Alferd Packer
Alfred Griner Alferd Packer was an American prospector who confessed to cannibalism during the winter of 1874. He andother men attempted to travel through the high mountains of Colorado during the peak of a harsh winter. When only Alfred reached civilization, he claimed that the others had killed each other for food, and confessed to having lived off the flesh of his companions during his snowbound state and to having used it to survive his trek out of the mountains two months later. After his story was called into question, he hid from justice foryears before being tried and convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Packer won a retrial and was eventually sentenced toyears in prison for manslaughter. A biopic of his life, The Legend of Alfred Packer, was made in 1980. A more comedic take entitled Cannibal The Musical was made in 1993.
He was born as Alfred Griner Packer on January 21, 1842, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, one of three children of James Packer and his wife Esther Griner. By the early 1850s, James Packer had moved his family to Lagrange County, Indiana, where he worked as a cabinet maker.
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