The Adventures of Howard Unruh The FBI defines mass murders as murdering four or more persons with no “cooling-off period” usually, a mass murder happens in one location where one or more people killing many others. In the end of the mass murder either the murderer(s) either kill themselves or a police officer kills them. In the U.S alone there were 372 mass murders killing killing 475 and wounding 1,870. Today i am going to write about one of the most interesting mass murders in history. The man that committed the one of the first mass murder in history was named Howard Unruh.
Howard Unruh killed 13 people, 3 of them being children, and injured 3 in New Jersey during the year 1949. The shooting had been the worst shooting in the U.S at the time. He was confined at a psychiatric hospital in his hometown in Camden New Jersey the room he was confined in was high security built
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Unruh should have had to feel the exact same pain that any human that died because of his rage felt, it does not matter if he went “temporarily insane” if his insanity was so “temporary” then why was he planning weeks ahead of time? Why did he the list already ready of the people that he wanted to kill? Why was he able to spend the rest of his life in a Psychiatric hospital instead of being convicted of the crime he committed? Even after it all he was asked what was wrong with him, he clearly said nothing was wrong with him, that should be enough to actually convict him. It is not like he just stole something from the store, not at all. He took the life of not 1, not 2, but 13 innocent lives some of which were children who has not even been able to experience life yet. No human should be put in a situation where they fear for their lives or they get their lives taken because of someone's