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Wow, thank you that's interesting coincidence. I wonder if he had schizophrenia. It usually comes to a head in young adulthood. From what I've heard, I am not an expert in that at all. It's heartbreaking that anyone had to die, but so sad when it's kids.
Made me think of the word "unruly" which seems to be the English or is it Anglicized equivalent of his name which I would think was German. But that was my end thought, when you named the next door neighbors at the start and one or two other victim's, their names made me think they were Jewish.....were they? He being of German heritage going by his name and having fought in that theater, might he have picked up or already had a resentment of them, maybe having learned a bit about the Nazi ideology while over there.
I got chills hearing the connection between the grandfather and granddaughter who both survived shootings hiding in closets! Great video as always! Edit: It has been 5 months since I posted this comment, and I still have NO clue what's going on in the replies.
@@anonymousguy1188 cute, you remembered to make a second post with this account this time; and I never said that those guilty adults don't exist. Keep changing your masks buddy.
@@anonymousguy1188 so now that a lot's changed since the disappearance of Drake and the rest of your "undying" think tank, along with your blank check, I'm left wondering how it feels to be in the shoes of whoever uses that account now. Sure some Michigan Doomer did a grassroots shooting on a ball chucker that the law refused to press charges on, along with his significant enabler; but it was just those two. Your kind saw the opportunity to go door to door and add more bodies to the kill count; and when the sheriff spoke the truth the sheriff wound up dead. You continue your little hijinks, but you and your kind are slipping severely. I'll simply ask this: how is that clock on the wall making you feel now?
This a good reminder that you never know what kind of people you live around. It’s best to treat your neighbors with respect and kindness. You never know how unstable someone can be.
that ain't the only reason to treat people with kindness and respect. in the case of unruh we have no idea if his gripes against his neighbors were based upon real events or some paranoid delusion.
I agree, but I think that even if everyone around him were respectful and civil, he probably would have been annoyed with them regardless and was bound to take action. Tragically, he didn't limit his aim to just those who wronged him, either. Sounds like he couldn't process what happened to him during the war and then dealing with having to live as a closeted homosexual. The guy was a powder keg waiting to go off.
Never heard of this and never heard anyone speak of it while growing up. I was born in 1956. The first mass shooting that I knew of and was old enough to remember distinctly and vividly is the The Texas Tower Massacre which involved a young Vietnam Marine veteran named Charles Whitman in the early 60s.
Charles Whitman - even though he did not realize it at the time - was dying from an inoperable brain tumor. If he was not killed by police that day, Whitman would have been dead within several weeks.
@@josephstevens9888 Right. In his suicide note; Charles Whitman requested an autopsy. During the autopsy; the coroner discovered that Whitman had a rather large tumor at the base of his brain stem, roughly the size of a pecan. Even today neurological experts disagree on whether or not the tumor could have caused Charles Whitman to commit the unspeakable acts of violence on August 1st, 1966.
Unruh was definitely a cold-blooded killer, but that last tie to the Parkland shooting is utterly chilling. Mr. Cohen must have been horrified that his granddaughter had to endure something he’d survived 69 years earlier.
Howard Unruh methodically listed every perceived insult and affront in his diaries, adding abbreviated notations such as RTS (Retaliate when Time Suitable) and DNDR (Do Not Delay Retaliation). Add to that his obsessive recording of his kills during his military service, and you have a horror story that eclipses most fiction of that genre.
Some people are "grievance collectors." They cannot let a perceived slight go. Their paranoia and sense of self get to them until they explode in anger.
@@oldfogey4679 Well generally it means restless literally not resting. So when discribing a disturbance it can be said as Unruhe, because there is something disturbing the Ruhe (silence/quiet/rest) or the status quo es the Ruhe is seen in that context as the norm. It's also used when discribing Riots or similar things.
The first mass killing seems to be the often forgotten Bath School disaster. Also known as the Bath School massacre, that was a series of violent dynamite blasts perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan, United States. The attacks killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults, and injured at least 58 other people.
I wonder if in pre dynamite times anyone went on sprees with swords? Seems likely, since mass knife attacks seem like they happen often in places without guns, like China. It seems to be a sick human condition. Pure evil, to be punished, avoided, but not just a political tool.
@@0hn0haha the samuri had a word for "testing" new weapons and tactics by killing unarmed civilians in the middle of the night - which was totally legal. The word is "Tsujigiri"
@@0hn0haha of course they did, they did waaaaaaay more then cause there was nobody to hold them accountable the way we have police and fbi and all that now
Well, I do believe this was intended as the first mass shooting as we would recognize today. Mass killing dates back to primitive humans. Some being perpetrated by governments, gangs, pirates, churches, and even ordinary town peoples. Some mass killings were political, others religious, some driven by nothing more than mass hysteria. The Massacre of Wounded knee saw US cavalry troops murder 800 unarmed native women and children. But that's far from the first. The Roman's made mass murder a part of their triumphs. And the tradition was cold blooded even by then, yet it had roots dating back to before the invention of writing.
@@Lukemasonmedia under the old code. Samurai were near untouchable. Only the nobility had more privileges. Samurai spent their entire lives mastering the art of war. Peasants were seen as disposable. For a Samurai to be convicted of a crime, they basically had to attack someone of an upper class, the merchants were given some protection, but peasants were little more than animals to the Samurai.
My father was in the military and actually started my active shooters response training very young, and explained in fact the military was the first to experience these types of issues and was a major concern, it's why not every walks around with a weapon all the time while in the military, only a select few carry a weapon and have access to the weapons locker key. He was a gunners mate and they actually do a lot of anti-terrorism active shooters training and the military has spent millions and millions on research on phycology on understanding-preventing this stuff and try to get people to self diagnose if they are having problems. The amount of stress they can be under is pretty intense and can be taxing even on a sound mind sometimes.
The empire is relentless on common people, cannon fodder for the machine...it's not normal to kill people, yet industry and Holly weird promote it...morale of story...be careful whom you mess with, be nice...tick, tick, tick like on a clock....
Now you don't have to be military? EVERYONE is walking around with assault weapons? And America is always shocked at these slaughters that keep happening.....WHY?? I am the granddaughter, daughter AND mother of full time defence force personnel....and I have never had an active shooting drill in my life?Nor do I know anyone that has? Why? Because I live in Australia. And when I watch ...day after day. week after week...people being slaughtered in schools, shops, concerts. banks...in America..I am so glad I live here. To me, the fact America does NOTHING about it, is insane. Many states have made it easier to acquire them. After a mass shooting here IN 1996, it took13 weeks for strict new laws and a gun buy back to happen? Guess how many stranger on stranger mass shootings we have had since? NONE. I N 27 years. ZERO America can't go a week.
@Suzy Farnham well let's start with the facts here. Very few people have true assault rifles. (assault weapons don't exist) Most violent crime is done by people who shouldn't have had a gun and couldn't legally buy them.
@@suzyfarnham3165 How do you "buy back" 500 million firearms? How are you gonna take them?, Im not giving mine up, would you kill millions of people like me to take my firearms?
Interesting about the girl and grandfather that share virtually the same experience. I wonder if her grandfather spoke of that situation with his granddaughter prior to her experience?
Parkland was sketchy to say the least. The definite known offenders even got a friendly photo op on the cover of Time magazine. If Hogg faked his presence at the shooting according to concrete facts, and everyone on the cover with him was also in the video "during the shooting", then they were all guilty.
