wrote Eric Perry, the brother of Rita Isbell, whose brother Errol Lindsay was killed by the murderer. Her impassioned testimony in court was iconic and is replicated, almost exactly, in the series.
As a response she wrote a piece for Insider saying how watching the recreation made her feel. “When I saw some of the show, it bothered me, especially when I saw myself — when I saw my name come across the screen and this lady saying verbatim exactly what I said,” she wrote.Still, the controversy did nothing to slow down the momentum of “Dahmer,” which logged an astonishing 196.2 million hours viewed in its first five days alone.