Lieutenant Michael Dubis still has ‘uneasy nights’ over it
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.
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.
Jeffrey Hutchinson executed after being convicted of quadruple murder
Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in his killing spree (EUGENE GARCIA/AFP via Getty Images)
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.
Dubis was one of the arresting officers (FOX)
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.
Dahmer was killed in prison (Curt Borgwardt/Sygma via Getty Images)
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.Featured Image Credit: Curt Borgwardt/Sygma via Getty Images
Topics: Jeffrey Dahmer, True crime, Netflix, US News, Film and TV, Police, Crime
FBI says it will release never-before-seen footage of Jeffrey Epstein proving he died by suicide
The video doesn’t ‘show the actual act’ but does reportedly address some conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein’s death
Two of the FBI’s top leaders have spoken about plans to release footage which doesn’t ‘show the actual act’ but still ‘proves’ Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide.
Convicted pedophile Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, New York City in August 2019.
The financier had been arrested earlier in the year and died aged 66 while awaiting trial for charges related to sex trafficking – charges to which he pleaded not guilty.
Epstein’s death was ruled as a suicide by a medical examiner however, his lawyers challenged the conclusion and opened their own investigation.
FBI director Kash Patel recently doubled down on the medical examiner’s ruling but Epstein’s younger brother, Mark Epstein, has also spoken out sharing doubts.
Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell in August 2019 (Kypros/Getty Images)
What the FBI’s surveillance footage reportedly shows
On May 29, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino told Fox News’ Fox & Friends that a surveillance video doesn’t show the ‘actual act’ but does seemingly disprove any conspiracy theories that anyone came into Epstein’s cell to kill him.
Bongino alleges the video shows ‘clear as day’ Epstein is ‘the only person in there and the only person coming out’.
“You can see it,” he said, as quoted by the LA Times. “When you look at the video – and we will release it […] you’re going to see there’s no one there but him. There’s just nobody there.”
Bongino questioned the public to try and find any evidence which proves otherwise, noting he’d be ‘happy to see it,’ but argued there’s ‘no DNA, there’s no audio, there’s no fingerprints, there’s no suspects, there’s no accomplices, there’s no tips, there is nothing’ to say Epstein’s death wasn’t a suicide.
But why are there so many conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein’s cause of death?
Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty and sentenced for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
The initial ruling and subsequent conspiracies surrounding Epstein’s cause of death
Epstein was reportedly found unresponsive in his cell by guards on August 10, 2019.
CPR is said to have been performed and he was transported to hospital before being pronounced dead at 6:39pm.
A New York City medical examiner and Justice Department Inspector General ruled his death as a suicide by hanging.
However, pathologist Michael Baden was hired by Epstein’s lawyers and the FBI and the Department of Justice’s Inspector General conducted investigations into Epstein’s death too.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was accused of negligence and its director was removed by Attorney General William Barr.
As a result of Epstein’s claims to have information on high-profile figures, jail procedures not being followed on the night of his death and two cameras malfunctioning outside his cell, conspiracy theories have circulated about Epstein’s cause of death.
And the doubt was recently been echoed by Epstein’s brother.
Epstein was found dead in the Metropolitan Correctional Facility in New York (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
What Epstein’s brother said about his death
Earlier this month, Epstein’s younger brother Mark addressed the comments made by FBI director Kash Patel.
He told the MailOnline: “[Patel] wasn’t there, he didn’t see the body, he didn’t see the autopsy. [He has] no idea what the f**k he’s talking about.”
Mark also took aim at the then-Attorney General Bill Barr and called his explanation of his brother’s death ‘asinine and ludicrous’
“So, Bill Barr came out and said he personally viewed the video and nobody went in or out of the tier [where Epstein was housed]. When I heard that I said this is cover up,” he continued. “There are six levels of security in that prison before you get to that tier. But there were 11 or 12 inmates on the tier. They would not have to go in or out of the tier to kill somebody in their cell. Supposedly cell doors were left locked.”
