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For white, suburban, heterosexual middle America, Jeffrey Dahmer, like AIDS, was the natural, even the righteous, consequence of homosexual promiscuity. He remains one of the exemplary constructions of the supervillain serial killer, the perfect subject of a true crime story. Today\u2019s episode is about Jeffrey Dahmer as man and metaphor: about the phenomenon of the serial killer-monster, about the ways in which homophobia, racism, and the various true crime myths Dahmer helped reify ironically impeded his arrest and enabled his crimes, and about the twisted, slap-happy identification with Dahmer pursued by some gay men.\n----more----\nSOURCES:\nABC News. \u201cJeffrey Dahmer Hero Charged With Homicide.\u201d ABC News. Accessed March 15, 2022. https://abcnews.go.com/US/jeffrey-dahmer-hero-tracy-edwards-charged-homicide/story?id=14853608.\nBarron, James. \u201cMilwaukee Police Once Queried Suspect.\u201d The New York Times, July 27, 1991, sec. U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/27/us/milwaukee-police-once-queried-suspect.html.\nAP NEWS. \u201cDahmer Case Raises Complaints of Racism With PM-Dahmer Confession, Bjt.\u201d Accessed March 15, 2022. https://apnews.com/article/6452017abebdb9eaa87e90817bf59b7e.\nAP NEWS. \u201cDahmer Tells Judge He Blames Nobody But Himself With PM-, AM-Dahmer Sentencing, Bjt.\u201d Accessed March 15, 2022. https://apnews.com/article/49045923cf0d3c1a0ffc82eda398b935.\nAP NEWS. \u201cDahmer Tells Judge He Blames Nobody But Himself With PM-, AM-Dahmer Sentencing, Bjt.\u201d Accessed March 15, 2022. https://apnews.com/article/49045923cf0d3c1a0ffc82eda398b935.\nDavis, Donald A. The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare. St. Martin\u2019s Paperbacks, 1991.\nGage, Gabriella. \u201cTrue Crime\u2019s Deceits: The Genrefication of Tragedy.\u201d Los Angeles Review of Books, June 21, 2021. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/true-crimes-deceits-the-genrefication-of-tragedy/.\nMasters, Brian. The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993.\nO\u2019Brien, Brendan. \u201cHomeless Man Who Escaped Cannibal Serial-Killer Jeffrey Dahmer Gets Prison Sentence.\u201d National Post, January 24, 2012. https://nationalpost.com/news/homeless-man-who-escaped-canibal-serial-killer-jeffrey-dahmer-gets-prison-sentence.\nSarah McGonagall. \u201cDid You Know? In 1991 Officer John Balcerzak Was Fired after Handing 14 Year-Old Konerak Sinthasomphone Back to the Man He Had Just Escaped from despite Two Bystanders Begging the Officer Not to. Later That Night, Konerak Was Tortured and Killed by That Same Man - Jeffrey Dahmer.\u201d Tweet. @gothspiderbitch (blog), June 19, 2020. https://twitter.com/gothspiderbitch/status/1273785359869116421.\nToofab. \u201cThe Racist Reason White Cops Handed a Dying 14-Year-Old Back to Jeffrey Dahmer.\u201d Accessed March 15, 2022. https://toofab.com/2020/06/19/white-cops-handed-a-dying-14-year-old-back-to-jeffrey-dahmer/.\nTithecott, Richard, and James R. Kincaid. Of Men and Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Construction of the Serial Killer. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.\nOur intro music is\xa0Arpeggia Colorix\xa0by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons\xa0Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ\xa0Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.\n\xa0\n----more----