It doesn't take a dedicated Ryan Murphy aficionado to understand why Jeffrey Dahmer appeals to him as a drama subject. The nature of Dahmer's singularly horrific crimes, several of which are studiously dramatized in Netflix's "Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story," made him an international sideshow after he was finally caught in 1991.
By then the media and public already digested the bizarre horror of John Wayne Gacy and gorged themselves on Ted Bundy's gruesome story from every angle, primarily the ones that made cameras love his face.
