Ryan Murphy says he reached out to '20 of the victims' family and friends' for ‘Dahmer’ series

Director Ryan Murphy claimed he reached out to more than a dozen family and friends of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's victims for his hit Netflix series, with "not a single person responding" to him.

The hit Netflix series has garnered criticism, with claims that the show was "sympathetic" to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, and that certain events were not portrayed accurately. The show depicts the life of the serial killer, who committed murders between 1978 and 1991. Will Mendelson is an entertainment editor for Fox News Digital. 

"Something that we talked a lot in the making of it is we weren’t so much interested in Jeffrey Dahmer, the person, but what made him the monster that he became," Murphy continued. "We talked a lot about that…and we talked about it all the time. It’s really about white privilege. It’s about systemic racism. It’s about homophobia."