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Alferd Packer

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Alferd Griner Packer (January 21, 1842 – April 23, 1907) was an American prospector who confessed to cannibalism during the winter of 1874. [1]

83 relations: Alexander Pearce, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, American Civil War, Barbara Walters, Biographical film, Breckenridge, Colorado, Bud Grace, C. W. McCall, Cannibal Corpse, Cannibal! The Musical, Cannibalism, Carrie Nation, Cavalry, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Cleveland, Tennessee, Colorado, Colorado Mesa University, Colorado Supreme Court, Colt's Manufacturing Company, Comic strip, Confession (law), Convoy (song), Custodial sentence, Dad's Garage Theatre Company, Dashiell Hammett, Death metal, Dementia, Democratic Party (United States), Donner Party, Eaten Back to Life, Electron microscope, Epilepsy, Ex post facto law, Forensic identification, Forensic science, Fort Ontario, George Washington University, Hardboiled, Horror film, Human cannibalism, Iowa, Jefferson County, Colorado, Jury trial, Justice of the peace, LaGrange County, Indiana, Lake City, Colorado, Littleton, Colorado, Macabre (band), Malpractice, Manslaughter, ..., Matt Stone, Montrose, Colorado, Morbid Campfire Songs, Murder, National Press Club (United States), On My Way (Phil Ochs album), Ottumwa, Iowa, Ouray (Ute leader), Parole, Phil Ochs, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Piranha Club, Prison, Prospecting, Provo, Utah, Ravenous (1999 film), Regiment, Republican Party (United States), Robert Bergland, Rocky Mountains, Saguache, Colorado, South Park, Spectrograph, The Denver Post, The Legend of Alfred Packer, The Thin Man, Trey Parker, Troma Entertainment, Union (American Civil War), United States, University of Colorado Boulder, Vegetarianism, Winona, Minnesota. Expand index (33 more) »

Alexander Pearce

Alexander Pearce (1790 – 19 July 1824) was an Irish convict who was transported to Van Diemen's Land for seven years for theft.

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Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Allegheny County is a county in the southwest of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Barbara Walters

Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality.

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Biographical film

A biographical film, or biopic (abbreviation for biographical motion picture), is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people.

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Breckenridge, Colorado

The Town of Breckenridge is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Summit County, Colorado, United States.

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Bud Grace

Bud Grace (born c. 1944) is a cartoonist, who has worked on the comic strip Ernie, whose title was later changed to Piranha Club in the United States.

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C. W. McCall

William Dale Fries, Jr. (born November 15, 1928), is an American singer, activist and politician best known by his stage name C. W. McCall and for his truck-themed outlaw country songs.

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Cannibal Corpse

Cannibal Corpse is an American Brutal death metal band from Buffalo, New York, now based in Tampa, Florida.

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Cannibal! The Musical

Cannibal! The Musical (originally known as Alferd Packer: The Musical) is a 1993 American independent black comedy horror musical film directed, written, produced, co-scored by and starring Trey Parker while studying at the University of Colorado at Boulder, before reaching fame with South Park alongside his friend Matt Stone who also stars in and produced the film.

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Cannibalism

Cannibalism is the act of one individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food.

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Carrie Nation

Carrie Amelia Nation (forename sometimes spelled Carry; November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911) was an American woman who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition.

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Cavalry

Cavalry (from the French cavalerie, cf. cheval 'horse') or horsemen were soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback.

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Cheyenne, Wyoming

Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming and the county seat of Laramie County.

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Cleveland, Tennessee

Cleveland is a city in Bradley County, Tennessee, United States.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Colorado Mesa University

Colorado Mesa University (CMU), formerly known as Mesa State College, is a public comprehensive university in Grand Junction, Colorado.

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Colorado Supreme Court

The Colorado Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Colt's Manufacturing Company

Colt's Manufacturing Company, LLC (CMC, formerly Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company) is an American firearms manufacturer, founded in 1855 by Samuel Colt.

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Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

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Confession (law)

In the law of criminal evidence, a confession is a statement by a suspect in crime which is adverse to that person.

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Convoy (song)

"Convoy" is a 1975 novelty song performed by C. W. McCall (a character co-created and voiced by Bill Fries, along with Chip Davis) that became a number-one song on both the country and pop charts in the US and is listed 98th among Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time.

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Custodial sentence

A custodial sentence is a judicial sentence, imposing a punishment consisting of mandatory custody of the convict, either in prison or in some other closed therapeutic or educational institution, such as a reformatory, (maximum security) psychiatry or drug detoxification (especially cold turkey).

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Dad's Garage Theatre Company

Dad's Garage Theatre Company, located at 569 Ezzard St in the Old 4th Ward in Atlanta, Georgia, was founded in 1995 by Chris Blair, Marc Cram, Sean Daniels, John Gregorio, David Keeton, Joseph Limbaugh, Matt Stanton, and Matt Young.

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Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist.

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Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.

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Dementia

Dementia is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long-term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember that is great enough to affect a person's daily functioning.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Donner Party

The Donner Party, or Donner–Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train in May 1846.

