Murder in the Neighborhood /// Part 1 /// 588 | Forensic Files

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a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] this week's True Crime Story is a unique and intriguing case
it falls into two homicide case study categories and the FBI's crime classification manual these homicides
that we are going to talk about are both a Revenge killing and a non-specific motive killing
per the crime classification manual a Revenge killing involves the murder of another person in retaliation for a
perceived wrong real or imagined committed against the offender where a significant other
victimology when revenge is the motive for a homicide the victim may or may not personally know the offender
but something in the victim's life is related directly to the actions of the offender
there is a significant event or interaction that links the offender to the victim
the Revenge motive generated by this event may be unknown to the victim or to the victim's family or friends
multiple victims may be involved depending on the nature of the event that triggered the act of Revenge
a non-specific motive killing pertains to a homicide that appears irrational and is committed for a reason known only
to the offender it subsequently may be defined and categorized after more extensive
investigation into the offender's background the victims of a non-specific homicide
are random with no direct relationship between victim and offender victims can be male female adults or
children and demonstrate a disparity of characteristics and lifestyle the crime scene is usually a public
place imposes a high risk to the offender there is nothing missing from it and it
is disorganized with no effort having been made to conceal the victim a firearm is a weapon of choice
for this type of offender this crime often becomes a massacre because it is the offender's goal to
kill as many people as possible because nothing is removed from the scene an abundance of evidence is usually
available this includes shell cases prints discarded weapons and so on high-powered High Caliber and or high
capacity firearm use will be evident and enables the offender to accomplish his goal of mass killing
wounds will be concentrated on vital areas head neck and chest this crime is almost exclusively
committed during daylight in public places because the offender wants the highest
death toll possible Witnesses often are available to identify the offender as he is unconcerned with being
identified the offender has no Escape Plan and possibly intends to commit suicide
or be shot by police through a broad neighborhood investigation pre-offense characteristics become
evident the offender usually has a disheveled appearance is withdrawn demonstrates an isolated effect
and possibly exhibits erratic Behavior [Music] as you have gathered by the descriptions
of these types of homicides motive is not always clear in fact a real true motive may only make
sense to the Killer such is the case in this week's True Crime Tale a man that one day
set out on his own personal seek and destroy mission they called him the wholesale Slayer
Howard Barton Unruh shot 13 people in less than 12 minutes on his Block in East Camden New Jersey
the quiet Oddball who meticulously plotted his revenge on his neighbors who shunned him became one of America's
first mass killers at the age of 28. his Rampage has since been named the Walk of death
this True Crime garage [Music] okay [Music] Patrick Sauer wrote an incredibly Great
Piece about this week's True Crime Story I recommend that everybody check it out
he wrote this for the Smithsonian Magazine entitled it the story of the first mass murder in U.S history Howard
unruh's Walk Of Death Foretold an era in which such tragedies would become all too common now I'm going to pull a few
things from this article here first to set things up then Captain I want to go through some of the actual news articles
from that day so we can take a look at this case almost as it played out now from Patrick Sauer on the morning of
Tuesday September 6 Howard Unruh would embark on his walk of death murdering 13 people and wounding three others in a
20-minute Rampage a somewhat forgotten man outside of criminology circles and local Old-Timers Unruh was an early
chapter in The Tragically all too familiar American story of an angry man with a gun inflicting Carnage
there have been Killers since Kane murdered Abel and Andrew certainly wasn't the first American to take the
lives of multiple victims the FBI defines a mass murder as four or more victims in a single incident
usually in one spot serial killers and spree Killers fall into their own category and there's also
a new crowd-sourced mass shooting tracking system that counts the number of people shot as opposed to those that
are killed but is not an official set of data what is known is that the United States
with five percent of the world's population was home to nearly one-third of the world's Mass shooters from 1966
to 2012. before that mass gun murders like Unruh were too rare to be considered a threat
unru is generally regarded as the first of the Lone Wolf type of modern mass murders the template for the school and
workplace Shooters who have dominated the coverage of more than one thousand victims since 2013. Unruh was a
distinctive personality type one that has also come to define those who have followed in his bloody footsteps unru
really matches the mass murder profile he had a rigid temperament an inability to accept frustration or people not
