Oct. 14, 2025
142: Alfred Packer: The Man-Eater of Colorado
Jinkies, gang! This week Josh is leading us into the wild, snowy mountains of 1874 Colorado for one of American history’s most chilling survival stories—or is it a tale of cold-blooded murder?
Alfred Packer set out with five prospectors into the San Juan Mountains during one of the worst winters on record. Only Packer walked out alive. When the bodies were discovered months later, the evidence was… unmistakable. But was Packer a desperate man pushed to the edge by starvation, or a calculating killer who saw his companions as a meal ticket?
This is a story where truth is stranger—and darker—than fiction.
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