Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, December 16, 1994 TAG: 9412160037
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: PORTAGE, WIS. LENGTH: Medium
Christopher J. Scarver, a 25-year-old killer who once claimed to be the son of God, was charged Thursday with murdering Dahmer and fellow inmate Jesse Anderson while the three cleaned a gymnasium Nov. 28 at the Columbia Correctional Institution.
Dahmer, 34, died on the way to a hospital after guards found him in a pool of blood. Anderson, another notorious Wisconsin killer, died two days later.
Portage County District Attorney Mark Bennett said he didn't expect to charge anyone else in the prison attacks. Investigators have said there were two other inmates in the area, but Scarver, according to court papers, said they were innocent ``because I did it.''
There was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by guards or other prison personnel, Bennett said. However, he wouldn't say exactly where guards were during the attacks nor whether they were negligent.
Scarver told investigators he slipped the 20-inch bar in his pants leg when he was alone in a weight room on the day of the killings.
After the attacks, Scarver put the bar in his jacket, returned it to the weight room and went back to his cell, the complaint said.
Asked by a guard why he was back early from his work detail, Scarver said: ``God told me to do it. You will hear about it on the 6 o'clock news. Jesse Anderson and Jeffrey Dahmer are dead.''
In July, Gov. Tommy Thompson ordered free weights removed from prisons, saying that the equipment could be used as a weapon and that inmates shouldn't be allowed to get too muscular. The bar used in the killings was taken from a Nautilus-style machine, which still is allowed in prisons.
by CNB