Criminal status Deceased | Conviction(s) Murder Name Jesse Anderson | |
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Full Name Jesse Michael Anderson Criminal penalty Life imprisonment with no chance of parole for 60 years Spouse(s) Debra Ann Eickert (1980-1984)Barbara E. Lynch (March 30, 1985 - April 23, 1992) Similar People Christopher Scarver, Jeffrey Dahmer, Roy Ratcliff | ||
Occupation Landscaping contractor | ||
Jesse Michael Anderson (May 3, 1957 – November 30, 1994) was a convicted American murderer who was murdered in prison, along with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, by fellow inmate and convicted murderer Christopher Scarver.
Contents
- Press conference Jeffrey Dahmer murdered Jesse Anderson attacked in prison
- Early life and education
- Killing of his wife
- Death
- References
Press conference Jeffrey Dahmer murdered Jesse Anderson attacked in prison
Early life and education
Anderson was raised in Alton, Illinois. When Anderson was a teenager, his father died of a heart attack and his mother remarried. He attended Alton High School and graduated in 1975. In 1984, he graduated with a degree in Business Administration from Elmhurst College. On March 30, 1985, he married Barbara E. Lynch in Chicago.
Prior to his arrest for murder, the Andersons lived in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, with their three young children. He was treasurer of the Lions Club and did volunteer work at the Divine Word Catholic Church.
Killing of his wife
On April 21, 1992, the Anderson couple went to a movie and dinner at a T.G.I. Friday's outside the Northridge Mall in northwest Milwaukee. After dinner, Jesse stabbed Barbara five times in the face and head, and then stabbed himself four times in the chest, though most of his wounds were superficial. Barbara went into a coma and died from her wounds two days later.
Anderson, who was white, blamed two African-American men for attacking him and his wife. He presented police with a Los Angeles Clippers basketball cap he claimed to have knocked off the head of one of the assailants. When details of the crime were made public, a university student told police Anderson had purchased the hat from him a few days earlier. According to employees at a military surplus store, the red-handled fishing knife that was used to murder Barbara was sold to Anderson a few weeks earlier. Police stated that the store was the only one in Milwaukee that sold that type of knife. On April 29, Anderson was charged with murder. On August 13, he was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 60 years.
Death
He was imprisoned at Columbia Correctional Institution.
While performing cleaning duties in a prison gymnasium restroom, unattended by guards, inmates Anderson, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Christopher Scarver were together. Scarver, having expressed revulsion over a newspaper article outlining Dahmer's criminal activities, confronted both Dahmer and Anderson. Subsequently, Scarver obtained a steel bar from the gym's weight room. He then assaulted Dahmer in the locker room by striking him in the head with the bar. Afterward, Scarver located Anderson and similarly attacked him. Dahmer succumbed to his injuries while being transported to the hospital, and Anderson passed away two days later after medical professionals at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison decided to discontinue life support.