-Finished watching this series last night. If he was portrayed accurately, he never stopped being smug up until his death.
Race did play a part. Most of Dahmer's victims were black. Like I said before, I don't think he cared about his victims' race. He lived in a black and low-income area. They were who was most accessible. The police were disinterested, incompetent and lazy. But then, so was the black apartment manager.
The stench the rotting bodies in his apartment emitted would be impossible to ignore. If you've ever smelled human death and decay, you know it is intolerable. When contained indoors it permeates everything from the ceiling plaster to the floorboards.
My stepdad was hired to paint an upscale Beverly Hills apartment where the former tenant died. The body was not discovered until the smell of it rotting seeped from that unit into the others. The apartment owner had all the contents removed and the place thoroughly cleaned and aired it out for a couple of weeks prior to getting the painting estimate. At the time, I was working with my stepdad. When we first entered the apartment, it still smelled like death. It was several more weeks before it got painted. I did not help him with it.
