A California man charged with serial killings in Northern California has been charged with four more slayings, bringing the total number of suspected deaths to seven.
Wesley Brownlee, 43, of Stockton, California, was arrested in October and charged with killing three people, after police fingered him as the serial killer who has been ambushing victims since April 2021, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/stockton-crime-legal-proceedings-shootings-dd90bdf065c27f006a1e1179b4903b21?fbclid=IwAR0ZJwLI5H0-kPzMRyTreFddnIXKgewf8AL17_MZPPbtWJHjrcPrnn1KoGo">reported</a>. Brownlee was arrested while he “was out hunting” for another victim, police <a href="https://apnews.com/article/crime-shootings-arrests-california-stockton-4f7cd8dc06d50eab1035613249c282a2">said</a> in October.
Three of the four new victims had been disclosed by authorities already, who had previously said they suspected Brownlee of the killings. Authorities initially believed Brownlee had killed six men and wounded one woman in total. Now he has been charged with seven murders.
The original three victims were Jonathan Rodriguez Hernandez, 21; Juan Cruz, 52; and Lawrence Lopez Sr., 54. The three men were killed in August and September. Now, an amended complaint charges Brownlee with the deaths of Paul Yaw, 35; Salvador Debudey Jr., 43; Juan Vasquez Serrano, 39; and Mervin Harmon. Yaw and Debudey were killed in Stockton over the summer while Serrano and Harmon were killed in Alameda County in April 2021.
In addition to the killings, Brownlee has been charged with the attempted murder of Natasha LaTour, 46.
During a news conference in October, Stockton Police Chief Stanley McFadden said police used community tips and “good old-fashioned police work” to track down Brownlee.
“Based on tips coming to the department’s Stockton Crimestoppers, were we able to zero in on a possible suspect,” McFadden said, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspected-serial-killer-of-six-arrested-in-california-police-say">reported</a>. “Our surveillance team followed this person while he was driving … watched his pattern and determined early this morning.”
“He was on a mission to kill,” McFadden added.
The police chief said officers took a man wearing dark clothes into custody around 2 a.m. after following him as he drove through parks and dark places where he would stop and look around before moving to the next location.
“He was out hunting,” McFadden said at his press conference. “We are sure we stopped another killing.”
Brownlee had a criminal history of drug and traffic violations, including a DUI, in Arizona and California.
McFadden also <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/16/us/stockton-serial-killings-suspect-sunday">told</a> CNN that Brownlee’s seven victims were “alone, often caught off guard, or maybe relaxing in a vehicle or walking alone in almost pitch darkness” when they were attacked.
He added that “Just because an arrest was made does not mean the investigation stops,” saying “this is still a very active investigation.”

