What happened to Jeffrey Dahmer’s belongings?
At the time of his arrest, police made a macabre discovery: seven skulls, two hearts, pairs of severed hands, skeletons, dismembered torsos, along with Polaroid photos of the victims, weapons (saws, knives and a drill) and acid.
The apartment was left untouched as Dahmer’s trial went on.
To prevent Dahmer’s belongings to become gruesome memorabilia, a local civic group decided to buy out the auctioned belongings including the fridge (where police found severed heads), needles, and knives.
Instead of keeping them, the head of the civic group, real estate magnate Joseph Zilber, destroyed the items, and the families of the victims compensated with the $407,225 raised during the auction.
At the time, Zilber said his aim was that “these tools of death be permanently destroyed”.
Louis Allwood
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