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HE IS SPEAKING OUT FOR THE FIRST
TIME.
>> DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU
LEARNED YOUR FATHER MURDERED
JEFFREY DAHMER?
>> YES.
IT WAS ABOUT 10:00, I SAW IT ON
TV, AND THAT'S HOW I FOUND OUT.
>> Reporter: SO YOU SUDDENLY SEE
YOUR FATHER?
>> YEAH, A BIG PICTURE POPPED
UP, AND I WAS JUST SHOCKED AT
THAT POINT.
>> 50% OF THE KIDS IN JUVENILE
DETENTION HAVE A PARENT
INCARCERATED.
AND WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO SLOW
THIS DOWN.
>> Reporter: AS A RETIRED
FEDERAL PRISON WARNER, PITSER
SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE AROUND
PRISONERS, AND NOW HE WANTS TO
HELP THEIR CHILDREN.
>> IT'S A LOT OF PRESSURE ON A
KID WHEN A PARENT IS
INCARCERATED.
>> HIS FOUNDATION HELPS THE
CHILDREN OF INMATES GET A
COLLEGE DEGREE.
ONE COLLEGE RECIPIENT IS THE SON
OF THE MAN THAT MURDERED THE
NOTORIOUS SERIAL KILLER, JEFFREY
DAHMER, WHILE IN PRISON.
>> DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST
TIME YOU HEARD
>> I HERD ARD IT A LOT GROWING .
WHEN I WAS YOUNGER I DIDN'T KNOW
WHAT IT MEANT OBVIOUSLY.
BUT THAT NAME HAS BEEN AROUND ME
FOR MY WHOLE LIFE.
>> CHRIS SCARVER IS SENIOR AT
BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE HAS
LIVED WITH THE SECRET HIS WHOLE
LIFE BUT IS FINALLY READY TO
TALK ABOUT IT.
HE WAS BORN JUST AFTER HIS
FATHER, ALSO NAMED CHRISTOPHER
SCARE SCARVER COMMITTED A ***
THAT WOULD LAND HIM IN JAIL WITH
DAHMER.
IT WAS THE COLD-BLOODED KILLING
OF A MAN IN MILWAUKEE.
>> I ALWAYS KEPT THAT HOPE THAT
HE'D COME HOME.
AFTER AWHILE I JUST SAID, I
DON'T KNOW, IT JUST HIT ME THAT
MAYBE IT WON'T HAPPEN.
AND I GOT MAD, AND THAT TURNED
INTO ANGER.
>> Reporter: AND THEN HIS FATHER
COMMITTED ANOTHER CRIME THAT
ENSURED HE WOULD NEVER BE COMING
HOME.
HE BLUDGEONED JEFFREY DAHMER AND
ANOTHER INMATE TO DEATH IN THE
PRISON GYM.
>> DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT IF --
BECAUSE THERE'S STILL A QUESTION
AS TO WHETHER GUARDS MAY HAVE
SET UP YOUR FATHER BECAUSE HE
SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN LEFT ALONE
WITH THE OTHER TWO MEN IN
PRISON.
>> NO.
I THINK ABOUT THAT ALL THE TIME.
IT MAKES ME WONDER IF HE EVEN
DID IT.
>> Reporter: CHRIS UNDERSTANDS,
HOWEVER, HIS FATHER PLEADED NO
CONTEST TO THE MURDERS AND IS
NOW SERVING THREE LIFE TERMS IN
COLORADO.
BUT CHRIS SAID HE ALSO KNOWS
SOMETHING ELSE.
HIS FATHER SAVED HIS LIFE FROM
BECOMING ONE OF THOSE
STATISTICS.
>> I WAS ACTUALLY STARTING TO GO
DOWN THE WRONG ROAD.
THAT'S WHY I WROTE HIM.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
I NEEDED SOME GUIDANCE.
AND I JUST TOLD HIM EVERYTHING
THAT I WAS GOING THROUGH AND HOW
I FELT ABOUT ME AND HIS
RELATIONSHIP, ALL THOSE BUILT UP
YEARS, ALL THAT PAIN THAT I HAD.
I FINALLY JUST LET IT GO AND
JUST TALKED TO HIM.
>> Reporter: AND HIS FATHER
WROTE RIGHT BACK WITH ADVICE.
"TOUGH TIMES DON'T LAST.
TOUGH PEOPLE DO.
AND YOU ARE THE TOUGHEST KID I
KNOW."
CHRIS SO CREDITS HIS FATHER WITH
PUTTING HIM BACK ON THE RIGHT