Ryan Murphy says families of Dahmer victims didn’t respond to his team’s inquiries

Ryan Murphy, photographed in March, has responded to the backlash to his Jeffrey Dahmer series on Netflix. Ryan Murphy says he and the “Dahmer” writing team reached out to 20 family members and friends of the serial killer’s victims over 3 1/2 years, but nobody got back to them. “Over the course of the three, three and a half years when we were really writing it, working on it — we reached out to 20, around 20, of the victims’ families and friends trying to get input, trying to talk to people,” Murphy said Thursday night at a Directors Guild of America event in Los Angeles, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “We’re all one traumatic event away from the worst day of your life being reduced to your neighbor’s favorite binge show,” said Eric Perry, a cousin of victim Errol Lindsey. I hope you have love for all the victims and maybe in time you will have more love for one another.” Shirley Hughes, the mother of Dahmer victim Tony Hughes, previously told the Guardian that she didn’t understand how the miniseries could have been made and said her son’s story “didn’t happen like that.” “I don’t see how they can use our names and put stuff out like that out there,” she told the British paper.