Christopher Scarver

Christopher J. Scarver Sr. (born July 6, 1969) is an American convicted murderer.

He had already been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of the murder of Steve Lohman in 1990.

Scarver is the second of five children and was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

He attended James Madison High School before dropping out in the eleventh grade.

His mother forced him out of her house after he became addicted to alcohol and marijuana.

Scarver was hired as a trainee carpenter in a Wisconsin Conservation Corps job program.

He said that his supervisor, Edward Patts, promised that upon completion of this program he would be hired full-time-time job there.

After Patts was dismissed, Scarver did not gain a full-time job.

He began to drink heavily.

Later he said that while drunk, he started to hear voices calling him the "chosen one".

He was later diagnosed with schizophrenia and was said to have been suffering from messianic delusions.

On June 1, 1990, Scarver went to the Wisconsin Conservation Corps training office and found site manager John Feyen and employee Steve Lohman present.

Forcing Lohman down at gunpoint, Scarver demanded money from Feyen.

Upon receiving only US$15 from him, the enraged Scarver shot Lohman once in the head, killing him.

According to authorities, Scarver said: "Now do you think I'm kidding? I need more money."

After Scarver shot Lohman twice more, both post-mortem, Feyen wrote Scarver a check for US$3,000.

As Feyen fled outside to his car, Scarver fired at him, but missed.

In 1992, Scarver was convicted of murder at a jury trial and sentenced to life in prison.

He was incarcerated at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin.

He is best known for the 1994 murders of his fellow inmates Jeffrey Dahmer, and Jesse Anderson, both convicted murderers, at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Wisconsin.

Both his victims were white men.

The three inmates were on a work detail together in the prison gymnasium, and had a confrontation while unsupervised.

Scarver found a metal bar which he used to beat and fatally injure Dahmer and Anderson.

Scarver was convicted and sentenced to two further life sentences for these murders.

Two years later, on the morning of November 28, 1994, Scarver was assigned to a work detail in the gymnasium with two other inmates: Jesse Anderson, convicted for murdering his wife; and Jeffrey Dahmer, a serial killer.

When corrections officers left the three unsupervised, they fell into a confrontation.

Scarver went out and got a metal bar from the weight room, using it to bludgeon Dahmer.

He attacked Anderson with a wooden stick at the showers.

He returned to his cell and informed a corrections officer: "God told me to do it. Jesse Anderson and Jeffrey Dahmer are dead."

Both men were mortally wounded by the beatings.

Dahmer was declared dead an hour after arriving at the hospital.

Anderson died two days later after doctors removed him from life support.

Scarver was assessed for mental illness and found competent to stand trial, He was convicted of each murder and received two more life sentences for these.

Scarver was quoted as having said: "Nothing white people do to blacks is just."

In 1995, Scarver was transferred into the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons under the register number #08157-045.

At the time, prison officials in Wisconsin believed they did not have a facility secure enough to house Scarver.

Scarver underwent psychiatric evaluation again at the MCFP Springfield and was later transferred to ADX Florence, the federal supermax in Florence, Colorado, where he remained until 2000.

In 2000, Scarver was transferred to the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility when it opened.

In 2001, federal district court judge Barbara Crabb ordered that Scarver and about three dozen other seriously mentally ill inmates be relocated from the Wisconsin facility.

Scarver was eventually relocated to the Centennial Correctional Facility in Colorado.