you were told jeffrey dahmer was a serial killer

The official record describes something else.

Start with any one — under a minute each.
Each link opens a page containing a primary, publicly accessible record.

Missing Victim Records
A Victim Who Died in 1960
A Victim Who Is Still Alive

No Mugshots
DA Michael McCann’s Address
Polymyositis

Read them yourself.
Compare them to the story you’ve heard.

How a Story Becomes Accepted

The Jeffrey Dahmer story most people know comes from repetition.

Books quote documentaries.
Documentaries quote interviews.
Articles quote each other.

Very few people ever compare that narrative to the publicly available records.

So that’s where this starts.

Not with retellings.
With what can actually be accessed and verified.

And when you begin checking, something unusual appears:

The public records don’t line up with the official story.

Jeffrey Dahmer as a teenager with his father and younger brother in a family portrait, long before the criminal narrative began. Jeff Dahmer was innocent.