AMERICA`S FIRST CANNIBAL SERIAL KILLER #history #crime #shorts

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Published Mar 21, 2024

Boone Helm, born in Kentucky in 1828, was an American mountain man, Old West gunfighter, and serial killer. His nickname was the “Kentucky Cannibal” for his admitted taste for eating human flesh, whether in survival situations or where he killed people purely for their meat.
He asked his cousin to accompany him to California. When he tried to back out, Helm murdered him and headed west alone, where he was captured and ended up in a mental asylum, but he managed to escape.
In California, he killed a rancher who had befriended him, then travelled to Oregon, where he resumed robbing, murdering and eating people.
In 1862, Helm gunned down an unarmed man named Dutch Fred in a saloon and fled.
He was eventually apprehended with the outlaw Henry Plummer and his gang, all of them sentenced to hang for their crimes. He bid his companions farewell, telling them that he would see them again in Hell, and as the executioner approached him, he exclaimed, “Let ‘er rip!” and took the leap from the gallows to his death.

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