Many audience members listening to The Moth podcast could have related to the storyteller as he told of being a lonely college student in Wisconsin in the 1980s. He frequented a local bar where he admired a young, blond patron from a distance.
The storyteller watched week after week as his crush talked to other men and often left with them. He tried to change his appearance but never caught the patron's attention. Years later, he recognized his crush on a news broadcast. The man he had longed to meet was serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. And the other patrons he took home weren't dates — they were victims.
