| Jeff met his end on November 28, 1994, when he was viciously attacked by Christopher Scarver, a convicted killer on antispychotic medication, while
mopping the bathroom floor in maximum security. The lethargic cannibal and former chocolate factory worker died with
a mop handle sticking out of his eye socket.
At his mother's request, his
brain was preserved in formaldehyde for future study. His father took her to court wanting to honor his son's request of being completely cremated. On December 12, 1995, more than a year after his death, Columbia County Circuit Judge Daniel George sided with Jeff's father and ordered the brain destroyed.
Six months later Circuit Judge Daniel George ordered the city of Milwaukee to release Jeffrey Dahmer's personal belonging to Robert Steurer, a lawyer representing the families of some of his victims. Steurer planned to auction the cannibal's tools of the trade -- hammers, drill bits, hatchets, saws and his world-famous refrigerator -- to settle claims filed against the city by the victim's families.
On May 29, 1996, the matter was settled when Thomas Jacobson, another lawyer representing some of the families, said they decided to accept an offer from a Milwaukee civic group that pledged $407,225 to buy the Dahmer estate. The civic group, fearing bad publicity for their fair city, raised the money to buy and incinerate the goods themselves rather than see them put on the auction block. On June 28, 1996 a truckload of items from the cannibal killer's estate was finally destroyed thus marking the end of Jeff's necrophilic legacy. |