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When we think of serial killers, we think of Ted Bundy, or Jeffrey Dahmer, or John Wayne Gacy — all Americans. 
Rarely do we think about serial killers who operated in other countries, like Charles Sobhraj.
He was convicted of killing 12 people, but is suspected of killing as many as 30 across multiple countries. He may not be as prolific as Bundy or Dahmer, but he is every bit as terrifying.
Sobhraj was born in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam, in 1944. His father reportedly denied his paternity, and Sobhraj was raised by his mother and her new husband, though Sobhraj felt neglected once the couple had additional children. Sobhraj began committing crimes as a teenager, receiving a sentence for burglary in 1963. While in prison, he manipulated the guards into giving him special privileges, including keeping books in his cell.
He continued to commit burglaries and scams once he was released, as well as stealing cars and using fake documents to travel through Europe with his pregnant fiancé, Chantal Compagnon. The coupled robbed tourists after befriending them. Sobhraj had begun amassing wealth through his crimes but developed a gambling addiction.
Sobhraj was arrested in India in 1973 after a failed robbery attempt, but escaped from prison with the help of Compagnon. He was quickly apprehended, but the couple posted bail and fled to Kabul, where they once again began robbing tourists. The couple was arrested again but, yet again, Sobhraj escaped, this time fleeing to Iran. Compagnon returned to France in an attempt to forget her criminal past.
Sobhraj spent the next two years on the run, traveling through Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and, along with his younger half-brother, committing crimes in Turkey and Greece and eventually being arrested in Athens. Sobhraj once again escaped, but his younger brother was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
While on the run, Sobhraj ran scams to make money, such as helping two former French policemen recover passports that Sobhraj had stolen himself.
Sobhraj reportedly committed his first known murder in 1975 with the help of an accomplice, Ajay Chowdhury, who was known as the serial killer’s second-in-command. The first victims reportedly recruited the pair to help them commit crimes, but later threatened to expose Sobhraj for his crimes, leading him to kill them. The first known victim was Teresa Knowlton, a young woman from Seattle, Washington, who had been drowned in a tidal pool in the Gulf of Thailand. Her death was originally believed to be an accident, but months later, her post-mortem and other evidence showed she had been intentionally drowned.
Next, Sobhraj and Chowdhury killed a young Turkish Sephardic Jew named Vitali Hakim, whom they burned. They then killed Dutch student Henk Bintanja and his fiancée Cocky Hemker, who were both poisoned, strangled, and burned in Thailand.
During this time, Sobhraj built up a cult following, and, joined by his most devoted follower, Marie-Andree Leclerc, entered Nepal using the Dutch student’s passports. There they murdered American Connie Jo Bronzich and her Canadian friend Laurent Carriere.
Next, Sobhraj traveled to Calcutta and murdered Israeli scholar Avoni Jacob. Sobhraj then used Jacob’s passport to travel with Leclerc and Chowdhury to Singapore, then India, and on to Bangkok.
During this time, police were closing in on the group, and Dutch authorities were closing in on those who killed Bintanja and Hemker. Investigators searched Sobhraj’s apartment a month after he left the country, and found the victims’ passports, poisons, and syringes.
In 1976, Interpol issued an arrest warrant for Sobhraj for the four murders committed in Thailand – Knowlton, Hakim, Bintaja, and Hemker.
Even with the arrest warrant, Sobhraj and his crew continued to travel and kill. He and new followers killed Frenchman Jean-Luc Solomon in Bombay. They then poisoned a tour group of French post-graduate students in New Delhi. Three of the poisoned students figured out what was happening and took down Sobhraj. He was detained by police and spent the next 20 years in an Indian prison. During his imprisonment in India, he escaped briefly after drugging several prison guards, later claiming he did so to extend his sentence and avoid extradition to Thailand, where he was wanted for additional murders.
On February 17, 1997, Sobhraj, now 52, was released and allowed to return to France, since the warrants and evidence against him for his other crimes had been lost.
In France, Sobhraj raked in the cash by selling the rights to his life for a film and charging for interviews and photographs. In 2003, he returned to Nepal, where he was still wanted for multiple murders. A journalist saw him at a casino and wrote an article about him, which was seen by police, who raided the casino and arrested Sobhraj.
On August 20, 2004, Sobhraj was sentenced to life in prison for the 1975 murder of Bronzich. Sobhraj appealed the decision and lost, and on September 18, 2014, he was convicted of murdering Bronzich’s friend, Carriere. He was sentenced to another 20 years in prison.
By 2018, Sobhraj was in failing health and had received multiple open-heart surgeries.
A court ruling on December 21, 2022, ordered Sobhraj to be returned to France within 15 days, following a petition from his legal team arguing he should be released due to good behavior and his advanced age. The concession was granted thanks to a Nepalese law that allows inmates who have served at least 75% of their sentence with good behavior to be released.
“Keeping him in the prison continuously is not in line with the prisoner’s human rights,” the ruling said, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64050714" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the BBC</a>.
On December 23, 2022, Charles Sobhraj walked out of prison and was deported to France. He is not allowed to return to Nepal for at least 10 years.

