Jeffrey Dahmer’s latest victim has been charged with the murder of Tracy Edwards
Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 people from 1978 through 1991 until his last victim Tracy Edwards escaped in a shocking true crime twist. After Edwards escapes from Dahmer’s apartment, he finds the police and arrests the serial killer. Ironically, 20 years later, Edwards himself was under arrest. Find out why.
[SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers ahead regarding DAHMER — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.]
The story of Tracy Edwards is explored in the Jeffrey Dahmer series directed by Ryan Murphy
Sean Brown (Hulu’s leakageFX’s DaveHe plays Tracy Edwards, the real-life victim who escapes from Dahmer in Ryan Murphy Dahmer – The Beast: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. In the first episode of the limited series, Jeffrey Dahmer (Evan Peters) meets Tracy at a local bar. He agrees to go back to Jeff’s apartment and take pictures. However, Tracy quickly realizes that something is wrong when he steps into Dahmer’s house that smells of ranks.
Just when it looks like Tracy is going to become another one of Dahmer’s victims, he attacks Jeff Exorcist III plays in the background. Tracy narrowly escapes from the apartment and runs through the streets screaming for help with the handcuffs dangling from his wrists. In the end, he found the police and took them to Jeff’s apartment, where they found Polaroids and various parts of Dahmer’s previous victims.
Tracy Edwards 2011 arrest for murder
according to ABCEdwards was arrested for murder in July 2011 after he was seen standing on a Milwaukee bridge with two other homeless men, Timothy Carr and Johnny Jordan. The outlet reported that “a witness at a gas station across the street saw Edwards and Carr push Jordan about 20 feet into the river below and called the cops.” “By the time the cops arrived, Jordan was drowning.”
“He’s like Humpty Dumpty,” Edwards’ attorney Paul Ksinski said at the time. “It’s as if he hasn’t been able to put the pieces back together again [after Dahmer]. After becoming the hero who helped put Dahmer behind bars, Edwards had several confrontations with police for drug possession, theft, property damage, failure to pay child support, and jumping bail. In 2012, Edwards was sentenced to one and a half years in prison and two years of extended probation after his plea. guilty of assisting a criminal (via National Post).
Survivor Jeffrey Dahmer and other victims are the focus of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series
Unlike previous documentaries, movies, and TV shows about Dahmer, Murphy’s Netflix series focuses on his victims. This includes Glenda Cleveland, Edwards and Dahmer’s former neighbor, as well as:
- Stephen Hicks
- Stephen Tommy
- James “Jimmy” Doxtor
- Richard Guerrero
- Anthony Sears
- Eddie Smith
- Ricky Peaks
- Ernest Miller
- David Thomas
- Curtis Strauter
- Errol Lindsey
- Tony Hughes
- Konerak Sinthasomphone
- Matt Turner
- Jeremiah Weinberger
- Oliver Lacey
- Joseph Bradehoft
“Yes, it’s a story about Dahmer, but it’s also a story about victims,” Rashad Robinson, head of Color of Change and series consultant, told Netflix Queue. “It’s a story not only about the victims who were killed, but about the community, about the horrific impact not only of what Jeffrey Dahmer was able to do in all the mischief, but all the ways in which the police, the greater leadership in Milwaukee, the media and many others have had accomplices in society.”
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