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the offender or a significant other victimology when revenge is the motive for a homicide the victim may or may not
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of the offender there is a significant event or interaction that links the offender to the
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friends multiple victims may be involved depending on the nature of the event that triggered the act of Revenge a
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and categorized after more extensive investigation into the offender's background the victims of a non-specific
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homicide are random with no direct relationship between victim and offender victims can be male female adults or
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children and demonstrate a disparity of characteristics and lifestyle the crime scene is usually a
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public place and poses a high risk to the offender there is nothing missing from from it and it is disorganized with
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crime often becomes a massacre because it is the offender's goal to kill as many people as
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possible because nothing is removed from the scene an abundance of evidence is usually
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available this includes shell cases prints discarded weapons and so on high-powered High Caliber and
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or high capacity firearm use will be evident and enables the offender to accomplish his goal of mass killing
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wounds will be concentrated on vital areas head neck and chest this crime is almost exclusively
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committed during daylight in public places because the offender wants the highest death toll possible Witnesses
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often are available to identify the offender as he is unconcerned with being identified the offender has no Escape
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Plan and possibly intends to commit suicide or be shot by police through a broad neighborhood
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investigation pre- offense characteristics become evident the offender usually has a disheveled
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appearance is withdrawn demonstrates an isolated effect and possibly exhibits erratic
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Behavior as you have gathered by the descriptions of these types of homicides motive is not always clear in fact a
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real true motive may only make sense to the Killer and such is the case in this week's True Crime
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tale a man that one day set out on his own personal seek and destroy mission they called him the wholesale
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Slayer Howard Barton unre shot 13 people in less than 12 minutes on his Block in
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East Camden New Jersey the quiet Oddball who meticulously plotted his revenge on his
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neighbors who shunned him became one of America's first mass killers at the age of
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28 his Rampage has since been named the Walk of death this is True Crime [Music]
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garage Patrick sour wrote an incredibly Great Piece about this week's True Crime
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Story I recommend that everybody check it out he wrote this for the Smithsonian Magazine and titled it the story of the
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first mass murder in US history how Howard unr's Walk Of Death Foretold an era in which such tragedies would become
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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
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go through some of the actual news articles from that day so we can take a look at this case almost as it played
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out now from Patrick sour on the morning of Tuesday September 6 Howard would embark on his walk of death
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murdering 13 people and wounding three others in a 20-minute Rampage a somewhat forgotten man outside of criminology
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circles and local oldtimers unre was an early chapter in The Tragically all too familiar American story of an angry man
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with a gun inflicting Carnage there have been Killers since Cain murdered Abel and unre certainly was wasn't the first
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American to take the lives of multiple victims the FBI defines a mass murder as four or more victims in a single
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incident usually in one spot Sero killers and spree Killers fall into their own category and there's also a
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new crowdsourced mass shooting tracking system that counts the number of people shot as opposed to those that are killed
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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
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nearly onethird of the world's Mass shooters from 1966 to 2012 before that mass gun murders like
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unre were too rare to be considered a threat unre is generally regarded as the first of the Lone Wolf type of modern
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Mass murderers the template for the school and workplace shooters who have dominated the coverage of more than
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1,000 victims since 2013 unru was a distinctive personality type one that has also come to define
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those who have followed in his bloody footsteps unre really matches the mass murder profile he had a rigid
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temperament an inability to accept frustration or people not treating him as well as he wanted and feeling
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isolation all things people accept and move on from says Katherine ramsland she's a professor of forensic psychology
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and the director of the master of arts and Criminal Justice at deales University we've talked about her
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several times as she is the author of some 60 non-fiction books including Inside the Mind of mass murderers why
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they kill she goes on to say about unre that he had a free floating Ang anger held grudges owned weapons he knew how
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to use and decided somebody was going to pay it's a typical recipe for internal combustion end quote Howard Barton unre
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was born in Camden New Jersey in 1921 his father was Samuel Shipley unre and his mother Freda vmer his parents
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didn't stick together which was not very common back then and Howard and his brother James were raised by their
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mother when the unre separated for the most part it seems that his childhood was normal or is at least reportedly to
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be somewhat normal Howard was listed as quiet and shy and at least one of his yearbooks Howard got average grades
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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
