“The victims’ households, in some circumstances, have by some means discovered a technique to transfer on with their lives, solely to be re-traumatized years later by their Netflix strategies.
I feel, in some unspecified time in the future, individuals are going to cease watching because the backlash continues to develop after each. Some tales ought to simply be left to documentaries or books with folks concerned within the case telling their very own tales in their very own phrases as a substitute of a Hollywood millionaire attempting to squeeze out each penny from folks’s ache.”
The victims’ households have been reportedly not contacted concerning the collection and discovered about it alongside the remainder of the world.
On Twitter, Eric Perry, whose cousin Errol Lindsey was a sufferer of Jeffrey Dahmer, mentioned, “I am not telling anybody what to observe, I do know true crime media is big rn, however should you’re truly curious concerning the victims, my household (the Isbell’s) are pissed about this present. It is retraumatizing again and again, and for what? What number of motion pictures/exhibits/documentaries do we’d like?”
Moreover, Rita Isbell, Errol Lindsey’s sister, whose real-life sufferer affect assertion from the 1992 sentencing was depicted within the collection, instructed Insider, “Once I noticed a few of the present, it bothered me, particularly once I noticed myself — once I noticed my identify come throughout the display and this girl saying verbatim precisely what I mentioned. If I did not know any higher, I’d’ve thought it was me. Her hair was like mine, she had on the identical garments. That is why it felt like reliving it another time. It introduced again all of the feelings I used to be feeling again then. I used to be by no means contacted concerning the present. I really feel like Netflix ought to’ve requested if we thoughts or how we felt about making it. They did not ask me something. They only did it.”
