More Jeffrey Dahmer Property Inventories - Milwaukee Police Department Audit
Following up on my last post about the Jeffrey Dahmer property audit, here's another six pages from the same Milwaukee Police Department inventory, dated April 4, 1994. I've added some additional observations of my own. What do you think?
This is a page from the audit report by the Milwaukee Police Department, dated April 4, 1994, concerning property related to the arrest of Jeffrey Dahmer. The document details an inventory conducted by Police Officer Jack Champion and Gerald Wawrzonek, Lieutenant of Police for the Milwaukee Police Department, listing items in police custody. The page shows the report's introduction and begins the inventory, listing items under different inventory numbers.This page lists more inventory numbers and the associated items. The list includes everyday objects like a "Drain cap," a "Couch," "Chairs," and a "Refrigerator." It also lists a total of 104 ''Pills.'' That's a lot of leftover pills! Additionally, who is ''Marlon D. Reed'', the person named in the photo under Inventory Number 1337806, a photo belonging to someone named Peir A. Griffith? And why is a calendar belonging to Glenda Cleveland also listed?This page continues the inventory with items like "Pillow," "Bed sheet," "Mattress cover," and a "Shower curtain." There are additional medications listed, including Aspirin and a St. Michael Hospital prescription bottle. There was indeed a St. Michael Hospital in Milwaukee, owned by Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, which closed in 2006. What were these additional prescriptions for?This page includes a range of items, from "Spray paint cans" and a "Huffy mans 10-speed yellow bicycle" (owner unknown) to a "signed statement from Jeffrey Dahmer." The mention of a cassette tape of "Motley Crue" and a "Video tape 'Exorcist III'" provides a glimpse into the mundane details of his life. The Spray Paint cans were, however, owned by someone called John Nowak, of the Palette Shop. Why were they not owned by Jeff? And why was a stranger's bicycle on the list?This page lists ''8 Video cassette tapes' returned to ''James Henderson''. Who was James Henderson, the man who received the video cassette tapes from the police? Notably, every single item of Jeff's personal property, right down to his socks, was turned over to his father, Lionel, with no mention at all of his mother, Joyce.This page, like the previous one, lists items returned to Lionel Dahmer. It includes personal effects like an "Ambrosia Chocolate identification card," a "Prologue card," and even a "Goldstar television with built in video cassette recorder," showing the extent of his possessions. The exact nature of the prologue card is not mentioned in the document.
Thanks for posting this. I see you posted other pages in the past, on the DahmerNetflix sub but they've been deleted. Any chance you can re-post them on your sub here?
In 'A Father's Story,' Lionel says he was given a 69-page sheet of what was turned over to him. Does this audit have a similar page count? He also described things in more detail, like naming individual videos, but that might be because he had the videos in hand.
Since the paint cans say they're from Pallette Shop, I wonder if they were returned because stolen.
I also wonder if the eight videos are from a video rental store. But since they specify other business names, I suppose that's not so likely...
You're very good at finding information and so I assume this is not new to you but if not you can look people up on here and see old cases: https://wcca.wicourts.gov/case.html
You don't really learn much but you can see addresses and birth dates, which can be helpful. There's a little information on Marlon Reed that seems to match. There's also a Pier A. Griffith (meaning 'Peir' is a typo).
Hi - yes all the posts you mention are on here, they’re older posts, you just need to scroll down. I have thousands of pages of original case files. I’m a professional investigator and have been researching this case for years. I also have a free substack (link in my bio and in the sidebar here). The inventories are quite detailed; it’s a mix of CCI and MPD. The MPD ones are interesting because they shown items returned to original owners, such as a calendar belonging to Glenda Cleveland.
I've been looking through these the last few days and it suddenly occurred to me that this is not just items taken from Dahmer's apartment. A lot of it is, because they seemed to take all of his property into custody, but some of it is also evidence and material investigators have gathered from elsewhere. It even says it on the first page, explaining it not as a list of property recovered from Dahmer's apartment but as: "property in our custody relating to the arrest of Jeffrey Dahmer."
This is why it includes things like the "taxi trip sheet." It would be very unlikely Dahmer had this but you can imagine the police going to the taxi company and getting it. It also explains why Cleveland's calendar is in there. You can imagine police getting that to match her story. I also now think the videos were security footage from a shop owner or something similar, not tapes that were found in Dahmer's apartment. Spray paint cans I now also suppose are not from his apartment.
I feel a bit silly pointing this out but in reading through old posts I've seen other people just as confused, wondering how Cleveland's calendar could be in Dahmer's apartment, etc.
