Son of man who murdered serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer opens up about his dad's crime
Topics: Crime, Jeffrey Dahmer, US News, Netflix, Film and TV
Niamh Spence
Featured Image Credit: EUGENE GARCIA/AFP via Getty Images/CNN
Topics: Crime, Jeffrey Dahmer, US News, Netflix, Film and TV
Arguably one of the USA's most horrific serial killers, Jeffrey Dahmer will go down in history - and so will his brutal death.
Dahmer, who is the subject of various TV and film stories of his crimes including chilling Netflix series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, was convicted of the brutal killing of seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991, having admitted to eating the flesh of his victims.
After being sentenced to 16 terms of life imprisonment in both Wisconsin and Ohio, he was then beaten to death at Columbia Correctional Facility in Wisconsin by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver in 1994.
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Dahmer, alongside another inmate, was cleaning the gym unattended by guards when he was attacked by Scarver, who confronted him over his crimes before bludgeoning him to death with a metal pole.
Scarver later received two additional life sentences for the murder of Dahmer and another inmate, as well as his original life sentence for murdering someone from his workplace.
Scarver’s son, also called Chris Scarver, opened up about the bizarre feeling of knowing his dad killed the infamous serial killer.
In a 2014 interview with CNN, he recalled how at first he didn’t fully comprehend the magnitude of what had happened.
He said: "I was about 10, and I saw it on TV. And that’s how I found out.
“[…] A big picture of him popped up, and I was just shocked at that point.”
He also added the significance that Dahmer's name has, as he added: "When I was young, I didn’t know what it meant, obviously. But that name has been around me for my whole life."
He was also asked by reporter Jean Casarez about whether or not his dad had been ‘set up’ by guards because he should not have been left alone with Dahmer and another inmate, to which Chris replied: "I think about that all the time. It makes me wonder if he even did it."
Chris' father is is currently serving three life sentences in Colorado and pleaded no contest to the murders of Dahmer and another inmate.
Yet Chris also credits his convicted murder father to helping him when he felt he was struggling.
He recalled: "I was actually starting to go down the wrong road, and that’s why I wrote [to] him. I didn’t know what to do, I needed some guidance.
"And I just told him everything I was going through, and how I felt about me and his relationship – all these built up years, all that pain that I had, I finally just let it go and just talked to him."
His dad wrote back to him from jail as he told him: "Tough times don’t last. Tough people do. And you are the toughest kid I know."
Dahmer's last words have also been revealed, with his last chilling message not quite what you'd expect. According to The Mirror, before dying, Dahmer reportedly said: “I don’t care if I live or die. Go ahead and kill me.”