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Occupation
  
Trainee carpenter

Name
  
Christopher Scarver

Conviction(s)
  
murder (3 counts)


Criminal status
  
Incarcerated

Height
  
6' 3" (1.91 m)

Children
  
Christopher Scarver Jr.

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Born
  
July 6, 1969 (age 55) (
1969-07-06
)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Criminal penalty
  
Life imprisonment without parole (3 life terms)

Similar People
  
Jeffrey Dahmer, Jesse Anderson, Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy

Victims
  
3

Date
  
June 1, 1990 (Steve Lohman) November 28, 1994 (Jeffrey Dahmer and Jesse Anderson)

Pathology
  
Serial Killer, Robber

Apprehended
  
June 1, 1990

Height
  
1.91 m

Spouse
  
Jackal Evans

Children
  
Christopher Scarver Jr.

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Christopher J. Scarver (born July 6, 1969) is an American convicted murderer who also killed serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer at Columbia Correctional Institution, Portage, Wisconsin, in 1994. Scarver used a 20-inch (51 cm) metal bar he removed from a piece of exercise equipment in the prison weight room to beat Dahmer and another convicted murderer, Jesse Anderson. Both Dahmer and Anderson died later from their injuries. Scarver was sentenced to two further life sentences for the killings.

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Early life

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Scarver is the second of five children and was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He attended James Madison High School before dropping out in the eleventh grade. Eventually his mother forced him to leave the house because of his increasing alcoholism.

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Scarver was hired as a trainee carpenter in a Wisconsin Conservation Corps job program. He said that he had been promised by Edward Patts, a supervisor, that upon completion of this program he would be hired full-time, but Patts was dismissed, and as a result, Scarver's full-time position never materialized.

Murder conviction

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On June 1, 1990, Scarver went to the Wisconsin Conservation Corps training program office and found Steve Lohman, the supervisor who had replaced Edward Patts. Scarver demanded money from Lohman. When Scarver received only $15 from Lohman, Scarver shot Lohman in the head. At the same time, he demanded money from site manager John Feyen. According to authorities, Scarver said, "Do you think I'm kidding, Mr. Hitler? I need more money." Scarver shot Lohman twice more before Feyen was able to run away after giving a $3,000 check to Scarver.

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Scarver was convicted and sentenced to life in prison and sent to the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin, in 1992. While imprisoned, he complained of experiencing messianic delusions, and was diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Conduct in prison

On the morning of November 28, 1994, Scarver was assigned to a work detail with two other inmates, Jesse Anderson and Jeffrey Dahmer, that included cleaning the prison gymnasium toilet. When corrections officers left the three unsupervised, Scarver beat the other two men with a 20-inch (51 cm) metal bar that he had removed from a piece of exercise equipment in the prison weight room. When he returned to his cell early, an officer asked him why he was not still working. During that time two officers found Dahmer and Anderson. Scarver said that Dahmer had taunted other inmates by constructing "severed limbs" out of food and ketchup.

Dahmer was pronounced dead from extensive injuries while on his way to the hospital, and Anderson died two days later. After being found competent to stand trial, Scarver received two more life sentences for these murders.

In 2005, Scarver brought a civil rights suit against the officials of the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in which he argued that he had been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment, contrary to his constitutional rights. Scarver states that he spent 16 months in solitary confinement as a result of the Dahmer killing. A district judge dismissed the suit against several of the defendants and ruled that the actions of the remaining officials could not be considered unlawful. Scarver appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals, which upheld the decision of the district judge in 2006. Federal judge Barbara Crabb ordered that Scarver and about three dozen other seriously mentally ill inmates be relocated from the Wisconsin facility. Scarver was eventually relocated to Centennial Correctional Facility in Colorado.

In 2012, an agent representing Scarver announced that Scarver was willing to write a tell-all book about the 1994 killing of Dahmer.

In 2015, Scarver told the New York Post that he believed that Dahmer was unrepentant for his crimes. He wrote that Dahmer would taunt fellow inmates by shaping his prison food into severed limbs and drizzling packets of ketchup on them to simulate blood. He said that, although he had not interacted with Dahmer before killing him, he knew that Dahmer was very unpopular with fellow inmates and had seen him get into several altercations with other prisoners. Scarver said that he was revolted by Dahmer's crimes and that he carried in his pocket a news article detailing the atrocities. Immediately before murdering Dahmer, Scarver allegedly presented the newspaper clipping to him and asked him whether the account was true. Scarver says that prison staff left him alone with Dahmer because they wanted him dead and they knew that Scarver hated him. In his blog, Scarver disputes some of these reported statements.

References

Christopher Scarver Wikipedia


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