For the residents of the small Camden, New Jersey neighborhood of Kramer Hill, the morning of Tuesday, September 6th, 1949, was a day like any other.

However, the peace and quiet was something many were still getting

used to. With the Second World War having ended only three years ago, the painful memories

of wartime anxiety and devastating loss remained fresh in the minds of American society.

Forgetting those four years of conflict was far easier said than done,

especially for the countless veterans who had seen frontline combat.

While many of those men would return without physical injury,

they were nonetheless casualties of war,

their minds scarred by the horrors they had witnessed

and even carried out with their own hands,

things that none of their friends and family could possibly understand.

This was no less the case for one New Jersey veteran, Howard.

However, while most of his fellow veterans ultimately suffered in silence,

this young soldier made different choices.

By all appearances, an unassuming 28-year-old man with a life full of post-war opportunities

ahead of him, for Howard, he had never really left the battlefield.

The war was still raging inside him.

He had come home, a different person. Now governed by paranoia and

hatred, Howard Unruh would soon awaken the United States to an as-yet unseen side effect

of sending their young fragile men into combat.

This is the story of an army artillery man who became the first mass killer in American history.

I'm Luke Lamanah and this is wartime stories.

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