@@derchozenvun83 Manchurian Candidate is pretty much Schizophrenic American Propaganda (or fanfiction since it is written by some dude), or a exaggerated American explanation of Chinese PLA Psychological Warfare to encourage Enemy is surrender during the Korea War (simply by treating them nicely as much as their resources allows them so). Funny enough, because of Manchurian Candidate, the Americans decided to reenact such fiction by doing the horrifying MK Ultra experiments.
@@bosunbill9059 Drake and his kind are getting theirs quite badly. I'm chill with these replies now. You Sons Of Konami aren't getting to me after finding out that Fred actually got it real easy. A lot's going down, and you little followers are all tagged by those outside of my bounds for painful disposal. Again, I am *very* chill with all of this.
That was ridiculous. I suppose back then people just assumed you’d have to be insane to do this sort of thing. Diagnosis (diagnoses?) has come a long way since then.
Justice is not guaranteed in this life. Until Jesus returns, justice falls on exercising personal responsibility, and a modicum of self defense to protect each individual. Public indoctrination teaches you to defer to gvt forces( the tax you willingly pay for services), while making a sheep mentality to prevent the individual from actually protecting the community they live in. Good docile, educated sheep?!?!? Pay the the increasing tax, and believe!
I know and it's so vague ...like what if I kill a flea or a mosquito? We can assume it means other humans. Because it's kill or be itchy or even dead with some mosquitoes in other countries. Mosquitoes are a major killer.
@@rwentfordable its a book of morals, and a guide to live a good life. It is however twisted by those who seek to control. Without religion their would only be anarchy if there is no repercussions.
Thanks for this one! I thought it was going to be about Charles Whitman in 1966, but was pleased to see it was Howard Unruh instead, an incident now largely forgotten and well worth reviving.
Very interesting. The ending speaking about a parkland survivor being the daughter of the child hiding in the closest left me shocked for a moment. What a strange coincidence.
It is less of a coincidence because of how common mass shootings in America happen. 2023 an average of more than one mass shooting in American PER DAY! Keep weakening those gun laws though....
It’s not a coincidence, it’s called statistics. With the number of mass shooting in this country, there are more and more stories of these “coincidences” where there is some connection between shootings, etc.
I worked for a prominent forensic psychiatrist in NJ who performed Unruh's periodic Psychiatric reviews for the State. I became quite familiar with his story and him through my work transcribing the reports. My boss saw him every few years until he died at TPH.
Just found this channel recently and as someone who watches A LOT of crime related stuff on YT, your channel is by far my favourite. Also haven't heard of most of the cases you cover so that's an awesome bonus!
Pretty amazing and very well done. I've lived in New Jersey all my life and had heard of the Walk of Death decades ago. What I didn't know was that he was still alive as recently as 2009. Excellent job!
Ten commandments says something about not killing , pity he didn't read that bit . Most murdering bastards at least have the decency to kill themselves !
They could not carry a weapon at that time, actually that is still the case in New Jersey go across the river to Pennsylvania or Delaware you were going to carry permit and what are they supposed to do run home and go get their gun while getting shot to death
Wow! I’ve never heard of this case before. How devastating. But somehow you managed a pretty remarkable ending. What a great video. I’m sure I’ve commented before, but I really love your setting. And your storytelling is interesting and respectful, I enjoy your channel very much. 👍🏼☺️
I read about Unruh in a book, Bloodletters and Badmen, with mass murderers and serial killers the likes of which I had never heard of before. Another one was Ernest Ingenito, who didn't kill as many as I thought I remembered, but he went on a very peculiar killing spree against his in-laws.
I only live 5 miles from Camden,NJ and it’s crazy how this story has always been almost non existent here my whole life ;(46years) I only remember a Philly newspaper doing a story about it in the 90s and when he died it got little local coverage
Yeah. I'm still convinced that in occupied territories large parts of the population spent the rest of their lives with untreated PTSD, as did many of the soldiers on both sides. One was just expected to "get on with it", without "dwelling on the past".
Agreed with the PTSD issues and how societies ignored that part, but I don't think his case is related to PTSD that much. I know people who went to war and nobody writes down their kills. This guy was messed up, and war just gave him that push. That taste of killing.
@@LayllasLocker Exactly. That would be like saying people who got PTSD from gang rape, loss of family or injury from car wrecks, loss of home and pets and family from hurricanes,...would all go around murdering people. Nah. This guy was just a sick murderer.
@@hh7407 I don't think it is saying that, as the trauma of combat is quite distinct from those other examples, in none of which do people see daily loads of people being deliberately killed all around them by other people with firearms.
I wish we were family, I bet Thanksgiving with you would be spectacular! Video suggestion; do a video about your life! What made you come up with the channel? You are amazing. My favorite RUclipsr no doubt!
What's wrong with having a passion. The wrong part was his reaction and unable to move on after rejection/unable to get the position he wanted. Adolf Hitler too failed to enter Art School.. guess what he did next.
We now have a bewildering number of different definitions for "mass shooting". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting#Definitions The official law enforcement definition is fairly strict and meant to distinguish mass murders from other types of crime, such as terrorist attacks, drug and gang activity and even intra-family domestic murder. Many of the new media definitions set the bar very low in order to incite fear and thereby advance their authoritarian agenda.
Another great one, thank you. I’m glad the algorithm actually worked as it should and recommended your channel. I’ve been saving you up for a binge(so to speak) and today in Oz is rainy and cold for a November day, very gloomy and chilly. So I’m declaring a doona day, and looking forward to an interesting day.
The psychiatrists gave him that diagnosis because they could not believe that a sane person would do such a thing. However, there are evil 👿 people in this world 🌎. This creep was one of them. He developed a bloodlust during his military service.
Technically he was a spree killer not a mass shooter. A mass shooter has multiple targets in the same location, a spree killer has multiple targets in different locations that the killer must navigate to find the targets they seek.
@@Hann61669 that's not true, a simple Google search will reveal that most spree killers do it in the same day. Hence the name spree killing and not "casual 3 day weekend" killing or something like that
In a general sense, I have to say that your videos are truly excellent. I just subscribed, but I am really entertained and informed by your presentations.
the police "as always" turned up way after the fact he just gunned down a shit load of people in broad daylight, a bit friggin late to end his terrorist plans dont you think.
. If you care to listen to what he said, the Police messed up his plans. He said he would kill at least a few hundred that day like back in the war. So yea, his plans got FUBARED
@@thorfinthorfin3010 did you listen obviously no you didnt , lack of bullets messed up his plans. try to listen to whats being said before you try arguing with someone eh, just makes you look and sound ignorant.
@@inspectorcal ah yes cause police are suppose to have their spidey senses tingle as soon as someone is about to pull a trigger and immediately arrive on the scene before the gun can be fired from across the city/town like some superhero
@@____Nairod____ hmmmm i see you reply to a post from 2 months ago, well to answer you,,ahem,,yes you are almost right but in a less sarcastic way the POLICE should have acted when the first shot was heard but they didnt, mabe after the fifth shot was fired? naa still nothing, 20 fucking minutes and 13 dead bodies later then they show up and they only got to him because he ran out of ammo. so kindly go troll somewhere else more your age boy, "note to self" in future i refuse to hold a pleasant conversation with anybody who subscribes to that utter gobshite pewdiepie." peace and fack orf. lol.
It's sad to hear of yet another tragedy that could have been avoided by someone who cares recognizing the signs of mental sickness and doing whatever they could to help that person.
