Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was done in by his uncontrollable lust for human flesh, the man who whacked him in prison 20 years ago told The Post, revealing for the first time why the cannibal had to die.
Christopher Scarver โ who fatally beat the serial killer and another inmate in 1994 โ said he grew to despise Dahmer because he would fashion severed limbs out of prison food to taunt the other inmates.
Heโd drizzle on packets of ketchup as blood.
It was very unnerving.
โHe would put them in places where people would be,โ Scarver, 45, recalled in a low, gravelly voice.
โHe crossed the line with some people โ prisoners, prison staff. Some people who are in prison are repentant โ but he was not one of them.โ
In 1991, Dahmer approached three men and offered them money to pose for nude photographs. Of the three men, Tracy Edwards (pictured) agreed and he was led to Dahmerโs apartment. When Edwards was turned away, Dahmer placed a handcuff on one wrist and told him to follow him to the bedroom. Dahmer threatened him with a knife and informed Edwards that he planned one eating his heart. After being trapped in the killerโs apartment for five hours, Edwards punched Dahmer and ran out the front door. He flagged two Milwaukee police officers and led them back to Dahmerโs apartment, where they discovered a stack of photos of dismembered body parts, a head a fridge and three heads in the freezer. On July 22, 1991, Jeffrey L. Dahmer was arrested, ending a 13-year killing spree.Members of the Summit County Sheriffโ s department and Bath Township police videotape pieces of evidence found at the former residence of Jeffrey L. Dahmer on July 31, 1991 in Bath Township, a suburb of Akron, Ohio. Authorities were looking for the remains of Steven M. Hicks, allegedly the first victim killed by Dahmer.Two men in chemical suits remove a barrel July 23, 1991 from a Milwaukee apartment where police discovered body parts from possible multiple homicides. Police also removed several boxes and a freezer containing body parts. Milwaukee police officer takes photos of bones found across an alley behind an apartment building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Tuesday, July 23, 1991, where police uncovered several body parts inside a nearby apartment.Bath Township police officer Colin Perkins photographs a possible bone fragment at the former residence of Jeffrey L. Dahmer in Bath Township, a suburb of Akron, Ohio, on July 30, 1991. Dahmer, the alleged killer of 15 men n Milwaukee, is also suspected of killing his first victim when he lived in Ohio as a teenager. The suspected victim is Steven M. Hicks, who disappeared on June 18, 1978.Summit County sherrifโs detective Larry Momchilov sifts through debris as Dr. Thomas Marshall, a forenisc expert with the Sherrifโs department checks a burning barrel at the former house of Jeffrey Dahmer on July 30, 1991 in Bath Township.
Scarver, who arrived at Wisconsinโs Columbia Correctional Institution around the same time as Dahmer in 1992, knew right away to keep a safe distance from the serial killer.
Scarver said the madman had a personal escort of at least one guard at all times when he was out of his cell because of his friction with other inmates.
โI saw heated interactions between [Dahmer] and other prisoners from time to time,โ Scarver said, adding that he didnโt think much of Dahmer.
โThere was no impression,โ he said.
Like a lone wolf, Scarver watched Dahmer from afar on the prison yard, but never approached him, because he did not want to become a target of his sickening humor.
According to the FBI, American serial killers are 93% men, 58% white, and often married, employed, and with military service backgrounds. White married men...