treating him as well as he wanted and feeling isolation all things people accept and move on
from says Catherine ramsland she's a professor of forensic psychology and the director of the master of arts in
criminal justice at Desales University we've talked about her several times as she is the author of some 60 non-fiction
books including Inside the Mind of mass murderers why they kill she goes on to say about Unruh that he had a
free-floating anger held grudges owned weapons he knew how to use and decided somebody was going to pay it's a typical
recipe for internal combustion end quote Howard Barton Unruh was born in Camden New Jersey in 1921. his father
was Samuel Shipley Unruh and his mother Freda Valmer his parents didn't stick together which was not very common back
then and Howard and his brother James were raised by their mother when the unrews separated for the most part it
seems that his childhood was normal or is at least reportedly to be somewhat normal
Howard was listed as quiet and shy in at least one of his yearbooks Howard got average grades didn't quite fit in as
much as one would like but Howard was a regular churchgoer in fact he read the Bible often and was very fond of Music
there'd definitely be a part of his childhood that would have been rough because he would have been in New Jersey
during the Great Depression so that probably was a difficult time for him because it was difficult time for most
families but in 1942 he's going to enlist and serve in World War II yeah he enlisted in the US Army serves in World
War II and he saw quite a bit of action as well and he is said to have been a highly skilled Marksman and he also
worked as a tank driver taking part in the Battle of the Bulge and fighting in Belgium Austria Germany and France my
nickname in high school was the Battle of the Bulge now one thing that he did that separated him from most soldiers is
that he kept meticulous notes about every German that he killed during his time in war documenting the time and
place of where he did it and writing descriptions of the bodies if he happened to see them after being
honorably discharged in 1945 he returned home and moved in with his mother at this time bringing in a collection of
firearms medals and photos of German artillery with him so this is kind of like his collection and scrapbook if you
will of his time during the war I'll post pictures of Howard on our Twitter Instagram and Facebook pages
you'll see his demeanor is very it's almost like he has no emotion whatsoever yeah he's got this very blank look to
his face especially right after he is well especially right after the events that we're about to get into now keep in
mind the war is over in 1945 and when the war is over he returns home and again he's seen a lot of action he was
in multiple countries we know that he kept diaries about his kills during wartime and he enlists in 1942 so he was
overseas defending this great country for several years before he returns to Camden New Jersey now Upon returning
well life is very different for him during this time you know so he finishes school goes into the army goes off to
war and you got to keep in mind things must have been rather regimented for this guy right during his school years
and then his time in the Army and then of course off at War now he's at home and he's kind of doing a whole lot of
nothing he's got some pretty low level jobs that he doesn't seem to care a whole lot about he's living with
his mother because he needs her to financially support him she's got a full-time job he doesn't do a whole lot
once he's back he makes an attempt at having some type of career when he goes off to the temple school for
pharmaceuticals or oh I have it here in my notes Here Captain he went for three months and studied pharmacy at Temple
University in Philadelphia well he doesn't that doesn't work out for him and so he drops out and now he's hanging
out at Mom's home for all of these years well he cites the reason for that being
poor physical condition it's it's also interesting too that his enlistment picture he is smiling
and full of energy it makes you really wonder how much effect the war had on this individual right it also makes you
wonder about his General makeup his mental makeup in psychology of this individual as well he almost looks to be
happier at the time of War rather than when he's back here living the civilian life now his walk of death
will take place on Tuesday September 6 1949. so he is home for roughly three to four years before
his actions of this dreaded day in Camden New Jersey I'm guessing one he has PTSD or some level of that now you
heard in our description that we gave of the typical things that one would expect
to find from the FBI when we're talking about this type of crime and one thing that was mentioned there during the
trailer is that the offender likely does not care about being identified he doesn't do anything to conceal his
identity and often will leave eyewitnesses so is the case in Howard unru's walk of death you'll hear it
straight from the articles that they wrote in the newspaper about that event this is from the evening Courier which
was a local newspaper local to the area and the headline is Massacre of 12 is described by eyewitnesses many see slang
on Street in shops of East Camden and it goes on to say when Howard Unruh ran a muck shooting at everyone in sight near
32nd Street and River Avenue killing 12 but missing others there were many witnesses to the massacre