As true as your words are, unfortunately, back then, mental illness was no where near as recognized as it is today, and what would be red flags today, back then, were marked off as "eccentricities" or "quirks."
It is more about easy access to guns which America is famous for. Everybody gets mad. Most people even lose their temper from time to time. If it wasn't so fucking easy to have a gun laying around, maybe your anger would be settled in a more civil fashion?
@@drk321 No, because people still kill eachother and firearms are not the only way to do it. Taking the lives away from innocent law abiding people won't help anything, it's the people doing the killing that need to be targeted not the tools they use to do it. So many people are willing to give up their freedom for a minor false sense of security or feeling that they " did something " after a tragedy took place because they just don't understand the cost of freedom or fact that we will never be out of the woods. There will always be a possibility of our freedom being taken away without the 2A which is our first and best line of defense.
@@drk321 LOL! When's the last time you saw a gun just laying around... Tell me then, should we take away guns from the military? Should we take them away from the police and SWAT? What is one thing virtually every mass shooting has?: A lack of armed resistance. The only way your delusional theory would work is if every single gun in existence were to disappear. Gun restrictions have already been tried and it failed, there are still mass shootings in countries that have strict gun restrictions. It's time to move on from that outdated theory of yours and try to find another solution that will actually work.
Both my parents transported Howard from the luny bin to court they were both Camden County Sheriff officers at the time this was back in the 1980's . And one of Howard's child victims was my grandfather's cousin he was in the barber shop at the time I've been told.
Department of Veterans Affairs didn't exist until the late 80s, the Veterans Administration did but mental treatment was crap and the WW2 GI Bill only gave some money for tuition, it was vastly nowhere as good as the Post 9-11 GI Bill and mental health treatment now. PTSD wasn't even considered a thing until some Vets for Peace vets in the Carter Administration pushed to officially make it a thing, before that it was just "shell shock" and people didn't take it as seriously as PTSD was later taken. Semper Fi
Just discovered your channel & I'm hooked. I've was born & have lived in NJ my entire life & I don't believe I've heard of this tragic case. Thank you for sharing this despite the horrible story.
Grew up in South Jersey, not too far from Camden (my work commute took me through it daily until work became remote), and it still shocks me that I first heard about this in the early 2010s thanks to an article in Weird NJ. The whole area just doesn't talk about it.
I used to walk a beat on PA's death row down in Graterford SCI before it closed. PA's worst mass shooter in State history was one George Banks. Ironically, like myself, he was a Corrections Officer but from a different facility. I didn't enter corrections until twenty years after his spree. He never gave me any grief even though he wasn't particularly fond of whites. Even all those years later I noticed he had a very paranoid personality and was easily agitated. He really didn't like the muslim inmates and they used to push his buttons going through their daily prayer routine. They weren't "born and raised" muslims. It was just adopted. Anyhow, I don't know if he's still alive but he just went home one day and shot everything but the family pet. Ya just never know how many people walking right past you every day are whackjobs and how close they are to going over the edge.
Not the first time somebody has had lots of trouble adjusting to civilian life again after active duty combat . Lots and lots of people have been damaged by their time in military service, but it sounds like this man had problems which were sharpened by the killing he had to do in the war. We will always need a well trained military in this world. Until Jesus is here in person
Thank you for this. The next time some old fart blames mass shootings on millennials, I'm going to kindly remind him that the greatest generation started this madness.
@@thesadslav419 Lots of people dead, Massacre, Mass killings, Shootings. As long as you can throw, shoot or stab it, Doesnt really matter in the end does it.
I'm Irish but I'm a bit of a history buff. I'm also a competitive archer and had qualified to represent Ireland in Slovenia. My coach drove us there and back. We didn't wait for the closing ceremonies or posh dinner, instead we headed back via the beaches of Normandy. I happened to stand on the Pegasus bridge on its 70th anniversary. Nothing ever puts history into reality like doing a trip like that. I cried,... A lot.
First thanks for the biography. Most crime books don't go into details on the past of killers. However being a researcher of homicidal individuals, the service didn't cause him to become a mass murderer, it only served as a trigger. No pun intended. He was born to murder. His time in the military only inspired him to continue what he most desired. If the service was the catalyst, then we would have prisons overfilled with service men and women.
I think humans have a distinct nature of violence, no doubt based on our evolution and genetic similarity to apes. Many violent offenders are led by the old brain, the archaic barbaric part of the brain much concerned with fight or flight. Indeed this aspect is often triggered by depression, trauma and experiencing hard to process and often horrific events. Psychiatrists spend much of their treatment working to assist patients to think and live in the hypocampus, the upper forward more evolved area of the brain. But the past is strong and genetics sometimes cannot by tamed.
I dont understand how anyone could do something like this and not be considered insane. Maybe not insane to the level of being "excused" but either way its very far from normal behavior.
Legally insane means you can't tell right from wrong or properly understand the consequences of your actions. There's absolutely something wrong with this guy but he doesn't sound like someone who fits these particular criteria.
@@spaceylacey83 Right, today we have the ruling of "guilty, but mentally ill" to cover for this sort of case where the person flipped but *knew* what they were doing.
One lesson here is don't engage in petty harassment of a war veteran neighbor with PTSD and guns and a lot of pressure, along with probably being unhinged anyway. I learned at an early age to be respectful around the many combat veterans in my family and neighborhood. They mostly good men who kept themselves in check but as the old song goes "You don't spit into the wind, You don't tug on Superman's cape, You don't tug the mask off the old Lone Ranger, and you don't mess around with Jim". By the way, by American standards carrying a Luger with two magazines, a six inch knife and a tear gas pen(?) is not being heavily armed. Adding a semiautomatic rifle and/or a shotgun would get you closer. He was just "armed".
Hi! New sub here, hope you see this. I love your channel and I'll be binge-watching all day. In light of the current subject I thought you may be interested in The Bath School Disaster - which would be the first school mass murder in 1927, the first of its kind in the US (however I don't believe he used any guns). 38 children and 6 adults were killed with many others seriously wounded. There is also a book about it, though I've never read it so YMMV: it's called Maniac, by Harold Schechter.
He did use a rifle. After the explosions he waited outside for people to come out and the fire department to get there. He ended up shooting explosives in his car to off himself
@@darrelchovanec9150 I know man. Some people simply hear about things before others. Half the children nowadays don't even know about 9/11, even though it's something most *people* statistically know about
I always thought the first mass shooter was Charles Whitman, I wonder if he knew anything of Unruh. I also wonder why the Dr’s didn’t release the records until 2012, were they worried about copycats or more concerned over misdiagnosis after later review? Chilling story indeed, especially the ending. Well done video, first time watching I’ll be viewing more.
Whitman had a brain tumour. He knew something was wrong with him. And, he was right. I doubt anything other than the tumour actually had any impact on what he did that day.
Watching this from California. A school shooting happened today. This is our reality. When you go into a store or school you note your ways out and generally feel vulnerable. My cousin survived one in SO-CAL a few years ago. The shooting happened right outside the school and he was in his classroom (he's a teacher) and he had to barricade his classroom.
The weapons used by Camden Police at the time were Thompson Submachine Guns, This weapon was also used heavily in World War 2 in all theatres including Howard's squad mates fighting in Europe
It disgusts me that he got to live out his days after ruining so many lives. What a twisted society this is. It rewards murderers with permanent free food.
Well, NJ has always been a bleeding-heart blue state that doesnt hold criminals accountable. If this had happened in 40 other states back then he would have gotten the Death Penalty.
