Walk of Death no more
Howard Barton Unruh Dead: “Walk Of Death” Mass Murderer Who Killed 13 In 1949 Dies At 88
TRENTON, N.J. – Howard Barton Unruh, who killed 13 people as he walked the streets of Camden in a psychotic 1949 shooting spree that was the nation’s worst mass murder at the time, died Monday. He was 88.
Camden County Prosecutor Warren W. Faulk said Unruh died at 3:35 p.m. in a Trenton nursing facility after an extended illness.
Unruh had been confined in a state psychiatric hospital since the killings, which became known as the “Walk of Death.” Diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, he confessed to the killings and was judged mentally competent but never tried for the Sept. 6, 1949, massacre. </em>