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A notorious French <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/serial-killer">serial killer</a> known as “The Serpent” or the “Bikini Killer” has been released from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/prison">prison</a> in Nepal due to his age.
Charles Sobhraj, 78, has spent the last 19 years in jail for murdering two tourists in Kathmandu in 1975, the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64050714">reported</a>. He also spent 20 years in prison in India for multiple other tourist murders during the 1970s.
On Friday, Sobhraj walked out of prison.
A court ruling on Wednesday had ordered Sobhraj to be returned to France within 15 days, following a petition from his legal team arguing he should be released due to good behavior and his advanced age. The concession was granted thanks to a Nepalese law that allows inmates who have served at least 75% of their sentence and behaved to be released.
&#8220;Keeping him in the prison continuously is not in line with the prisoner&#8217;s human rights,&#8221; the ruling said, according to the BBC.
The verdict also noted Sobhraj’s regular treatment for heart disease as another factor relating to his release.
Sobhraj was known as the “Bikini Killer” because he targeted young women, who were drugged, strangled, beaten, or burned. He has been linked to more than 20 killings between 1972 and 1982 and often wore disguises to conceal his identity.
Before being convicted of murdering American Connie Jo Bronzich and her Canadian friend Laurent Carriere, Sobhraj spent 20 years in an Indian prison for poisoning a busload of French tourists in the country. During his imprisonment in India, he escaped briefly after drugging several prison guards, later claiming he did so to extend his sentence and avoid extradition to Thailand, where he was wanted for five additional murders. He is suspected of killing as man as 14 people in Thailand.
In 2003, after being released from prison in India, Sobhraj was arrested for Bronzich’s murder after he was spotted in a casino in Kathmandu. He was tried and sentenced in 2014 to two 20-year sentences for the murders of Bronzich and Carriere.
Sobhraj was born in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam, in 1944. His father reportedly denied his paternity, and Sobhraj was raised by his mother and her new husband, though Sobhraj felt neglected once the couple had additional children. Sobhraj began committing crimes as a teenager, receiving a sentence for burglary in 1963. While in prison, he manipulated the guards into giving him special privileges, including keeping books in his cell.
He continued to commit burglaries and scams once he was released, as well as stealing cars and using fake documents to travel through Europe with his pregnant fiancé, Chantal Compagnon. The coupled robbed tourists after befriending them. Sobhraj had begun amassing wealth through his crimes but developed a gambling addiction.
Sobhraj reportedly committed his first known murder in 1975 with the help of an accomplice, Ajay Chowdhury, who was known as the serial killer’s second-in-command. The first victims reportedly recruited the pair to help them commit crimes, but later threatened to expose Sobhraj for his crimes, leading him to kill them.
This article has been updated.

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&#8220;Dahmer&#8221; series creator Ryan Murphy said he disagreed with the idea that LGBTQ series/movies should be about uplifting topics in response to a backlash over his initial inclusion of the L.G.B.T.Q. tag on his show.
Murphy, who created the hit Netflix series about serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, told <a href="https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/dahmer-ryan-murphy-evan-peters-backlash-lgbtq-tag-1235456098/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> he understood why people weren’t happy when the platform first used it, but said as a gay man he doesn&#8217;t agree with them. Following the backlash, Netflix removed the LGBTQ tag from &#8220;Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story&#8221; because &#8220;people were upset.&#8221;
&#8220;Many people in the community want to uplift,&#8221; Murphy explained. &#8220;I understand that. It&#8217;s [Netflix series] about homophobia.&#8221;
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In a rare interview and photo shoot for <a href="https://twitter.com/Variety?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Variety</a>&#39;s SAG Contenders issue, Ryan Murphy &amp; Evan Peters discuss <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DahmerNetflix?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DahmerNetflix</a>&#39;s incredible success, the length process and all the backlash that followed.
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&#8220;I have a saying: &#8216;My job as an artist is to hold up a mirror about what happened,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;It&#8217;s ugly. It&#8217;s not pretty. Do you want to look at it? If you do, watch it. If you don&#8217;t, look away, and sometimes, some of this outrage is directed at the frame of the mirror instead of the reflection.&#8221;
&#8220;I try and say, I really understand why you&#8217;re upset about the inclusion of that,&#8221; Murphy continued. &#8220;I understand it, but I also disagree with it personally.&#8221;
At one point, the series creator said he thought the tag was included because of his involvement as a gay man.
&#8220;I think that it got the tag, one, because of my involvement,&#8221; Murphy shared. &#8220;I&#8217;m a gay man, so most of my stories deal with some sort of LGBTQ thing and I do that selfishly; when I was growing up, I had nothing [to look to]. My mission statement has been to talk about those stories and those characters and unearth buried history.&#8221;
Murphy previously responded to reports that the show was &#8220;exploiting&#8221; trauma suffered by the &#8220;victims’ families,&#8221; as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-cruel-victims-family-member-not-happy-about-new-monster-the-jeffrey-dahmer-story-documentary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The series creator said he wanted to tell the story in part to shed light on the racism and homophobia in the case that he believed were pervasive. The prosecutor who secured Dahmer&#8217;s conviction, former Milwaukee County District Attorney Michael McCann, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dahmer-prosecutor-blows-up-netflix-narrative-claiming-cops-ignored-black-gay-victims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disputed this claim</a>.
The series focuses on serial killer, Dahmer, played by actor Evan Peters. Dahmer murdered 17 people from the 70s until the early 90s, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-cruel-victims-family-member-not-happy-about-new-monster-the-jeffrey-dahmer-story-documentary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dahmer-series-creator-says-he-was-upset-over-lgbtq-tag-removal-says-its-a-story-about-gay-man-and-his-gay-victims">&#8216;Dahmer&#8217; Series Creator Says He Was Upset Over LGBTQ Tag Removal, Says It&#8217;s A Story About &#8216;Gay Man&#8217; And &#8216;His Gay Victims&#8217;</a>

