Defending the Devil: Inside the Trial of My Client Jeffrey Dahmer

• The Book Mines Over 20 Hours of Previously Unreleased Private Audiotapes: The authors weave Patrickus’s private interviews with Dahmer into the narrative, giving readers chilling and unprecedented access into the mind and motivations of America’s most depraved serial killer.

• Story of a Young, Confident Woman Upholding Her Obligation to Defend: How the national media spotlight shined on her in a way she never asked for; how loved ones and colleagues turned on her for defending Dahmer; and how law enforcement did the bare minimum to protect her from people who terrorized her for doing her job.

• Inside Patrickus’s Moral Dilemma, Decision to Defend, and Perspective on the Conviction and Sentence: Her motivations, the uncomfortable bond she and Dahmer formed, why she still believes that his sentencing was incorrect—always clear that she was not arguing his innocence, but rather defending against the death penalty and against life inside the general prison population.

• An Eyewitness Account of One of the Grisliest Scenes in Modern History: Patrickus was one of a small number of people to examine Dahmer’s apartment soon after his arrest—a house of horrors littered with human remains, heads in the refrigerator, and more—and because she was his attorney, police did everything they could to make her investigation as traumatic as possible.

• Notable Success of Recent TV, Film, Podcast, and Book Projects on Serial Killers: From Netflix series to the podcast Serial to the bestselling book I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (now an HBO documentary), the success of serial-killer narratives is undeniable. Defending the Devil marks the 30th anniversary of the arrest and trial of one world history’s most gruesome and terrifying serial killers—one who made the fictional Hannibal Lecter seem tame.

• Photo Program: 8-page photo insert containing never-before-released images.

Wendy A. Patrickus is a criminal defense lawyer, who at the age of 25, became one of the two primary lawyers representing the most notorious serial killer of all time, Jeffrey Dahmer. She has since been practicing law in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for 33 years counseling clients in a variety of complex and unusual criminal cases, and is a member of the Wisconsin Academy of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Rusty Lemorande is a member of the California and Wisconsin State legal bars and is currently pursuing a Master's Degree at NYU's School of Engineering. A film producer and writer whose credits include Electric Dreams, Yentl, Stand By Your Man, Caddyshack, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Captain Eo, Lemorande is a Golden Globe winner and a member of the Writer's Guild of America, the Director's Guild, and the Dramatist's Guild.

• The Book Mines Over 20 Hours of Previously Unreleased Private Audiotapes: The authors weave Patrickus's private interviews with Dahmer into the narrative, giving readers chilling and unprecedented access into the mind and motivations of America's most depraved serial killer. Story of a Young, Confident Woman Upholding Her Obligation to Defend: How the national media spotlight shined on her in a way she never asked for; how loved ones and colleagues turned on her for defending Dahmer; and how law enforcement did the bare minimum to protect her from people who terrorized her for doing her job. Inside Patrickus's Moral Dilemma, Decision to Defend, and Perspective on the Conviction and Sentence: Her motivations, the uncomfortable bond she and Dahmer formed, why she still believes that his sentencing was incorrect--always clear that she was not arguing his innocence, but rather defending against the death penalty and against life inside the general prison population. An Eyewitness Account of One of the Grisliest Scenes in Modern History: Patrickus was one of a small number of people to examine Dahmer's apartment soon after his arrest--a house of horrors littered with human remains, heads in the refrigerator, and more--and because she was his attorney, police did everything they could to make her investigation as traumatic as possible. Notable Success of Recent TV, Film, Podcast, and Book Projects on Serial Killers: From Netflix series to the podcast Serial to the bestselling book I'll Be Gone in the Dark (now an HBO documentary), the success of serial-killer narratives is undeniable. Defending the Devil marks the 30th anniversary of the arrest and trial of one world history's most gruesome and terrifying serial killers--one who made the fictional Hannibal Lecter seem tame. * Photo Program: 8-page photo insert containing never-before-released images.

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