In 1982 the university dedicated a statue to Packer, and graduate Trey Parker, creator of South Park, made a student film, Cannibal! The Musical, based loosely on his life in 1993.įolk-singer Phil Ochs composed a song about his life, included on " The Broadside Tapes 1". Packer Memorial Grill, and even today students can enjoy the meat-filled "El Canibal" underneath a giant wall map outlining his travels through Colorado.
In 1968, the University of Colorado at Boulder named their new cafeteria grill the Alferd E. He has been quoted in jest as having said "the breasts of man.are the sweetest meat I ever tasted". Perhaps not surprisingly, considering his character, Packer enjoys a good bit of publicity in popular culture. Through some unexplained process, Packer's head, dissected and carefully preserved, has come to be in the possession of Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum in the French Quarter of New Orleans, where it is on permanent display. So you'd have to have a picture of the guy actually eating." Template:Ref Cannibalism per se is the ingestion of human flesh. Birkby concluded " I don't think there will ever be any way to scientifically demonstrate cannibalism. Following an exhaustive search for the precise location of the remains at Cannibal Plateau in Lake City, Colorado, Starrs and his colleague Walter H. Starrs, then Professor of Law specializing in forensic science at George Washington University. On July 17, 1989, 115 years after Packer consumed the humans, an exhumation of the five bodies was undertaken by James E. Recent evidence suggests that Packer was a cannibal, but not a murderer. He was buried in Littleton, Colorado and was formally pardoned of his crimes on March 5, 1981. He is widely rumored to have become a vegetarian before his death of reputed "Senility - trouble & worry" at the age of 64. However, he was paroled on Februand moved to Deer Creek, in Jefferson County, Colorado. On June 19, 1899, Packer's sentence was upheld by the Colorado Supreme Court.
ALFRED PACKER TRIAL
However, on August 6, 1886, Packer was sentenced to 40 years at a trial in Gunnison. Packer managed to temporarily avoid punishment again: in October, 1885, the sentence was reversed by the Colorado Supreme Court on a grandfather clause. On the 13th, he was found guilty and sentenced to death. On April 6, 1883, a trial began in Lake City, Colorado, Hindsdale County. On March 11, 1883, Packer was discovered in Cheyenne, Wyoming living under the alias of "John Schwartze." On March 16, he signed another confession. He was jailed in Saguache, but escaped soon after, vanishing for several years. During the trial, the judge said, "Damn you, Alferd Packer! There were seven Dimmycrats in Hinsdale County and you et five of them!" Packer signed a confession on May 8, 1874. He initially claimed self-defense, but his story did not pass in court.
He spent some time in a Saguache, Colorado bar, meeting several of his previous party.
On March 6, 1874, Packer arrived alone at Los Pinos Indian Agency near Gunnison. According to Packer, the man rushed him with a hatchet Packer shot and killed him. Packer allegedly went scouting and came back to discover one of his party roasting human meat. In spite of Ouray's advice, a party of six that included Packer left for Gunnison, Colorado on February 9.Īt an unknown date, the party got hopelessly lost, ran out of provisions, and became snowbound in the Rocky Mountains. Chief Ouray recommended they postpone their expedition until spring, as they were likely to encounter dangerous winter weather in the mountains. On January 21 of 1874, he met with Chief Ouray (known as the White Man's Friend) near Montrose, Colorado. In November, 1873, Packer was with a party of 21 who left Provo, Utah, bound for the Colorado gold country in Breckenridge. He served in the American Civil War, on the Union side presumably in an Iowa regiment, but was mustered out due to epilepsy. Packer was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
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