A Graphic Look Inside Jeffrey Dahmer's Dresser Drawer (2024)

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What were the photos found in Jeffrey Dahmer's room? ›

The photos were found in Dahmer's apartment when he was arrested in 1991. The Polaroids were evidence in Dahmer's trial, and they were used to convict him of 15 counts of murder. After the trial, the judge ordered the Polaroids to be destroyed out of respect for the victims and their families.

In 1991, police found 11 bodies in Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment, marking the end of his highly publicized killing spree. The location is once again garnering attention, thanks to Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, a limited series on Netflix dramatizing the lives of his victims.

BREAKING: Jeffrey Dahmer's refrigerator contained jars that were NOT filled with body parts; police said they also found pickles, Dijon mustard, and applesauce.

Cult Collectibles offers a smorgasbord of alleged Dahmer memorabilia. The Milwaukee Monster's ash vase is the "rarest true crime item I will ever have on this site," said Taylor James, boss of Cult Collectibles. Cult Collectibles is selling a photo of Dahmer in the fifth grade for a whopping $3,500.

In addition to photo albums full of pictures of body parts, the apartment was littered with human remains: Several heads were in the refrigerator and freezer; two skulls were on top of the computer; and a 57-gallon drum containing several bodies decomposing in chemicals was found in a corner of the bedroom.

November 27, 2000 (age 64 years)

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Jeffrey Dahmer's House

In August 2012, nearly two decades after his death, it was reported that Dahmer's childhood home in Bath, Ohio—where he committed his first murder in 1978 and buried his victim's remains—was on the market.

Investigators later determined that the substance in the barrel was acid, which Dahmer had used to dissolve his victims' remains. Police arrested Dahmer that evening after finding body parts in his refrigerator and human remains throughout his apartment.

Handcuffs dangling from one wrist, Tracy Edwards wandered the streets of Milwaukee looking for help after he escaped from a four-hour-long nightmare in Jeffrey Dahmer's putrid-smelling apartment.

Who was the serial killer with the head in the fridge? ›

The Head in the Fridge — Jeffrey Dahmer — Crime Library.

The real next door neighbour was a woman called Pamela Bass. Pamela featured in a documentary about Jeffrey Dahmer, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files, and recalled the moment with Dahmer and the sandwich, and confirmed this did take place. “I have probably eaten someone's body part,” she said.

(NEXSTAR) — Notorious serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer has been in the news a lot lately, after the success — and controversy — of Netflix's latest true crime hit, “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.”

Collector Taylor James, owner of Cult Collectibles in Vancouver, Canada, told TMZ that he's willing to part with the prison glasses for $150,000. James acquired the glasses and other Dahmer memorabilia a few years ago, after a former housekeeper of Dahmer's father, Lionel Dahmer, contacted him, according to reports.

As a result, the Washington Post reports that, after lawyer fees, $32,000 was to be given to each of the 11 families who were involved in the decision. A further report from AP News confirmed that all of Dahmer's furniture and belongings were destroyed in June 1996.

In real life, the police found countless polaroid photos of the victims stashed away in his dresser. Elsewhere, they found body parts, vital organs and a human head in Dahmer's fridge, and more human remains scattered around his kitchen and in his freezer.

Dahmer killed four more men before he was finally arrested. One of his last victims was Oliver Lacy, 24, whose body Dahmer had sex with before dismembering the corpse. He kept Lacy's head and heart in his refrigerator, and his skeleton in a freezer.

Regarding the smell coming from Dahmer's apartment, Schwartz said that what she felt was a ''very chemical smell. '' She said, ''I was a crime reporter for five years so I know what it smells like when you walk into a building with a dead body or a decomposing body.

Despite this apparent stability, he sexually assaulted and killed several young women in Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, and Florida between 1974 and 1978. Although he would ultimately confess to 28 murders, some estimated that he was responsible for hundreds of deaths.