Mark theorized ‘somebody could’ve got in to Jeff’s cell and killed him’.
And the FBI’s promise of surveillance footage isn’t the only thing it’s recently said about Epstein’s death, with director Patel having dismissed conspiracy theories in an interview with Fox News earlier this month.
Kash Patel on Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide
What the FBI has previously said about Epstein’s death
Commenting on people not believing that Epstein committed suicide, Patel said: “Well, I mean, listen – they have a right to their opinion, but as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor who’s been in that prison system, who’s been in the metropolitan detention center, who’s been in segregated housing.
“You know a suicide when you see one, and that’s what that was. He killed himself.”
Bongino echoed: “He killed himself. I’ve seen the whole file. He killed himself.”
If you or someone you know is struggling or in a mental health crisis, help is available through Mental Health America. Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org. You can also reach the Crisis Text Line by texting MHA to 741741.Featured Image Credit: Getty Images/Patrick McMullan
Topics: Crime, Jeffrey Epstein, Police, True crime, US News, New York
Published 19:34 17 Sep 2024 GMT+1
Cop killer enters court wearing strange mask leaving family shocked seeing him for the first time
Esteban Carpio was arrested and charged with murder in 2005
In a notorious case from nearly 20 years ago, a cop killer entered court wearing a strange mask, leaving his family and everyone present in complete shock.
The day of reckoning came on April 17 2005 when Esteban Carpio was being questioned by Providence Police Detective Sgt. James L. Allen and another detective at their law enforcement headquarters.
Carpio was being questioned for the stabbing of an 85-year-old woman, Madeline Gatta, but his crimes did not stop there.
When the second detective left questioning to get some water for the suspect, an altercation occurred between Allen and Carpio.
The police officer was ultimately shot twice after Carpio grabbed his revolver and died a short while afterwards.
With the questioning taking place on the third floor of the building, Carpio jumped from that extremely high height.
Esteban Carpio’s day of reckoning came in 2005 (MSNBC)
Law enforcement eventually caught Carpio and he was arrested and charged for the police officer’s murder.
In his first court appearance, Carpio made all the headlines for wearing a rather strange looking mask.
While it may have shocked his family, Carpio was forced to wear the mask because it was said ‘here were concerns he would become combative.’
The mask really was a blast from the past, Joy Fox, a spokesperson for the Rhode Island Department of Corrections at the time, revealed the department had used the mask only about ’10 times in 10 years’.
As per NBC News, manufacturers stated the masks would typically be used when officers feared infection from HIV.
Once proceedings had got underway, it was argued Carpio was under the influence of a psychosis, which meant he wasn’t able to comprehend the ‘wrongfulness of his actions.’
Just weeks before the deadly shooting, the killer was taken for a psychiatric evaluation by his mother, while his girlfriend took him to hospital after displaying concerning behavior.
The cop killer entered court wearing a strange mask (MSNBC)
Doctors ultimately attributed Carpio’s bizarre symptoms to stress and drug abuse.
On June 27 2006, a jury found Carpio guilty of murdering Allen and stabbing Gatta. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Carpio appealed the ruling – something which was thrown out by the Supreme Court in 2012.
And then in 2017, a federal judge refused to overturn the serious conviction once more.
Carpio argued his lawyers were ineffective as they failed to provide genuine arguments on the grounds of appeal.
He also argued once more his mental health problems at the time meant he wasn’t aware of the seriousness of his crimes.
However, the judge didn’t buy it and the ruling stood.Featured Image Credit: MSNBC
Topics: Court, Crime, Police, True crime, US News, Weird
Published 20:51 31 Mar 2025 GMT+1
Timeline of Gilgo Beach serial killer murders as crimes documented in new Netflix series
Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer dives into the investigation which is ongoing following Rex Heuermann’s arrest
In May 2010, a 23-year-old woman working as an escort called 911 and told the operator there were people trying to kill her. Then she disappeared.
