By Meena Kar,
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.