following are a number of eyewitness accounts one of the first eyewitness accounts of the shooting came from
William McNeely age 48 he's a repairman for the public service I love the general description and
General job titles that they gave back in the 40s he says quote I first saw the man go up to a child on the northeast
corner of 32nd Street and River Avenue and Fire Point Blank at the child's head killing him it goes
on to say when Cohen the druggist and the insurance man came out of the drugstore to see what was happening the
Slayer fired at the insurance man and killed him Cohen tried to get out of the way by running up 32nd Street but the
Killer's aim was good and he killed him while he was running then he went into the drugstore and went upstairs and
killed two women I think they were Cohen's wife and his mother the witness goes on to say that
he the shooter came out of the place a few minutes later and saw a man parked in a car on the south side of river
Avenue just east of 32nd Street he fired into the car and killed him and goes on to say that he then saw a
group of men standing on the north side of the street he pointed the pistol at them and began firing rapidly they
escaped by dodging into a nearby Saloon but what a vicious scene this would have
been this points out what we had already concluded with the information from the
FBI that there would be several eyewitnesses to this massacre this man Howard Unruh is basically walking down
the street going business to business and going into these businesses and shooting at different individuals inside
of these businesses and keep in mind he lives right there this is all happening in his neighborhood right on his little
corner of the world but if I'm following you correctly this all starts at the pharmacy that's exactly right Captain
unru's Massacre started at the River Road pharmacy this is owned in our operated by Maurice Cohen and it takes
place about 9 20 a.m in the morning so he has breakfast at home and he goes out on the street gun in hand he's got 33
bullets in his pockets and he's ready to track down some individuals and he's ready to murder them in their place of
work or on the streets there in East Camden doesn't seem like a big shocker that he starts at the pharmacy because
he went to school to try to be a pharmacist and end up dropping out this guy holds grudges he failed at something
so maybe this is his way at getting back at that thing he failed at I think that
you're right I think that there's a whole lot of there's a whole lot of things that are leading up to this event
I think that likely the pharmacy of being the first place that he goes to commit this
atrocity is that I think it's really just happenstance because really what it appears to me is that his actual Grudge
is with the pharmacist himself with this Maurice Cohen and the Cohen family because he is actually neighbors with
the cohens and they had an ongoing beef if you will over several different things they didn't get along he he did
not get along with the entire Cohen family as you will hear in our interview with the author of Murder in the
neighborhood you can hear that there's a lot of things that are building up to this and
when he comes home the night before there was a gate that was missing he had put in a gate to his backyard
he in the cohens shared a backyard for whatever reason someone took that gate and the gate was a bit of an argument
between Howard his mother and the cohens and it's believed that once he saw that that
gate was gone that he decided that he was going to get this rev he was going to get revenge against the cohens and
several other people in the neighborhood and he was going to do it first thing that morning
so after he kills Cohen his wife and Cohen's mother unru walked out of the store
this is when he encounters the insurance agent the insurance agent was walking in
that same general area so Unruh shoots him through the head killing him instantly then Howard Unruh walked
across the sidewalk to the curb where Alvin day was in his vehicle his vehicle had stopped at the traffic light
and so Howard fires through the windshield and killed him with a bullet to the head so when he shoots day day is
going to try to I guess get out of his vehicle Run for Cover but he ends up collapsing over his steering wheel yeah
some attempt to get out of the vehicle was made by day before he dies now these gunshots attracted a
group of men that were in a bar across from the drugstore and so they run out into the street they're trying to see
what's going on several shots are fired from our killer to at these men that come running out of the bar and they're
lucky enough that they start to they have enough time to start to flee from Howard honra unra then walked by
The Barbershop of Clark Hoover where Hoover was cutting the hair of a boy a six-year-old boy and as the paper
says with the deadly aim he had perfected in a target range later found in his basement of his home Howard Unruh
sent a bullet crashing into Hoover's brain and then killed the Smith boy with another single shot as he sat on the
hobby horse seat Hoover used for his child patrons from the barber shop Howard Unruh went
into the adjoining shoe repair shop inside there he kills the shoe repair shop owner
who was trying to Shield himself from gunfire by cowering behind the counter from the
shoe repair shop Howard Unruh walked to the front of a house at River Avenue where another single shot fired through
