Alfred Packer: America's First Hannibal the Cannibal?

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Who was Alfred Packer? Was he America's first Hannibal the Cannibal? On February 9, 1874, Alferd Packer and five other men departed from the camp of Ute Chief Ouray, near what is now Montrose, Colorado. They were resuming a trek that had begun several months earlier in Provo, Utah, hoping to reach newly discovered gold prospects in Breckenridge, Colorado. While the original party was considerably larger, only Packer (as guide) and Israel Swan, Shannon Wilson Bell, George Noon, James Humphrey, and Frank Miller dared risk the sometimes brutal Colorado winter in search of riches. And brutal it was, as not long after leaving the safety of Chief Ouray's camp, the group was engulfed in a furious blizzard near the present site of Lake City, Colorado. Packer was next seen on April 16, 1874, straggling into the Los Pinos Indian Agency with little more than a rifle and a skinning knife belonging to members of his party. The story Packer told at that time was that, once the storm hit, he had set up camp while the others went forward in search of food. They never returned, and Packer subsequently headed out for Los Pinos. - https://www.museumtrail.org/alferd-packer SOURCES: https://www.museumtrail.org/alferd-packer https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120993735/the-oskaloosa-independent/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/535743336/?terms=Alfred%20Packer%20dead&match=1&clipping_id=120991548 https://www.newspapers.com/image/226969329/?terms=Alfred%20Packer%20&match=1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/728654362/?clipping_id=120990249&terms=Alfred%20Packer%20dea&match=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:29.2	Killer Podcasts production. Now this week, we are going to take a trip back to the Wild West
1:35.0	and explore one of the craziest tales from the day. And I am talking about Alfred Packer,
1:41.7	his murders, and of course, his cannibalism.
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1:58.2	by the media, and these do detail some of what they did take when they did arrest
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2:10.7	was wearing surgical gloves to dissect his possessions from his parents garbage and that is just a sign that he was trying to discover or hide his DNA so it wasn't discovered.
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