Robert Rauth How Did He Catch Jeffrey Dahmer?

May 2024 · 5 minute read

In 1992, Rolf Mueller and Robert Rauth, two police officers, arrested Dahmer. He was given his sixteenth life sentence. 

By that time, the cannibal sex offender had killed and eaten 17 men and teenagers. It’s well known that the officer who apprehended Jeffrey is John Balcerzak

Konerak Sinthasomphone, the drugged child, was permitted back into Jeffrey’s apartment by the same tense officer.

Tracey Led Roberth Ruth To Dahmer’s Apartment

It was July 22, 1991, and almost midnight.

When a guy waved down Rolf Mueller and Robert Rauth’s patrol cruiser in downtown Milwaukee, they were just going about their regular patrolling.

Tracy Edwards, 32, was frightened and babbling about a “mad person” who had threatened to rip out his heart and eat it while holding a knife to him. On one wrist, a handcuff was also dangling from him.

Edwards took them to Flat 213 of the nearby Oxford Apartments, the alleged attack’s location. The police were not persuaded.

What Happened On The Night Of July 22?

When the police officers and Edwards arrived at Apartment 213, Dahmer welcomed them inside and admitted that he had handcuffed Edwards, though he gave no reason for doing so. 

At this point, Edwards revealed to the police that Dahmer had also threatened him with a huge knife while they were in the bedroom.

While signaling to one of the officers, Mueller, that the key to the handcuffs was in his bedside drawer, Dahmer said nothing in response to this information. 

Dahmer attempted to past Mueller as he entered the bedroom to get the key himself, but Rauth, the second police officer there, told him to back off.

Mueller noticed a huge knife under the bed in the bedroom. 

Upon closer study, he discovered that the open drawer held dozens of Polaroid images, many of which depicted human bodies in various states of mutilation. 

The furnishings, according to Mueller, suggested they had been photographed in the same apartment where they were standing. 

“These are for real,” Mueller said as he entered the living room to show his partner.

Dahmer struggled with the officers in an effort to avoid being arrested when he noticed that Mueller was holding many of his Polaroids. 

He was swiftly subdued by the cops, who then handcuffed him and requested the assistance of a second squad car. 

A Black male’s recently cut head was on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator when Mueller finally opened it.

‘For what I did, I should be dead,’ Dahmer mumbled as he laid face down on the floor beneath Rauth and turned to face the police.

What Did Robert Find In The House Of Dahmer?

Dahmer kindly welcomed the police officers inside and opened the door as if nothing was ominous at first appearance. 

But even though his apartment was neat and tidy, there was a foul smell in the air. Officer Mueller explained that they had received a complaint, and then he checked around. 

He discovered a butcher’s knife and a box of Polaroid pictures in the bedroom, and they displayed numerous obscene stances of n*ked young males.

Experienced and resistant to shock, Mueller. But as he looked through the pictures, his disgust increased. 

He had never seen such an evil thing as this. More images of the same youngsters lying lifeless and subsequently of corpses being dismembered appeared.

Most of the pictures were taken in the room he was standing in, but one particularly horrifying picture was taken in the kitchen.

Mueller hurried to the refrigerator after directing Rauth to hold the owner. He yelled as he flung open the door, and a dismembered head was on the bottom shelf.

Another three human heads, parts, and bags of human flesh were discovered while searching the apartment. There were shelves, cupboards, and crates filled with skulls. 

Other body parts were in a huge plastic barrel, while hands and genitalia were decaying in a frying pot. In total, 11 victims’ remains were discovered.

The Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Milwaukee police performed a more thorough investigation of the flat and discovered a total of four decapitated heads in Dahmer’s kitchen. 

Dahmer’s bedroom and a closet contained seven skulls, some painted and some bleached. 

On the shelves, two human hearts and a chunk of arm muscle were discovered by investigators, along with collected blood drippings on a tray at the base of Dahmer’s refrigerator.

Investigators found a whole body in Dahmer’s freezer along with a bag of human parts and flesh frozen to the bottom of the container.

Investigators also found two complete skeletons, two severed hands, two preserved p*nises, a mummified scalp, and three more dismembered torsos dissolving in acid in the 57-gallon drum in Apartment 213. 

A total of 74 Polaroid images were discovered showing Dahmer’s victims being dismembered.

Dahmer’s Neighbor Suspected Him

The first person to identify Jeffrey as a serial killer was Glenda. 

‘I watched you walk out in the dumpster and dump a massive amount of awful flesh, so the scent should be gone by now,’ Glenda Cleveland says to Jeffrey in Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which is available on Netflix.

Jeffrey continues, ‘Mm. Oh. I entirely forgot about the ich disease, which is what killed my tropical fish.’

Then Glenda realized that something wasn’t right. 

In May 1991, Konerak Sinthasomphone, then 14 years old, was found by Dahmer, who lured him to his apartment so he could pose for Polaroid pictures.

Konerak had no idea that the Dahmer who had molested his older brother in 1988 was still alive. 

Dahmer drugged Konerak into unconsciousness before performing oral s*x on him after snapping his images.

Glenda, Nicole’s aunt, called the police multiple times to report the incident, but the officers classified it as a domestic disagreement between two lovers. 

They didn’t even try to investigate Jeffrey or verify Konerak’s identity.

Final Verdict

Robert Rauth, along with his partner, Rolf Muelle, was out for a regular stroll; the last victim of Jeffrey Dahmer, Tracy Edwards, called out to the police,

The police officers returned to his apartment and were left astonished when they learned about his criminal history. 

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