REPORTER WHO COVERED THE JEFFREY DAHMER STORY TALKS ABOUT ASPECTS THAT WERE FAKE IN THE NETFLIX SERIES

Anne E. Schwartz was the reporter who broke the Jeffrey Dahmer case in the 90s. Now she has pointed out that Ryan Murphy's series on Netflix is merely a dramatisation.

While many are loving Netflix's Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, the journalist says that the show took a great deal of artistic freedom as many significant details do not "bear a great deal of resemblance to the facts of the case".

Schwartz, who was working for the Milwaukee Journal in 1991, said:

"I've spent a lot of time with them [the police], interviewing the people who were at the scene. Again this is a dramatisation, but at a time when it is not exactly easy for law enforcement to get trust and buy in from the community, it's not a very helpful representation."

In the Netflix show, Dahmer's neighbour Glenda Cleveland, who first warned police about Jeffrey's strange behaviour, is living in the same building along with the serial killer. In reality, she lived in a separate building.

Anne added:

"In the first five minutes of the first episode you have Glenda Cleveland knocking on his door. None of that ever happened."

"I had trouble with buy-in, because I knew that was not accurate. But people are not watching it that way, they're watching it for entertainment."

Anne Schwartz was one of the first reporters to enter the serial killer's infamous Oxford Apartments home, where he killed and dismembered the bodies of his victims. The Milwaukee Cannibal's apartment looked normal at first, but officers quickly discovered polaroid pictures of his victims.

After Schwartz reported on Jeffrey's atrocities, she published her bestselling book in 1991, The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough. After her book was released, Dahmer himself gave her a call.

He wanted to let her know that he hated how she depicted his parents in the book, as she insinuated they had made their son a killer, especially his father, who taught him how to preserve and bleach animal bones. The murderer was exceptionally protective of his parents. While Dahmer ripped into her work, she observed:

"He had no inflection in his voice. He was so vanilla, he was so flat. There was nothing. He just said no one was responsible for what I did except me".

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