But I portrayed it very honestly - I think brutally, which is really the only way you can approach a memoir like this.” There are endless larger questions to ponder around Dahmer, he says: “How we treat dysfunctional kids - or don’t. “We looked at each other and said, ‘Yeah, it wasn’t our finest hour.’ It’s really not excusable, certainly not through the lens of 2017. “I talked about this with my friends at the premiere of the film,” says Derf, 57. He and his friends invited Dahmer into their group and egged him on to pull more fits, dubbing themselves the Dahmer Fan Club. And at 16, I found this endlessly fascinating,” Derf says.
Derf and his sardonic pals couldn’t believe what they were seeing. In their later high school years, Dahmer began throwing fake fits in the hallways, cruelly mocking conditions like cerebral palsy (his mother had hired a decorator who had the condition). There was really nothing remarkable about him at all. He really nailed it.” Jeffrey Dahmer in his high school yearbook senior photo (left) and a mug shot Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library Sygma via Getty Imagesĭerf, who’s played in the film by Alex Wolff (“Patriots Day”), initially knew Dahmer only as “another quiet, dorky kid. “Ross is astounding in the role,” says Derf.
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This week, Derf’s acclaimed 2012 graphic novel is out in movie form, with former Disney Channel star Ross Lynch in the title role as a pre-murderous, teen Dahmer.
Nicknamed “the Milwaukee Cannibal,” he was killed by a fellow inmate in 1994. His crimes included rape, child molestation, cannibalism and necrophilia. That classmate was arrested in 1991: Jeffrey Dahmer would eventually confess to the murder of 17 male victims. Man, it f–ks with your head.”īackderf, known professionally as Derf, tried to exorcise those demons in “ My Friend Dahmer,” a memoir spanning six years in the 1970s in his hometown of Bath, Ohio, where he befriended a reclusive classmate named Jeffrey. “Suddenly all the goofball antics and silly things we’d done became completely sinister and troubling. “It’s like getting hit with a 2-by-4,” the Cleveland-based author tells The Post. Graphic novelist John Backderf still remembers the moment he learned the strange kid he’d known back in high school was a notorious serial killer. The chilling link between psychopaths and sex dolls
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