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Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes

★ 7.3 12K votes 2022–2022 1 seasons · 3 episodes Ended Netflix
True crimeReal cases, told as documentary or drama.This show: 10/10DisturbingContent that lingers uncomfortably after the credits.This show: 9/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 9/10UnsettlingA creeping sense of unease and wrongness that gets under your skin.This show: 8/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 8/10BleakGrim and heavy, with little easy relief. These shows sit with suffering instead of softening it.This show: 7/10
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About

"The case told through his own recorded words"

This documentary uses recorded interview tapes and archival footage to revisit the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, the Milwaukee killer whose crimes shocked the country in the early 1990s. Rather than dramatizing events, it lets investigators, journalists, and the killer's own recorded voice piece together how he evaded detection for so long. The tone is somber and clinical rather than sensational, moving methodically through the investigation and its failures. It's a slow, unsettling watch that leans on primary sources instead of reenactments, more interested in institutional failure and true-crime mechanics than shock value.

Watch it for

the unfiltered archival tapes that let you hear the killer's own account directly.

Maybe skip if

you find true-crime documentaries about real, especially gruesome, murders distressing.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

Limited Series2022
7.52K33h
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
1Sympathy for the Devil7.4
62658 min
2Can I Take Your Picture?7.5
55862 min
3Evil or Insane?7.6
52560 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Park Dietz Self - Forensic Psychiatrist for the Prosecution
Wendy Patrickus Self - Dahmer's Defense Attorney
Anne E. Schwartz Self - Reporter, Milwaukee Journal
Kenneth Smail Self - Forensic Psychologist
Michael Ross Self - Friend of Victims
Gerald P. Boyle Self - Dahmer's Lead Defense Attorney
E. Michael McCann Self - Milwaukee District Attorney
Dennis Murphy Self - Detective, Milwaukee PD
Kenneth Meuler Self - Lieutenant, Homicide Division, Milwaukee P.D., Self - Lieutenant, Homicide Division
Jeff Fleming Self - Reporter, Milwaukee NBC Affiliate

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