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was very fond of music there' definitely be a part of his childhood that would have been rough because he would have
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been in New Jersey during the Great Depression so that probably was a difficult time for him because it was
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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
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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
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Marksman and he also worked as a tank driver taking part in the Battle of the Bulge and fighting in Belgium Austria
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Germany and France my nickname and high school is the Battle of the Bulge now one thing that he did that separated him
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from most soldiers is that he kept meticulous notes about every German that he killed during his time in war
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documenting the time and place of where he did it and writing descriptions of the bodies if he happened to see them
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after being honorably discharged in 1945 he returned home and moved in with his mother at this time bringing in a
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collection of firearms medals and photos of German artillery with him so this is
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kind of like his collection and scrapbook if you will of his time during the war I'll post pictures of Howard on
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our Twitter Instagram and Facebook pages you'll see his demeanor is very it's almost like he has no emotion whatsoever
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yeah he's got this very blank look to his face especially right after he is well especially right after the events
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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
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home and again he's seen a lot of action he was in multiple countries we know that he kept diaries about his kills
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during wartime and he enlist in 1942 so he was overseas defending this great country for several years before he
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returns to Camden New Jersey now Upon returning well life is very different for him during this time you know so he
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finishes school goes into the army goes off to war and you got to keep in mind things must have been rather regimented
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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
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home and he's kind of doing a whole lot of nothing he's got some pretty lowlevel
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jobs that he doesn't seem to care a whole lot about he's living with his mother because he needs her to
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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
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having some type of career when he goes off to the temple School for pharmaceuticals or oh I have it here my
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notes Here Captain he went for 3 months and studied pharmacy at Temple University in Philadelphia well he
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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
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well he cites the reason for that being in poor physical condition it's it's also interesting too that his enlistment
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picture he is smiling and full of energy it makes you really wonder how much effect the war had on this
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individual right and also makes you wonder about his General makeup his mental makeup and psychology of this
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individual as well he almost looks to be happier at the time of War rather than when he's back here living the civilian
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life now his walk of death will take place on Tuesday September 6 6 1949 so he is home for roughly 3 to 4
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years before his actions of this dreaded day in Camden New Jersey I'm guessing one he has PTSD or some level of that
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now you heard in our description that we gave of the typical things that one would expect to find from the FBI when
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we're talking about this type of crime and one thing that was mentioned there during the trailer is that the offender
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likely does not care about being identified he doesn't do anything to conceal his identity and often will
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leave eyewitnesses so is the case in Howard unr's walk of death you'll hear it straight from the articles that they
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wrote in the newspaper about that event this is from the evening Courier which was was a local newspaper local to the
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area and the headline is Massacre of 12 is described by eyewitnesses many SE slangs on Street in shops of East Camden
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and it goes on to say when Howard unre ran a muuk shooting at everyone in sight near 32nd Street in River Avenue killing
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12 but missing others there were many witnesses to the massacre following are a number of eyewitness accounts one of
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the first eyewitness accounts of the shooting came from William mcney age 48 he's a repair man for the public service
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I love the general description and General job titles that they gave back in the' 40s he says quote I first saw
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the man go up to a child on the northeast corner of 32 Street and River Avenue and Fire Point Blank at the
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child's head killing him he goes on to say when Cohen the druggist and the insurance man came out of the drug store
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to see what was happening the Slayer fired at the insurance man and killed him Cohen tried to get out of the way by
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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
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store and went upstairs and killed two women I think they were Cohen's wife and his mother the witness goes on to say
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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
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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
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of men standing on the north side of the street he pointed the pistol at them and
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began firing rapidly they escaped by dodging into a nearby Saloon but what a vicious SE this would have been this
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points out what we had already concluded with the information from the FBI that there would be several I witnesses to
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this massacre this man Howard unre is basically walking down the street going business to business and going into
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these businesses and shooting at different individuals inside of these businesses and keep in mind he lives
