Jeffrey Dahmer
Arrived when television learned to serialise.
- Convicted of fifteen murders — sometimes counted as seventeen when killings outside the jurisdiction are included — and killed in prison on 28 November 1994.
One lit window in an ordinary block.
Timing is a production value. This case reached the trade at the exact moment the industry worked out that an eight-part order pays better than a single documentary, and it has been re-optioned in every format since.
The single lit window is the whole marketing brief: proximity, an ordinary building, neighbours who were not believed. The institutional failure in that story is the part worth reading and the part every adaptation shortens.
He ranks fourth on documentation, not on the file.
Jeffrey Dahmer was convicted of fifteen murders — sometimes counted as seventeen — and was killed in prison on 28 November 1994.
History.com, 'Jeffrey Dahmer murdered in prison'retrieved 2026-08-14
The full argument is filed in the anchor piece, and the index to all ten jackets is here.