I wonder if it was a different story in that era for the UK? Since they have way stricter gun laws now, and yeah you can murder with many things, but was there any mass shooters before or despite of the gun laws?
The first massacre/mass shooting immediately caused the U.K. to tighten gun restrictions, this happened in hungerford in the 80s. I think there was another massacre in a primary school here too around the 90s maybe but I can’t remember if that was a shooting
Technically he did get his ambition to be a government employee, after all any military service is an extension of the government in both peacetime and war.
We reference this mass shooting in our active killer training. Most people think that active killer situations are a relatively new phenomenon. Unfortunately, they’re not!
I've met people with Schizophrenia. People with Schizophrenia are more likely to fall victim to a crime then commit one. The way Unruh was described sounds more like he was a soziopath/psychopath.
The first mass shooting in the US may have been on December 29, 1890, when the US Calvary murdered 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
It reminded me about the northeastern Rambo from Brazil. He was a police officer who went on a killing spree after his wife told everybody in his neighborhood that she had caught him on bed with other guy. Everybody mocked him in town, especially his father-in-law.
Really weird that so many people seem to dismiss this as a factor in his mental break. He was probably unstable anyway but giving him the skill and opportunity to kill had to contribute to his later actions.
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RUclips clutching their hypocritical pearls? Must be a day ending in "Y"...
In the beginning of your videos say how great Joe Biden is. RUclips will leave the videos up, and they will promote it more. LET'S GO BRANDON !!!
(the video description says september 16th, not 6th, just fyi.)
Let's go Brandon!
Omg I was racking my brain trying to figure out where I just watched this story! 😂 Ofc it was here! My new favorite channel!
Fun fact: his last name Unruh is german for disturbance, unrest
Wow, thank you that's interesting coincidence. I wonder if he had schizophrenia. It usually comes to a head in young adulthood. From what I've heard, I am not an expert in that at all.
It's heartbreaking that anyone had to die, but so sad when it's kids.
Hahaha I didn't even notice that :D
Made me think of the word "unruly" which seems to be the English or is it Anglicized equivalent of his name which I would think was German. But that was my end thought, when you named the next door neighbors at the start and one or two other victim's, their names made me think they were Jewish.....were they? He being of German heritage going by his name and having fought in that theater, might he have picked up or already had a resentment of them, maybe having learned a bit about the Nazi ideology while over there.
All of a sudden I'm starting to hear the theme tune from the Twilight Zone in the background..😜
@@ahuddleston6512 It was an X-File episode called...Unruhe.
I got chills hearing the connection between the grandfather and granddaughter who both survived shootings hiding in closets!
Great video as always!
Edit: It has been 5 months since I posted this comment, and I still have NO clue what's going on in the replies.
Considering the conflict between facts and the media narrative in regards to Parkland, I'm thinking that Unruh was the original Manchurian Candidate.
@@derchozenvun83 its people like you that deserve to be the victims of these sprees. Not the innocent kids you all claim didn't exist etc
@@anonymousguy1188 cute, you remembered to make a second post with this account this time; and I never said that those guilty adults don't exist. Keep changing your masks buddy.
wow so did i crazy right
@@anonymousguy1188 so now that a lot's changed since the disappearance of Drake and the rest of your "undying" think tank, along with your blank check, I'm left wondering how it feels to be in the shoes of whoever uses that account now. Sure some Michigan Doomer did a grassroots shooting on a ball chucker that the law refused to press charges on, along with his significant enabler; but it was just those two. Your kind saw the opportunity to go door to door and add more bodies to the kill count; and when the sheriff spoke the truth the sheriff wound up dead. You continue your little hijinks, but you and your kind are slipping severely.
I'll simply ask this: how is that clock on the wall making you feel now?
This a good reminder that you never know what kind of people you live around. It’s best to treat your neighbors with respect and kindness. You never know how unstable someone can be.
Isn't that the truth boss?
that ain't the only reason to treat people with kindness and respect. in the case of unruh we have no idea if his gripes against his neighbors were based upon real events or some paranoid delusion.
You could be killed regardless.
I agree, but I think that even if everyone around him were respectful and civil, he probably would have been annoyed with them regardless and was bound to take action. Tragically, he didn't limit his aim to just those who wronged him, either. Sounds like he couldn't process what happened to him during the war and then dealing with having to live as a closeted homosexual. The guy was a powder keg waiting to go off.
Paranoid personality disorder people tend to take everything personally
Never heard of this and never heard anyone speak of it while growing up. I was born in 1956. The first mass shooting that I knew of and was old enough to remember distinctly and vividly is the The Texas Tower Massacre which involved a young Vietnam Marine veteran named Charles Whitman in the early 60s.
Yeah, it's seemingly always ex-military involved with such incidents.
He was never in Viet Nam. I think the Marines booted him out for being crazy.
@@MrTruckerf
You're right about his not serving in Vietnam. But he served 18 months in the Marines and was stationed at Guantanamo Bay.
Charles Whitman - even though he did not realize it at the time - was dying from an inoperable brain tumor. If he was not killed by police that day, Whitman would have been dead within several weeks.
@@josephstevens9888 Right. In his suicide note; Charles Whitman requested an autopsy. During the autopsy; the coroner discovered that Whitman had a rather large tumor at the base of his brain stem, roughly the size of a pecan. Even today neurological experts disagree on whether or not the tumor could have caused Charles Whitman to commit the unspeakable acts of violence on August 1st, 1966.
Unruh was definitely a cold-blooded killer, but that last tie to the Parkland shooting is utterly chilling. Mr. Cohen must have been horrified that his granddaughter had to endure something he’d survived 69 years earlier.
Nice
@@ScVmDoZeR8015 nice what weirdo
@@Lukemasonmedia he's a redditor who laughs st the number 69, pay him no attention
@@Dankster-yo8xv Bold of you to assume redditors have any sense of humor.
@@ScVmDoZeR8015 nice
Howard Unruh methodically listed every perceived insult and affront in his diaries, adding abbreviated notations such as RTS (Retaliate when Time Suitable) and DNDR (Do Not Delay Retaliation). Add to that his obsessive recording of his kills during his military service, and you have a horror story that eclipses most fiction of that genre.
Some people are "grievance collectors." They cannot let a perceived slight go. Their paranoia and sense of self get to them until they explode in anger.
It ecplises all fiction because it's real.
@@alexcisneros2980 That's exactly what I meant. Not only can the truth be stranger than fiction... it can be more terrifying than fiction.
@@roscoewhite3793 if that's "exactly what you meant" prove it to me: kiss me. 😚
@@alexcisneros2980 I admit I said it eclipses *most* horror fiction, not all fiction. Maybe I should have left out "exactly".
What a coincidence….. Unruhe means restlessness in my language. Lots of love from Germany. Great channel btw.
Anja Unruh doesn't mean unrest or disturbance?
Very interesting
@@oldfogey4679 Well generally it means restless literally not resting. So when discribing a disturbance it can be said as Unruhe, because there is something disturbing the Ruhe (silence/quiet/rest) or the status quo es the Ruhe is seen in that context as the norm. It's also used when discribing Riots or similar things.
@@oldfogey4679 they are all the same basically. Different words describing the same thing.
Those Germans he killed rode his ass to hell!!!
The first mass killing seems to be the often forgotten Bath School disaster. Also known as the Bath School massacre, that was a series of violent dynamite blasts perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan, United States. The attacks killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults, and injured at least 58 other people.
