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"SNOWED IN WITH A CANNIBAL: ALFERD PACKER, THE BLIZZARD THAT KILLED FIVE MEN & THE TRIAL THAT MADE HIM A FOLK HERO"
Published 2 months ago
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Reid Carter covers the ultimate snowstorm crime as a massive blizzard shuts down courts across America. February 1874: Alferd Packer led five prospectors into Colorado's San Juan Mountains during one of the worst winters on record. Only Packer walked out alive - looking suspiciously well-fed with money belonging to dead men. He confessed to cannibalism but claimed self-defense. Escaped jail. Caught nine years later. Sentenced to hang. Judge allegedly said: "There were seven Democrats in Hinsdale County and you ate five of them." Death sentence overturned. Served seventeen years. Modern forensics may prove he told the truth.
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