What Happened To Jeffrey Dahmer’s Neighbour, Glenda Cleveland In Real Life

Netflix’s new limited series, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, explores the story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and his victims.

Last week (Sep 21), Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story debuted on Netflix.

This new limited series, which explores the life of Jeffrey Dahmer who was sentenced to life in prison in 1992 for killing 17 men, also aims to focus on Dahmer’s victims and examine how his crimes were ignored by police for so long because he targeted predominantly Black men.

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One person, who the show shines a light on, is Glenda Cleveland and her many attempts to stop Dahmer’s henious crimes.

Was Glenda Cleveland Jeffrey Dahmer’s neighbour?

In the show, Glenda Cleveland (Niecy Nash) lives in an apartment next to Jeffrey Dahmer in the Oxford Apartments complex. However, in real life, Cleveland lived in a flat in a separate building next to the Oxford Apartments. In other words, they were not neighbours in real life and many of Cleveland’s scenes were fictionalised or based on other real people’s accounts.

As Cleveland did not live next to Dahmer, she wouldn’t have heard his crimes from her apartment. On top of that, she didn’t make complaints about the smell coming from Dahmer’s flat. That being said, Dahmer did dismember and eat his victims and one of his real neighbours, Pamela Bass, confirmed that he offered meat sandwiches to people in the building.