The inmate who ended the life of infamous cannibalistic serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer has offered an explanation for his actions.
Although Christopher Scarver admitted to the murder of the 34-year-old, he suspects that prison guards might have orchestrated the scenario by leaving him alone with Dahmer.
In February 1992, Dahmer received a sentence of 16 life terms in prison for the heinous murders of 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. He even confessed to consuming the flesh of his victims.
However, only two years into his incarceration at Columbia Correctional Facility in Wisconsin, Dahmer was killed by Scarver, who was then 25 years old.
Scarver had never directly interacted with Dahmer but was deeply repulsed by his crimes. He carried a newspaper article about Dahmer’s gruesome acts, detailing how Dahmer dismembered and occasionally consumed his victims.
The situation intensified on November 28, 1994, when Dahmer provoked Scarver while they were in the prison gym with another inmate, Jesse Anderson.
The trio was then assigned to clean the bathrooms by prison officers, uncuffed, and left to their tasks.
Scarver recounted grabbing a mop and filling a bucket with water when he felt a nudge on his back.
“I turned around, and [Dahmer] and Jesse were kind of laughing under their breath,” Scarver, at 45, told the New York Post in 2015.
“I looked right into their eyes, and I couldn’t tell which had done it.”
After the task was completed, Scarver trailed Dahmer to the locker room. Armed with a 20-inch metal bar weighing five pounds from the gym, he confronted Dahmer with the newspaper article.
“I asked him if he did those things ’cause I was fiercely disgusted. He was shocked. Yes, he was,” Scarver said.
“He started looking for the door pretty quick. I blocked him.”
Scarver continued: “He ended up dead. I put his head down.”
Following the attack on Dahmer, Scarver sought out Anderson, who was serving a life sentence for killing his wife.
“He [Anderson] stopped for a second and looked around,” Scarver recalled.
“He was looking to see if any officials were there. There were none. Pretty much the same thing [happened] – got his head put out.”
Scarver, who entered a plea of no contest to the murders and is serving three life sentences in Colorado, suspects that his isolation with Dahmer wasn’t coincidental, believing prison officials wanted Dahmer dead.
“They had something to do with what took place,” he stated, noting that guards vanished just prior to the incident.