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Christopher Scarver

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Christopher Scarver (born 1969) is a convicted American murderer who while in prison killed Jeffrey L. Dahmer and Jesse Anderson while working with them for what he called "the work of God". Many believe this was racially related.

Scarver, the 2nd son of 5 children born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, went to James Madison High School and dropped out in the 11th grade. When his mother kicked him out he started to drink beer and smoke marijuana. Then, in 1990 according to the New York Times, he went to the training program office and saw Steve Lohman, a program worker. He ordered Steve Lohman to give him his money and when he only received 15 dollars, Scarver shot Lohman in the head. At the same time, he demanded money from a Mr. Feyen. Next, according to authorities, Scarver said,"Do you think I'm kidding, I need more money." Scarver shot Lohman two more times before Feyen was able to run away with a check that he would have given to Scarver. Scarver was tried and convicted in 1992 and sent to the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin, where Dahmer was also incarcerated.

On November 28, 1994, Scarver was serving a sentence for 2 counts of first-degree murder at the age of 25, and was labelled a schizophrenic psychopath with messianic delusions. Scarver was paired up with Jeffrey Dahmer and Jesse Anderson for work detail which included the cleaning of a bathroom. During that time he beat both men with what is sometimes described as a broom handle and others a metal bar. When he returned to his cell early a guard asked him why he wasn't still working. He explained "God told me to do it. You will hear about it on the 6 o'clock news. Jesse Anderson and Jeffrey Dahmer are dead". During that time two guards found the bodies of Dahmer and Anderson. Dahmer was pronounced dead at 9:11 AM, Anderson died from his injuries two days later.

Although Scarver maintained that he was provoked by God it is widely believed that he killed both for racial reasons. Scarver, a black man, is thought to have killed the two because most of Dahmer's 17 victims were black and Anderson blamed the murder he committed against his wife on two black men in a fabricated story.

Death metal band Macabre made an eponymous song about Scarver for their concept album Dahmer.

On an internet website, findadeath.com, a former inmate at the prison where Dahmer was murdered stated that guards had "mysteriously" vanished on the day Dahmer was murdered. He stated that guards "never" left the area where Dahmer worked in but on that day, they vanished for a long time.

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