the front window killed Thomas Hamilton Age Two well and this is how you can see
how evil he is because he doesn't care who he's killing Man Child woman doesn't matter continuing up the street to 3214
River Avenue this is a dry cleaning shop he there shot and killed Helga zagrino she is the attendant in charge
well obviously Howard has some issues but the pharmacy kind of makes some sense to me
attacking the neighbors because he has a grudge against them kind of makes sense
but did he have a list of people he was looking for or was this just believed to
be random and whoever was there got in the way and and he was going to shoot anybody in
his path and so he has people that he's seeking revenge against he has a grudge against several people as you have
stated but it's also a situation where we have both Revenge killings and non-specific motive homicides here
because some of these individuals just happen to be in the area at the time it's kind of like when you have a school
shooter or a workplace shooter with the workplace and school shooter often they will know some of their victims but but
they will also not know some of the victims some of the other victims may just happen to be at the location where
they are going to go and kill people and then what we have here is as stated by the FBI with these type offenders they
are looking to kill as many people as possible so they're not always sitting there making the decision right then and
there oh do I kill this person or that person because yes I have a grudge against person a but not against the
person B often they will just kill both this part of the massacre will really kind of answer your question here
Captain because what we end up having is with the dry cleaners when he goes to the the shop the dry cleaner shop
we later will learn that on his hit list if you will or his list is not just that
simple to call it a Hit List we we can get into that a little bit later but he goes to the dry cleaners with the
intention of finding Thomas zagrino he's the the tailor and one of the owners he and hilga own the shop
together now we know later that Thomas zagrino was on his hit list if you will but
Helga was not and so when he goes to the dry cleaner shop Thomas is not there but hilga is
and so he kills hilga anyway before going on to his next Target or the next location the next spot he's going to go
to is the local grocery store yes and whoever owns that gets a little lucky here Captain because they find Howard
Unruh finds the front door locked so he simply fires through the front door and then he approaches a car that is waiting
at an intersection and shoots the occupants of that vehicle so if you can kind of picture this in your mind here
he leaves his house gun in hand and he's going through the neighborhood he obviously has certain targets going into
these different businesses and seeking out individuals that he wants to shoot and kill but also think of all the
vehicles that we have mentioned during his walk of death where they're simply pulling up to a stoplight
at an intersection that he happens to be standing by and he's firing into their vehicles do you know if the grocery
store was closed just by happenstance or was it locked because they heard the gun
fire earlier I was just looking at my notes for that information and I don't have that here Captain but my belief is
that they locked the doors because they heard the gunfire and remember we had already mentioned that several of the
businesses people came outside to see what was going on why they are hearing these these gunshots later some people
would say that they thought that some of the noises were simply a car backfiring
where I think with the grocery shop we have the situation where they came outside they saw the panic in the
streets and decided that the best choice that they had in this situation was to go back inside and lock the front
door [Music] [Music] all right we are back cheers mates cheers now we're going through this massacre
that took place back in 1949 again this is before these types of shootings are unfortunately have become commonplace in
today's society this was really a rare occurrence back then what we have is this man who who seemingly is completely
lost it gone off the rails maybe the gate being stolen was the straw that broke the camel's back so to speak he's
out on the streets he's gunning down anybody that he he chooses to at a at a seconds notice he eventually hears
police sirens in the background now I've seen it reported Captain the the response time in this situation was as
short as 18 minutes and maybe as long as 20 minutes it's a little unclear keep in
mind we're going back a long time ago in history to try to piece these events together but part to that lengthy
response time is for several different reasons one it's 1949 not everybody's walking around with a cell phone and as
we pointed out just before we went to the break even though some people were rushing
outside to see what was going on it wasn't clear to everybody what in fact was absolutely happening right we've
already pointed out how rare this occurrence would be so rare in fact that he is often referred to as the first
mass murderer or the first mass murder event in U.S history right so there's not a lot of protocol but just to
reiterate something that you were talking about earlier was he had a firing range or a target practice
in his basement and so a lot of people make a big deal about well he was prepared for this it's
like but he was also in the Army for three years fighting Wars he was he was prepared for this
