January 28, 1828 - Boone Helm
What distinguished Helm from other violent figures of the American frontier was the particular nature of his crimes — killings that extended beyond robbery or conflict into acts of cannibalism that were, by some accounts, not entirely driven by desperation. He operated during a period when vast stretches of the West offered little law and considerable opportunity for men willing to use violence, and he used that environment with a kind of ruthless pragmatism. His eventual capture and execution came at the hands of a vigilance committee in Montana Territory, a fitting end for a man who had largely evaded formal justice for years.
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Levi Boone Helm (January 28, 1828 – January 14, 1864) was an American mountain man, gunfighter, and serial killer known as the Kentucky Cannibal. Helm gained his nickname for his opportunistic and unrepentant proclivity for consuming human flesh, usually in survival situations, though instances of killing people for their meat unprovoked were also documented.
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