Family members of one of Dahmer’s victims say they were kept in the dark about the show and feel exploited for profit. Has the true-crime boom gone too far?
has been a huge hit with audiences. Despite having little to no promotion before release, the true-crime show has quickly become the most popular series on the platform andBut it hasn’t gone down so well with family members of at least one of Dahmer’s victimsshe feels “sad that [Netflix] is just making money off of this tragedy” and expressed disappointment that she was not contacted about the series.
“I feel like Netflix should’ve asked if we mind or how we felt about making it,” she said. “They didn’t ask me anything. They just did it.”asked the streaming giant to confirm or deny whether families were consulted for this show, or if any donations will be made, but Netflix declined to comment.“It’s all public record, so they don’t have to notify anyone,” he wrote. “My cousins wake up every few months at this point with a bunch of calls and messages and they know there’s another Dahmer show.
“It’s traumatising over and over again, and for what? How many movies/shows/documentaries do we need?The show is just the latest in a long line of stories about the serial killer, and Netflix is releasing yet another –Dr Xanthe Mallett, a forensic criminologist who has also worked on several true-crime productions, says it’s not uncommon for victims’ families to feel aggrieved in this way.
“There’s a really fine line to tread between what the victims’ families want, and what true-crime fans are going to engage with,” she says. However, she believes that any work about real crimes should carry a “deep respect for the victims and those that survived them” – and that almost always involves consulting families before release.
“When I work on documentaries, you always want to include the family because they’re often the ones speaking for the victims. These people all had lives and hobbies and friends who miss them ... And to me, the victim shouldn’t just become subsumed into the identity of the offender.”That can be more complicated, she adds, if you’re investigating an apparent miscarriage of justice and also when the offender has become so prolific within popular culture.
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