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Maurice M. Cohen

Former factory building at River Avenue and the railroad tracks, Camden, 2011
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River Avenue

River Avenue, more popularly known as River Road, runs north from Federal Street to the Camden city limits and became a Camden thoroughfare in 1899, when the town of Stockton was united with the city. It is the main artery of Cramer Hill and the location of many stores and small businesses.

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Map of the 3200 block of River Avenue
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Map of the 3200 Block of River Avenue

A hand-lettered diagram printed with the Courier-Post's 1974 feature on Howard Unruh, showing the 3200 block of River Road and 32nd Street: the Harrie and Hamilton homes, the shoe repair and barber shops, the drug store, the Unruh apartment and where each victim was found. Camden Courier-Post, September 7, 1974.

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Courier-Post, September 7, 1974: He Left a Trail of Death
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…He Left A Trail Of Death

A Courier-Post feature of September 7, 1974 retracing Howard B. Unruh's shooting spree of September 6, 1949 at River Avenue and 32nd Street in Cramer Hill, from the drugstore of Maurice M. Cohen to his surrender, confession to Prosecutor Mitchell Cohen and commitment to Trenton State Hospital.

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Newspaper clipping: Carl Sorg recalls the day of the Howard Unruh shooting, Camden Courier-Post, September 7, 1974
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Everyone was lying dead on the pavement

Carl Sorg, a teenager who lived half a block from the scene, recalls the day of the Howard Unruh shooting on River Avenue in this Camden Courier-Post feature of September 7, 1974.

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