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Stories Set in Milwaukee
Breweries, lake wind and the friendliest sitcom street in America: Milwaukee sold itself as the good-time town. Then its most infamous criminal case gave it the darkest true-crime shadow in the Midwest. Happy Days and Dahmer – Monster sit on the same shelf here. Open Milwaukee on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 7 books, 31 movies and 4 TV shows set in Milwaukee.
Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over…
Happy Days
In 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova.
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind.
BASEketball
Two losers from Milwaukee Coop and Remer invent a new game playing basketball using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success they along with a billionaire's help form the Professional Baseketball League…
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic…
WWE King of the Ring 1996
King of the Ring (1996) was the fourth annual King of the Ring. The event took place on June 23 1996 from the MECCA Arena in Milwaukee Wisconsin. The main event was a standard wrestling match for the WWF Championship.…
Patriot
To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous "non-official cover" -- that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm.
The Westing Game
A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger—and a…
Fresh Meat: Jeffrey Dahmer
This grisly documentary centres around the gruesome psychology of the infamous Jeffrey Dahmer who lived the double-life of a cannibal.
Dahmer
On February 15 1992 in Milwaukee Wisconsin Jeffrey Dahmer one of the world's most infamous serial killers was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in federal prison. This movie is based on events…
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