I wonder if in pre dynamite times anyone went on sprees with swords? Seems likely, since mass knife attacks seem like they happen often in places without guns, like China.
It seems to be a sick human condition. Pure evil, to be punished, avoided, but not just a political tool.
@@0hn0haha the samuri had a word for "testing" new weapons and tactics by killing unarmed civilians in the middle of the night - which was totally legal. The word is "Tsujigiri"
@@0hn0haha of course they did, they did waaaaaaay more then cause there was nobody to hold them accountable the way we have police and fbi and all that now
Well, I do believe this was intended as the first mass shooting as we would recognize today. Mass killing dates back to primitive humans. Some being perpetrated by governments, gangs, pirates, churches, and even ordinary town peoples. Some mass killings were political, others religious, some driven by nothing more than mass hysteria. The Massacre of Wounded knee saw US cavalry troops murder 800 unarmed native women and children. But that's far from the first. The Roman's made mass murder a part of their triumphs. And the tradition was cold blooded even by then, yet it had roots dating back to before the invention of writing.
@@Lukemasonmedia under the old code. Samurai were near untouchable. Only the nobility had more privileges. Samurai spent their entire lives mastering the art of war. Peasants were seen as disposable. For a Samurai to be convicted of a crime, they basically had to attack someone of an upper class, the merchants were given some protection, but peasants were little more than animals to the Samurai.
My father was in the military and actually started my active shooters response training very young, and explained in fact the military was the first to experience these types of issues and was a major concern, it's why not every walks around with a weapon all the time while in the military, only a select few carry a weapon and have access to the weapons locker key. He was a gunners mate and they actually do a lot of anti-terrorism active shooters training and the military has spent millions and millions on research on phycology on understanding-preventing this stuff and try to get people to self diagnose if they are having problems. The amount of stress they can be under is pretty intense and can be taxing even on a sound mind sometimes.
The empire is relentless on common people, cannon fodder for the machine...it's not normal to kill people, yet industry and Holly weird promote it...morale of story...be careful whom you mess with, be nice...tick, tick, tick like on a clock....
Now you don't have to be military? EVERYONE is walking around with assault weapons? And America is always shocked at these slaughters that keep happening.....WHY?? I am the granddaughter, daughter AND mother of full time defence force personnel....and I have never had an active shooting drill in my life?Nor do I know anyone that has? Why? Because I live in Australia. And when I watch ...day after day. week after week...people being slaughtered in schools, shops, concerts. banks...in America..I am so glad I live here. To me, the fact America does NOTHING about it, is insane. Many states have made it easier to acquire them. After a mass shooting here IN 1996, it took13 weeks for strict new laws and a gun buy back to happen? Guess how many stranger on stranger mass shootings we have had since? NONE. I N 27 years. ZERO
America can't go a week.
Have the shootings are fiction or more...all empires die anyway...and a new order takes it place.
@Suzy Farnham well let's start with the facts here. Very few people have true assault rifles. (assault weapons don't exist) Most violent crime is done by people who shouldn't have had a gun and couldn't legally buy them.
@@suzyfarnham3165 How do you "buy back" 500 million firearms? How are you gonna take them?, Im not giving mine up, would you kill millions of people like me to take my firearms?
Interesting about the girl and grandfather that share virtually the same experience.
I wonder if her grandfather spoke of that situation with his granddaughter prior to her experience?
I thought so too. If that’s the case, thank god she remembered what he said and did the same thing!
He must have.
@@PoppyUr exactly! Such a crazy coincidence isn't it!?
Parkland was sketchy to say the least. The definite known offenders even got a friendly photo op on the cover of Time magazine.
If Hogg faked his presence at the shooting according to concrete facts, and everyone on the cover with him was also in the video "during the shooting", then they were all guilty.
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It’s pretty mind blowing how both the kids who hid in closets are related.
Especially considering what went down at Parkland vs the media's narrative. Was Unruh the original Manchurian Candidate?
@@derchozenvun83
Manchurian Candidate is pretty much Schizophrenic American Propaganda (or fanfiction since it is written by some dude), or a exaggerated American explanation of Chinese PLA Psychological Warfare to encourage Enemy is surrender during the Korea War (simply by treating them nicely as much as their resources allows them so).
Funny enough, because of Manchurian Candidate, the Americans decided to reenact such fiction by doing the horrifying MK Ultra experiments.
@@bosunbill9059 Drake and his kind are getting theirs quite badly. I'm chill with these replies now. You Sons Of Konami aren't getting to me after finding out that Fred actually got it real easy. A lot's going down, and you little followers are all tagged by those outside of my bounds for painful disposal. Again, I am *very* chill with all of this.
Not a single closet case joke.
Look how woke we are youtube.
You should be proud!
Not really. She likely remembered what her grandfather had said about how he survived a killing spree and did the same.
And he got to live to be an old man. There’s no justice in this world
He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was placed in an asylum instead of jail
That was ridiculous. I suppose back then people just assumed you’d have to be insane to do this sort of thing. Diagnosis (diagnoses?) has come a long way since then.
NONE
Only in the u.s.
Justice is not guaranteed in this life. Until Jesus returns, justice falls on exercising personal responsibility, and a modicum of self defense to protect each individual.
Public indoctrination teaches you to defer to gvt forces( the tax you willingly pay for services), while making a sheep mentality to prevent the individual from actually protecting the community they live in. Good docile, educated sheep?!?!? Pay the the increasing tax, and believe!
"…spent his days reading the Bible." Forgive me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t it say something about: 'Thou shalt not kill'?
If anyone uses an ancient fantasy novel for moral guidance then the best place for them is in an institution.
@@rwentfordable Internet atheist moment.
I know and it's so vague ...like what if I kill a flea or a mosquito? We can assume it means other humans. Because it's kill or be itchy or even dead with some mosquitoes in other countries. Mosquitoes are a major killer.
@@rwentfordable its a book of morals, and a guide to live a good life. It is however twisted by those who seek to control. Without religion their would only be anarchy if there is no repercussions.
It has over 200 clauses stating that killing is okay, only one says otherwise.
The first Red flag was his desire to be a government employee... Those people are dead inside.
dont trust kids who want to be cops
@TheSpicyPolitician OH NO NOT SCIENCE
@@kenetickups6146 that's not science... its poly Sci. Has nothing to do with science
@@xh0rn3rx How?
lol
Thanks for this one! I thought it was going to be about Charles Whitman in 1966, but was pleased to see it was Howard Unruh instead, an incident now largely forgotten and well worth reviving.
Very interesting. The ending speaking about a parkland survivor being the daughter of the child hiding in the closest left me shocked for a moment. What a strange coincidence.
Maybe that family is cursed
The same spirit is still hunting them it seems
That's because they are BS "events" just like Jussie Smollett! Thank you for playing!
It is less of a coincidence because of how common mass shootings in America happen. 2023 an average of more than one mass shooting in American PER DAY! Keep weakening those gun laws though....
It’s not a coincidence, it’s called statistics. With the number of mass shooting in this country, there are more and more stories of these “coincidences” where there is some connection between shootings, etc.
I'm not at all surprised that someone who *wanted* to be a government employee was a crazy murderer.
I get it. Just look at hate groups like the klan, plenty of them were police officers, judges, etc all to hurt other people.
@@genieglasslamp5028 Like Robert Byrd, eulogized by Joe Biden at byrd's funeral.
