
She quoted a poem written by one of Tony's friends at the trial, written from Tony's point of view. His mother, Shirley Hughes, taught a Bible class at a church in Milwaukee and was prominent throughout the coverage of the trial, one of several family members who filed suit against Dahmer for his crimes. He could read lips and communicated through sign language and written notes. Hughes was deaf, a condition brought on after a battle with pneumonia as an infant, and he's one of the few victims given a three-dimensional portrayal in the Netflix series. Anthony Hughes, 31Īnthony Hughes had come back home to visit his Milwaukee family from Madison, where he lived, and was profiled as a missing person in the Milwaukee Journal. Isbell said Lindsey left behind an unborn daughter, Tatiana Banks, who's 31 years old today and a mother herself. I feel like Netflix should've asked if we mind or how we felt about making it. It brought back all the emotions I was feeling back then. That's why it felt like reliving it all over again. Her hair was like mine, she had on the same clothes.

"If I didn't know any better, I would've thought it was me. "When I saw some of the show, it bothered me, especially when I saw myself - when I saw my name come across the screen and this lady saying verbatim exactly what I said," Isbell said. "When I think of my brother, I think of how he was such a goofball, and I think he's going to appreciate the fact that I'm still standing for him until my last breath," she said. Isbell spoke to Insider about the renewed attention. Her memorable and cathartic words were captured in the Netflix series.
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Lindsey's sister, Rita Isbell, vented her rage during Dahmer's trial when family members were given the option to speak. Tuomi's father, Walter, said he was originally told by Milwaukee police that they could do nothing because there was no sign of foul play. He's the only murder victim in Milwaukee for which Dahmer was not charged because of lack of evidence Dahmer did not recall details but believes he killed Tuomi at the Ambassador Hotel. I remember he could do just about anything artistic." "I was in art class with him and he made a beautiful lead stained-glass lamp that I can still remember," said classmate Priscilla Marley Chynoweth. "It was just beautiful. Steven Tuomi grew up in Ontonagon in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and worked as a short-order cook in a Milwaukee restaurant.Ĭlassmates remembered him as quiet but artistic.

Hicks was last seen June 18, 1978, though his remains were not discovered until 1991 after Dahmer confessed to killing him. He was hitchhiking to a rock concert in Chippewa Lake Park, Ohio, roughly 25 miles away, when Dahmer picked him up and brought him back to his parents' home. Hicks recently had graduated high school in Coventry Township, Ohio. Steven Hicks' father, Richard, described his son as a deeply caring person, telling an anecdote to the Associated Press about a hunting trip, where Steven shot a rabbit and "was as proud as he could be, and then he bawled his eyes out.″
