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Alferd E. Packer (1842–1909), also “Alfred,” was a prospector who became famous after confessing to eating his dead comrades while trapped in the San Juan Mountains in February 1874. With the group starving and disoriented, it appears likely that Packer killed another prospector in self-defense and then began gnawing on the corpses of those who had already died.
Alfred Packer. Alfred Griner Packer was a prospector and guide in the Rocky Mountains during the 1870s who confessed to cannibalism during the winter of 1874. Packer was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania on January 21, 1842, one of three children of James Packer and his wife Esther Griner. When Alfred was still a boy, the family moved to ...
18. Aug. 2015 · Alferd Packer was this cannibalistic frontiersman, but with the passage of time, he’s become one of those Old West criminals who’s become a folk hero. Jesse James and Billy the Kid, these were ...
21. Okt. 2015 · Alfred Packer, the judgment of this court is that you be removed from hence to the jail of Hinsdale County and there confined until the 19th day of May, A.D. 1883, and that on said 19th day of May, 1883, you be taken from thence by the sheriff of Hinsdale County to a place of execution prepared for this purpose, at some point within the ...
Alfred (Alferd) Packer, arrested in 1883. The strange odyssey of Alfred G. Packer has generated much controversy over the years, from those who believe he murdered and cannibalized five men for his own profit to those who insist he was innocent of murder and merely ate human flesh to survive. He's considered something of a local hero in some ...
29. Okt. 2021 · presented by Dr. Erin BaxterCurator of Archaeology at the Denver Museum of Nature & ScienceIn the winter of 1874, mining prospector Alferd Packer and five co...
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19. Apr. 2022 · Today’s post is written by Cody White, Archivist and Subject Matter Expert for Native American Related Records.. What exactly happened in the brutal winter conditions of Colorado’s San Juan Mountains nearly 150 years ago, when Alfred Packer survived by eating the bodies of his five companions, will never be known—only Packer lived to tell the tale, and his story is known to have changed ...
