'There
was always a darkness about
him': My Friend Dahmer author John Backderf on growing up with a
serial killer
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| John 'Derf' Backderf (Alain Seux) |
Most of us have
wondered what happened to certain kids from our school days, but few
can have had their worlds rocked quite like the comic book artist
John Backderf, when he found out what his erstwhile friend Jeffrey
Dahmer had been up to.
After they’d
graduated from high school, Dahmer vanished. “I can’t say my
friends and I were terribly concerned about it, but we did comment
on it, from time to time,” says Backderf, aka Derf, on the phone
from New York. “We knew his parents lived in town and yet we never
saw him anywhere.”
When Dahmer was
arrested in 1991, he discovered why: Dahmer had already embarked on
a murderous journey that would brutally extinguish 17 lives and make
him one of America’s most notorious and depraved serial killers.
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