The mother of one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims has criticized Evan Peters’ Golden Globes win on Tuesday night for his portrayal of the serial killer in the popular Netflix drama series about his life.
The mother of Dahmer victim Tony Hughes – Shirley Hughes – said that Peters should have paid tribute to the killer’s many victims during his acceptance speech at the awards.
She told TMZ that she would like to see Peters’ users on stage to gesture to families still suffering from Dahmer’s crimes, or to tell Hollywood it’s time to end the murder stories.
Tony Hughes, a 31-year-old deaf victim of Jeffrey Dahmer, on whom the popular Netflix series focused an episode
Peters won a Golden Globe on Tuesday night for Best Actor in a Limited Series or Anthology for his portrayal of Jeffrey Dahmer in the Netflix miniseries Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
During his acceptance speech, he said that he hoped something good would come of his victory and the show itself.
Hughes was skeptical of this hope, saying that nothing good would come of Peters awarding the show. Instead, he only compounds the tragedy for the victims’ families, forcing them to relive their pain.
The victim’s mother added to her sentiment, saying: ‘There are a lot of sick people around the world, and people who get roles as killers keep obsessing and that makes sick people thrive on fame.’
Despite Peters’ proclamation during his speech that it was difficult for him to portray the killer, Shirley questioned why he took the role in the first place.
Her position is that he – or any actor – should have turned down the role out of respect for the families who continue to live with the grief of their losses at the killer’s hands.
“It’s a shame that people can take our tragedy and make money,” she said. “Victims never saw a dime. We go through these emotions every day.’
This isn’t the first time the creatives behind the miniseries have received criticism from the families of Dahmer’s victims.
Creator Ryan Murphy claimed in October that he had contacted 20 family members and friends of the victims before making the show, but “not one person responded”.
At the time of its release, Rita Isbell, sister of Errol Lindsey – a 19-year-old Dahmer victim – said she had not been contacted by anyone and called Netflix ‘greedy’ for not contributing part of her earnings from showing it to the public. offspring of his late brother.
“Over the three and a half years that we were writing it, working on it, we reached out to about 20 families and friends of the victims trying to get information, trying to talk to people, and not a single person got back to us in that process,” Murphy said.
‘So we rely very, very heavily on our amazing group of researchers who… I don’t even know how they found so many things.
“But it was like a day-and-night effort to try to find out the truth about these people,” he said.
Shirley Hughes – mother of Dahmer victim Tony Hughes – delivers a victim impact statement in court in 1992
Peters as Dahmer (right) and Rodney Burford as Hughes (left) during episode six of the popular Netflix show. The episode culminates with Dahmer eating Hughes’ liver after donating it to his family’s search for it.
Shirley Hughes said she was dismayed that Peters had not used her time on stage accepting her award as an opportunity to pay tribute to Dahmer’s victims and their families.
When the show debuted in September on the popular streaming service, Shirley Hughes – now 85 – was quick to criticize the effort.
– I don’t see how they can do that. I don’t see how they can use our names and put things out like that,’ she told the Guardian at the time.
The show focused one of its 10 episodes on Tony Hughes, a 31-year-old deaf man who Dahmer murdered in 1991.
The Hughes-centric episode is considered one of the series’ hardest to watch, as it documents Dahmer’s brief relationship with the aspiring model who enjoys dancing at local clubs with her friends, who, like him, are both deaf and gay.
The climax of the episode – number six in the series – arrives with Dahmer killing Hughes and cooking and eating his liver after donating funds to a search effort organized by his mother and family.
Shirley Hughes would find out about her son’s murder after investigators discovered his skull in Dahmer’s apartment.
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