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JEFFREY Dahmer’s life was cut short after he was attacked and killed in prison.

Christopher Scarver was also an inmate at Columbia Correctional Institution when he beat the murderer to death.

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Who killed Jeffrey Dahmer?

Dahmer was killed by fellow Columbia Correctional Institution inmate and convicted murderer Christopher Scarver on November 28, 1994, in Portage, Wisconsin.

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On the morning of November 28, Scarver was assigned to a work detail with two other inmates – cannibalistic serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and Jesse Anderson who was serving life in prison for the murder of his own wife.

While cleaning the prison gymnasium toilet, Scarver removed a 20-inch metal bar from the prison weight room and brutally hit Dahmer twice around the head.

He then beat Anderson with the same weapon – who was working in a separate room.

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Dahmer was declared dead an hour after arriving at the hospital and Anderson died two days later, after doctors removed him from life support.

Why did Christopher Scarver kill Jeffrey Dahmer?

In 2015, almost 20 years after he murdered Jeffery Dahmer, Scarver revealed to the New York Post, for the first time why the infamous “Milwaukee Cannibal” had to die.

Scarver told of how he kept a newspaper article, detailing Dahmer’s heinous crimes – which included killing 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, having sex with their corpses, storing some of the body parts, and eating others.

Just before he killed Dahmer, Scarver who was ”fiercely disgusted” by Dahmer’s crimes said he confronted him with the clipping.

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He also revealed that Dahmer’s creepy sense of humour during his time in prison contributed to the killing.

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Scarver said Dahmer would turn prison food into fake limbs covered with ketchup to resemble blood and would leave them around the prison where others would find them.

Scaver said: “He crossed the line with some people – prisoners, prison staff.

“Some people who are in prison are repentant – but he was not one of them.”

He also told The Post that Dahmer got into so many interactions with other inmates, that he needed an escort of one guard at all times.

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In his interview with The Post, he confirmed the incident was no accident and hinted that prison officials may have purposefully left him alone with Dahmer.

Scarver said: “They had something to do with what took place. Yes.”

Where is Christopher Scarver now?

Following the 1994 murders, Scarver was handed two additional life sentences.

Scarver remains incarcerated at Centennial Correctional Facility in Canon City, Colorado.

Scarver was already in prison serving a life sentence for killing his former boss, Steven Lohman, during a robbery in 1990.

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In April 2015, the convicted murderer released a novel from prison titled, “God Seed: Poetry of Christopher J. Scarver”.

The Amazon description describes the book as a “poetic vision of the world as seen through prison walls.”

On September 1, 2022, Dahmer’s crimes were revisited in the Netflix true-crime series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

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In the Ryan Murphy anthology program, Scarver is portrayed by Furly Mac, and Dahmer is played by Evan Peters.

Dahmer’s death and his reign of terror are chronicled again in the Fox Nation docuseries My Son Jeffrey: The Dahmer Family Tapes, which premiered on September 18, 2023.

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