Jesse Anderson (1957–1994) was an American murderer who was bludgeoned to death in prison in the same incident as serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Anderson died just days after Dahmer when doctors at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison removed him from life support.
Anderson was serving a life sentence for killing his wife, whom he stabbed 21 times in August 1992. Anderson had blamed two black men for attacking him and his wife (both white) as they left a Milwaukee restaurant. Anderson presented police with a Los Angeles Clippers basketball cap he claimed to have knocked off the head of one of the assailants. When details of the crime and the cap were made public, a local teenager told police Anderson had purchased the hat from him a few days earlier. Anderson eventually confessed to the crime.
Prison officials held 25-year-old Christopher Scarver as the sole suspect in the murders of Dahmer and Anderson. Scarver, who is black, was being reported as being hostile toward whites, and since both Dahmer's and Anderson's crimes affected blacks, officials did not rule out racial retaliation.
