Jesse Michael Anderson was an American convicted murderer.
10 Facts About Jesse Anderson
Jesse Anderson was murdered, alongside the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, by fellow inmate and convicted murderer Christopher Scarver at the Columbia Correctional Institution in 1994.
Jesse Anderson attended Alton High School and graduated in 1975.
In 1980, Anderson married Debra Ann Eickert and divorced in 1984.
Jesse Anderson was treasurer of the Lions Club and did volunteer work at the Divine Word Catholic Church.
Jesse Anderson blamed two black men for attacking him and his wife.
Jesse Anderson presented police with a Los Angeles Clippers basketball cap he claimed to have knocked off the head of one of the assailants.
When details of the crime were made public, a university student told police Jesse Anderson had purchased the hat from him a few days earlier.
Jesse Anderson then tracked down Anderson and bludgeoned him as well.
Dahmer was declared dead about one hour after the attack, and Jesse Anderson died two days later when doctors at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison removed him from life support.