“At this point, after 25 years, I just kind of shrug and say, ‘Well that was weird’, and move on. “But in a long list of things that are surreal about this story, it’s just another entry,” he laughs. Seeing their relationship recreated on screen (Alex Wolff plays him in the film) has been surreal. He didn’t start writing about it until after Dahmer was beaten to death in prison in 1994. It took him a long time to deal with the truth about his friendship with Dahmer, and the role he’d unwittingly played in encouraging parts of his pathology. “Just kind of this affable rock’n’roller who just wanted to smoke a little weed, listen to some music, have a beer, hang out with friends, and his life was snuffed out just because he took a ride with the wrong guy. They didn’t know each other, as Hicks went to a different school, “but he was like so many kids that I knew,” says Backderf.
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