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The new true-crime drama "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" stars a well-known murderer. In the September 2022 film, Evan Peters plays the titular real-life serial killer, following Ross Lynch's appearance as Dahmer in 2017's "My Friend Dahmer," Zac Efron as Ted Bundy in "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile," among other things. But despite the series's high production value, high success, and ostensible intention to educe its followers, the series is igniting long-awaited discussions about how true-crime dramatisations profit from shock value, tend to exploitation victims, romanticize perpetrators, and do more harm than good. Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer who murdered 17 young men and boys between 1978 and 1991. He sought out his victims, mainly Black, Latino, and Asian men, at gay bars, bus stops, and malls, and then strangling them to death. Dahmer would commit necrophilia, dismember their bodies, and eat their tendons after killing his victims. Dahmer was eventually apprehended in 1991 and sentenced to 16 life terms. In 1994, a fellow prisoner beat him to death in prison.