@@1frogass1 You forgot to mention how Mitch McConnell also eugolized Byrd, plus wrote a in memorium for him dicussing their friendship.
@@davidprice7075 He is also a POS that does not care about the country, he is a lot like Biden ,they're out for themselves.
@@1frogass1 Just like Donald Trump… He made hundreds millions off the US government while president.
I worked for a prominent forensic psychiatrist in NJ who performed Unruh's periodic Psychiatric reviews for the State. I became quite familiar with his story and him through my work transcribing the reports. My boss saw him every few years until he died at TPH.
Just found this channel recently and as someone who watches A LOT of crime related stuff on YT, your channel is by far my favourite. Also haven't heard of most of the cases you cover so that's an awesome bonus!
Imagine that! Cases I’ve never heard of!… I love true crime too, but I’m getting tired of the same cases being cycled through. Good point.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this mass shooting. Thank you Paul for always delivering!
Spent time reading the bible….A common theme among psychos. Just sayin.
I had always heard that the Texas Tower shooting was the first. Thanks for setting me straight.
That happened in 1966. This mass shooting was in 1949.
There were also many mass shootings in the 1920's and 1930's this wasn't even close to the first mass shooting.
@@joshsmith7176 i guess mass shootings fell under the same label as massacres back then
Go look at some old 1910s-1930s nyc newspapers, you’d be surprised how many you’d find
@@joshsmith7176 Yes, the St. Valentine's massacre of 1929 as one example.
I love the underlying irony of the stories you cover... I had never heard of this story until today, and I thank you for the knowledge.
Pretty amazing and very well done. I've lived in New Jersey all my life and had heard of the Walk of Death decades ago. What I didn't know was that he was still alive as recently as 2009. Excellent job!
This channel is insanely underrated.
By who exactly?
@@johnnycash1365 everyone?
@@baderalquood7955 over 7 billion people on the planet and I have not seen or heard 1
Ten commandments says something about not killing , pity he didn't read that bit . Most murdering bastards at least have the decency to kill themselves !
Now i wish more people had guns. Probably would've been able to defend themselves
They could not carry a weapon at that time, actually that is still the case in New Jersey go across the river to Pennsylvania or Delaware you were going to carry permit and what are they supposed to do run home and go get their gun while getting shot to death
Wow! I’ve never heard of this case before. How devastating. But somehow you managed a pretty remarkable ending. What a great video.
I’m sure I’ve commented before, but I really love your setting. And your storytelling is interesting and respectful, I enjoy your channel very much. 👍🏼☺️
Thank you Sara! Really glad that people are enjoying the videos :)
I read about Unruh in a book, Bloodletters and Badmen, with mass murderers and serial killers the likes of which I had never heard of before.
Another one was Ernest Ingenito, who didn't kill as many as I thought I remembered, but he went on a very peculiar killing spree against his in-laws.
First hearing about this myself.
First Time I’m hearing about this man. Thank you.
I only live 5 miles from Camden,NJ and it’s crazy how this story has always been almost non existent here my whole life ;(46years) I only remember a Philly newspaper doing a story about it in the 90s and when he died it got little local coverage
I visited Camden in 2011. It was complete anarchy. The police were non existent
Yeah, first im ever hearing about it myself.
I’m 10 min from Camden currently
I feel bad for you
That sucks man
Sickening to know he wasn't killed for this, but also tragic that PTSD wasn't treated at all then.
Yeah. I'm still convinced that in occupied territories large parts of the population spent the rest of their lives with untreated PTSD, as did many of the soldiers on both sides. One was just expected to "get on with it", without "dwelling on the past".
Agreed with the PTSD issues and how societies ignored that part, but I don't think his case is related to PTSD that much. I know people who went to war and nobody writes down their kills. This guy was messed up, and war just gave him that push. That taste of killing.
@@LayllasLocker Exactly. That would be like saying people who got PTSD from gang rape, loss of family or injury from car wrecks, loss of home and pets and family from hurricanes,...would all go around murdering people. Nah. This guy was just a sick murderer.
@@hh7407 I don't think it is saying that, as the trauma of combat is quite distinct from those other examples, in none of which do people see daily loads of people being deliberately killed all around them by other people with firearms.
He was also was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenia. He was also a pretty aggressive killer in the buldge
I wish we were family, I bet Thanksgiving with you would be spectacular!
Video suggestion; do a video about your life! What made you come up with the channel? You are amazing. My favorite RUclipsr no doubt!
Thank you for your kind words! 😁🙏 Hmmm, that's an interesting idea, I've certainly a few stories I'd like to share!
@@WellINever we would absolutely love to hear them! What drove the man, the myth, the legend??? The suspense is unreal!
Kilts and whiskey. Lol. Great channel
the most shocking thing about this is that there were enough TV's around in the 40's to be a television repairman
I can imagine it was a really high paid job serving rich people, only needing to do a few jobs a year to make a living.
@@rwentfordable for sure!cutting edge technology 🤓
Richard Wentford The bulbs in old TVs used to go out quite regularly.
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive Modern tv break just by being blown the wrong way. By a little breeze.
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive I think you mean tubes.
His ambition was to become a “government employee”? That’s what’s known as a telltale sign.
What's wrong with having a passion. The wrong part was his reaction and unable to move on after rejection/unable to get the position he wanted. Adolf Hitler too failed to enter Art School.. guess what he did next.
There are also a few mass shootings before this in the 20s, but not all of those were a single shooter. Edit: this channel is amazing by the way!
We now have a bewildering number of different definitions for "mass shooting".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting#Definitions
The official law enforcement definition is fairly strict and meant to distinguish mass murders from other types of crime, such as terrorist attacks, drug and gang activity and even intra-family domestic murder.
Many of the new media definitions set the bar very low in order to incite fear and thereby advance their authoritarian agenda.
Another great one, thank you. I’m glad the algorithm actually worked as it should and recommended your channel. I’ve been saving you up for a binge(so to speak) and today in Oz is rainy and cold for a November day, very gloomy and chilly. So I’m declaring a doona day, and looking forward to an interesting day.
The psychiatrists gave him that diagnosis because they could not believe that a sane person would do such a thing. However, there are evil 👿 people in this world 🌎. This creep was one of them. He developed a bloodlust during his military service.
What a twist at the end. He probably had told her stories of how he had survived and thankfully took that lesson to heart.
Technically he was a spree killer not a mass shooter. A mass shooter has multiple targets in the same location, a spree killer has multiple targets in different locations that the killer must navigate to find the targets they seek.
Nah. This one is considered a mass shooter. Spree killers do it days apart
Mark Barton,George Hennard,James Oliver Huberty.
@@plawson8577 Mark Barton was a spree killer, the other 2 were mass shooters both of their victims all shot at single locations, restaurants
depends on what you define location as
@@Hann61669 that's not true, a simple Google search will reveal that most spree killers do it in the same day. Hence the name spree killing and not "casual 3 day weekend" killing or something like that
Mags not clips
I grew up in Camden and knew Frank Engel. Frank swore he shot Unruh in the butt and everyone believed him.
In the Chambersburg Trenton areas this guy was like an urban legend. The King of Ward two?
That bit about George Cohen & his granddaughter hiding in closets...😳😬
That's a oof and a yikes
Especially considering how conflicted the facts were with the Parkland narrative. It makes one wonder if this guy was the first Manchurian Candidate.
In a general sense, I have to say that your videos are truly excellent. I just subscribed, but I am really entertained and informed by your presentations.
