It was assumed that the companions’ flesh had been eaten by Packer.
Some of the corpses also had broken bones, and the carcasses showed signs of flesh and fatty parts having been sliced away. There were skull fractures on all of the victims, which were believed to have been inflicted by blows from a hatchet. I am an American prospector accused of cannibalism during the winter of 1873-1874. Upon further examination of the bodies it appeared that the men had met with gruesome fates. When the snow eventually thawed, an illustrator for Harper’s Weekly magazine found the remains of Packer’s companions. Coupled with this grisly discovery, other men who had been part of a larger gold prospecting group that included Packer began arriving at the agency and began outright challenging Packer’s details of events. Eventually, two Ute Indians discovered dried human flesh just outside of the agency in the direction from which Packer had been traveling. As time wore on however, Packer was seen drinking and spending large amounts of money that no one knew how he came to possess. When initially questioned by officials at the Los Pinos agency, Packer denied any knowledge of the fate of his companions. He’s been hired by Shannon Wilson Bell (Ronald Haines) and Bell’s new traveling companions. When a haggard Alfred Packer stumbled from the Colorado wilderness in 1874, he at first said hed been abandoned by five traveling companions whod left him. Patrick Dray is Alfred Packer, who takes a job guiding a group of wannabe prospectors to Breckenridge, Colorado, in the winter of 1874. As winter gave way to spring, Packer emerged as the only one of the six to return to civilization. The Legend of Alfred Packer (1980) Mark Franklin Janu1980s. Erin BaxterCurator of Archaeology at the Denver Museum of Nature & ScienceIn the winter of 1874, mining prospector Alferd. While trekking through the mountains, the party became witlessly lost in a whiteout snowstorm, and at least some of the men resorted to cannibalism. The one fact about his life that is not debatable, however, is that during the brutal winter of 1874, Packer guided five other men attempting to travel through the San Juan Mountains to the nearby Los Pinos Indian Agency. Even the very spelling of his name (Alfred or Alferd) is up for debate. USA.Few names in Colorado History stir up as much controversy as Alferd Packer. The Daily Sentinal, 13 October, 1989, p.1. 31, 1842, though other reports list his birthdate as Nov. According to the Apedition of the Lake City Mining Register, he was born on Jan. 23 July, 1989, p.12, USA.Ĭhristensen, Mike (1989) Final Word: Packer Guilty as Sin. Introducing Alferd Packer, Colorado’s Cannibal Packer’s story starts in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. And five bodies, exhumed more than 100 years later. An ill-fated winter expedition into the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. But before Packer saw combat, he was medically discharged due to epilepsy. Alfred Packer: A Colorado Mystery Revisited A quarrelsome Civil War veteran.
The Herald (1989) Scientists Uncover Skull Bone. Born in Pennsylvania in 1842, Packer enlisted in the military when he was 19 during the American Civil War, joining the 16th US Infantry of Minnesota. USAĮl Paso Herald (1901) Packer Released. The Abingdon Virgianian, 25th September, 1874. The Abingdon Virginian (1874) A Horrible Diet. The Cincinnati Enquirer (1874) Revelation of a Horrible Crime – Sequel to a Recent Cannibalistic Sensation! The Cincinnati Enquirer, 9th September, 1874. Harper’s Weekly, Sunday 17th October, 1874. One of the ragged legions of gold and silver prospectors who combed the Rocky Mountains. Head of Zeus, London, UK.īrown, Robert Leaman (1965) An Empire of Silver: A History of the San Juan Silver Rush. The confessed Colorado cannibal Alferd Packer is released from prison on parole after serving 18 years. Alfred Packer (1842-1907), also known as the Man Eater or Colorado Cannibal, was a guide who accompanied five prospectors on a mountain voyage from Utah to Colorado in the winter of 1873-1874. Schechter, Harold (2015) Man-Eater: The Saga of Alfred G. Keller, David (2015) The Story of Camp Douglas: Chicago’s Forgotten Civil War Prison.
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