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After a woman claimed to be the daughter of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/serial-killer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serial killer</a> in a recent interview, a search of the supposed location of buried remains has turned up nothing.
Federal, state, and local authorities did not find any evidence or remains after scouring the earth for several days in Thurman, Iowa, a small town just 3 miles from the border with Nebraska. Abbie Petersen, a reporter for Omaha-based KETV, reported on the lack of findings. The news comes weeks after a woman spoke with <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/dad-was-serial-killer-woman-says-cadaver-dogs-scour-field-nightmares-1754083?fs=e&amp;s=cl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsweek</a> in October, claiming to be the daughter of a killer.
&#8220;The Iowa Department of Public Safety says NO evidence was found after digging and collecting soil samples over the past few days in Thurman, Iowa,&#8221; Petersen reported in a Twitter thread Thursday. &#8220;This comes after a woman claimed her father was a serial killer and buried bodies on the land.&#8221;
The Iowa Department of Public Safety shared details of the effort in a <a href="https://dps.iowa.gov/no-evidence-found-fremont-county-excavation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>.
&#8220;Over the past three days, state, local, and federal law enforcement assisted with an investigation in Fremont County,&#8221; the press release stated. &#8220;Authorities brought in an array of experts representing several disciplines and significant assets to excavate, collect and examine soil samples from a site identified by a reporting party. After exhaustive efforts, no evidence or other items of concern were recovered.&#8221;
The Department coordinated with the FBI, DPS&#8217;s Division of Criminal Investigation, and the Fremont County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, the release stated.
In October, Lucy Studey told Newsweek magazine that her late father, Donald Dean Studey, was a serial killer who used his children to bury the bodies. &#8220;I know where the bodies are buried,&#8221; she claimed.
According to Studey, her father killed between 50 and 70 women over a period of 30 years. He then instructed her and her siblings to help drag the bodies out to the alleged burial site, using a wheelbarrow in warmer weather and a toboggan during the winter snows. Once they arrived, the bodies were dumped into a well, and dirt and lye were piled on top.
&#8220;He would just tell us we had to go to the well, and I knew what that meant,&#8221; Studey said. &#8220;Every time I went to the well or into the hills, I didn&#8217;t think I was coming down. I thought he would kill me because I wouldn&#8217;t keep my mouth shut.&#8221;
Donald Studey died in 2013 at the age of 75.
The interview coincided with an initial inspection by the Fremont County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at the alleged burial site. Police used cadaver dogs to examine the site; the dogs allegedly reacted to something in the area, but the sheriff said that doesn&#8217;t prove anything definitively.
Still, the sheriff said it&#8217;s a distinct possibility that there could be something there. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a rumor around for years,&#8221; Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope told <a href="https://www.ketv.com/article/was-there-a-serial-killer-in-iowas-fremont-county/41757684" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KETV</a> at the time. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to do everything we can to prove or disprove there may be a crime scene.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe her 100 percent that there&#8217;s bodies in there,&#8221; Aistrope added to Newsweek.

