Littleton Cemetery, 6155 S. Prince St., Littleton, Colorado (Packer’s grave is under the tree near the second-most northern entrance.)
Colorado’s favorite illiterate cannibal ate the other four members of his gold-rushing party from Provo, Utah. Whether he killed them or not—he claimed he only defended himself from the true killer, then ate the carnage to survive—went with him to his grave in Littleton Cemetery. After his original confession in 1874, Packer (known as both Alfred and Alferd because of his own illiteracy) spent nearly a decade on the lam before being apprehended living under an alias in Cheyenne, Wyoming. However, his second incarceration was again cut short. After a newspaper reporter convinced the governor to commute Packer’s 40-year sentence in 1901, he was paroled lived out his remaining days in the Denver foothills—understandably—as a vegetarian.
Colorado’s favorite illiterate cannibal ate the other four members of his gold-rushing party from Provo, Utah. Whether he killed them or not—he claimed he only defended himself from the true killer, then ate the carnage to survive—went with him to his grave in Littleton Cemetery. After his original confession in 1874, Packer (known as both Alfred and Alferd because of his own illiteracy) spent nearly a decade on the lam before being apprehended living under an alias in Cheyenne, Wyoming. However, his second incarceration was again cut short. After a newspaper reporter convinced the governor to commute Packer’s 40-year sentence in 1901, he was paroled lived out his remaining days in the Denver foothills—understandably—as a vegetarian.
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