well before he was training in his in his basement and not only that the scary thing about his wartime is look a lot of
people when they come back from war they don't want to talk about the things that
they were forced to do while over there they try not to reflect on that time period they want to try to forget it
where with Howard it's much more difficult his time at War because he seemed to possibly even have enjoyed
The Act of Killing while he was at War he kept meticulous notes about it in his diary or Journal and when he returned
and I know it's not uncommon for people especially in World War II to have returned with
this collection of things that they took off of Nazi soldiers but he comes back with this collection
of things that he took off of Nazi soldiers and he's hanging them on his walls and yes I wonder if it's a little
bit of folklore about the target practice in his mother's basement right but there seems to be some truth to it
because part of the arguments that the cohens had with Howard was that he was too loud you know he's
creating all this noise he's firing guns in his basement he's playing his music incredibly loud but his side of the
argument was well the cohens are incredibly loud and I've asked them to be quiet several times and so I'm only
loud because they're loud keep in mind they're not just neighbors they're neighbors that are separated by a wall
separated by a wall they share that backyard that yard space where Howard and his mother have the second gate put
in because originally there was only one gate and the families were feuding over
the gate who was using it people were leaving it open uh overnight and things of that nature so
the unroos put in their own gate so you can do what you want with your gate Cohen's will do what we want with
ours after this time frame of Mayhem he is going to head back to his apartment yeah he flees back to his apartment
because he can hear the sirens the police sirens off in the distance so he knows that they're converging in on this
area this really what is simply two corners of East Camden and this is keep in mind how chaotic this all is
this is a residential slash business area of town There's businesses and there's plenty of Housing and apartments
and such so this is kind of a congested area this will be a well trafficked area
both on in vehicles and foot traffic so there's a lot of people potentially a lot of victims right here just just
footsteps outside of Howard unru's front door all in all Unruh kills 13 people and injures three and this all before
fleeing back to his apartment now once he's back at his apartment he's fairly quickly surrounded by police we
mentioned the slow response time but even though it's a slow response time the response itself is pretty powerful
and they're heavily armed there were up to 50 officers that surrounded his apartment Howard Unruh didn't just
barricade himself inside of his home he shoots it out with police the issue becomes when he's on foot he can only
carry so many weapons and so much ammo but when he gets back to his house he has he has a lot more weapons and a lot
more ammo this is true and I'm gonna post some pictures of these events on Twitter because there's one picture that
is I hate to say this because we're talking about so Much Death and destruction and tragedy here but there
is a picture during this gun fight with police that kind of cracks me up it almost in a way
reminds me of the movie The Christmas Story Ralphie is dreaming about getting his BB gun and he has to fight off these
would-be burglars and potential bad guys that are in his backyard right and he's
shooting at them and they're they're all over the place they're coming over the fence they're up on top of the roof and
they're just coming from all angles and he's kind of taking them out it's more it's it's that but it's a reverse when
you look at the shootout that that Howard has with police there are police officers that are some
of them are holding automatic guns some of them are holding rifles some of them are holding handguns they got the place
well surrounded there's even officers that are on the rooftop of Howard's apartment
so that they could fire into the second floor window so they have this guy surrounded he's
got nowhere to go and one thing that's strange and we've seen this time and time again throughout our dark history
of these Mass killers that oftentimes when surrounded or when they have achieved their goal or got the
revenge that they were seeking a lot of times they will end up killing themselves or committing suicide by
having the police shoot them dead and Howard's situation he's returning gunfire with the police and eventually
they start tossing in tear gas and he decides at some point you know what I I'm done I'm done fighting the tear gas
is enough you got me surrounded and he comes out and they apprehend him right then and there and there's that picture
that the captain was referring to earlier uh about some of the stuff that we will be posting of him standing there
arrested and he's wearing a suit and bow tie and he's staring with this blank look at the newspaper and when he's
staring at the camera person who took that picture it doesn't look to me to be the look of oh my God I'm in shock of
what I just did I can't believe my own actions or I'm scared to death any of that
he almost looks like he's standing there with this blank look this stare that says
yeah I did this yeah I did this and it might have been a long time coming now the thing that