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An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/indiana">Indiana</a> coroner’s office is seeking <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dna">DNA</a> samples from relatives of young men who might have been victims of a prolific <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/serial-killer">serial killer</a>.
Jeff Jellison, Hamilton County’s chief deputy coroner and coroner-elect, is looking to identify human remains found on an 18-acre estate in Westfield, Indiana, that once belonged to a man suspected of killing numerous young gay men, the Associated Press <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/indiana-coroner-hopes-dna-can-id-remains-found-suspected-serial-killer-rcna59424?fbclid=IwAR2_iDsKF2HAqDpq6NysTqIi_3cJyoquuZbg_QYhpepanQnKKBzTMyfo0vE">reported</a>. The estate, known as Fox Hollow Farm, was previously owned by businessman Herbert Baumeister, who killed himself in Canada in July 1996 at the age of 49 when police were looking to question him about the remains found on his Indiana property.
More than 10,000 human bones and bone fragments have been found on the land since the mid-1990s, the AP reported.
“Some of them as small as a fingernail, some of them as large as some leg bones,” Jellison said in a press release, <a href="https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/coroner-hoping-to-identify-more-than-a-dozen-potential-serial-killer-victims/">according to Fox 59</a>. “Most of those remains were crushed before they were discarded, a lot of them were also burnt before they were discarded. Those two things right there create huge hurdles.”
Authorities have suggested that Baumeister, a married father of three, would go to gay bars and pick up young men he brought back to his home, where he killed them.
Police have linked Baumeister to the disappearance of at least 16 men since 1980 but believe the bones and bone fragments could belong to at least 25 people. In addition to the remains on his property, several bodies were found in shallow streams in Indiana and Ohio and are also believed to be linked to Baumeister.
Jellison said that 11 human DNA samples had been extracted when the investigation started 30 years ago. Eight of those samples were identified and matched, leaving three remaining. Jellison takes office in January and wants to make identifying the remaining individuals one of his first orders of business.
“These people were on a shelf for 26 years,” Jellison said. “They were forgotten, they’re no longer forgotten.”
Jellison said in the press release that he hopes advances in DNA technology could help identify additional remains but said he needs help from the community.
“If you had a relative, a loved one, that was missing from the mid-80s to middle 90s,” he said. “I need you to come forward and provide us with DNA.”
“It’s just a cheek swab,” he added. “It takes just a few seconds. You can come to us, we’ll come to you, but we need those swabs. Without those, we’re not going to go anywhere with this investigation.”

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Ryan Murphy, the man who created the hit Netflix series about serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, said he was upset when the platform removed the LGBTQ tag from the story about a &#8220;gay man&#8221; and &#8220;his gay victims.&#8221;
In a recent lengthy interview for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/style/ryan-murphy-netflix-horror.html">The New York Times</a>, Murphy said not all &#8220;gay stories&#8221; have to be happy and admitted he wasn&#8217;t pleased when the streaming site removed the LGBTQ tag from &#8220;Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story&#8221; because &#8220;people were upset.&#8221;
&#8220;The rule of my career has been: The more specific you are, the more universal you can become,&#8221; Murphy explained. &#8220;I also don’t think that all gay stories have to be happy stories.&#8221;
&#8220;There was a moment on Netflix where they removed the L.G.B.T.Q. tag from &#8216;Dahmer,&#8217; and I didn&#8217;t like it and I asked why they did that and they said because people were upset because it was an upsetting story,&#8221; the series creator added. &#8220;I was, like, &#8216;Well, yeah.&#8217; But it was a story of a gay man and more importantly, his gay victims.&#8221;
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Murphy also responded to reports that the show was &#8220;exploiting&#8221; trauma suffered by the &#8220;victims&#8217; families,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-cruel-victims-family-member-not-happy-about-new-monster-the-jeffrey-dahmer-story-documentary">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
The series creator said he did the story to shed light on the racism and homophobia in the case that were pervasive.
&#8220;It was the biggest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen that really sort of examines how easy it is to get away with things with the white privilege aspects,&#8221; Murphy shared.  &#8220;What are the rules now? Should we never do a movie about a tyrant?”
The prosecutor who secured Dahmer&#8217;s conviction, former Milwaukee County District Attorney Michael McCann, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dahmer-prosecutor-blows-up-netflix-narrative-claiming-cops-ignored-black-gay-victims">disputed this claim</a>.
&#8220;The notion that MPD officers turned a blind eye to Dahmer&#8217;s victims because of their race or sexual orientation is ludicrous, despite what &#8216;Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story&#8217; portrays,&#8221; McCann reportedly shared.
The series focuses on serial killer, Dahmer, played by actor Evan Peters. Dahmer murdered 17 people from the 70s until the early 90s, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-cruel-victims-family-member-not-happy-about-new-monster-the-jeffrey-dahmer-story-documentary">reported</a>.
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Evan Peters, the actor who played <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/serial-killer">serial killer</a> Jeffrey Dahmer in the recently released <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/netflix">Netflix</a> drama series, said he took great pains to stay in character for months in preparation for the role.
“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/entertainment">Dahmer: Monster</a>” was a huge success for the streaming platform, quickly <a href="https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/dahmer-netflix-second-most-watched-series">becoming</a> the second-most streamed show of all time by mid-October. Part of that hype comes from Peters’ performance as the notorious killer. While the 35-year-old said he was “terrified” to play Dahmer, he was also committed to making the role as realistic as possible.
“I really went back and forth on whether I should do it or not. I knew it was going to be incredibly dark and an incredible challenge,&#8221; Peters <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/actor-evan-peters-stayed-character-jeffrey-dahmer-months-prepare-role">said</a> during a panel over the weekend. He mentioned watching a 1994 Dateline interview with the real Dahmer so he could &#8220;dive into the psychology of that extreme side of human behavior.&#8221;
This included adopting Dahmer’s speech pattern and mannerisms to the extent he could. Filmmaker Ryan Murphy confirmed that Evans &#8220;basically stayed in this character, as difficult as it was, for months.”
&#8220;I wore the character shoes with lifts in them, his jeans, his glasses, I had a cigarette in my hand at all times,&#8221; Peters said. &#8220;I wanted all this stuff, these external things, to be second nature when we were shooting, so I watched a lot of footage and I also worked with a dialect coach to get down his voice. The way that he spoke, it was very distinct and he had a dialect.&#8221;
Peters also had a unique way of adopting the real Dahmer’s body posture. He said the convicted killer &#8220;has a very straight back. He doesn’t move his arms when he walks, so I put weights on my arms to see what that felt like.&#8221; 
&#8220;So I also went off and created this 45-minute audio composite, which was very helpful,&#8221; the &#8220;American Horror Story&#8221; actor said of his lengthy preparations. 
&#8220;I listened to that every day, in hopes of learning his speech patterns, but really, in an attempt to try to get into his mindset and understand that each day that we were shooting. It was an exhaustive search, trying to find private moments, times where he didn’t seem self-conscious, so you could get a glimpse into how he behaved prior to these interviews and being in prison.&#8221;
Peters’ co-star Niecy Nash recalled greeting the actor when he was working on becoming more like Dahmer. 
&#8220;I wanted to respect that and I wanted to keep him there,&#8221; she said of encountering his method acting practice. 
&#8220;I prayed for you a lot, for real, because this is weighty. And when you stay in it, and you’re tethered to the material, like bone to marrow, your soul is troubled at some point. And I could see him getting tired. I just said, &#8216;Well, I’m just gonna make sure I keep him in my prayers, because this is a lot and he wants to do it justice.'&#8221;

