Alfred Packer, Notorious Cannibal?

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Alfred, or sometimes Alferd Packer, is one of the most infamous villains in Colorado history. As the story goes, Packer, a trail guide, led his party into disaster and then killed them one by one before consuming their bodies in order to survive. He was arrested, tried, convicted, and then escaped. Once reprehended Packer changed his story once again. And now more recent evidence has emerged that seems to have exonerated him. We’ll try to sort of this out on this week’s episode of Footnoting History.

Host: Josh

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Further Reading

Alferd Packer Grill, University of Colorado--Boulder.

"Alfred Packer", Lake City.

"Alfred Packer", Littleton Museum.

Alfred Packer Collection at the Colorado State Archives.

"Bone appétit: The story of Alferd Packer, Colorado’s most infamous, yet beloved, cannibal", Pix 11, (2020).

"Flesh for Fantasy", Lost Highways podcast, History Colorado (2022).

Harold Schecter, Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal, Little A, (2015).


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This episode is part of our True Crime Series.

​Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)

Photo originally by Grant Houston for Silver World