The auction website eBay has removed Halloween-costume items linked to the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and spurred by the Netflix show.
Right now on eBay, buyers can get their hands on a Joe Exotic/"Tiger King” costume. They can bid on Jack the Ripper outfits, top hat and cape included. Or any number of “sexy” versions fictional murderous characters.
There are even costumes for a fictional “Night Stalker,” though they don’t resemble Richard Ramirez at all. What they can’t do is bid on a Jeffrey Dahmer Halloween costume — not the glasses, not a wig — no matter how much they loved the Netflix’s hit miniseries “Dahmer.” Not even a gray hoodie, beige jacket or striped shirt if they are advertised in connection to the cannibalistic serial killer. EBay, which did not respond immediately to The Times’ request for comment Thursday, has pulled all items invoking Dahmer from its website, according to“Items closely associated with or that benefit violent felons, their acts, or crime scenes within the past 100 years” are prohibited on the auction website under eBay’s “violence and violent criminals” policy.Netflix dropped ‘Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ this week and received criticism from one of the victim’s loved ones, among others. Evan Peters stars as the serial killer.without possibility of parole in 1992 after pleading guilty to the murders of 15 young men and boys he lured to his Wisconsin residence. He drugged his victims and then killed them, butchered them and had sex with the corpses. He ate some body parts. Dahmer confessed to killing 17 people — one in Ohio, the rest in Wisconsin — between 1978 and his July 1991 arrest. A Wisconsin judge dismissed his insanity plea before sentencing him. Dahmer later received a 16th life sentence for the Ohio murder. There was insufficient evidence to prosecute one of the Wisconsin killings.
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