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‘Like Bone To Marrow’: Actor Stayed In Character For Jeffrey Dahmer Role For Months, He Says

Actor Stayed In Character For Jeffrey Dahmer Role For Months, He Says

The new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/netflix">Netflix</a> docuseries “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story</a>” is a huge success for the streaming platform, but some fans were upset with how it was tagged in their library.
Initially, the story of one of America’s most notorious <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/serial-killer">serial killers </a>came up under the “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq">LGBTQ</a>” tag, along with other titles such as “Heartstopper,” “Sex Education,” and “AJ the Queen,” the Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-09-27/netflix-jeffrey-dahmer-show-lgbtq-tag">reported</a>. But now, Netflix has changed that after getting a lot of backlash via social media.
“If I need to stay in my lane absolutely tell me but anyone else think it’s pretty gross of @netflix to list Dahmer under #LGBTQ, especially when the True Crime tag would have worked?,” writer Frances Danger <a href="https://twitter.com/FrancesMFDanger/status/1572689081460719616">tweeted</a> just after the series premiere. 
A TikTok user conceded that even though it’s “technically true” the series qualified as LGBTQ because Dahmer was gay, that doesn’t make it right. “This is not the representation we’re looking for,” the poster <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@lizthelezbo/video/7145976046012173574">continued</a>. 
As of Tuesday, Netflix had removed the LGBTQ tag and classified “Monster” as “Crime TV Shows” and “Social Issue Drama,” the publication reported.
This isn’t the only controversy that the new Dahmer series faces. Prior to its release, some critics claimed “Monster” never should have been made in the first place because it exploited gay, black men, who were the main targets of the real-life serial killer. 
The cousin of one of the victims posted to Twitter claiming the series brought up negative feelings for their family. 
“I’m not telling anyone what to watch, I know true crime media is huge rn, but if you’re actually curious about the victims, my family (the Isbell’s) are pissed about this show. It’s retraumatizing over and over again, and for what? How many movies/shows/documentaries do we need?” Eric Perry tweeted the day after the series debuted, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-cruel-victims-family-member-not-happy-about-new-monster-the-jeffrey-dahmer-story-documentary">reported</a>.
“Like recreating my cousin having an emotional breakdown in court in the face of the man who tortured and murdered her brother is WILD. WIIIIIILD,” Perry shared alongside side by side clips from real-life courtroom footage and scenes from the docuseries.
Former Milwaukee District Attorney Michael McCann, who prosecuted Dahmer in the 90s, also criticized “Monster” for portraying law enforcement as turning a blind eye to crimes against gay and black men. Per <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2022/09/28/jeffrey-dahmer-prosecutor-denies-racial-homophobic-bias-police/">TMZ</a>, McCann says that wasn’t how the case was handled in real life.

