What happened to Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment and other belongings?

NNICKNAMED "the Milwaukee Cannibal," Jeffrey Dahmer was one of the most notorious killers in US history.

Dahmer was arrested and sentenced to 16 consecutive life terms in prison in 1992 for killing and and boys between 1978 and 1991.

What happened to Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment?

The serial killer lived in Apartment 213 at 924 North 25th Street in Milwaukee, where police discovered 11 bodies - marking the end of his twisted reign of terror.

The apartment is located in the 49-unit Oxford Apartments building, was Dahmer's home for 14 months.

It once again garnered public attention when it was heavily featured in Netflix's Monster: The Dahmer Story.

According to FBI photos taken following Dahmer's arrest in 1991, the apartment featured a fridge, a cream sofa, a carpet roll, a fish tank in the living room, and a bed, small TV, a dresser and a barrel of acid in his bedroom.

Described as the "killing factory" by the New York Times, the blood-stained apartment was never rented out after Dahmer's killing spree.

The building was demolished at the request of the victims' families and the plot was bought in 1995 by "collaborative neighborhood redevelopment initiative" Campus Circle Project.

It was still empty in 2022.

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".

When did Jeffrey Dahmer die?

Dahmer met his own violent demise at the hands of a fellow inmate after being jailed for life at Wisconsin's Columbia Correctional Institution in February 1992.

On November 28, 1994, Dahmer was bludgeoned to death by Christopher Scarver, who was in prison for murder.

After guards left Scarver alone with Dahmer and another convicted murderer Jesse Anderson for some 20 minutes, he beat the pair with a 20-inch metal bar he had taken from the prison gym.