we've unfortunately become all too used to in the United States is the frequency
of these public shooters and whenever this happens especially when there is a high kill rate
we want to know who is to blame not just the shooter but what else is to blame in
our society how could we allow this person to have been created and then go out on this Rampage and I don't know
that there's ever going to be a clear answer in my opinion I think part of that is reflected in what we went
through in the trailer from the FBI's crime classification manual that says in some of these types of cases and with
some of these offenders we don't really know the motive they may not fully know the motive for some of their killings
themselves now it looks to me like here in this situation captain that Howard Unruh understood why he killed some of
these people but maybe why he didn't kill others some he was seeking revenge on others just happened to be there in
the wrong place at the wrong time in fact it reminds me of a quote from the old TV show Criminal Minds from the
fictitious detective on there Jason Gideon who's I think the best of the the fake detectives on Criminal Minds but
one of his quotes on that show was when talking about an offender like this or somebody that kills multiple people he
says think of him as a living murder weapon his genetics load the gun his psychology aims it and the environment
pulls the trigger now we do have some quotes from Howard Unruh himself and you mentioned he only had one gun he
only had so much ammunition when he went through the streets that day on his walk
of death but Howard Unruh said I would have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets
and then he goes on to give us a little bit of insight as to a possible motive for his rampage that morning
he says quote when I came home last night and found my gate had been taken I decided to shoot all of them so I
would get the right one [Music] thank you [Music] New Jersey correspondent Nora muschanic
revisits the Walk of death and killer Howard Unruh before there was Columbine or Newtown there was Camden on the
morning of September 6 1949 28 year old Howard Unruh dressed in a suit and bow tie stocked the 2300 block of River Road
in the city's Cramer Hill section shooting and killing 13 people and injuring three among the victims a
six-year-old boy getting a haircut on this hobby horse at the barber shop it became known as the Walk of death that
was America apple pie right after we won the second world war and it was never expected my mom did some getaway kill
come on let's go let's go George Jenkins to a six when his mother shoot him into
the house after hearing gunshots unrew a former Army Sharpshooter who had a target range in his basement kept
meticulous records about neighbors he had run-ins with the top entry reads you dirty bum I wish you were dead 15 years
ago I spoke with one of the survivors of unru's Rampage the late Charles Cohen's
parents and grandmother were murdered that day gunfire happened and when I walked out my grandmother was holding a
phone in bed dead with blood coming out of her nose and face he hid in the closet feeling totally helpless and he
had to come out and see that horrible scene the reaction was pretty strong being his son was one of the first
occasions of a mass murder of that site of that type 80 year old Len Irwin is a volunteer the Camden County Historical
Society where they keep memorabilia from the notorious crime Howard Unruh confessed and was declared criminally
insane he died in 1988 after being confined to a mental hospital for 60 years but the troubled young man from
East Camden will forever be remembered as the country's first mass murderer in modern times I'm Nora musanik Channel 6
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With school and workplace shooters such a hot topic these days, this week we thought we would look back on a mass shooting that took place in the good old days. As you know, we here in the Garage would never claimed to be able to solve some of our nations most devastating problems but we will try to understand them. Better understanding of very important issues can help and lead to creating solutions. Now, we have to remember that the good old days weren’t always good and it certainly was not a good day when Howard Unruh decided to “get even” with some people in the neighborhood. This week in the Garage we try to beat the heat by cracking a few cold ones and talking about murderer so cold that you will have a hard time believing that you had not heard of this guy before.

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Brief Summary

Howard Unruh's 1949 Camden shooting spree killed 13, marking America's first mass murder incident.

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The Walk of Death. Howard Barton Unruh embarked on a rampage, killing 13 people in 20 minutes.
First Mass Murder in U.S. History. Unruh's actions marked a tragic beginning for mass shootings in America.
Eyewitness Accounts. Eyewitnesses describe the horror of Unruh's shooting spree in East Camden.
The First Mass Murderer. Howard Unruh, often referred to as the first mass murderer in U.S. history, killed 13 people in 1949.
A Walk of Death. On September 6, 1949, Unruh went on a shooting spree in Camden, New Jersey, killing indiscriminately.
Surrounded by Police. After his rampage, Unruh returned to his apartment and engaged in a shootout with police.

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