In February 1994, NBC correspondent Stone Phillips traveled to a Wisconsin prison for what would be Jeffrey Dahmer's only network television interview. Filmed months before Dahmer was beaten to death by a fellow inmate, the special sits him down face to face with Phillips and lets him describe, in his own words, the killings that took seventeen young men's lives between 1978 and 1991. Dahmer talks through his upbringing, the escalation from voyeurism and animal dissection to murder, and the failures that let him keep killing even after police had him in custody with a victim still in his apartment. Phillips presses him on why he did it and whether he feels remorse, and Dahmer's flat, deliberate answers do most of the work the film needs. There is no reenactment or outside commentary layered over it, just the interview and the case facts it hangs on, including the 1991 arrest that ended the killings and exposed how badly the Milwaukee police had bungled earlier warnings.