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Here be dragons

            Published: March 8, 1982
Just after breakfast on Sept. 6, 1949, Howard B. Unruh - a brooding, dark-eyed veteran of World War II - loaded his souvenir German Luger and stepped into the neighborhood shoemaker's shop here to begin a lethal agenda he had set for himself the night before. 

''I had leveled the gun at him, neither of us said nothing, and I pulled the trigger,'' Mr. Unruh told a psychiatrist a month later. ''He had a funny look on his face, staggered back, and fell to the floor. I realized then he was still alive, so I fired into his head. I left hurriedly and went next door to the barber shop, and found him cutting a little boy's hair. The barber saw me with a gun and dodged around the barber chair, making it difficult for me to get a clear shot, but I finally hit him, walked over, and then shot into his head.'' 

In 20 minutes he murdered 13 people, the 6-year-old boy in the barber shop among them, and wounded three others. Some of the victims had just wandered into his frenzy; the rest he had marked for execution. 

In September 1980, a Superior Court judge ruled that Mr. Unruh's constitutional right to a speedy trial had been violated, and the court dismissed the murder and assault indictments pending against him. The Camden County Prosecutor's office appealed the decision. 

In 1979, Mr. Unruh asked to be transferred from the maximum security Vroom Building to a minimum security state psychiatric hospital in Marlboro, close to the home of his 82-year-old mother, Freda.

Taken on: October 14, 2007

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Camera: Kodak DX3500, f/4.5, 1/1000 sec, 6.1mm (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Kodak DX3500
Aperture:	f/4.5
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/1000)
Focal Length:	6.1mm
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Metering Mode:	Average
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Picasa 3.0
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