Who was Jesse Anderson? The prisoner killed at the same time as Jeffrey Dahmer

Christopher Scarver killed Jesse Anderson moments before he also killed Jeffrey Dahmer in prison but who was Jesse Anderson and what was he in prison for?

In Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story we watch Dahmer and Anderson essentially become friends in prison and it all leads up to their murders which were moments apart. Here’s everything you need to know about Jesse Anderson and his friendship with Jeffrey Dahmer.

What was Jesse Anderson in prison for?

Jesse Anderson was an American convicted murderer. In 1992, Jesse Anderson killed his wife by stabbing her in the face and head five times. He then stabbed himself in the chest four times but he survived – his wife went into a coma but tragically died two days later.

Anderson blamed two men of colour for attacking him and his wife. He presented police with a Los Angeles Clippers basketball cap he claimed to have knocked off the head of one of the two men. However when details of his crime were made public, a uni student told police Anderson had purchased the hate from him a few days prior to the murder. Then according to employees at a military store, the red-handled fishing knife that was used to murder his wife was purchased a few weeks earlier by Anderson. On April 29, one week after he stabbed his wife, he was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 60 years.

Was Jesses Anderson really murdered at the same time as Jeffrey Dahmer?

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As shown in Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story on Netflix, Jesse Anderson and Jeffrey Dahmer were left unattended while cleaning a restroom in the prison gym with fellow inmate Christopher Scarver.

After a confrontation with Jeffrey Dahmer and Jesse Anderson, Scarver took a steel bar from the weight room, followed Dahmer into the locker room and struck him in the head. He then killed 37-year-old Jesse Anderson after which is different to how the Netflix series depicts it.

Dahmer was declared dead about one hour after the attack and Anderson died two days later when doctors at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison removed him from life support.

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