As the search for Shannan Gilbert continued, police looking near Gilgo Beach on Long Island found the bodies of four women – a discovery which sparked an ongoing serial killer case that is now the subject of Netflix’s latest true crime documentary: Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer.
The documentary details how investigators continued to find the remains of young women along the stretch of Ocean Parkway in Suffolk County for more than a year, with examinations later determining that some of the bodies had been there for more than a decade.
Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer dives into the investigation and what happened when Rex Heuermann was arrested as a suspect in the case. As viewers get stuck into the documentary, here’s a timeline of the events.
Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer – Official Trailer
December 2010 – the first bodies
The first of the human remains were discovered seven months after Shannan’s disappearance – but none of the remains belonged to her. Instead, they were identified as Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Amber Costello, Megan Waterman and Melissa Barthelemy.
All of the women, who became known at the time as the Gilgo Four, were described as ‘petite’ as they were ‘five feet or under’ and weighed around ‘100 pounds’. The victims were all in their 20s, and were found to have been working as online escorts prior to their deaths.
Maureen, a single mother-of-two, went missing in July 2007 after her cellphone had 16 interactions with a burner phone.
Melissa, 24, went missing in July 2009, nearly two years to the day after Maureen disappeared. Following her death, Melissa’s 15-year-old sister received a series of phone calls from a man calling from Melissa’s cellphone. In one, the caller said he had killed Melissa.
Megan, 22, went missing in June 2010 after being contacted by a burner phone. Her disappearance came one month after Shannan’s.
Amber, 27, went missing in September 2010, also after being contacted by a burner phone.
Multiple remains were found along the stretch of land in Long Island (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
May 2011 – police discover more victims
After the discoveries of the Gilgo Four, police went on to discover six more sets of remains in the same area. There were some differences between these additional remains and the original findings, leading police to wonder whether the same person was responsible for all of the deaths.
Valerie Mack worked as an escort and went missing in 2000.
Jessica Taylor was an escort who went missing in 2003.
The seventh victim broke the profile, as investigators were surprised to find the remains of a female toddler. DNA has linked the toddler to the remains of another victim found six miles away – a woman police nicknamed ‘Peaches’ due to a tattoo on her torso.
The ninth set of remains belonged to an Asian male who was dressed in women’s clothing.
Finally, there were the remains of Karen Vergata – an escort who disappeared in 1996. Police found her skull at Gilgo Beach.
December 2011 – Shannan Gilbert is found
A year and a half after Shannan went missing, her remains were found. However, police do not believe she was a victim of the Long Island serial killer.
In an interview with Erin Moriarty, Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said: “It’s an unfortunate incident, but right now we believe that she just ran into the marsh and unfortunately drowned.”
February 2022 – a break in the Long Island killer case
For more than a decade, the Gilgo Beach murders went unsolved as investigators found themselves at a dead end.
However, the case got a new lease of life when a new task force was formed by Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison and Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney.
Just six weeks after the task force was assembled, police identified Rex Heuermann as a suspect.
Rex Heuermann worked as an architect in New York (Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office)
Identifying the suspect
Police were led to Heuermann through a series of clues that had come to light when the case first began, one of which was the description of a first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche car which Amber Costello’s roommate claimed one of her clients had been driving.
Another clue was the use of a burner phone, which was a common factor in a number of the deaths. Police had previously tracked the calls to a small area of Massapequa Park, Long Island, and the new task force was able to use this detail to identify Heuermann, an architect who lived by Massapequa Park.
The burner phones were also found to have been used in midtown Manhattan, where Heuermann’s architectural firm was located.
In 2023, Heuermann was reported by investigators as having gone into a phone store to make a payment on a burner phone.
