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 "The Colorado Cannibal" Alfred Packer's grave. Posted by:  psyclawps
N 39° 36.305 W 105° 00.993
13S E 498579 N 4383926
If you have ever been hungry in the back country of Colorado you can only imagine what they must have experienced; As the story goes....
Waymark Code: WM17ZV
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 02/17/2007
Views: 167
"In early January 1874, the party met with Cheyenne Chief Ouray at the Indian encampment near Montrose, Colorado. On February 9, 1874, he and five others decide to push on for gold, leaving the others behind in the Indian encampment. Two months later, on April 6, Alfred Packer arrived alone at the Los Pinos Indian Agency near Gunnison, Colorado. A month later, he wrote his confession, stating that Bell killed the other men, and he killed Bell in self defense. Since there was no food, and they had brought inadequate provisions, he lived by eating the dead men."
Description:
American Folk Figure. Known as the "The Colorado Cannibal." His victims were Frank "Butcher" Miller, Israel Swann, James Humphreys, George Noon, and Shannon Wilson Bell.
Date of birth: 01/21/1842
Date of death: 04/23/1907
Area of notoriety: Crime
Marker Type: Headstone
Setting: Outdoor
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: 8AM-Sunset
Fee required?: No
Web site: [Web Link]
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