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Alferd Packer
Alfred G. "Alferd" Packer (January 21, 1842 – April 23, 1907) was an American prospector who confessed to cannibalism during the winter of 1874. He and 5 other 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 for 9 years before being tried and convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Packer won a retrial and was eventually sentenced to 40 years in prison for manslaughter.〔Nash, Robert Jay (1994). Alferd Packer. In ''(Encyclopedia of Western Lawmen & Outlaws )'' or ''(Encyclopedia of Western Lawmen & Outlaws )''. Da Capo Press. pp. 250-251. ISBN 0-306-80591-X. Google Print. Retrieved 2012-01-07.〕 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.
== Early Life ==
He was born as Alfred Griner Packer in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, one of three children of James Packer and his wife Esther Griner.〔(Ancestry of Alfred Packer )〕 By the early 1850s, James Packer had moved his family to Lagrange County, Indiana, where he worked as a cabinet maker.〔US Census, 1860, Lagrange Co., Indiana, page 9, residence #68〕
Alfred Packer served in the Union Army in the American Civil War, enlisting on April 22, 1862 at Winona, Minnesota in Company F, 16th U. S. Infantry Regiment, giving his occupation as a shoemaker. He was honorably discharged due to epilepsy eight months later at Fort Ontario, New York.〔Army Register of Enlistments 1862, #182, regular army〕 He moved south and on June 25, 1863, enlisted in Company L, 8th Iowa Cavalry Regiment at Ottumwa, Iowa; however, he was discharged at Cleveland, Tennessee on April 22, 1864, for the same reason. He then traveled to the Rockies and worked at mining related jobs for 9 years〔Compiled Service Record of Alfred G. Parker, 8th Iowa Cavalry Regiment〕
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