In her interview with Entertainment Weekly, Kim Goldman shared that she asked Jeffrey Toobin, who wrote the book that Netflix’s “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” was based on, about why family members of Dahmer’s victims were not consulted. “He said, ‘Well, it wasn’t victim-focused.’ And I’m like, ‘Well, that’s the problem.’”
Goldman added, “I think we can change the narrative about the way we tell stories and to make sure that we’re telling the stories that include the victimization, and that can allow people to understand that that’s part of the process. I think it’s changed a little bit over the last couple of years, but most of the shows are from the criminal’s perspective, from the law enforcement perspective, from the legal perspective. Very seldom do you often see it from a victim’s perspective. It paints a picture that victims and survivors are in the background, you know, in a fetal position on the floor … It’s irresponsible to not in some way include the families so that you can understand what they’re experiencing and to give a little bit more power back to them.”
Indeed, many true crime series focus on the criminal: their childhood, their background, their psychology, and why they became criminals. While this may provide partial insight into the events that occurred, it does a disservice to families and victims because it erases their experience to focus solely on the perpetrator instead. The victims were just as real and important as the serial killer who committed these crimes that ended many lives and forever altered countless others. Kim Goldman thinks it is time to shift the perspective to the foreground, or at least include that of victims and families.
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