On this day, Jan. 7, in 1901, confessed cannibal Alferd Packer was paroled on a manslaughter conviction after the disappearance of a gold mining expedition. In April 1874, Packer was the lone miner to emerge from the Rocky Mountains, suspiciously fit after a brutal Colorado winter.
Packer said he lost five other prospectors in a blizzard, but later admitted killing Shannon Wilson Bell out of self-defense. He claimed Bell had killed and cannibalized their fellow miners.
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