Ryan Murphy Responds to Criticism of 'Dahmer' Series by Victims' Loved Ones

Check out what Ryan Murphy said during a new interview…

Ryan Murphy, who created the series, says that his team actually did contact the families of the victims while researching the show.

“It’s something that we researched for a very long time,” he said at a press conference (via THR). “And we, over the course of the three, three and a half years when we were really writing it, working on it, we reached out to 20, around 20 of the victims’ families and friends trying to get input, trying to talk to people and not a single person responded to us in that process. So we relied very, very heavily on our incredible group of researchers who… I don’t even know how they found a lot of this stuff. But it was just like a night and day effort to us trying to uncover the truth of these people.”

“Something that we talked a lot in the making of it is we weren’t so much interested in Jeffrey Dahmer, the person, but what made him the monster that he became,” he added. “We talked a lot about that… and we talked about it all the time. It’s really about white privilege. It’s about systemic racism. It’s about homophobia.”

Ryan even said that he would be open to paying to build a memorial for the victims.

“Anything that we could do to get that to happen, you know, I would even be happy to pay for it myself,” he said. “I do think there should be something. And we’re trying to get a hold of people to talk about that. I think there’s some resistance because they think the park would attract people who are interested in paying homage to the macabre… but I think something should be done.”

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