Christopher Scarver was sentenced to two further life sentences for the murders of Dahmer and Anderson, after being sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Steve Lohman in 1990.
15 Facts About Christopher Scarver
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Christopher Scarver is the second of five children and was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Christopher Scarver attended James Madison High School before dropping out in the eleventh grade, and was eventually kicked out of his mother's house after becoming addicted to alcohol and marijuana.
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Christopher Scarver was hired as a trainee carpenter at a Wisconsin Conservation Corps job program.
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Christopher Scarver said that he had been promised by his supervisor, Edward Patts, that upon completion of this program he would be hired full-time, but Patts was dismissed, and as a result, Scarver's full-time position never materialized.
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Christopher Scarver was later diagnosed with schizophrenia and was said to have been suffering from messianic delusions.
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On June 1,1990, Christopher Scarver went to the Wisconsin Conservation Corps training program office and found site manager John Feyen and employee Steve Lohman present.
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In 1992, Christopher Scarver was convicted and sentenced to life in prison and sent to the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin.
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Two years later, on the morning of November 28,1994, Christopher Scarver was assigned to a work detail with two other inmates: Jesse Anderson, serving time for the murder of his wife; and Jeffrey Dahmer, a cannibalistic serial killer.
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When corrections officers left the three unsupervised, Christopher Scarver attacked Jeffrey Dahmer with a metal bar that he had removed from a piece of exercise equipment in the prison weight room; he then beat Jesse Anderson with a wooden stick at the showers.
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Christopher Scarver underwent psychiatric evaluation at MCFP Springfield and was later transferred to ADX Florence, the federal supermax in Florence, Colorado, where he remained until 2000.
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In 2000, Christopher Scarver was transferred to the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility when it opened.
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Christopher Scarver was eventually relocated to the Centennial Correctional Facility in Colorado.
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In 2005, Christopher Scarver brought a federal civil rights suit against officials of the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in which he argued that he had been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment, contrary to his constitutional rights.
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In 2012, an agent representing Christopher Scarver announced that Christopher Scarver was willing to write a tell-all book about the murder of Dahmer.