Howard Unruh First Mass Murderer of US Dies at 88

October 20th, 2009 - 6:16 pm ICT by GD ( 1 comment )

By Meena Kar,
unruh Trenton, N.J. October 20, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The infamous murderer who had killed thirteen individuals of Camden in 1949 died on Monday, October 19, 2009.

As stated by the sources, Howard Unruh had been suffering from illness for a considerable period of time and had died at the age of 88 years. The murders by Unruh were the earliest massacre of its kind in the country and were later known as the “Walk of Death”. Howard Unruh had confessed his guilt of murdering thirteen individuals on 6th September 1949 but had not been tried for the case.

Howard Unruh was a veteran of World War II who was jobless at the young age of 28 years was annoyed upon his neighbors and killed them. Sources reported that Howard Unruh was diagnosed to be a paranoid schizophrenic and after massacre was imprisoned in one of the state hospitals for psychiatric problems.

Mr. Unruh had killed the people indiscriminately. Among the 13 people slained on September 1949, three were children. Other than the children there were five men and five women. He had committed thirteen murders within twenty minutes. Howard Unruh had not repented for his guilt. Instead he said that if he had bullets with him then he would have killed thousand people. He had injured many others but they did not die.

Since the news of Howard Unruh’s death surfaced, media has taken interviews of some people who had lost their near ones in the massacre. 64 year old man from Bellmawr, named James Hamilton said that he was happy to get the news. He had lost his brother in that massacre. At that time his brother’s age was only two years.

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  1. edward c. stengel Says:

    I miss old Howie. There was never another quite like him. His mass murder was different than most other lone gunman mass murders. Most of the time, there’s only 1 place where the shooting occurs, but in Howie’s case there were several, and he took care of business rather routinely and methodically. The man was a killing machine - almost a robot with no feelings. Then, of course, he made his big mistake after retreating to his home, which was to surrender to the police. That cost him 60 years in the New Jersey mental institutions, which I don’t think he thought a lot about before he went on his killing spree. I think if he had, he’d have probably put a bullet in his own head. Probably the most amazing part of this most amazing father of the modern day lone gunman mass murderers is that he survived 60 years in those nut houses. That has got to be a world record.

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