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Jeffrey Dahmer’s Killer Christopher Scarver Explains Why He Did It
Christopher Scarver has explained why he decided to kill fellow prisoner Jeffrey Dahmer.
Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and s** offender who killed and dismembered men and boys between 1978 and 1991.
His later murders involved n**rophilia, cannibalism, and permanently preserving body parts.
Speaking of the gruesome murders, Dahmer said: “I had these obsessive desires and thoughts, wanting to control them… to possess them permanently.”
The serial killer’s crimes were exposed in 1991 when he approached three men and offered them money to pose for nude photographs. One of the men, Tracey Edwards, agreed and followed Dahmer back to his apartment.
Once they arrived, Dahmer handcuffed Edwards and held a knife to his chest. He told Edwards he intended to eat his heart, as per People.
Edwards was eventually able to escape by punching and knocking Dahmer to the ground.
He ran through the unlocked apartment door and flagged down two Milwaukee police officers, whom he led back to the serial killer’s apartment.
When the cops reached the apartment, they noticed an open drawer that contained polaroid images of dismembering human bodies.
When Dahmer saw the photos, he tried to flee; however, the police overpowered and cuffed him, as per History.com.
Initially, the serial killer pleaded ‘innocent and innocent by reason of mental disease,’ however, his plea was later changed to ‘guilty but insane.’
In 1992, Dahmer was ruled to be sane and not suffering from a mental disorder at the time of each of the murders. He was convicted of 16 of the murders and sentenced to 16 terms in prison.
Yet the serial killer’s time in prison wouldn’t last long, as he was bludgeoned to death by fellow inmate Scarver in 1994. He was 34 years old.
Scarver has since spoken out about the incident, explaining why he decided to kill the serial killer.
In a 2015 interview with the New York Post, over 20 years after the incident, Scarver claimed that he began to despise Dahmer as he would mold severed limbs out of prison food to taunt the other inmates.
He would allegedly drizzle packets of ketchup, resembling blood.
“He would put them in places where people would be,” Scarver claimed. “He crossed the line with some people — prisoners, prison staff. Some people who are in prison are repentant — but he was not one of them.”
Scarver arrived at Wisconsin’s Columbia Correctional Institution around a similar time to Dahmer and said he knew right away to keep his distance, not wanting to become a target for his chilling humor.
“There was no impression,” he said.
Scarver, who would keep a news story detailing Dahmer’s crimes in his pocket, said he ‘never interacted’ with the killer.
This changed on November 28, 1994, when Scarver, then 25 years old, was carrying out his vigilante justice in the prison gymnasium.
Scarver, Dahmer, and a third inmate, Jesse Anderson, were left unshackled and unattended by correction officers as they cleaned the bathrooms.
The then 25-year-old said he had just retrieved his mop and was filling a bucket with water when he felt someone poke him in the back.
“I turned around, and [Dahmer] and Jesse were kind of laughing under their breath,” Scarver recounted. “I looked right into their eyes, and I couldn’t tell which had done it.”
When the three men split up, Scarver followed Dahmer towards the locker room.
Scarver grabbed a metal bar from the weight room and confronted the serial killer with the news story he carried in his pocket.
Scarver said he asked Dahmer whether he had committed the horrific crimes he read of, and the serial killer ‘started looking for the door pretty quick,’ which Scarver ‘blocked him’ from doing.
Dahmer’s killer said: “He ended up dead. I put his head down.”
After killing Dahmer, Scarver entered a locker room where 37-year-old Anderson was working and ‘pretty much the same thing [happened] — got his head put out.’
The New York Times notes: “Both Mr Dahmer and Mr Anderson are white, and their crimes battered Milwaukee’s race relations. Most of Mr Dahmer’s victims were black or Hispanic; Mr Anderson, who killed his wife, said two black men had committed the crime.”
There is no firm evidence to suggest Scarver’s crimes were racially motivated; however, this has been speculated.
It’s been reported that Scarver had previously claimed to be a victim of racism, allegedly stating after his first life sentence: “Nothing white people do to blacks is just.”
Scarver initially pleaded insanity to the murders, but this was later changed to ‘no contest’ in exchange for a transfer to a federal penitentiary.
He was sentenced to two life terms, in addition to the life sentence he was already serving for killing his former boss during a robbery in 1990.
Scarver has since bounced from prison to prison, spending his days writing poems for his site.
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