Netflix is set to spotlight the gruesome true crimes of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer for the third instalment of “Conversations With a Killer” and the streamer already has a premiere date. Season three, titled “The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes,” will debut on Oct. 7, according to Netflix. The three-part documentary is not to be confused with Netflix’s other project, “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” from “American Horror Story”‘s Ryan Murphy and Evan Peters.
Unlike the forthcoming limited series (which has yet to set a release date), “The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes” will feature “never-before-heard audio interviews between Dahmer and his defense team,” which delve “into his warped psyche while answering these open questions of police accountability through a modern-day lens,” per Netflix.
The description for the series reads as follows: “When Milwaukee police entered the apartment of 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer in July of 1991, they uncovered the grisly personal museum of a serial killer: a freezer full of human heads, skulls, bones and other remains in various states of decomposition and display. Dahmer quickly confessed to sixteen murders in Wisconsin over the previous four years, plus one more in Ohio in 1978, as well as unimaginable acts of necrophilia and cannibalism. The discovery shocked the nation and stunned the local community, who were incensed that such a depraved killer had been allowed to operate within their city for so long. Why was Dahmer, who had been convicted of sexual assault of a minor in 1988, able to avoid suspicion and detection from police as he stalked Milwaukee’s gay scene for victims, many of whom were people of colour?”
Season three of “Conversations With a Killer” is a continuation of director Joe Berlinger’s ongoing true-crime series, which previously highlighted serial killers Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy in the first two instalments. Dahmer’s story was also the subject of 2017’s scripted feature “My Friend Dahmer,” an adaptation of Derf Backderf’s 2012 graphic novel of the same name.
