Tags: Criminal.
Boone Helm (1828 – January 14 1864) was a mountain man and gunfighter of the American West known as the Kentucky Cannibal. Helm was a serial killer who 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 of being in a survival situation.