During his three-year stint in prison, the infamous cannibalistic serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer became known for his twisted sense of humor.
“If he saw a guard that was nervous and standing near enough to hear him, he would say, ‘I bite.’ Usually, the guard would jump away and that would make Jeff laugh,” former minister Roy Ratcliff recalled.
Ratcliff also said Dahmer had put up a sign on the wall of his cell that read, “Cannibals Anonymous Meeting Tonight.”
Little did Dahmer expect that his morbid humor would cost him his life.
On November 28, 1994, while cleaning the prison gymnasium toilet, convicted murderer Christopher Scarver bludgeoned the cannibal with a 20-inch metal bar. He then proceeded to beat another inmate, Jesse Anderson, who was assigned to work with the pair, with a wooden stick.
Although Scarver initially claimed that God told him to murder Dahmer and Anderson, in an interview with the New York Post in 2015, the convict changed his story.
Scarver told the reporters that he grew to despise Dahmer because the cannibal would fashion severed limbs out of prison food to taunt other inmates.
On the morning of the attack, Scarver grabbed a metal bar from the weight room and decided to confront Dahmer about his crimes.
Scarver told the reporters that the prison guards knew he hated Dahmer and intentionally assigned him to work with the madman.
“They had something to do with what took place. Yes,” said Scarver, noting that the guards disappeared just before he bludgeoned Dahmer with the 20-inch, 5-pound metal bar.
