'Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story' creator Ryan Murphy has hit back at claims that he did not reach out to victims’ families prior to the show’s release.
. “I feel like Netflix should’ve asked if we mind or how we felt about making it. They didn’t ask me anything. They just did it. But I’m not money hungry, and that’s what this show is about, Netflix trying to get paid.” A character based on Isbell appears inher real-life counterpart wore during an emotional press conference.
“They don’t notify families when they do this. It’s all public record, so they don’t have to notify anyone. My family found out when everyone else did,” Eric Berry, another member of the Isbell family, . “So when they say they’re doing this ‘with respect to the victims’ or ‘honoring the dignity of the families,’ no one contacts them. My cousins wake up every few months at this point with a bunch of calls and messages and they know there’s another Dahmer show. It’s cruel.
Without the direct involvement of victims’ families, “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,” Murphy said. “But it was just like a night and day effort to us trying to uncover the truth of these people.”