The hit series’ main players, including creator Ryan Murphy and Dahmer actor Evan Peters, have insisted that the show strived to put the victims’ stories and their families’ trauma at the heart of the production.īut the show, which also depicts how Dahmer got away with his killing spree for so long because authorities ignored the concerns of Black and other minority community members, has faced criticism for not consulting the families of the slain. Now 85, the still-grieving mother joined a growing chorus of people whose relatives were murdered by Dahmer and who have mounted a loud backlash against Netflix’s dramatization of his killing spree in Milwaukee. “I don’t see how they can use our names and put stuff out like that out there.” “I don’t see how they can do that,” Hughes said, before adding that it was difficult to talk about Tony’s murder and politely ending the call.
