In 1994, JESSE Anderson, a convicted criminal, was killed in prison with serial killer Jeffery Dahmer.
He was then incarcerated for the rest of his life for the murder of his wife, Barbara Anderson.
Who was Jesse Anderson?
Jesse Anderson was raised in Alton, Illinois, where he was born in May 1957.
He graduated from Alton High School in 1975 and went on to Elmhurst College to obtain a Business Administration degree.
He wed Debra Ann Eickert in 1980, and the two later got divorced in 1984.
After one year, he married Barbara. In their home in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, the couple raised three kids together.
The Anderson pair visited a Milwaukee T.G.I. Friday for dinner and a movie on April 12, 1992.
Jesse brutally stabbed Barbera five times in the face and head after dinner before stabbing himself four times in the chest.
Barbara suffered injuries, fell into a coma, and tragically passed away from them two days later.
Although Anderson initially put the blame for the attack on two black men, he was charged with murder and eventually convicted guilty of it.
Why he was killed?
Anderson, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, and fellow prisoner Christopher Scarver were left unattended on November 28, 1994, while they were all incarcerated in Colombia Correctional Institute.
Scarver took a 20-inch metal bar out of the prison weight room and severely struck Dahmer twice around the head while he was cleaning the restroom in the prison gym.
He then used the same weapon to beat Anderson, who was working in a different room.
Anderson passed away two days after his life support was turned off, while Dahmer was pronounced dead an hour after entering the hospital.
Scarver gave an explanation for why he also killed Anderson along with the “disgusting” Dahmer in a 2015 interview with the New York Post.
He alleged that Anderson vandalised a painting of Martin Luther King while he was imprisoned in one allegation.
“There was a picture in the arts and crafts room that a prisoner had spent a lot of time painting, and he hung it up in that room to dry,” Scarver said in a recent interview.