"Youve done your species proud" love that line. Greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹
Kudos to the Police who ran into gunfire and ended this terrorists plans.
the police "as always" turned up way after the fact he just gunned down a shit load of people in broad daylight, a bit friggin late to end his terrorist plans dont you think.
. If you care to listen to what he said, the Police messed up his plans. He said he would kill at least a few hundred that day like back in the war. So yea, his plans got FUBARED
@@thorfinthorfin3010 did you listen obviously no you didnt , lack of bullets messed up his plans. try to listen to whats being said before you try arguing with someone eh, just makes you look and sound ignorant.
@@inspectorcal ah yes cause police are suppose to have their spidey senses tingle as soon as someone is about to pull a trigger and immediately arrive on the scene before the gun can be fired from across the city/town like some superhero
@@____Nairod____ hmmmm i see you reply to a post from 2 months ago, well to answer you,,ahem,,yes you are almost right but in a less sarcastic way the POLICE should have acted when the first shot was heard but they didnt, mabe after the fifth shot was fired? naa still nothing, 20 fucking minutes and 13 dead bodies later then they show up and they only got to him because he ran out of ammo. so kindly go troll somewhere else more your age boy, "note to self" in future i refuse to hold a pleasant conversation with anybody who subscribes to that utter gobshite pewdiepie." peace and fack orf. lol.
You have a very interesting and engaging storytelling. Great work.
It's sad to hear of yet another tragedy that could have been avoided by someone who cares recognizing the signs of mental sickness and doing whatever they could to help that person.
As true as your words are, unfortunately, back then, mental illness was no where near as recognized as it is today, and what would be red flags today, back then, were marked off as "eccentricities" or "quirks."
It is more about easy access to guns which America is famous for. Everybody gets mad. Most people even lose their temper from time to time. If it wasn't so fucking easy to have a gun laying around, maybe your anger would be settled in a more civil fashion?
@@drk321
No, because people still kill eachother and firearms are not the only way to do it.
Taking the lives away from innocent law abiding people won't help anything, it's the people doing the killing that need to be targeted not the tools they use to do it.
So many people are willing to give up their freedom for a minor false sense of security or feeling that they " did something " after a tragedy took place because they just don't understand the cost of freedom or fact that we will never be out of the woods.
There will always be a possibility of our freedom being taken away without the 2A which is our first and best line of defense.
@@drk321 LOL! When's the last time you saw a gun just laying around... Tell me then, should we take away guns from the military? Should we take them away from the police and SWAT? What is one thing virtually every mass shooting has?: A lack of armed resistance. The only way your delusional theory would work is if every single gun in existence were to disappear. Gun restrictions have already been tried and it failed, there are still mass shootings in countries that have strict gun restrictions. It's time to move on from that outdated theory of yours and try to find another solution that will actually work.
do you know what the process to get a gun is?
Love this channel! Hope everyone is staying blessed 💖
Took place in Camden, New Jersey in 1949. Howard's mother died in 1985. She worked for a soap factory in town.
This was so good, it was definitely worth a second watch, a second comment and a second sharing for the re-edit - such a good story this one.
Don’t ever lose empathy. Once a soul crosses this line, for whatever reason, you step outside of being human. ❤
Having a 9 mm and two magazines can hardly be constricted as heavily armed
I think you need to look at the context and time.
Guns aren't bad, people are.
Both my parents transported Howard from the luny bin to court they were both Camden County Sheriff officers at the time this was back in the 1980's . And one of Howard's child victims was my grandfather's cousin he was in the barber shop at the time I've been told.
This is another fantastic video, as always! But I need to point out how great the wallpaper and your vest coordinate!
Did the department of Veteran's affairs ever get involved??? He was a veteran.
Department of Veterans Affairs didn't exist until the late 80s, the Veterans Administration did but mental treatment was crap and the WW2 GI Bill only gave some money for tuition, it was vastly nowhere as good as the Post 9-11 GI Bill and mental health treatment now. PTSD wasn't even considered a thing until some Vets for Peace vets in the Carter Administration pushed to officially make it a thing, before that it was just "shell shock" and people didn't take it as seriously as PTSD was later taken. Semper Fi
Just discovered your channel & I'm hooked. I've was born & have lived in NJ my entire life & I don't believe I've heard of this tragic case. Thank you for sharing this despite the horrible story.
The horror and depravity of this event is somewhat softened by the narrators charming accent and narrative voice
I wonder if this was a case of bad PTSD from the war.
PTSD doesn’t make people kill children
@@bobbybalogne2565 when PTSD is combined wirh schizophrenia or basically anything with paranoia and delusions... oh God.
@@Kitty-mb4hy couldn’t have said it better
@@jonsmith7659 thank you.
@@Kitty-mb4hy let's not forget all of that when combined with alcohol, which was abundant at the time.
Grew up in South Jersey, not too far from Camden (my work commute took me through it daily until work became remote), and it still shocks me that I first heard about this in the early 2010s thanks to an article in Weird NJ. The whole area just doesn't talk about it.
Love how your wallpaper matches your pullover.
I used to walk a beat on PA's death row down in Graterford SCI before it closed. PA's worst mass shooter in State history was one George Banks. Ironically, like myself, he was a Corrections Officer but from a different facility. I didn't enter corrections until twenty years after his spree. He never gave me any grief even though he wasn't particularly fond of whites. Even all those years later I noticed he had a very paranoid personality and was easily agitated. He really didn't like the muslim inmates and they used to push his buttons going through their daily prayer routine. They weren't "born and raised" muslims. It was just adopted. Anyhow, I don't know if he's still alive but he just went home one day and shot everything but the family pet. Ya just never know how many people walking right past you every day are whackjobs and how close they are to going over the edge.
Not the first time somebody has had lots of trouble adjusting to civilian life again after active duty combat . Lots and lots of people have been damaged by their time in military service, but it sounds like this man had problems which were sharpened by the killing he had to do in the war. We will always need a well trained military in this world. Until Jesus is here in person
"Disappointing date with a man.". Was Unruh gay? If so, you glossed right over this salient fact.
He likes the Rusty bullet hole...
Don’t really matter
@@aldo1871 I think it do, Hoss.
@@jamiehess4211 I don’t think he mentioned it bc it wasn’t important to the mass shooting he committed
Why is it salient?
Thank you for this. The next time some old fart blames mass shootings on millennials, I'm going to kindly remind him that the greatest generation started this madness.
What people fail to realize is that massacres like this have happened throughout history.
Actually, there were mass shootings before the greatest generation, the 1929 St. Valentine's Massacre for example.
@@darrelchovanec9150 gang violence is considered different then mass shootings usually
@@thesadslav419 Lots of people dead, Massacre, Mass killings, Shootings. As long as you can throw, shoot or stab it, Doesnt really matter in the end does it.
Has nothing to do with generations of society. Rising violence and mental illness are about degeneration in society.
I'm Irish but I'm a bit of a history buff. I'm also a competitive archer and had qualified to represent Ireland in Slovenia. My coach drove us there and back. We didn't wait for the closing ceremonies or posh dinner, instead we headed back via the beaches of Normandy. I happened to stand on the Pegasus bridge on its 70th anniversary. Nothing ever puts history into reality like doing a trip like that. I cried,... A lot.
Im really glad i stumbled onto your channel!
First thanks for the biography.
