Long Island man acquires Jeffrey Dahmer's glasses — could they hold clues to his crimes?

A man in Long Island has come into possession of a pair of glasses — and these aren't just any glasses. They once belonged to Jeffrey Dahmer, the alleged serial killer and cannibal whose crimes shocked the nation.

David Adamovich , 78, says he recently acquired the gold-rimmed Titmus Z87 5-1/2 General style glasses that Dahmer wore during his 1991 arrest. Adamovich, who runs the website Serial Killer Murderabilia and has spent years collecting items tied to some of the most notorious murderers in history, calls the glasses “the holy grail of serial killer collecting.”

He claims he obtained them from a trusted source and insists the provenance is “100 percent airtight.”

“These have not been passed through multiple hands,” he told the Daily Mail. “The provenance is 100 percent airtight that those are Jeffrey Dahmer glasses .”


Dahmer, who admitted to killing 17 young men and boys between 1978 and 1991, wore the glasses while working at the Ambrosia Chocolate Factory and during his time in custody. He later surrendered them in 1992 when he entered prison. Adamovich says he has no intention of selling the item.

“I did not buy them to flip them,” he said. “I bought them for the historical and educational value as it relates to Dahmer’s case. I am in it to tell the story.” He also noted that under close inspection, the glasses appear to have dried residue around the frame and lenses.

“My guess is that it isn’t chocolate from the chocolate factory,” he said. “It is probably a reasonable guess to say it was blood from his victims.” He plans to have the substance tested by a toxicologist to determine whether it is biological material.

Adamovich says Dahmer’s eyeglass prescription was also quite strong, minus five in one eye and minus four in the other, suggesting Dahmer was significantly nearsighted. He brought the glasses to a local eyeglass shop to have the lenses analyzed and said the optometrist was visibly disturbed upon learning their origin.



Asked whether he’s ever tried the glasses on, Adamovich was blunt: “No. Do I intend to? No! I am not putting them on. Could you imagine all the evil that was seen through them?”

He also questioned the authenticity of other Dahmer glasses that have circulated in the past, including those displayed at exhibits. “The pair in the Serial Killer display are noticeably different than those shown in the Dahmer booking photo from July 24, 1991,” he said.

Adamovich’s personal archive includes items linked to more than 100 convicted murderers, including Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and John Wayne Gacy. His collection contains thousands of letters, drawings, hair samples, and audio recordings.