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‘Not The Representation We’re Looking For’: Netflix Removes LGBTQ Tag From Jeffrey Dahmer Drama Series

Netflix Removes LGBTQ Tag From Jeffrey Dahmer Drama Series

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The family of one of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/serial-killer">serial killer</a> Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims isn’t happy about the newest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/netflix">Netflix</a> series documenting his life and crimes.
“Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” has become extremely popular on the streaming platform since it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">premiered</a> last Wednesday. However, Eric Perry says the new series, which was created by Ryan Murphy, has brought up painful memories for his family.
“I’m not telling anyone what to watch, I know true crime media is huge rn, but if you’re actually curious about the victims, my family (the Isbell’s) are pissed about this show. It’s retraumatizing over and over again, and for what? How many movies/shows/documentaries do we need?” Perry <a href="https://twitter.com/ericthulhu/status/1572996958884700160">tweeted</a> the day after the series became available.
He shared a video of courtroom footage of his cousin Rita Isbell, the sister of victim Errol Lindsey, rushing Dahmer before she was stopped by courtroom security alongside the same scene depicted on “Monster.”
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I’m not telling anyone what to watch, I know true crime media is huge rn, but if you’re actually curious about the victims, my family (the Isbell’s) are pissed about this show. It’s retraumatizing over and over again, and for what? How many movies/shows/documentaries do we need? <a href="https://t.co/CRQjXWAvjx">https://t.co/CRQjXWAvjx</a>
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Perry said in a follow-up tweet, “Like recreating my cousin having an emotional breakdown in court in the face of the man who tortured and murdered her brother is WILD. WIIIIIILD.”
Dahmer is one of the most notorious serial killers of the twentieth century. He’s known for murdering 17 people from the 70s until the early 90s. His crimes have been explored in multiple movies, TV shows, and podcasts, with “Monster” as the latest version. Actor Evan Peters stars as Dahmer.
Perry shared in later tweets that families are not always notified when these types of projects are being made.
“Ok, I did not expect that tweet to get this much attention,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/ericthulhu/status/1573155975795822592">wrote</a>. “To answer the main question, no, they don’t notify families when they do this. It’s all public record, so they don’t have to notify (or pay!) anyone. My family found out when everyone else did.”
He continued: “So when they say they’re doing this ‘with respect to the victims’ or ‘honoring the dignity of the families,’ no one contacts them. 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 cruel.&#8221;

‘It’s Cruel’: Victim’s Family Member Not Happy About New ‘Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ Documentary

Victim's Family Member Not Happy About New 'Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story' Documentary

