![]() ![]() It is well-known by now that there were larger systemic failures that allowed Dahmer to get away with his crimes against people of colour- whole institutions all too willing to look the other way and to grant him the benefit of the doubt. The latest Dahmer show starring Evan Peters shows one incident where a clumsy Dahmer accidentally drugs himself before drugging his victim, and another, wherein he is discovered by his grandmother while he is attempting to murder a man. In reality, Dahmer’s or Bundy’s “work” was seldom intricate and they fumbled the bag multiple times. ![]() NBC’s Hannibal portrays the cannibal almost like a work of art- inscrutable, almost noble in the stature and execution of his crimes. Pop culture’s presentation of serial killers evokes an emotion that you would expect to have for a beloved antihero say, a misunderstood, poetic vampire, or a passionate, rebellious werewolf. But what actually is the origin of the serial killer’s mythical persona? Is it true that something in human nature yields unquestioningly to the seduction of the dark, the evil, or the macabre? Pop culture’s glorification of serial killers perpetuates, but has not created the murderers’ “fandom.” What’s one thing that serial killers and popstars have in common? The persona: the glittering aura that fashions a smokescreen of an individual that gobbles up the gravity of their crimes or the depth (or lack thereof) of their talents. ![]() They were getting fan mails and money in Bundy’s case, he got married while he was on death row. Even when Dahmer and Bundy were sitting inside jail cells, the process of their mythologization had already begun. The outrage against Netflix’s latest Dahmer rendition ‘Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ might only be the boiling point because the “romanticization” of serial killers as a phenomenon has never needed the aid of Netflix’s glitz. Ted Bundy, like most people, did not have Zac Efron’s physique. The real-life Jeffrey Dahmer had neither the advantage of Evan Peters’ facial features nor the benefit of good lighting on a Netflix show’s set. ![]()
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