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Eaten Back to Life

Eaten Back to Life is the debut album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse.

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Electron microscope

An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination.

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Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a group of neurological disorders characterized by epileptic seizures.

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Ex post facto law

An ex post facto law (corrupted from) is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed, before the enactment of the law.

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Forensic identification

Forensic identification is the application of forensic science, or "forensics", and technology to identify specific objects from the trace evidence they leave, often at a crime scene or the scene of an accident.

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Forensic science

Forensic science is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainly—on the criminal side—during criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and criminal procedure.

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Fort Ontario

Fort Ontario is a historic fort situated by the City of Oswego, in Oswego County, New York in the United States of America.

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George Washington University

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Hardboiled

Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective stories).

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Horror film

A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences.

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Human cannibalism

Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.

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Iowa

Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.

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Jefferson County, Colorado

Jefferson County (Jeffco) is one of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Jury trial

A jury trial, or trial by jury, is a lawful proceeding in which a jury makes a decision or findings of fact.

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Justice of the peace

A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer, of a lower or puisne court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace.

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LaGrange County, Indiana

LaGrange County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana.

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Lake City, Colorado

The Town of Lake City is the Statutory Town that is the county seat and the only incorporated municipality in Hinsdale County, Colorado, United States.

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Littleton, Colorado

Littleton is the Home Rule Municipality in Arapahoe, Douglas, and Jefferson counties that is the county seat of Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States.

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Macabre (band)

Macabre is an American extreme metal band from Chicago, Illinois.

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Malpractice

In the law of torts, malpractice, also known as professional negligence, is an "instance of negligence or incompetence on the part of a professional".

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Manslaughter

Manslaughter is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder.

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Matt Stone

Matthew Richard Stone (born May 26, 1971) is an American actor, animator, writer, director, producer, singer, and songwriter.

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Montrose, Colorado

The City of Montrose is the Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Montrose County, Colorado, United States.

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Morbid Campfire Songs

Morbid Campfire Songs is an EP by the band Macabre Minstrels - a side project of Macabre.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.

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National Press Club (United States)

The National Press Club is a professional organization and business center for journalists and communications professionals.

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On My Way (Phil Ochs album)

On My Way is a 2010 album of previously unreleased Phil Ochs performances, originally recorded in 1963 by Roy Connors of The Highwaymen.

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Ottumwa, Iowa

Ottumwa is a city in and the county seat of Wapello County, Iowa, United States.

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Ouray (Ute leader)

Ouray (1833–August 24, 1880) was a Native American chief of the Tabeguache (Uncompahgre) band of the Ute tribe, then located in western Colorado.

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Parole

Parole is a temporary release of a prisoner who agrees to certain conditions before the completion of the maximum sentence period, originating from the French parole ("voice, spoken words").

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Phil Ochs

Philip David Ochs (December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was an American protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and distinctive voice.

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Philadelphia Folk Festival

The Philadelphia Folk Festival is a world-famous folk music festival held annually at Old Pool Farm in Upper Salford, Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Philadelphia.

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Piranha Club

Piranha Club is the title of a comic strip written and illustrated by Bud Grace.

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Prison

A prison, also known as a correctional facility, jail, gaol (dated, British English), penitentiary (American English), detention center (American English), or remand center is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state.

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Prospecting

Prospecting is the first stage of the geological analysis (second – exploration) of a territory.

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Provo, Utah

Provo is the third-largest city in Utah, United States.

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Ravenous (1999 film)

Ravenous is a 1999 Western black comedy horror-suspense film directed by Antonia Bird and starring Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeffrey Jones and David Arquette.

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Regiment

A regiment is a military unit.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Robert Bergland

Robert Selmer Bergland (born July 22, 1928) is an American politician.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Saguache, Colorado

The historic town of Saguache is a Statutory Town that is the county seat of Saguache County, Colorado, United States.

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South Park

South Park is an American adult animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and developed by Brian Graden for the Comedy Central television network.

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Spectrograph

A spectrograph is an instrument that separates light into a frequency spectrum and records the signal using a camera.

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The Denver Post

The Denver Post is a daily newspaper and website that has been published in the Denver, Colorado area since 1892.

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The Legend of Alfred Packer

The Legend of Alfred Packer is a 1980 American biographical Western adventure thriller film directed by Jim Roberson from a script by Burton Raffel.

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The Thin Man

The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in the December 1933 issue of Redbook.

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Trey Parker

Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker III (born October 19, 1969) is an American actor, animator, writer, director, producer, singer, and songwriter.

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Troma Entertainment

Troma Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz in 1974.

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Union (American Civil War)

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states (some with split governments and troops sent both north and south) that supported it.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Colorado Boulder

The University of Colorado Boulder (commonly referred to as CU or Colorado) is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

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Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, and the flesh of any other animal), and may also include abstention from by-products of animal slaughter.

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Winona, Minnesota

Winona is a city in and the county seat of Winona County, in the state of Minnesota.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alferd_Packer

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