In the Cramer Hill neighborhood of Camden, New Jersey, a sequence of events unfolded on September 6, 1949, that would end the life of 27-year-old John Joseph Pilarchik. On that late summer morning, Howard Barton Unruh, a 28-year-old World War II veteran, left his apartment on River Road armed with a Luger pistol. His first stop was the shoe repair shop owned by Pilarchik. Unruh entered the shop and fatally shot the unsuspecting shoemaker. This act marked the beginning of a rampage that would lat
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