Mother of Dahmer Victim Opens up about Netflix’s “Monster”: “I Don’t Understand How They Can Do This.”
Following the release of Netflix’s “Monster”: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, a mother of one Jeffrey Dahmer victim is speaking out. Evan Peters plays Dahmer in the series.
Shirley Hughes, the mother to Anthony Hughes, spoke briefly to the Guardian on Monday. She said that the way the show depicted her son’s death, and the aftermath, “didn’t happen.”
Hughes, 85, said to the outlet that “I don’t see how they could do that.” “I don’t see how they could use our names and put out stuff like that.”
The outlet reported that Hughes stated it was hard to talk about her son’s murder, and she politely hung up.
Fox News asked Netflix for comment but Netflix didn’t immediately respond.
Anthony Hughes was deaf and couldn’t speak. He went to a Milwaukee gay bar on May 24, 1992, and began dancing.
Dahmer took him to his home, gave him drugs, dismembered him and kept his skull. He was 31 years of age.
Shirley was present at every Dahmer’s trial, in 1992.
Elder Durain Hughes, a Pentecostal minister spoke to the Associated Press in 1992 about the effects of Anthony’s death on Shirley.
He said that it literally tore her apart. She’s made a lot of progress. She has a constant desire to assist other grieving families.
Shirley isn’t the only relative of Dahmer victims to voice their opinions on the Netflix hit. Eric Perry, a cousin to Errol Lindsey took to Twitter in September, and declared the show “retraumatizing”.
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