Some of this advice included discussing the children’s fears, reassuring them that they are safe, and turning off the television whenever the news came on and keeping newspapers out of sight. Baumann presents the advice of three different psychologists on what parents should do to keep their children from becoming terrified of the monster that was Jeffrey Dahmer. This idea of him as a monster or Satan in disguise ties into the effects this news portrayal had on children and their parents. In Ed Baumann’s book Step Into My Parlor (1991), an entire analysis of the murders and Dahmer himself, Baumann describes him as “Satan with blond hair, a friendly face and a pleasing voice” (117). You can be certain that nearly everyone was referring to Dahmer as a monster when they found out about the things he did.
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One term that is often heard to describe a serial killer is the word “monster”. Newspaper companies profited greatly from this event, so much that vendors had “a hell of a time keeping their curbside vending boxes stocked” (172).Īlthough this is more recent (2007), many Dahmer jokes circulated across the country after citizens heard about the murders. The Dahmer murders story became a very rare exception, having “something to disgust everyone”, with jokes spreading around the country “as fast as Fax machines could spit them out” (Baumann 171), such as the drawing below. Normally, news stories, regardless of how attention-grabbing they are, do not run longer than that because they become old rather quick, and everyone moves on to something else. What is unique about the Dahmer murders news story, compared to many others, is that it ran for much longer than nine days in the news industry. He was even brought up in the news thirteen years after his death in prison! Here I will examine how the media’s portrayal of this particular event has affected the general public, and another murder case in particular how the event has specifically impacted African Americans and gays and how the entertainment industry has portrayed the event.
Clean-cut Dahmer has instilled fear in the eyes of many, spawned hatred in certain groups, and has even made his mark in the entertainment industry. The Dahmer murders, and the way the media has portrayed them, have had an impact on nearly everyone. Victims’ and killer’s families, but also to the entire American public on a national level. Jeffrey Dahmer, when he was arrested back in 1991.
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