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Topics: Jeffrey Dahmer, True crime, Netflix, US News, Film and TV, Police, Crime
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Topics: Jeffrey Dahmer, True crime, Netflix, US News, Film and TV, Police, Crime
The cop who was on the homicide team that arrested Jeffrey Dahmer says he still struggles to come to terms with what he saw in the serial killer's home.
Dahmer, who became known as the 'Milwaukee Cannibal,' was a serial killer and sex offender who murdered and dismembered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991.
Some of his sickening acts included necrophilia, cannibalism and attempts to preserve his victims' body parts or skeletons, cementing him as one of America's most prolific and sadistic serial killers in modern history.
Since then, documentaries, movies and TV shows have told his story for true crime fans with a morbid fascination for serial killers, most notably Netflix's 2022 10-part series, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story starring Evan Peters.
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However, while many viewers can turn off from the horrors of what Dahmer did, one person who still can't shake it is the cop who investigated the murders.
Retired Milwaukee police Lieutenant Michael Dubis spoke to FOX & Friends about what went down on the night of Dahmer's arrest and the search of his pad which officers later recalled felt like 'dismantling someone's museum than an actual crime scene.'
Dubis said when he arrived, he was briefed by other detectives that there were 'pictures' in the apartment and that 'there might be a human head in a box'.
"That's pretty way out there as far as even a homicide detective, and when we arrived that's what we had," Dubis recalled.
As several documentaries about the arrest have revealed, Dahmer was rumbled when what was meant to be his next victim managed to flee and flag down two cops on the street.
The officers, Robert Rauth and Rolf Mueller, went to Dahmer's apartment where they stumbled across a treasure trove of gory Polaroid pictures of human bodies being dismembered and a severed head in the fridge.
Dubis confirmed when the homicide team arrived, officers found body parts scattered in every crevice.
"There were human heads and bones and things all over, every drawer we opened, every cabinet we opened, there was body parts," he said.
When asked if he has nightmares about the ordeal, he said: "Uneasy nights, not nightmares," though the apartment itself is pretty triggering for its strange smell.
The cop confirmed many of the true crime documentaries and shows were reasonably accurate about what happened, including complaints from a neighbor who reported odors and sounds coming from behind Dahmer's door.
Dubis explained: "They're very close," other than apparently the smell.
"I know that the smell in his apartment was not that of death," the detective said. "It was a very sweet smell, it was a very chemically smell, ironically enough the smell is still in the room where all of his property went that morning.
"I walk in there and it's still - I walk back into it."
The lieutenant also revealed he had a conversation with Dahmer's father, Lionel Dahmer, who later became a controversial figure as he stood by his son and even wrote a book about it, A Father's Story, in 1994.
Dubis said while the team were combing the flat for evidence, Lionel rang several times until the detective decided to answer.
"We spoke for a few minutes," he revealed. "I told him that Jeffrey was okay, that we were investigating a homicide but he was downtown, he was talking to some other detectives, he wasn't hurt. That was pretty much the end of that conversation."
In 1994, just two years into his fifteen terms of life imprisonment, 34-year-old Dahmer was beaten to death by a fellow inmate.