Jesse Anderson

Jesse Michael Anderson was an American murderer who was killed in prison along with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer by fellow inmate, Christopher Scarver.

History
When Anderson was a teenager, his father died of a heart attack and his mother remarried. He was a student at Alton High School and graduated in 1975. In 1984, Anderson graduated with a degree in Business Administration from Elmhurst College. A year later, he married Barbara E. Lynch in Chicago and they both lived together in Cedarburg, Wisconsin with their three children. On April 21, 1992, Anderson and his wife went to a movie at T.G.I. Frida's located outside the Northridge Mall in Milwaukee. After dinner, Anderson stabbed Barbara twenty-one times, five in the face and head and then stabbed himself four times in the chest. A month earlier, Anderson had called Barbara's insurance company to determine if her $250,000 policy was in effect. Barbara died from her wounds two days later.

When police arrived, Anderson blamed two African-American men for the attack and gave a basketball cap to the police, which supposedly had knocked off the head of one of the men. Not long after killing his wife, a university student told police that Anderson had purchased the hat from him a few days earlier, the red-handled fishing knife used to kill Barbara was also sold to Anderson before the attack. After a five-day search for the fictional black criminals, police were now convinced that Anderson was the responsable. Eight days after murdering his wife, Anderson was charged with first-degree murder. He was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 60 years. In prison, Anderson and Jeffrey Dahmer got into a discussion with Christopher Scarver after he had read about Dahmer's murders. After the discussion, Scarver retrieved a steel bar from the weight room and struck Dahmer in the head, before tracking down Anderson and bludgeoning him with the same steel bar, Anderson died two days later after doctors removed him from life support.

Modus Operandi
When murdering his wife, Anderson stabbed Barbara several times with a red-handled fishing knife before stabbing himself in the chest, though most of the wounds were superficial. He then blamed two African-American men of attacking him and his wife, hoping he would evade capture by tricking police into searching for the black criminals.

Victim

 * April 21, 1992: Barbara E. Anderson (née Lynch)

On Criminal Minds
Anderson was the inspiration for profilic serial killer George Foyet killing his wife by stabbing her and then stabbing himself to appear as a victim.