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right there this is all happening in his neighborhood right on his little corner
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of the world but if I'm following you correctly this all starts at the pharmacy that's exactly right Captain
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unr's Massacre started at the River Road pharmacy this is owned and operated by Maurice Cohen and it takes place about
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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
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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
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the streets there in East Camden doesn't seem like a big shocker that he starts at the pharmacy because he went to
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school to try to be a pharmacist and ended up dropping out this guy holds grudges he failed at something so maybe
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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
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of there's a whole lot of things that are leading up to this event I think that likely the
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pharmacy of being the first place that he goes to commit this atrocity is that I think it's really just happen stance
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because really what it appears to me is that his actual Grudge is with the pharmacist himself with this Maurice
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Cohen and the Cohen family because he is actually neighbors with the cohens and they had an ongoing beef if you will
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over several different things they didn't get along he he did not get along with the entire Cohen family as you will
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hear in our interview with the author of Murder in the neighborhood you can hear that there's a
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lot of things that are building up to this and when he comes home the night before there was a gate that was missing
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he had put in a gate to his backyard he and the Cohen shared a backyard for whatever reason someone took that gate
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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
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that gate was gone that he decided that he was going to get this re he was going
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to get revenge against the Cohen and several other people in the neighborhood and he was going to do it first thing
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that morning so after he kills Cohen his wife and Cohen's mother unre walked out of the
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store this is when he encounters the insurance agent the insurance agent was walking in that same general area so
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unre shoots him through the head killing him instantly then Howard Andrew walked
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across the sidewalk to the curb where Alvin day was in his vehicle his vehicle had stopped at the traffic light and so
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Howard fires through thre the windshield and killed him with a bullet to the head
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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
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over his steering wheel yeah some attempt to get out of the vehicle was made by day before he dies now these
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gunshots attracted a group of men that were in a bar across from the drugstore and so they run out into the street
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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
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the bar and they're lucky enough that they start to they have enough time to start to flee from Howard unra unra then
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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
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paper says with the deadly aim he had perfected in a target range later found in his basement of his home Howard unre
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sent a bullet crashing into Hoover's brain and then killed the Smith boy with another single shot as he sat on the
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hobby horse seat Hoover used for his child patrons from the barber shop Howard unre went into the adjoining shoe
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repair shop inside there he kills the shoe repair shop owner who was trying to Shield himself from
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gunfire by cowering behind the counter from the shoe repair shop Howard unre walked to the front of a house at River
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Avenue where another single shot fired through the front window killed Thomas Hamilton Age Two well and this is how
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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
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street to 3214 River Avenue this is a dry cleaning shop he there shot and killed Helga Zago she is the attendant
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in charge well obviously Howard has some issues but the pharmacy kind of makes some sense to me attacking the neighbors
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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
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this just believed to be random and whoever was there got in the way and and he was going to shoot anybody in his
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path and so he has people that he's seeking revenge against he has a grudge against several people as you have
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stated but it's also a situation where we have both Revenge killings and non-specific motive homicides here
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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
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shooter or a workplace shooter with the workplace and school shooter often they will know some of their victims but but
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they will also not know some of the victims some of the other victims may just happen to be at the location where
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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
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they are looking to kill as many people as possible so they're not always sitting there making the decision right
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then and there oh do I kill this person or that person because yes I have a grudge against person a but not against
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person B often they will just kill both this part of the massacre will really kind of answer your question here
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Captain because what we end up having is with the dry cleaners when he goes to the the shop the dry cleaner
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shop we later will learn that on his hit list if you will or his list is not just
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that simple to call it a Hit List we we can get into that a little bit later but
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he goes to the dry cleaners with the intention of finding Thomas Zago he's the the tailor and one of the
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owners he and hilga own the shop together now we know later that Thomas Zago was on his hit list if you will but
