Molly

I have been watching Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, a mini-series on Netflix.

The series is freaking me out.

Jeffrey Dahmer was one of the creepiest serial killers to have haunted the American landscape.  He performed strange and inhuman acts on his victims and their remains.  Ultimately, between 1978 and 1991 he murdered and dismembered 17 men.

The freakiest aspect of the series for me, though, is Molly Ringwald.  Molly portrays Shari Dahmer, Jeff Dahmer’s stepmother. in the series.

In my mind, Molly should always remain in the mid-1980s – on display there as the wholly grounded teen girl in the movies Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty in Pink.

I get a little queasy each time Molly appears next to Jeffrey Dahmer.  Placing Molly Ringwald alongside Jeffrey Dahmer seems dangerously close to violating a law of physics.

Molly Ringwald

—Mitchell Hegman