Season 1 · Episode 3 · September 21, 2022
Doin' a Dahmer
Updated
- Season
- Season 1 — Dahmer
- Episode
- Episode 3 of 10
- Premiere
- September 21, 2022
- Platform
- Netflix
- Rating
- TV-MA
- Part of
- Monster anthology
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Official featurette: director Paris Barclay with Evan Peters and Niecy Nash-Betts.
The episode
The season reaches back to 1978. High school ends, the household dissolves — his mother leaves with his younger brother, his father moves in with a new partner — and Jeffrey stays behind in the family house in Bath, Ohio, drinking and lifting weights in an empty home.
He invites a hitchhiker, Steven Hicks, back for beers; when Hicks leaves, Dahmer kills him — his first murder, at eighteen — and nearly gets caught the same night when police stop his swerving car and wave it on. It is the episode where the pattern is born: panic, concealment, and a near-miss nobody investigates.
Show vs. the record
Steven Hicks, killed in Bath, Ohio, in 1978, is the first victim Dahmer was tied to. His parents had separated, and he was living in the family house.
A traffic stop that same night has been described in later accounts of the case. The hitchhiker scene as played, and anything Dahmer is shown thinking, is the episode.
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