Alfred Packer

Convicted of cannibalism after killing and eating five companions in the Colorado Territory.

Evidently Packer was amused when a dyslexic tattoo artist misspelled his name as "ALFERD" and it became sort of an in-joke.

Packer was the subject of the movie Cannibal! The Musical, the first live-action film by the creators of South Park.

timeline

`Nov 1873`	Alfred Packer and 20 others depart Provo, UT for the San Juan Mountains in the Colorado Territory.
`9 Feb 1874`	Alfred Packer and five other men break away from the rest of their group and head for Gunnison.
`6 Apr 1874`	Alfred Packer emerges from the woods alone.
`8 May 1874`	Alfred Packer signs his first confession.
`8 Aug 1874`	The corpses of Alfred Packer's five missing companions are found, two miles outside Lake City, CO.
`8 Aug 1874`	Alfred Packer escapes from jail.
`11 Mar 1883`	Fugitive Alfred Packer captured in Cheyenne, WY. Packer had been living under the alias John Schwartze.
`16 Mar 1883`	Alfred Packer signs his second confession.
`7 Aug 1897`	Alfred Packer signs his third confession.
`7 Jan 1901`	Alfred Packer paroled by the governor of Colorado.
`23 Apr 1907`	Alfred Packer dies and is buried in Littleton, CO.