A peculiar fondness for “Crazy Ed” developed among them—similar to the popularity that Alferd Packer, the nineteenth-century cannibal, enjoys in Colorado, where the student cafeteria at the state university is named the “Alferd Packer Grill.”(A member of a six-man gold-hunting party that became snowbound in the Uncompaghre Mountains, Packer butchered and lived off the flesh of his companions. The legend goes that at his 1883 trial, the judge who sentenced him to hang declared in indignation, “Packer, there were only seven Democrats in all of Hinsdale County, and you ate five of them, you
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