The had a members only VIP opening the day prior to the exhibit’s opening and the front desk receptionist, Aubrey, said a lot of people attended and have came in to see the exhibit.
ALFRED PACKER TRIAL
Alfred Packer’s trial was under the state of Colorado but Colorado was still a colony at the time making the trial illegal.ĭavid Bailey designed the layout of the exhibit himself. “These are the real invitations, you are invited to the execution of Alferd Packer.” The museum has the actual invitations for the execution of Alfred Packer even though there never was one. The exhibit has paintings from Jack Murray and artist that traveled with Bailey and his team to paint the process and visuals instead of photographs, adding a realistic touch to the exhibit. It also has a National Geographic video with reenactments and footage of the evidence and process to solve this old case. They have a fragment of one of the murdered traveler’s skull with the hatchet marks intact.
This museum exhibit features all of the discoveries that Bailey found and the actual gun that started the whole investigation to this famous cold case. “The ones that don’t get in survival mode end up dead.” said Bailey when asked about what he would do in Packer’s situation. When Packer was found he confessed what happened but was accused otherwise. He did however eat part of his companions to survive.
Packer stated that Bell ran at him with the hatchet and Packer shot him twice and hit him with the hatchet in self defense.
The map that showed where the bodies were discovered clearly showed that Bell’s body was further away from the campfire, matching what packer said about him running out to attack him. Records show that Packer’s story about leaving the travelers and returning to find four of the five traveling companions murdered and Shannon Bell by the fire eating the flesh from one of his victims legs checks out. They discovered a fraction of the tin cup that Bell cooked his traveling companions in along with some of the remains of the fire about half a meter below the surface ground. After years of looking at the lead in the lab they discovered that it matched the lead in Shannon Bell’s body.īailey went in with a History Channel funded team back in 2004 to go in and look for more evidence. The investigator reached out to Colorado Mesa University to analyze the lead residue to see if it matched the bullet in Bell’s body. Could that be the missing gun that Packer claimed to shoot Shannon Bell in self defense? Intrigued by the story and the gun, he searched through records and discovered that Packer’s story about shooting Bell twice matched the two empty chambers in the gun. Bailey looked into the gun that was uncovered in 1950 and found that the number on the bottom did not match the museum’s number stickers and a note that is was discovered at the site where Alferd Packer killed and ate his traveling companions. That is exactly what David Bailey did he uncovered the truth about Alferd Packer.
“Packer said that someday in the future, someone will find out what really happened.” said museum curator and investigator, David Bailey. He later was released from prison and a lived out the rest of his life, hoping that one day someone would prove his innocence and find the gun he shot Shannon Bell, the true murderer, with. He was held in prison and was sentenced to death even though execution was illegal in the state of Colorado. Previous evidence and knowledge about the case stated that Packer murdered and then ate his traveling partners for survival. This case is famous for its suspect Alfred Packer that supposedly murdered and ate his traveling companions in the San Juan Mountains back in 1874. David Bailey, Curator of History at Museums of Western Colorado and Director of the Western Investigations Team, discovered new evidence that clears Packer’s name as a murderous cannibal. Alfred “Alferd” Packer is known for killing and eating his traveling companions back in 1874. Museums of Western Colorado, David Bailey, solved one of the most famous murder cases in Colorado history.
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