Six decades after he killed 13 people in a shooting rampage in Camden, NJ, mass murderer Howard Unruh (above and right) passed away Monday in a New Jersey prison hospital, having never stood trial for his crime.
Walking along River Road in the Cramer Hill section of Camden on September 6th, 1949, Unruh -- a World War II veteran -- took out anyone who got in his way that day, and only stopped shooting when he ran out of ammunition.
Ron Dale was eight years old at the time and getting a haircut when the rampage began. Dale recalls that the courts consistently found Unruh mentally unfit to be tried for the carnage:
"People said that he was incompetent, but I don’t particularly like the fact that we paid an awful lot of money to keep this man in jail for all these years."
Dale still lives in the neighborhood and has kept a scrapbook of events related to the case.
Another man who lost his parents and grandmother in the rampage, and campaigned to keep Unruh incarcerated, passed away last month -- ironically, on the 60th anniversary of the murders.
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