Howard
Barton UNRUH |
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Howard Unruh
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Howard Unruh
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Howard Unruh, before
the murders, showing his guns.
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Howard Unruh, who carried out one of America's most infamous mass
shootings, killing 13 people,
being taken into custody in 1949 after the shootings in Camden,
N.J.
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In a 20-minute, seemingly emotionless stroll through his Camden
neighborhood, Mr. Unruh fatally
shot his neighbors, three of them
children. Mr. Unruh in custody afterward.
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The shootings were particularly shocking because no one could
remember anything like that.
Few of his neighbors in the working-class
Cramer Hill section of East Camden had
paid him much notice. Mr.
Unruh's high school record.
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After the shootings, Mr. Unruh fled to his apartment, where some 50
police officers
converged there and blazed away with machine guns,
shotguns and pistols.
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Mr. Unruh's apartment was on the second floor of a River Road
pharmacy building. During an interlude,
the assistant city editor of
The Camden Courier-Post, Philip Buxton, phoned the house.
"Why are
you killing people?" he asked Mr. Unruh. "I don't know," Mr. Unruh
replied.
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Mr. Unruh's apartment. A search of his room turned up 700 cartridges,
a book called "The Shooter's
Bible" and a New Testament Bible. Mr.
Unruh's half-century in confinement was largely
without incident. He
died at 88 at a nursing home in Trenton.
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The arrest.
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September 6, 1949 - Howard Unruh, of Camden N.J., killer of 12
persons, with hands shackled,
sitting in Camden City Hall after
questioning by detectives.
(Bettmann/CORBIS)
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Parabellum in 7.65mm
Luger
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Howard Barton Unruh in court in Camden, N.J., in 1998.
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