What Happened to Jeffrey Dahmer's Stuff After It Was Auctioned?

What happened to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's stuff after it was auctioned? We asked the landlord of the Museum of Death to explain murderbilia to us.

Netflix's Conversations With a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes addresses the fact that the families of Dahmer's victims were slightly compensated for the ache and struggling they'd to endure after dropping a cherished one to the killer. In order to provide them with some sort of financial convenience, a pass judgement on ordered all of Dahmer's possessions to be auctioned off to the perfect bidder.

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The proceeds of that auction would be break up between the households. Who purchased Jeffrey Dahmer's stuff at the public sale and where is it now? To higher perceive the pastime in murderbilia, as it's known as, Distractify spoke with JD Healy, proprietor of the Museum of Death in Los Angeles and New Orleans who gave some perception into this fascination.

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What happened to Jeffrey Dahmer's stuff after it was auctioned?

Jeff Fleming, who was some of the first journalists at the scene the night Dahmer was arrested in July 1991, recalls gazing bins of proof being got rid of from the serial killer's rental development. He was able to take a peek throughout the notorious condo because Fleming had friends on the Milwaukee Police Department. It was a chilling scene, partly as a result of one had to imagine the ugly acts that went on in a reputedly common condominium.

Once the trial was over and evidence was now not needed, it was determined that the pieces could be auctioned off so the households of the sufferers could be compensated. Plus, nobody sought after the rest Jeffrey Dahmer owned to finally end up at the streets. In May 1996, The Washington Post reported on the upcoming option and the way it was being managed via the town of Milwaukee.

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"Thomas Jacobson, a personal injury lawyer who represents most of the families, said they will settle for no less than $1 million for the items, which include utensils Dahmer used to dismember some victims and a refrigerator in which he stored skulls and other body parts," stated the opening. A gaggle of Milwaukee business leaders, who known as themselves Milwaukee Civic Pride, had already raised $400,000 for the households and had been attempting to acquire all the Dahmer pieces being auctioned.

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Joseph Zilber, a wealthy Milwaukee actual estate tycoon and philanthropist on the time, heard about the public sale and was disgusted through the chance. "This cannot happen. I need to stop it from happening," he informed Michael Mervis, a public family members executive who labored for him. With the $400,000 already raised by Milwaukee Civic Pride, Joseph Zilber bought the whole thing at the public sale. Joseph Zilber then transported all of Dahmer's items to an "undisclosed landfill in Illinois," according to Conversations With a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes.

Where is Joseph Zilber now?

According to his obituary in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Joseph Zilber gave up the ghost on the age of 92 on March 19, 2010. After spending his entire lifestyles in "business doing deals and building a real estate and development empire that became the stuff of legend," his wife Vera instructed the Sentinel that the closing two years of Joseph's existence had been spent giving money away.

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"We were married 61 years," he stated in a 2008 interview. "We had a little pact between us that everything that we have will go to charity. And I tell you, one day I woke up and said to myself, 'I'm 90 years old and instead of leaving it to all the trustees to give away, I said, I'd like to have the fun of giving it away myself." An so started a whirlwind two years of in which Joseph Zilber made goals come true.

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Why are other folks obsessive about serial killer memorabilia?

The Museum of Death has been around for 27 years. It started in San Diego and moved to Los Angeles and eventually added a 2d location in New Orleans. It's a museum built on death, and no longer just crime-related deaths regardless that that makes up a wholesome part of the museums collections in both locations. When requested how he got started, JD Healy started with a pen and paper.

"I used to write to serial killers. I would visit them on death row. That's how I amassed my collection," he instructed us. Once they unfolded the museum and hung up its sign, other people couldn't stop coming. Nowadays he doesn't have to search for the rest to add to his collection. "People just contact me now because we've been around for so long," said JD.

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Obviously there isn't too much Dahmer stuff. The New Orleans location has letters he exchanged with a girl named Barbara, and it's all lovely "mundane" mentioned an worker of the museum. They principally mentioned their days. JD is serious about death because he "loves life." He based the museum with the next purpose in mind, to assist folks be much less frightened of dying. "If you're worried about dying right now, you're not living," mentioned JD.

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Regarding the members of the family of sufferers, JD has no downside taking one thing down if any individual is angry or disenchanted through it. He's completed it prior to. As to why persons are interested in those kinds of things, JD believes it's because, "In our culture people don't talk about death until it's too late." This is his strive to get other people to talk about death more.

JD may be very vigorous and all over the place. He's obviously captivated with what he does, and is unbothered via what others assume. Right ahead of we hung up he excitedly stated, "Do you know whose body I'm about to get?" We obviously had no thought. "GG Allin's," he screamed. That is without a doubt one way to get nearer to death.

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