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Helo was not and so when he goes to the dry cleaner shop Thomas is not there but
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hilga is and so he kills hilga anyway before going on to his next Target or the next location the next spot he's
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going to go to is the local grocery store yes and whoever owns that gets a little lucky here Captain because they
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find Howard unre finds the front door locked so he simply fires through the front door and then he approaches a car
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that is wai at an intersection and shoots the occupants of that vehicle so if you can kind of picture this in your
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mind here he leaves his house gun in hand and he's going through the neighborhood he obviously has certain
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targets going into these different businesses and seeking out individuals that he wants to shoot and kill but also
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think of all the vehicles that we have mentioned during his walk of death where they're simply pulling up to a stoplight
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at an intersection that he happens to be standing by and he's firing into their vehicles do you know if the grocery
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store was closed just by happen stance or was it locked because they heard the gun fire earlier I was just looking at
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my notes for that information and I don't have that here Captain but my belief is that they locked the doors
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because they heard the gunfire and remember we had already mentioned that several of the businesses people came
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outside to see what was going on why they were hearing these these gunshots later some
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people would say that they thought that some of the noises were simply a car backfiring where I think with the
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grocery shop we have the situation where they came outside they saw the panic in
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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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free all right we are back cheers man cheers now we're going through this massacre that took place back in 1949
00:32:34
again this is before these types of shootings are unfortunately have become commonplace in today's society this was
00:32:44
really a rare occurrence back then what we have is this man who who seemingly is
00:32:51
completely lost it gone off the rails maybe the gate being stolen was the straw that broke the camel's back so to
00:32:59
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
00:33:07
eventually hears police sirens in the background now I've seen it reported captain that the response time in this
00:33:15
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
00:33:23
back a long time ago in history to try to piece these events together but part of that lengthy response time is for
00:33:32
several different reasons one it's 1949 not everybody's walking around with a cell phone and as we pointed out just
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before we went to the Break Even though some people were rushing outside to see what was going on it wasn't clear to
00:33:45
everybody what in fact was absolutely happening right we've already pointed out how rare this occurrence would be so
00:33:53
rare in fact that he is often referred to as the first mass murderer or the first mass murder event in US history
00:34:04
right so there's not a lot of protocol but just to reiterate something that you were talking about earlier was he had a
00:34:12
firing range or a target practice in his basement mhm and so a lot of people make
00:34:18
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
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he was he was prepared for this well before he was training in his in his basement and not only that the
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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
00:34:41
things that they were forced to do while over there they try not to reflect on that time period they want to try to
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forget it where with Howard it's much more difficult his time at War because he seemed
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to possibly even have enjoyed the Act of Killing while he was at War he kept meticulous notes about it
00:35:08
in his diary or journal and when he returned and I know it's not uncommon for people especially in World War II to
00:35:16
have returned with this collection of things that they took off of Nazi soldiers but he comes back with this
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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
00:35:32
little bit of folklore about the target practice in his mother's basement right but there seems to be some truth to it
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because part of the arguments that the cohens had with Howard was that he was too loud you know he's creating all this
00:35:49
noise he's firing guns in his basement he's playing his music incredibly loud but his side of the argument was well
00:35:56
the the cohens are incredibly loud and I've asked them to be quiet several times and so I'm only loud because
00:36:04
they're loud keep in mind they're not just neighbors they're neighbors that are separated by a wall separated by a
00:36:10
wall they share that backyard that yard space where Howard and his mother have the second gate put in because
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originally there was only one gate and the families were feuding over the gate who was using it people were leaving it
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open uh overnight and things of that nature so the unres put in their own gate so
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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
00:36:40
going to head back to his apartment yeah he flees back to his apartment because he can hear the sirens the police sirens
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off in the distance so he knows that they're converging in on this area this really what is simply two corners of
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East Camden and this is keep in mind how chaotic this all is this is a residential SL bus area of town There's
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businesses and there's plenty of Housing and apartments and such so this is kind
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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
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potentially a lot of victims right here just just footsteps outside of Howard unr's front door all in all unre kills
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13 people and injures three and this all before fleeing back to his apartment now
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once he's back at his apartment he's fairly quickly surrounded by police we mentioned the slow response time but
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even though it's a slow response time the response itself is pretty powerful and they're heavily armed there were up
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to 50 officers that surrounded his apartment Howard unre didn't just barricade himself inside of his
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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
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ammo but when he gets back to his house he has a he has a lot more weapons and a
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lot more ammo this is true and I'm going to post some pictures of these events on
