Not long after the horrific discovery in the Oxford Apartments, where Dahmer had lived from May 1990 to July 1991 when police arrested him, renters who could afford to, fled the complex, according to Seventeen. Then in August 1992, an organization named the Campus Circle Project purchased the Oxford Apartments for $325,000 (about $711,000 today), per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Associated Press. The Campus Circle Project was an urban renewal organization with ties to nearby Marquette University, per the Associated Press.
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The organization decided to raze the apartment building and that November wreckers began ripping down its walls and roof. “It has been a symbol of anger, pain, violence, and death,” Patrick LeSage, the project’s head, told the AP in November 1992. “It needs to be replaced with a sign of our commitment to support the healing process and to work together as a community of people who care.” LeSage said they tore it down out of respect for the victims’ families. The Campus Circle Project offered to help relocate the tenants who remained in 15 apartments in the complex.
