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27th September 2022
02:38pm BST

“I saw heated interactions between [Dahmer] and other prisoners from time to time,” Scarver told the Post, adding that he didn't think much of the infamous killer: “There was no impression."
Scarver said he never interacted with Dahmer because he didn't want to become a victim of his sick humour. But that all changed on 28 November 1994 when Scarver, Dahmer and a third prisoner, Jesse Anderson, were led unshackled to clean bathrooms by correction officers who left them unattended.
Scarver, who was repulsed by the youth-molesting cannibal, kept a newspaper article detailing how Dahmer killed, dismembered — and in some cases ate — 17 men and boys, most young, gay African Americans, from 1978 to 1991, in his pocket. Dahmer was convicted of murdering 15 men and boys and sentenced to serve 15 consecutive life sentences in February 1997. His killing spree is now subject of a Netflix series, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
Scarver, then a 25-year-old convicted murderer, had just retrieved his mop and was filling a bucket with water when someone poked him in the back, the Post reported.
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When he turned, Dahmer and Anderson were "kind of laughing under their breath,” Scarver recounted. Having, a short time later, grabbed a metal bar from the weight room, Scarver confronted Dahmer while clutching the news story he had been carrying.
“I asked him if he did those things ’cause I was fiercely disgusted. He was shocked. Yes, he was,” Scarver told the Post.
“He started looking for the door pretty quick. I blocked him. He ended up dead. I put his head down,” he said.
Scarver then approached Anderson, 37, and "pretty much the same thing [happened] — got his head put out,” Scarver said of Anderson, who was serving a life term for killing his wife in 1992.
In a separate article, the Post reported how Scarver saw Anderson as a racist as he defaced a portrait of the legendary civil-rights leader, Martin Luther King, and tried to pin his wife's murder on two black men.
Scarver doesn't believe it was an accident that he was left alone with Dahmer as prison officials knew he hated him, but did not elaborate on the suggestion to the Post.
The killer initially pleaded insanity to the murders but later changed it to “no contest” in exchange for a transfer to a federal penitentiary.
He was sentenced to two life terms on top of the life sentence he was already serving for killing his former boss, Steven Lohman, during a robbery in 1990.
Read the New York Post's interview with Scarver here.
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