Christopher Scarver, the man who bludgeoned Jeffrey Dahmer to death in 1994, has been reaching out to book publishers with the claim that he wanted to reveal the details of Dahmer’s violent death. Scarver plans to divulge the disturbing behavior displayed by Dahmer in prison, including some of the sick pranks he played on other inmates and prison officials (He fashioned mock human body parts from prison food).
Scarver was already in prison for a murder he committed after he suffered a psychotic break. He had dropped out of high school and enrolled in a one-year Conservation Corps job program. He was learning to be a carpenter and was told by a supervisor that he would be hired full-time. But when the supervisor was dismissed, the job fell through and Scarver assigned blame to the site manager.
After brooding on thoughts that he was a victim of racism, he snapped and planned to rob this site manager. But there was another man in the office when he arrived. When the site manager only had $15 in his wallet, Scarver shot the other man in the head and said “Now do you think I’m kidding?” Scarver shot the man in the head three more times before the site manager could escape into the streets.
While in prison, Scarver was given the opportunity to attack Dahmer when they were taken - unshackled - to clean bathrooms. The guards left the two, and one other, inmates unattended. That was when Scarver, who has said that he was severely disgusted by Dahmer, revealed he was holding not only the news story detailing Dahmer’s crimes but also a heavy metal bar he retrieved from the weight room. He asked if Dahmer had really done the horrid things described in the story. Dahmer, undoubtedly recognizing his situation, tried to get to the door but with two swings of that metal bar – he was dead. Scarver also mortally wounded the other inmate, Jesse Anderson, within the same timeframe.
At first, Scarver claimed insanity drove him to murder the men. He said a group of voices told him that he was “the son of God” and that he was the “chosen one.” These voices also told him “who his enemies were” and that “everything was going to be all right and it was meant to happen this way.”
He later pleaded no contest to the murders because he feared going to a mental institution would turn him into a “vegetable” and the voices insisted on him going to prison instead.
Scarver was convicted and was slapped with two more life sentences that would pile onto the one he was already given. He was in solitary confinement for 18 years and is now serving his time in a medium-security prison, where he writes poetry during his free time.