Jeff, the interviewee, admitted that he had hoped to hold the body while it was fresh. He claimed that he regretted not being able to dig the grave. ..
Jeff goes on to say that he wished that the corpse had been somebody who wanted to see a movie he wanted to watch. During the investigation, when questioned about why he dug up the body, he acknowledges his desire to have power over the men he killed. He also says that he was being told what to do by everyone and that the only thing he had control over were his victims. ..
Jeff is interrogated about why he began to kill men on purpose. He explains that after becoming addicted to alcohol, he began to feel lonely and lost.
He acknowledges that when he first moved in with his grandmother, he would go to bars and pick up guys, drug them, and then strangle them so they would not experience any pain. ..
This is a very human side of Dahmer that we rarely see. He seems to have some deep-seated issues that he’s trying to work through, and I think it’s important to understand why he does what he does.
Jeff’s rampage against his victims is a mystery to the African American detective who is investigating the case. Jeff refuses to give any information about his victims, saying that he killed three of them because they were attractive. The detective is not sure what to make of Jeff’s statement and does not know how to get him to tell us more about his victims.
Detective Hatcher is furious with Jeff after he believes that Jeff killed African American men on purpose so he wouldn’t be easily suspected. He also believes that Jeff chose to live in an apartment in an African American neighborhood for the same reason. ..
Jeff’s grandmother began to notice the smell of decomposing corpses after Jeff’s father died. Jeff says that he found a solution after his grandmother began to notice the smell of the decaying bodies over time. He says that it wouldn’t smell at all once he would place the body parts in triple bags and discarded them in the trash. When asked if he would conduct experiments on the body, he responds ‘yes.’
Jeffrey Dahmer describes his experiments in graphic detail, which led to him becoming a serial killer. “At that point, my compulsion had completely taken over me,” Dahmer says. “I wasn’t even trying to stop it.”
Dahmer’s account of an incident in which she smelled something wrong but her father told her it was his taxidermy stuff leads him to learn the truth about his brother.
Jeff tells the investigators that he complied with his father’s request to stop his experiments. After that, he claimed that he did stop killing—at least for a while. However, he began to worry about being discovered after he stopped killing.
It’s fascinating to observe the extremely basic human behaviors at work in his situation. His predicament is comparable to that of an abusive alcoholic. Alcohol aids in the alcoholic’s ability to deflect attention away from the fact that he is actually acting wrongfully. The guilt that surfaces when the alcohol wears off causes the alcoholic to drink more to numb the guilt and it ends up becoming a vicious cycle.
Jeff’s murders operate in a similar way to drugs or alcohol. He becomes so wrapped up in the murders and the method of tricking a man, drugging him, killing him, that he doesn’t have time to think about the consequences.
He tells the investigators about a time when he actually helped someone. Within this story, he found a man outside a bar, and his car wasn’t working. He offered assistance, and although the man initially refused, after some insistence, the man accepted. ..
Jeffrey took the guy to his grandmother’s house where he drugged him by putting pills in his coffee. When Jeff’s grandmother hears some noises, she goes downstairs to investigate. When she notices the man is unconscious, she confronts Jeffrey, who claims he drank too much and passed out. ..
Jeff’s grandmother insisted on waiting with the man until he regained consciousness; otherwise, she would take him to the hospital because she felt something was not quite right. ..
Jeff’s grandmother initially hesitates because Jeff doesn’t appear to be in the right frame of mind, but eventually she agrees.
Jeff was overdosed and ended up in a hospital. He then goes to the police station and tells the officers everything he did to Jeff, but because he is African American, they don’t take him seriously. Even when they do look into it, they don’t go into it thoroughly enough and Jeff escapes.
Jeff’s grandmother forbids him from pursuing the boy, who collapses after taking drugs from Jeff. His parents rush him to the hospital.
Jeff is taken into custody and then jail for a year because he was white and young and the judge is very lenient with his punishment.
Jeff’s father recalled all the instances where he had noticed red flags in Jeff, and he even questioned whether he was a bad father and his negligence and failure to question his child about his unusual behaviours may have led him to act in the manner in which he did. ..
Jeff’s father writes to the judge to plead for help for his son, Jeff, who is currently in jail due to an alcohol addiction. The father believes that a program could help Jeff overcome his problem and lead a better life. ..
Jeff’s father asks him if he talked to any correctional officers or counselors about what was going on in his head or about his alcohol addiction. Jeff responds by saying that he didn’t and that they were mostly left alone.
Jeff’s father is feeling terrible because he can’t communicate with his son because Jeff is gay. This makes the father feel like he’s not a part of his life and it makes him feel terrible.
The episode ends on a cliffhanger as Jeff shows a deaf man his apartment from beneath a building. The identity of this man is unknown, and it’s possible that Jeff ends up murdering him as well. ..
The Episode Review
The show “Mindhunter” presents Jeff as a serial killer in a very humane way. Jeff is undoubtedly a serial killer, but it’s intriguing to see how, like most people, he longs for companionship and control. For example, he wishes someone would watch a movie with him or let him hold them. He is not a typical serial killer who lacks emotion; rather, he displays emotion in subtly disguised unconventional ways, such as by drugging and strangling his victims before carrying out any other actions because he doesn’t want them to feel pain. ..
Jeffrey’s father is presented in a grey manner. He may not be intrinsically bad. That’s what we already established about Jeff but even more so in this episode; his father is primarily viewed negatively. Due to his moral qualms, he neglects his son and avoids communicating with him. Despite this, he is consistently there for Jeffrey when he gets into trouble and has stuck by him through thick and thin. He genuinely feels terrible about not being able to communicate with him. ..
The episode discusses racism and how it was common for Caucasians to get away with crimes while African Americans were treated dismissively and with suspicion. ..
Jeff’s experience with the investigator, African American too, changes the entire dynamic of the chapter. While Jeff is being questioned by the investigator, he becomes overly emotional and jumps to conclusions that may not be true without any other justification other than racism.
While it is understandable that he was angry, his emotional response could affect the factual accuracy of the case. ..
This episode of “The West Wing” provides a fascinating perspective on the potential course of events. viewers are encouraged to keep watching to see how it plays out.
