming one of the streaming platform’s most popular programs, the series Jeffrey Dahmer: Self-Portrait of a Killer dethroned Squid Game and Stranger Things in terms of hours watched. this success, some relatives and family members of the 17 victims of the serial killer had also taken the floor to express their indignation at not having been informed of the production of the program by Netflix.”I think that Netflix should have asked us if that bothered us, or how we felt. They didn’t ask me for anything, they just did their show,” wrote Rita Isbell – sister of Errol Lindsey, who was murdered by the serial killer in 1991 at the age of 19. years in an open letter published by Insider.Between 19 78 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer killed 17 mostly African American gay men and boys. Nicknamed the “Cannibal of Milwaukee”, the latter indulged in numerous acts of cruelty with the bodies of the victims, which he dismembered, raped and ate.Original article published on BFMTV.comVIDEO – The chilling story of the cannibal of Milwaukee, Jeffrey Dahmer, traced in a Netflix series