Most crime books don't go into details on the past of killers. However being a researcher of homicidal individuals, the service didn't cause him to become a mass murderer, it only served as a trigger. No pun intended. He was born to murder. His time in the military only inspired him to continue what he most desired. If the service was the catalyst, then we would have prisons overfilled with service men and women.
I think humans have a distinct nature of violence, no doubt based on our evolution and genetic similarity to apes. Many violent offenders are led by the old brain, the archaic barbaric part of the brain much concerned with fight or flight. Indeed this aspect is often triggered by depression, trauma and experiencing hard to process and often horrific events. Psychiatrists spend much of their treatment working to assist patients to think and live in the hypocampus, the upper forward more evolved area of the brain. But the past is strong and genetics sometimes cannot by tamed.
Love your videos....thank you for your efforts at producing great content!!!
I dont understand how anyone could do something like this and not be considered insane. Maybe not insane to the level of being "excused" but either way its very far from normal behavior.
Legally insane means you can't tell right from wrong or properly understand the consequences of your actions. There's absolutely something wrong with this guy but he doesn't sound like someone who fits these particular criteria.
@@spaceylacey83 Right, today we have the ruling of "guilty, but mentally ill" to cover for this sort of case where the person flipped but *knew* what they were doing.
Wow, Simon Whistler have changed since I've seen him last time
One lesson here is don't engage in petty harassment of a war veteran neighbor with PTSD and guns and a lot of pressure, along with probably being unhinged anyway. I learned at an early age to be respectful around the many combat veterans in my family and neighborhood. They mostly good men who kept themselves in check but as the old song goes "You don't spit into the wind, You don't tug on Superman's cape, You don't tug the mask off the old Lone Ranger, and you don't mess around with Jim".
By the way, by American standards carrying a Luger with two magazines, a six inch knife and a tear gas pen(?) is not being heavily armed. Adding a semiautomatic rifle and/or a shotgun would get you closer. He was just "armed".
My experience driving Jim's old Jeep for. Charlie light infantry was more like'operator'. I came to love my sufferings.
Hi! New sub here, hope you see this. I love your channel and I'll be binge-watching all day. In light of the current subject I thought you may be interested in The Bath School Disaster - which would be the first school mass murder in 1927, the first of its kind in the US (however I don't believe he used any guns). 38 children and 6 adults were killed with many others seriously wounded. There is also a book about it, though I've never read it so YMMV: it's called Maniac, by Harold Schechter.
He did use a rifle. After the explosions he waited outside for people to come out and the fire department to get there. He ended up shooting explosives in his car to off himself
@@Localjadedealer Thanks for the clarification! Details get pretty foggy after a time. XD
I hadn’t heard of this guy,I thought Charles Whitman was the first
Look up Nebraska 1957 I believe another guy named Charles!
It is called a magazine, not a clip.
Amazing. I am 72 years old and have never heard of Unruh or these events. Makes you wonder what other unknown killers are out there.
Actually, this is a well -known mass murder to anyone who follows American crime history.
@@darrelchovanec9150 not everyone has all the time to spend watching true crime...
@@laslw I knew about this when I was ten years old. Some people are just a lot more knowledgeable than others.
@@darrelchovanec9150 I know man. Some people simply hear about things before others.
Half the children nowadays don't even know about 9/11, even though it's something most *people* statistically know about
They're among us most everywhere we go...
I am so glad that I stumbled onto this channel!
I always thought the first mass shooter was Charles Whitman, I wonder if he knew anything of Unruh. I also wonder why the Dr’s didn’t release the records until 2012, were they worried about copycats or more concerned over misdiagnosis after later review? Chilling story indeed, especially the ending. Well done video, first time watching I’ll be viewing more.
Lmao the combination of the Johnny Joestar pfp and this topic is just too fitting
Whitman had a brain tumour. He knew something was wrong with him. And, he was right. I doubt anything other than the tumour actually had any impact on what he did that day.
Watching this from California. A school shooting happened today. This is our reality. When you go into a store or school you note your ways out and generally feel vulnerable. My cousin survived one in SO-CAL a few years ago. The shooting happened right outside the school and he was in his classroom (he's a teacher) and he had to barricade his classroom.
The weapons used by Camden Police at the time were Thompson Submachine Guns, This weapon was also used heavily in World War 2 in all theatres including Howard's squad mates fighting in Europe
The only thing that would have saved some of these people are if they had owned guns too. Namely the family who owned the drug store.
It disgusts me that he got to live out his days after ruining so many lives. What a twisted society this is. It rewards murderers with permanent free food.
The justice system is messed up.
Well, NJ has always been a bleeding-heart blue state that doesnt hold criminals accountable. If this had happened in 40 other states back then he would have gotten the Death Penalty.
Love hearing some history of my home town but this is upsetting. Still, nice to learn something new.
Maybe the "Cohens" should have been a little more polite to a religious young man who had fought the Nazis in Germany.
Gone from war hero to total A hole in the time it takes to fire a gun.
I wonder if it was a different story in that era for the UK? Since they have way stricter gun laws now, and yeah you can murder with many things, but was there any mass shooters before or despite of the gun laws?
Poncho Villa generally killed two hostages per bullet.
@@derchozenvun83 I’ll look him up, thanks!
@@autumnleaf3667 you're welcome.
Shootings like we see today weren't common the UK or the US back then despite the loose gun laws because it was a different culture.
The first massacre/mass shooting immediately caused the U.K. to tighten gun restrictions, this happened in hungerford in the 80s. I think there was another massacre in a primary school here too around the 90s maybe but I can’t remember if that was a shooting
Technically he did get his ambition to be a government employee, after all any military service is an extension of the government in both peacetime and war.
" l am no phyco, l have a good mind " yeah so did hitler.
We reference this mass shooting in our active killer training. Most people think that active killer situations are a relatively new phenomenon. Unfortunately, they’re not!
They have become much more frequent though. ☹️
shouldnt be laughing but when he said “he decided to call it a day” i laughed so hard
Never heard of Howard Unruh before stumbling onto your video. Nicely done.
Thank You for sharing this story.
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I've met people with Schizophrenia. People with Schizophrenia are more likely to fall victim to a crime then commit one. The way Unruh was described sounds more like he was a soziopath/psychopath.
Your videos are really well made! Keep up the good work, Mr. Future-big-RUclipsr!
The first mass shooting in the US may have been on December 29, 1890, when the US Calvary murdered 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
Oh? The Army did it? Doesn’t count…
Cavalry - not Calvary. sp
@@johnmay3655 I hope you feel better.
It reminded me about the northeastern Rambo from Brazil.
He was a police officer who went on a killing spree after his wife told everybody in his neighborhood that she had caught him on bed with other guy. Everybody mocked him in town, especially his father-in-law.
The “incel” just radiates from his face.
He was homo gay. For men.
Brushed RIGHT OVER THAT DATE" WITH A MAN" PART.
People go on dates all the time, there's not much to it except that a date going poorly will bring about a strong emotional reaction
@@knotical689 yeah, date with "a man" is significant in this tale.
@@bryanmckinnon8060 why?
@@knotical689 I don't know. Maybe because it was weird.
@@bryanmckinnon8060 many things are weird. Doesn't make them notable or harmful.
At the end of every video I say to myself “well, I never”
Weird that taking a young man and making him walk around killing and watching his friends die would make a man go crazy
Really weird that so many people seem to dismiss this as a factor in his mental break. He was probably unstable anyway but giving him the skill and opportunity to kill had to contribute to his later actions.
He was paranoid for sure!