Jeffery Dahmer's House (childhood home)

Jeffrey Dahmer killed 17 young men and boys between 1978 and 1991, most of them in Milwaukee. He was convicted in 1992 and killed by a fellow inmate in 1994.

The house went up in 1952, a ranch with floor-to-ceiling windows over a wooded hillside. A year later, the Akron Beacon Journal profiled it for its modern style, per the AP.

The township was organized in 1818, after settler Jonathan Hale ended a long debate over its name by asking for anything “but Hammondsburgh.” It joined the new Summit County in 1840.

Lionel and Joyce Dahmer bought the house in 1968, when Jeffrey was 8, per the AP. It was his parents’ home, never his, and the couple divorced in 1978.

Dahmer killed his first victim, a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks, at the house in 1978. He was not caught until 1991, in Milwaukee.

Chris Butler, a founding member of the 1980s band The Waitresses, bought the house in 2005. “The fact that it was Jeffrey Dahmer’s house was not an attraction,” he told the AP in 2014.

When the house went up for sale in 2012, its agent showed it only to buyers with proof of funds. “This is not a museum,” he said.