Why Dahmers killer murdered second racist inmate

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The inmate who killed Jeffrey Dahmer in prison has revealed to The Post why he also murdered another convict: because the man defaced a painting of Martin Luther King and tried to frame black men for his wife’s murder.

Christopher Scarver says he killed Jesse Anderson — an affluent, white salesman — just after murdering Dahmer because Anderson ran afoul of Scarver’s personal prison code while both were serving life sentences for murder at a Wisconsin prison in 1994.

While in prison, Anderson, 37, defaced a portrait of the legendary civil-rights leader, making Anderson a racist in the eyes of Scarver, who is black.

“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.

“[Anderson] painted a blood dot on [MLK’s] forehead as if it were a bullet wound,” the now-45-year-old inmate fumed.

Scarver said he also was furious that Anderson tried to pin his wife’s murder on two black men.

Anderson’s wife, Barbara, had been killed in a Milwaukee shopping-mall parking lot after they had dinner at a restaurant.

Anderson told police she was murdered by a pair of black men, including one wearing an LA Clippers cap found at the scene.

But a witness later tied Anderson to the purchase of the hat, and the hubby was convicted of his wife’s murder.

On Nov. 28, 1994, Scarver caved in Anderson’s head with a metal rod just after doing the same thing to Dahmer.

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