Shannan Gilbert was 24 years old when she disappeared on May 1, 2010, after going to the home of a client in Oak Beach on Long Island.
Gilbert, an escort who operated using Craigslist, was last seen leaving the area on foot in distress, though Suffolk County Police say she had a driver waiting to take her home. The driver received a call from Gilbert’s client, who said she had started acting irrationally and demanded she leave, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-911-calls-long-island-serial-killer-shannan-gilbert">reported</a>.
&#8220;After refusing to leave the location at the request of her client, Gilbert eventually fled on foot into the Oak Beach community,&#8221; police said, according to Fox. &#8220;She knocked on several doors before disappearing.&#8221;
Gilbert’s disappearance led police to search along Ocean Parkway, where they discovered multiple women’s bodies over the course of several days, including Gilbert’s. The first body found was Melissa Barthelemy. One year later, on December 11, 2011, police found Gilbert’s purse and cellphone a quarter-mile away from Barthelemy’s body. Two days later, Gilbert’s body was found in roughly the same area as the serial killer&#8217;s victims.
Now New York Police have released a 911 call previously deemed confidential in relation to Gilbert’s death, including a 12-minute video with sections from the call, along with maps and other visuals related to her disappearance and death. Homicide Commander Kevin Beyrer of the SCPD explained in the video that while Gilbert’s death is a tragedy, her death does not appear to be the result of violence, meaning she is not a victim of the Gilgo Beach serial killer.
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Police also released the audio of Gilbert’s 911 call, which lasted more than 21 minutes, though much of it contains “dead audio,” Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison <a href="https://pix11.com/news/local-news/long-island/someones-after-me-gilgo-beach-911-calls-released-12-years-after-shannan-gilbert-disappeared/">told</a> Pix 11.
“Somebody’s after me,” Gilbert repeats at the beginning of the call.
Joseph Brewer, the client that Gilbert met up with on the night she disappeared, can also be heard in the calls, attempting to get Gilbert to speak to her driver, Michael Pak, but she refuses. Brewer and Pak repeatedly try to get Gilbert to leave Brewer’s home but she refuses, eventually asking Pak what he would do to her and “are you going to kill me?” to which Pak responds, “Are you crazy?”
Gilbert continues to ask if Pak is going to kill her as he tries to calm her down and get her to leave Brewer’s home. “Come on, it’s me, Mike,” he says at one point, as if she doesn’t recognize him.
Later in the call, Gilbert can be heard asking Pak to take her home, then accusing him of being “part of this all along.”
Gilbert then left Brewer’s home and ran down the street toward a neighbor’s house. Gilbert can be heard screaming on the phone before she knocks on the door of a neighbor, Gus Coletti, who asks her if someone is after her. Gilbert says she needs “help” but leaves Coletti’s home.
Coletti called the police describing Gilbert as a 14-year-old, while describing Pak as a “boy” driving a Suburban.
In a third 911 call, neighbor Barbara Brennan says a woman is “banging” on her door and claiming to be in “danger.”
It is still unclear what killed Gilbert, though it does not appear that Brewer or Pak are considered suspects.

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‘Somebody’s After Me’: Police Release 911 Calls Related To Cold Case That Led To Serial Killer Discovery

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In 1987, 41-year-old Vicki Heath was working at the Super 8 Motel just off I-65 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in order to make some extra money. She had recently gotten engaged, and was looking forward to this new chapter in her life as her two kids were reaching adulthood. That all tragically ended on February 21, 1987, when police received a call about a “complete mess” in the lobby of the motel. The caller worried that the front desk clerk was missing. Police arrived and found Heath’s body behind a nearby dumpster.
Two more women &#8211; Margaret &#8220;Peggy&#8221; Gill and Jeanne Gilbert – were killed two years later, each while working at different Days Inn motels in Indiana. A final woman, referred to only as Jane Doe, was sexually assaulted at the Columbus, Indiana, Days Inn in 1990.
More than 30 years went by without police being able to charge a suspect, whom they referred to as either the “Days Inn Killer” or the “I-65 Killer,” since the motels were off the highway.
On Tuesday, however, Indiana State Police (ISP) <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/INPOLICE/bulletins/3121b87">announced</a> that they had finally identified the serial killer as Harry Edward Greenwell, who died in 2013 at the age of 68. He had been living in New Albin, Iowa and had an “extensive criminal history ranging from 1963 to 1998,” the ISP announced.
“In 2019, the Indiana State Police requested the assistance of the FBI’s Gang Response Investigative Team (GRIT). Since these crimes were committed, many investigative and scientific techniques have either improved or been created through new advances in technology. One of these methods is Investigative Genealogy and combines the use of DNA analysis with traditional genealogy research and historical records to generate investigative leads for unsolved violent crimes,” the ISP explained. “This technique involves uploading a crime scene DNA profile to one or more genetic genealogy databases in an attempt to identify a criminal offender&#8217;s genetic relatives and locate the offender within their family tree. Utilizing this process, a match was made to Greenwell with a close family member. Through this match it was determined that the probability of Greenwell being the person responsible for the attacks was more than 99 percent.”
FBI Indianapolis Special Agent in Charge Herbert J. Stapleton said in the press release that “These cases did not go unsolved all these years because of a lack of investigative inactivity &#8211; investigators continuously tracked leads across the country and did everything they could to identify the person responsible for these crimes.”
“Now, through technological advances and strong, collaborative partnerships we were able to identify this person and, hopefully, start to bring closure and healing to the families of Vicki, Peggy and Jeanne; as well as the surviving victim,” he added.
Kimberly Wright, Jeanne Gilbert’s daughter, said in the same press release: “Our family is extremely grateful to all of the agencies, along with agency partnerships, who have committed to keeping these unsolved cases at the forefront for more than 33 years, and who have worked tirelessly to bring these cases to resolution for all who have suffered from these crimes.”

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Serial Killer Known As The ‘I-65 Killer’ Identified After 30 Years

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