Alferd Packer: Colorado Wendigo?

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

A group of prospectors are lost in the mountains of Colorado and believed dead, then their guide returns alone after months looking suspiciously well-fed. Is Alferd Packer the vile ghoul history remembers him as, or there more to it than that?

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0:00.0	You're a voracious man eating some bitch.
0:02.9	When you came to Hinsdale County, there was seven Democrats.
0:06.5	But you, you ate five of them.
0:08.8	God damn you.
0:10.4	Those are the words of one Judge M.B. Jerry in 1883, as quoted in a Lake City, Colorado
0:17.8	newspaper after the trial of a man named Alfred Packer. Judge Jerry had
0:23.2	just sentenced Packer to death for the murders and cannibalization of Shannon Wilson Bell, James
0:29.6	Humphrey, Frank Miller, George Noon, and Israel Swan. But did he really do it? And if he did,
0:37.3	how much of it did he do? How much responsibility
0:39.4	does he bear? Featuring Jerry Swaney from Thinking Side Race Podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney.
0:47.7	This is The Shocking Details.
0:51.8	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the shocking details.
0:55.7	And as you can tell, we've got a shocking one for you this week.
0:58.4	I'm Joe, joined as usual by Vincent Caldoni.
1:02.0	Yeah.
1:02.4	So, Vincent, you dug this one up from the crypt.
1:05.8	I did.
1:06.2	Do you want to give us a quick intro into our story for this week?
1:09.5	I do.
1:10.1	But first things first. I want to talk
1:11.8	about last week's episode a little bit. A listener called me out because I said some stuff about
1:16.7	Marco Polo that isn't really true. Basically, I talked about him like he was not a man who really lived,
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