Levi Boone Helm was a mountain man and gunfighter of the American West known as the Kentucky Cannibal. He gained his nickname for his opportunistic and unrepentant proclivity for the consumption of human flesh taken from the bodies of enemies and traveling companions. Helm married 17-year-old Lucinda Browning in 1848 and soon fathered a daughter.
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Levi Boone Helm was a mountain man and gunfighter of the American West known as the Kentucky Cannibal. He gained his nickname for his opportunistic and unrepentant proclivity for the consumption of human flesh taken from the bodies of enemies and traveling companions. While this was usually done in survival situations, Helm sometimes took flesh in preparation for a survival situation. Helm married 17-year-old Lucinda Browning in 1848 and soon fathered a daughter. He became known for his heavy drinking, riding his horse into the house, and beating his wife. In 1862 after heavy drinking Helm gunned down an unarmed man named Dutch Fred in a saloon and fled.
While on the run, Helm implored his brother, one of his twelve siblings, for assistance in apprehending another fugitive who had been accompanying him. Unable to convict Helm without witnesses, the authorities released him and he accompanied his brother to Texas. Helm soon reappeared at many of the settlements mentioned before, killing many more men in the process. He was captured and tried in secret, accusing himself of perjure. At trial, Helm tried to kiss the Bible and then proceeded to kill himself.
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