A big step forward in the case came after police began to tail Heuermann and managed to pick up his DNA from a pizza crust he threw out. The DNA on the crust was consistent with a DNA profile found on a male hair on Megan Waterman’s body – providing enough evidence for an arrest.
Heuermann is charged and enters his plea
After his arrest Heuermann was charged with multiple counts of murder in the deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello.
Six months after he was taken into custody, Heuermann was indicted in the death of Maureen Brainard-Barnes after investigators found a female hair in a belt used to bind her legs. The hair had an eight-trillion-to-one match with Heuermann’s wife, Asa Ellerup, or daughter, Victoria.
In June 2024 Heuermann was charged with the deaths of Jessica Taylor and Sandra Costilla – a victim who had not previously been linked to the Gilgo Beach case. Heuermann was connected to the deaths of the two victims through DNA from hair found near their remains.
In December 2024, Heuermann was charged with killing Valerie Mack, a 24-year-old from New Jersey who was identified through remains found on Gilgo Beach.
Once police were able to access Heuermann’s property, they also found a first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche which was registered to Heuermann at the time of the murders.
Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him, and is now being held without bail in a Suffolk County jail as he awaits trial.
A trial date has not yet been set.Featured Image Credit: Netflix
Topics: True crime, Netflix, Crime, US News
Published 09:45 2 May 2025 GMT+1
Why father of Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre believes chilling theory to what actually happened to her
A statement said Giuffre ‘lost her life to suicide’ after the ‘toll of abuse’ became ‘unbearable’ for her to ‘handle’
Warning: This article contains discussion of sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and suicide which some readers may find distressing.
Virginia Giuffre’s father has opened up about why he thinks ‘somebody got to her’ rather than her having died by suicide.
On April 25, Virginia Guiffre died by suicide at her home in the Neergabby area in Western Australia, her passing confirmed in a statement shared by her relatives.
In 2019, Giuffre came forward and publicly accused Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of sex trafficking and grooming, alleging she was ‘forced to have sex’ with Prince Andrew at Epstein’s New York apartment – claims Prince Andrew denies.
In 2022, Giuffre and the Royal reached a financial settlement of $16.3 million (£12 million) out of court, though he did not admit to any wrongdoing as part of the settlement.
Virginia Giuffre has died by suicide aged 41
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Epstein was convicted on sex trafficking charges and died by suicide while awaiting trial. Maxwell was found guilty on five counts of sex trafficking and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Guiffre’s passing was announced by her family in a statement which said she ‘lost her life to suicide‘ after the ‘toll of abuse’ became ‘unbearable’ for her to ‘handle’.
However, her father, Sky Roberts, has since come forward stating he doesn’t believe his daughter took her own life, stating he believes ‘somebody got to her’ during an interview with Piers Morgan on his YouTube show, Uncensored.
The father argued he thinks of his daughter as being ‘very strong’.
“And that’s why I don’t think she [died by] suicide,” he added.
Karrie Louden, Giuffre’s lawyer, has echoed a similar sentiment, arguing there are ‘big question marks’ over her passing, despite the statement issued by her relatives alongside the police report.
Sky Roberts argued someone got to his daughter (ITV)
West Australia police said they were called to a home on the night of April 25 where Giuffre was found unresponsive.
“Police and St John Western Australia attended and provided emergency first aid. Sadly, the 41-year-old woman was declared deceased at the scene,” a police spokesperson said.
The statement continued: “The death is being investigated by Major Crime detectives; early indication is the death is not suspicious.”
If you’ve been affected by any of the issues in this article, you can contact The National Sexual Assault Hotline on 800.656.HOPE (4673), available 24/7. Or you can chat online via online.rainn.org
If you or someone you know is struggling or in a mental health crisis, help is available through Mental Health America. Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org. You can also reach the Crisis Text Line by texting MHA to 741741.Featured Image Credit: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Piers Morgan Uncensored
Topics: Virginia Giuffre, US News, Jeffrey Epstein, Crime, True crime, Parenting
