1949 Spree Killer Howard Unruh Dies | Drudge Retort

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

1949 Spree Killer Howard Unruh Dies

Howard Barton Unruh, who killed 13 people as he walked the streets of Camden in a psychotic 1949 shooting spree that was the nation's worst mass murder at the time, died Monday. He was 88.

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One of the great Jerseyites. He reportedly said he would have shot more but he ran out of ammo. A real humanitarian.

#1 | Posted by Diablo at 2009-10-21 09:29 AM | Reply | Flag:

Having been to Camden NJ, I sorta understand this guy.

#2 | Posted by Reagan58 at 2009-10-21 01:41 PM | Reply | Flag:

Wow, had never heard of this guy. What a freak.

#3 | Posted by cbob at 2009-10-21 01:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

"1949 Spree Killer"

It was the video games and violence on TV I tell you!

#4 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2009-10-21 01:46 PM | Reply | Flag:

He's no Ed Gein.

#5 | Posted by wisgod at 2009-10-21 01:50 PM | Reply | Flag:

Sooo..the fucker died, huh?
Ah well-NO ONE gets out of this life alive-everyone gets to die!

#6 | Posted by frankf55 at 2009-10-21 01:55 PM | Reply | Flag:

But did he eat him? No! He is just another one of them pussy "Liberal" killers. A real republican killer would have eaten them just like Jeffy Dahlmer.

Dahler and Reagan True American Republicans

#7 | Posted by furio at 2009-10-21 01:57 PM | Reply | Flag:

#7 | Posted by furio at 2009-10-21 01:57 PM | Reply | Flag: Too bad Dahlmer never got you

#8 | Posted by boojiboy at 2009-10-21 01:59 PM | Reply | Flag:

A recluse who read the Bible and loved guns, he was convinced his neighbors were ridiculing him behind his back and plotting against him. He was also depressed about his homosexual liaisons in a Philadelphia movie theater.

So he was a Republican then?

#9 | Posted by dibblda at 2009-10-21 02:02 PM | Reply | Flag:

A recluse who read the Bible and loved guns, he was convinced his neighbors were ridiculing him behind his back and plotting against him. He was also depressed about his homosexual liaisons in a Philadelphia movie theater.

Change Philadelphia movie theater to Houston public library and it sounds like Rusty Trombone.

#10 | Posted by Ron_Karate at 2009-10-21 02:02 PM | Reply | Flag:

from the article -

...Unruh, then a 28-year-old honorably discharged World War II combat veteran and pharmacy student, planned the killings for more than a year. He kept a meticulous journal on his intended victims.

He killed five men, five women and three children. Some Unruh knew and intentionally targeted; others were simply strangers he encountered on the street that morning.

A recluse who read the Bible and loved guns, he was convinced his neighbors were ridiculing him behind his back and plotting against him. He was also depressed about his homosexual liaisons in a Philadelphia movie theater.

"They have been making derogatory remarks about my character," Unruh would later tell authorities. What finally set him off was his discovery that someone had stolen the gate to his fence....

Definitely a guy with a lot of issues.

I wonder if being a WW II combat veteran had somehow changed him and set off the violence or if he had always been a psycho but his killing urge never emerged until after the war? Or if he was depressed because he was a homosexual at a time when it was definitely not acceptable in society? He had so many psychological problems from which to choose you can just take your pick.

Now if only just one of those 13 victims had access to a nearby car antenna....

#11 | Posted by CalifChris at 2009-10-21 02:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

Furyhole has issues. I'm going to flag that post as offensive...

#12 | Posted by 101Chairborne at 2009-10-21 02:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Furyhole has issues. I'm going to flag that post as offensive...

#13 | Posted by 101Chairborne"

StillBorne hangs out at Applebee's. I'm going to flag him as loser...

#13 | Posted by furio at 2009-10-21 02:48 PM | Reply | Flag:

Christ, that was weak.

#14 | Posted by wisgod at 2009-10-21 02:52 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Christ, that was weak.

#15 | Posted by wisgod"

Wisgod once again licks StillBorne's starfish.

#15 | Posted by furio at 2009-10-21 03:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

Uhruh's care and containment in a psychiatric hospital was obviously much more expensive that the cost to kill him in the electric chair.

#16 | Posted by UpL8 at 2009-10-21 03:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

Wisgod once again licks StillBorne's starfish.

#16 | Posted by furio

Just calling em as I see em. Try again.

#17 | Posted by wisgod at 2009-10-21 03:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

Furio is right about one thing. Not eating his victims indicates a severe case of scruples. Our modern mass murderers are far more sophisticated.

#18 | Posted by Diablo at 2009-10-21 10:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

By the way, Unruh did not use a gun. It was a birth control device.

#19 | Posted by Diablo at 2009-10-21 11:25 PM | Reply | Flag:

Uhruh's care and containment in a psychiatric hospital was obviously much more expensive that the cost to kill him in the electric chair.

Depends. Were nighttime rates in effect?

#20 | Posted by snoofy at 2009-10-22 01:06 AM | Reply | Flag:

Confuscious Say: Man who loses gate has no boundaries.

#21 | Posted by valis at 2009-10-22 06:45 AM | Reply | Flag:

Must have been all the pot that he was smoking...crazed fiend..."Reefer Madness" was right...Yikes!

#22 | Posted by homerj at 2009-10-22 04:22 PM | Reply | Flag:

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