The Man Who Killed A Serial Killer

2021-02-12 13:10:07 Written by Kashif wasli

'Why I killed Jeffrey Dahmer': Christopher Scarver discusses the murderer's death and 'prison-wide plot' for the first time

 

Inmate alleges jail guards facilitated the murder.

 

More than 20 years after the occurrence, Christopher Scarver has for the first time spoke about why he murdered fellow prisoner Jeffrey Dahmer, who was serving 16 life verdicts for the killing, rape and dismemberment of seventeen men and boys.

 

Scarver said that he fatally hit Dahmer twice over the head with a metal bar after growing frightened by the murderer, who he alleges would fashion severed limbs out of jail food and sprinkle them with packets of ketchup as blood.

"He would put them in places where people would be," Scarver, now 45, told The New York Post.

 

"He traversed the line with some people - prisoners, jail staff. Some people who are in jail are repentant - but he was not one of them."

 

Dahmer, whose crimes are believed to have involved necrophilia and cannibalism, was according to Scarver supported by at least one guard at all times when he was out of his cell because of friction with other inhabitants at Wisconsin’s Columbia Correctional Institution.

 

"I saw violent interactions between Dahmer and other prisoners from time to time," Scarver, who was performing time for murdering his boss during a robbery, recalled.

 

He said that he never interacted with Dahmer, attempting to keep his distance from him, until the morning of 28 November 1994, when he was left unshackled by guards to clean bathrooms with Dahmer and another inhabitant, Jesse Anderson.

 

Scarver alleges that he was shoved in the back with a mop while filling his bucket.

 

"I turned around, and Dahmer and Jesse were kinds of chuckling under their breath," he said. "I looked right into their eyes, and I couldn’t say which had done it."

 

The three men then divide up, with Scarver following Dahmer toward a locker room where he cornered him and confronted him with a newspaper article detailing Dahmer's crimes which he had been keeping in his pocket. Dahmer was stunned and "started looking for the door pretty quick". Scarver smashed his skull with two swings of a metal bar.

 

"He ended up dead. I put his head down," he said.

 

Seeing no administrators around, Scarver then dealt identical blows to Anderson.

 

"Pretty much the same thing occurred - got his head put out," Scarver recounted.

 

He claimed that all this was no accident and that disciplinary officers hated Dahmer, wanted him dead and thus left him lonely with Scarver.

 

"They had something to do with what took place. Yes," Scarver said, noting that the guards vanished just before he slams Dahmer with the 20-inch, 5-pound metal bar.

 

Scarver declined to elaborate over the concern of reprisals.

"I would need a good attorney to assure there would not be any reprisal by Wisconsin officials or to get me out of any type of retaliatory position they would put me in," he said.

 

An inquiry that followed the murders discovered that Scarver had worked alone. Scarver received 2 life verdicts for the murders.