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this week's True Crime Story is a unique and intriguing case that falls into two
homicide case study categories in 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 and retaliation for a perceived wrong real or imagined committed against
the offender or 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
nonspecific 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 and poses a high risk to the offender there is nothing missing from from it and it is disorganized with
no effort having been made to conceal the victim a firearm is the 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 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 and 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 unre 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 is True Crime [Music]
garage Patrick sour 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 and titled it the story of the
first mass murder in US history how Howard unr'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 sour on the morning of Tuesday September 6 Howard 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 oldtimers unre 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 Cain murdered Abel and unre certainly was 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 Sero killers and spree Killers fall into their own category and there's also a
new crowdsourced 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 5% of the world's population was home to
nearly onethird of the world's Mass shooters from 1966 to 2012 before that mass gun murders like
unre were too rare to be considered a threat unre is generally regarded as the first of the Lone Wolf type of modern
Mass murderers the template for the school and workplace shooters who have dominated the coverage of more than
1,000 victims since 2013 unru was a distinctive personality type one that has also come to define
those who have followed in his bloody footsteps unre 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 Katherine ramsland she's a professor of forensic psychology
and the director of the master of arts and Criminal Justice at deales 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 unre that he had a free floating Ang 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 unre
was born in Camden New Jersey in 1921 his father was Samuel Shipley unre and his mother Freda vmer 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 unre 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 and 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 Church goer in fact he read the Bible often and
was very fond of music there' 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 enlists 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 and high school is 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 enlist 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 lowlevel
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 my
notes Here Captain he went for 3 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 in 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 and also makes you wonder about his General makeup his mental makeup and 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 6 1949 so he is home for roughly 3 to 4
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 unr'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 was a local newspaper local to the
area and the headline is Massacre of 12 is described by eyewitnesses many SE slangs on Street in shops of East Camden
and it goes on to say when Howard unre ran a muuk shooting at everyone in sight near 32nd Street in 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 mcney age 48 he's a repair man 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 32 Street and River Avenue and Fire Point Blank at the
child's head killing him he goes on to say when Cohen the druggist and the insurance man came out of the drug store
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 drug
store 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 SE this would have been this
points out what we had already concluded with the information from the FBI that there would be several I witnesses to
this massacre this man Howard unre 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
unr's Massacre started at the River Road pharmacy this is owned and 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 ended 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 happen stance
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 and the Cohen 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 Cohen and it's believed that once he saw that
that gate was gone that he decided that he was going to get this re he was going
to get revenge against the Cohen 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 unre walked out of the
store this is when he encounters the insurance agent the insurance agent was walking in that same general area so
unre shoots him through the head killing him instantly then Howard Andrew 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 thre 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 unra unra then
walked by the barber shop 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 unre
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 unre 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 unre 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 cuz 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 Zago 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 of 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
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 Zago he's the the tailor and one of the
owners he and hilga own the shop together now we know later that Thomas Zago was on his hit list if you will but
Helo 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 unre finds the front door locked so he simply fires through the front door and then he approaches a car
that is wai 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 happen stance 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 were 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
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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 gunting down anybody that he he chooses to at a at a second's notice he
eventually hears police sirens in the background now I've seen it reported captain that 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 of 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 US 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 mhm 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 a 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 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 unres put in their own gate so
you can do what you want with your gate Cohen we'll 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 SL bus 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 unr's front door all in all unre 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 unre 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 a he has a lot more weapons and a
lot more ammo this is true and I'm going to 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 gunfight 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 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 often
times when surrounded or when they have a 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 in 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 unre 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 unre 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 unre 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 possible
motive for his rampage that morning 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 [Music] one New Jersey correspondent n maanik
revisits the Walk of death and killer Howard unre before there was Coline or New Town there was Camden on the morning
of September 6th 1949 28-year-old Howard unre dressed in a suit in Bow Tie stalked the 2300 block of River Road in
the city's Kramer 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 get away get come on let's go let's go George Jenkins was six when his mother
shoot him into the house after hearing gunshots unre 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 unre Rampage age 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 as that was one of the
first occasions of a mass murder of that of that type 80-year-old Len Irwin is a
volunteer at the Camden County Historical Society where they keep memorabilia from the notorious crime
Howard unre 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
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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 Unre killed 13 people in Camden, NJ in 1949, driven by revenge and indiscriminate violence during his "Walk of Death."

Key points

The Walk of Death. Howard Unr embarked on a personal mission, killing 13 people in 20 minutes.
First Mass Murder in US History. Howard Unr's rampage marks a tragic chapter in American crime history.
The Walk of Death. On September 6, 1949, Howard Unre killed 13 people in a shocking rampage.
First Mass Murderer. Howard Unre is remembered as America's first mass murderer in modern times.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

He had a free floating anger.

Katherine Ramsland on Howard Unr's mental state.

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Tension

75/ 100High tension

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