Howard Unruh
The first thing that I found surprising about this case is that although it is technically more modern than the cases I have recently blogged about I found it harder to distinguish the truth from the fiction within the case. Howard Barton Unruh was 28 years old on the morning of September 6, 1949 when he stepped out of his Camden New Jersey home and began shooting. His rampage lasted twelve minutes, left 12 people dead and 4 wounded (one of the wounded would later die), before he returned home after hearing police sirens. Three of his victims were children, one of them was only two years old. Once home he barricaded himself and had a short standoff with police where gun fire was exchanged. After throwing in two cans of tear gas Howard surrendered willingly and calmly. He was taken to the local police department and interrogated for a few hours before it was discovered that at some point he had been shot in the thigh. He was taken to...