My Friend Dahmer/ Derf Backderf/ 224 pages

This is a graphic novel by one of Dahmer's high school "friends".  It tells of Dahmer's life in high school.  He was an outcast with a troubled home life and disturbing hobbies.  It begs the question that the author asks--where were the adults looking out for Dahmer during those formative years and could he have been stopped.  A truly sad and terrible story, which does make you sympathetic towards the high school outcast, but it does not excuse the adult he turned into.  I think there are lots of kids with troubled lives in high school, but they do not turn into serial killers.