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Twitter because there's one picture that is I hate to say this because we're talking about so Much Death and
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destruction and tragedy here but there is a picture during this gunfight with police that kind of cracks me up it
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almost in a way reminds me of the movie The Christmas Story Ralphie is dreaming about getting his BB gun and he has to
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fight off these would be burglars and and potential bad guys that are in his backyard right and he's shooting at them
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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
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coming from all angles and he's kind of taking them out it's more it's it's that
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but it's a reverse when you look at the shootout that that Howard has with police there are police officers that
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are some of them are holding automatic guns some of them are holding rifles some of them are holding handguns they
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got the place well surrounded there's even officers that are on the rooftop of Howard's apartment so that
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they could fire into the second floor window so they have this guy surrounded he's got nowhere to go and one thing
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that's strange and we've seen this time and time again throughout our dark history of these Mass killers that often
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times when surrounded or when they have a achieved their goal or got the revenge
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that they were seeking a lot of times they will end up killing themselves or committing suicide
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by having the police shoot them dead in Howard's situation he's returning gunfire with the police and eventually
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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
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is enough you got me surrounded and he comes out and they apprehend him right then and there and there's that picture
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that the captain was referring to earlier uh about some of the stuff that we will be posting of him standing there
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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
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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
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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
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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
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coming now the thing that we've unfortunately become all too used to in the United States is the frequency of
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these public Shooters and whenever this happens especially when there is a high kill rate we want to know who is to
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blame not just the shooter but what else is to blame in our society how could we
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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
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a clear answer in my opinion I think part of that is reflected in what we went through in the trailer from the
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FBI's crime classification manual that says in some of these types of cases and with some of these offenders we don't
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really know the motive they may not fully know the motive for some of their killings themselves now it looks to me
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like here in this situation captain that Howard unre understood why he killed some of these people but maybe why he
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didn't kill others some he was seeking revenge on others just happened to be there in the wrong place at the wrong
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time in fact it reminds me of a quote from the old TV show Criminal Minds from the fictitious detective on there Jason
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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
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talking about an offender like this or somebody that kills multiple people he says think of him as a living murder
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weapon his genetics load the gun his psychology aims it and the environment pulls the trigger now we do have some
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quotes from Howard unre himself and you mentioned he only had one gun he only had so much ammunition
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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
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had enough bullets and then he goes on to give us a little bit of insight as to possible
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motive for his rampage that morning morning he says quote when I came home last night and found my gate had been
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taken I decided to shoot all of them so I would get the right [Music] one New Jersey correspondent n maanik
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revisits the Walk of death and killer Howard unre before there was Coline or New Town there was Camden on the morning
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of September 6th 1949 28-year-old Howard unre dressed in a suit in Bow Tie stalked the 2300 block of River Road in
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the city's Kramer Hill section shooting and killing 13 people and injuring three
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among the victims a six-year-old boy getting a haircut on this hobby horse at the barber shop it became known as the
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Walk of death that was America apple pie right after we won the second world war
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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
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shoot him into the house after hearing gunshots unre a former Army Sharpshooter who had a target range in his basement
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kept meticulous records about neighbors he had run-ins with the top entry reads you dirty bum I wish you were dead 15
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years ago I spoke with one of the survivors of unre Rampage age the late Charles Cohen's parents and grandmother
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were murdered that day gunfire happened and when I walked out my grandmother was
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holding a phone in bed dead with blood coming out of her nose and face he hid in the closet feeling totally helpless
00:45:10
and he had to come out and see that horrible scene the reaction was pretty strong being as that was one of the
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first occasions of a mass murder of that of that type 80-year-old Len Irwin is a
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volunteer at the Camden County Historical Society where they keep memorabilia from the notorious crime
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Howard unre confessed and was declared criminally insane he died in 1988 after being confined to a mental hospital for
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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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