

Yes," said Scarver, alleging that the guards disappeared just before he murdered the serial killer, though refused to elaborate out of fear of his own safety. "They had something to do with what took place. Scarver told the New York Post that he doesn't believe it was an accident that staff left him alone with Dahmer since they knew Scarver hated him. I put his head down," Scarver said.Īfter leaving Dahmer to die, Scarver then killed 37-year-old Anderson, who had been serving life for killing his wife in 1992.

Scarver struck Dahmer in the head and face, bludgeoning him to death in just two swings.

"He started looking for the door pretty quick. "I asked him if he did those things 'cause I was fiercely disgusted. "I looked right into their eyes, and I couldn't tell which had done it."Īfter the three men split up to work, Scarver confronted Dahmer in the staff locker room, armed with a 20-inch metal bar he had taken from the weight room and the newspaper clipping. "I turned around, and and Jesse were kind of laughing under their breath," said Scarver. Scarver told the New York Post that he was filling a mop bucket when he felt a poke in his back. For unexplained reasons, the guards left the three inmates alone to work. 28, 1994, a then 25-year-old Scarver was unshackled to clean the bathrooms - joined by a then 34-year-old Dahmer and a third inmate, Jesse Anderson. In his pocket, Scarver says he kept a newspaper clipping of those details. Scarver chose to watch Dahmer from afar, and never interacted with him for fear of becoming a target of Dahmer's sick pranks.īut Scarver bore a deep disgust of Dahmer, stemming from the highly publicized details of how he murdered and dismembered 17 young men and boys. The 45-year-old inmate said that he saw "heated interactions" with Dahmer and other inmates, but didn't think much of him. Scarver said that Dahmer always had at least one guard as an escort whenever he was out of his cell. Prison staff were concerned for Dahmer's safety around other inmates, and placed him in solitary confinement for his first year. Meet the men (and woman) behind some of the most horrific murders in U.S.
