July 22nd 1991 31 year old Tracy Edwards came to the
realization that he would die at the hands of this monster
who held him captive and willed himself the strength
to escape. With handcuffs still hanging from one wrist
he flagged down a patrol car and led police back to "Dahmers
Dungeon".
Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested and as of Aug. 22nd 1991
Jeffrey Dahmer had confessed to 17 murders and was being
charged with 15 counts of murder. At the beginning of
his trial on Jan. 30th 1992, he filed a 'guilty but insane'
plea. As part of a flimsy defense Jeffrey Dahmers attorney
argued that the inhumane nature of Jeffrey Dahmers crimes; "skulls
in lockers, necrophilia, cannibalism, making zombies,
lobotomies, and defleshing" was sure proof of his
insanity, Two weeks later on Feb. 15 1992, jurors found
Jeffrey Dahmer sane and responsible for the murders.
The court imposed 15 consecutive life sentences leaving
Jeffrey Dahmer to serve a total of 936 years. Despite
many blatant death threats Jeffrey Dahmer always refused
repeated offers for protective custody. During his final
statement Dahmer said "he wished to die".
Not long after entering the Columbia Correctional Institute,
Jeffrey Dahmer actually began to meet with a chaplain,
and attending weekly bible studies, and even showing
a desire to be baptized. So on May 10th 1994 Roy Ratcliff
baptized Jeffrey Dahmer. Many found it absurd and pointless
to baptize a Serial Killer, and there was a public backlash
from both outside as well as in the prison. His poupularity
among his fellow inmates was nil, and shortly after his
baptism Jeffrey Dahmer was attacked when another inmate
in his bible studies class tried to slash Jeffrey Dahmers
throat while in the prison chapel. Escaping with a few
scratches Jeffrey Dahmer refused to press charges. Officals
were convinced he was not safe among the prisoner poupulation
and in order to ensure Jeffrey Dahmers safety placed
him in isolation. 5 months later on Nov. 28th 1994 during
a routine cleaning duty in a prison bathroom near the
prison gym, fellow inmate; 25 y/o Christopher Scarver,
also on the clean-up crew, smashed in Jeffrey Dahmers
skull with a metal bar found in the prison gym.
Jeffrey Dahmer was killed instantly.
37 y/o Jesse Anderson who was also wounded in the attack,
died two days later. Racial motives were suspected and
still rumored to be true, because many of Jeffrey Dahmers
victims were like Christopher Scarver himself, african
american. Scarver also claimed and believed himself to
be working for god as the son of god and was only acting
out his "Fathers commands."
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