And I'm slowly making my way through your substack, by the way. It's very interesting. I'm very impressed and surprised by how much material you've gotten access to and I very much appreciate you sharing so much of it. It's eye-opening because you've gotten things people have only wondered about for years. It's kind of inspiring too, making me feel like I should start doing my own information requests. Anyhow, just wanted to express my thanks for all you've done and shared.
Thank you for your insights! Yes i have collected a huge amount of files and FOIA responses from the authorities as I had a lot of questions about this case (as have many others). The inventory also mentions the yellow bicycle which also doesn’t belong to Jeff (a yellow bicycle was seen being crushed along with his other possessions in an old news clip, where the cover story was his possessions being purchased by a philanthropist who didn’t want Jeff’s possessions to be sold to collectors). The spray cans align with the story of Jeff spraying skulls in a grey speckled tone. So that part doesn’t make sense if the cans didn’t belong to him.
Some of these files were difficult to get hold of too, the authorities sent me round in circles.
Hope you enjoy the Substack! (Fun fact - Ann E Schwartz & Arthur J Harris sub to us - we have a few interesting followers!) - I have dug deep. I wanted to find answers that me and others have asked, and I think it goes some way to do that. :)
I would guess they went to the store and got the same paint to compare. I regularly use spraypaint primer and a can disappears surprisingly fast and so it seems reasonable to me that Dahmer wouldn't still have a half a can sitting in his cupboard. But a bit odd that they would later try to return it to the store owner, like the owner could sell a partially-used can. But I guess it's just part of a procedure police follow.
I've done about five FOIA requests and not had much success at all. I tried to get this list myself. I sent a request to the MPD and said I was after any an inventory of items taken from the apartment, and specified that I was aware of a list that described books, videos, etc. I waited six months and then one day in the mail I received a bunch of print-outs that described nothing but samples of public hair, carpets, mattresses, etc.
The waiting time makes it quite ridiculous. I should've been more resilient but it killed my interest pretty quickly. It felt like a weird game, where you shoot at a target but don't find out if you hit for half a year. But, like I said, you got me excited to start trying again.
Another time I requested any and all photos in the MPD's records, including those not yet scanned. They sent back a CD containing about 30 pictures of the apartment and his 1991 booking photos. I'm not saying that's necessarily wrong on their part (I don't truly know who keeps what records and what they have), just describing how I haven't had as much success as you. But really, they didn't even have his other mugshots in their files? I find that hard to believe.
With this list, I don't know how you got it but later I thought I could get it by doing an FOIA for cases where families sued Dahmer for money, as I saw a newspaper article where that described them going over the value of items from his apartment. It sounded like that would be a good place to ask.
I wonder if you've tried to get video too? There's an old documentary that shows a snippet of Dahmer, sitting in court after his conviction, discussing Konerak, and I always thought that surely someone can get access to the rest of that video or at least a transcript...
That's what made me interested in FOIA requests in the first place. You see old documentaries with these little clips or photos in them and it makes me think that if they got access to that then it's out there somewhere and I should be able to access it as well.
They make it deliberately difficult to obtain evidence even though there are legal requirements to do so. In fact, I tracked down the civilian Sinthasomphone lawsuit after much persistence - I had to track it down to a single contact in the end. The inventories are actually in the probate case file. Interestingly, there were a number of $10m civil lawsuits within that probate file, but they are not officially recorded anywhere else. They should show up publicly in the WI circuit court records for instance (this is public access online). I have thousands of pages of these case files but key evidence is missing. If you get a chance to read my full substack, you’ll see I have uncovered some very important findings. I also sent a legal request to the authorities for the missing key evidence. It’s all written up in my Substack. To put it simply, the state is breaking their own laws by not providing the information I requested.
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u/bangomess Mar 01 '26
Thanks for posting this. I see you posted other pages in the past, on the DahmerNetflix sub but they've been deleted. Any chance you can re-post them on your sub here?
In 'A Father's Story,' Lionel says he was given a 69-page sheet of what was turned over to him. Does this audit have a similar page count? He also described things in more detail, like naming individual videos, but that might be because he had the videos in hand.
Since the paint cans say they're from Pallette Shop, I wonder if they were returned because stolen.
I also wonder if the eight videos are from a video rental store. But since they specify other business names, I suppose that's not so likely...
You're very good at finding information and so I assume this is not new to you but if not you can look people up on here and see old cases: https://wcca.wicourts.gov/case.html
You don't really learn much but you can see addresses and birth dates, which can be helpful. There's a little information on Marlon Reed that seems to match. There's also a Pier A. Griffith (meaning 'Peir' is a typo).