Who is Michael Dubis? Retired Milwaukee cop who arrested Jeffrey Dahmer opens up on the horrifying crime scene
WISCONSIN, MILWAUKEE: One of the retired police officers, who investigated the Jeffrey Dahmer murders, opened up on the night when the notorious serial killer was arrested in May 1991.
Authorities were stunned to find a crime scene which was beyond description but it finally led to the conviction of one of America's most infamous murderers, reports Fox News.
"We got sent up to the apartment there to meet another detective and we were told that there were some pictures in the apartment, and we were told that there might be a human head in a box. That's pretty way out there as far as even a homicide detective," Retired Milwaukee police Lt Michael Dubis said on 'FOX & Friends' on Tuesday, September 19.
Lt Michael Dubis said 'there were human heads and bones' all over the place
"When we arrived, that's exactly what we had. We started looking around a little bit and made sure there were no other victims or anybody else in the apartment. There were human heads and bones and things all over. Every drawer we opened, every cabinet we opened, there was body parts," the retired police officer added.
"I know that the smell in his apartment was not that of death. Again, I was a homicide detective for 12 years, and then when I made lieutenant and eventually captain. I stayed in the homicide division. It was a very sweet smell. It's [a] very chemical smell," Dubis said.
What crimes did Jeffery Dahmer commit?
The Milwaukee Police Department arrested Dahmer in May 1991. Officials found many decapitated human heads at the crime scene alongside numerous dismembered bodies.
Dahmer, a sex offender, committed rape, murder and dismemberment of 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Many of his later crimes involved necrophilia, cannibalism and the preservation of body parts.
The infamous killer's murder spree later came to light during his trial where he was convicted of 15 killings in Wisconsin.
As per the prosecutors, there wasn’t enough evidence to charge him with the 16th murder. He also pleaded guilty to the Ohio murder of a hitchhiker in 1978.
Dahmer was serving 15 consecutive life terms in 1994 when he was bludgeoned to death by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver.
Michael Dubis said the phone in Jeffery Dahmer's apartment kept ringing on the night of his arrest
Dubis said that the murderer's phone kept on ringing on the night he was arrested. When the officer answered the call, he was shocked to know that Dahmer's father, Lionel, was on the line.
"The phone kept ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing and finally I just picked it up and answered it. And it was his dad, Lionel, and we spoke for a few minutes. I told him that Jeffrey was okay, that we were investigating a homicide, but that he was downtown, he was talking to some other detectives. He wasn't hurt. And that was pretty much the end of that conversation," he said.
"Lionel was comforting Jeffrey, trying to get him to understand where he's at," Dubis said.
While the motive for recording the conversations is still not known, Dubis noted how these tapes give new "insight into what was going on and what the family motives were there."