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Jeff met his end on
November 28, 1994, when he was viciously attacked by
Christopher Scarver, a convicted killer on antispychotic
medication, Scarver -- who claimed to be Christ because he was a carpenter
and his mother's name was Mary -- killed the
lethargic cannibal and former chocolate
factory worker, along with another
inmate, convicted wife killer Jesse Anderson, with a bar from a
piece of exersize equiptment.
At his mother's request, Jeff's brain was preserved in
formaldehyde for future study. His father, Lionel, took her to court
in an attempt to honor his son's request of being 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.
The final indignity surrounding Dahmer came in June, 1997, when Vickie
Hines, a former court clerk who sat through the trial of
cannibal killer sued the city of Milwaukee for $65,000
in workers compensation after suffering from a psychological
disability resulting from the trial. According to a report by a
psychologist who evaluated Hines,
the clerk "freaked out" when she saw the families of
Dahmer's victims in court, and was unable to read the jury's
verdict. After the trial, Hines suffered panic attacks,
began drinking before work, had nightmares and became
withdrawn and depressed. In 1994 she had to quit working
altogether. "In a way she's Jeffery Dahmer's last victim --
at least the last victim we know about," Hines' lawyer,
Robert Blondis, said.
On March 24, 1999, the brother of one of Jeffrey Dahmer's victims was stabbed
to death in his Milwaukee apartment in ritualistic fashion.
According to a medical examiner's report, Ernest Smith body was "posed,"
with figurines placed around it and
in his hand, sheets from pornographic magazines
stuffed into his shoes and pants, and cigarette ashes
put in an ear. The kitchen knife used to kill him was left
in his body.
Smith's brother, 28-year-old Eddie, had been missing for
more than a year before Dahmer admitted to killing him.
Carolyn Smith, sister of the two men, said Eddie's
death plunged Ernest, a Persian Gulf War veteran, into a
depression that led him to drink, and he had some brushes
with the law. Following Eddie's slaying, the 45-year-old Ms. Smith said
she had a series of nervous breakdowns and was diagnosed
with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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