While Netflix subscribers are still reeling from the horrifying events portrayed in Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story – starring Evan Peters as the titular serial killer – the streamer is diving further into the true story in Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes.

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The third season to come from Joe Berlinger's Conversations with a Killer franchise, The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes will explore the crimes of the murderer, who was convicted of killing and dismembering 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

Examining Dahmer's warped psyche and how he was able to avoid detection for so many years, the upcoming true crime doc features never-before-heard audio interviews between Dahmer and his defence team from when the killer was in custody.

Here is everything we know so far about Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes ahead of its release on Netflix this autumn.

Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes release date

Netflix has announced that Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes will arrive on the streamer on Friday 7th October at 8am BST.

The three-parter will be the third season in the Conversations with a Killer franchise, which has previously looked at serial killers John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy.

What is Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes about?

Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer. Photo by Curt Borgwardt/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images

The upcoming Netflix docuseries is set to explore the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer, a serial killer convicted of killing 16 men and boys between 1978 and 1991 (he was not charged for the murder of Steven Tuomi, though he is counted as one of his 17 victims).

Dahmer, who died in prison in 1994, was charged in 1991 and confessed to 16 murders in Wisconsin as well as acts of necrophilia and cannibalism, shocking the nation and the local community.

Directed by Joe Berlinger, CWAK: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes features never-before-heard audio interviews between Dahmer and his defence team.

"When Milwaukee police entered the apartment of 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer in July of 1991, they uncovered the grisly personal museum of a serial killer: a freezer full of human heads, skulls, bones and other remains in various states of decomposition and display," Netflix teases.

"Why was Dahmer, who had been convicted of sexual assault of a minor in 1988, able to avoid suspicion and detection from police as he stalked Milwaukee’s gay scene for victims, many of whom were people of colour?"

Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes trailer

Netflix released a trailer for the miniseries last month, giving viewers a first-look at the chilling three-parter.

Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes arrives on Netflix on 7th October 2022. Sign up for Netflix from £6.99 a month. Netflix is also available on Sky Glass and Virgin Media Stream.

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