Joseph Briggen
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Joseph Briggen (c.1850 – 1903) was an American California hog farmer and serial killer[1] who committed at least twelve murders from 1880 until his arrest in 1902.
Briggen's pigs consistenly won blue ribbon prizes at the state fair and drew the highest prices at auction. He ascribed their success to the fact that "it's all in the feeding". Parallel to this, he also complained of an inability to keep ranch hands, and thus took to recruiting homeless men from the streets of San Francisco.
In early 1902, Briggen hired a young man named Steven Korad, who found two severed fingers on the floor behind his bed. The young man slipped away to notify authorities, and excavations at the ranch unearthed at least 12 skulls buried on the grounds.
Joseph explained that his pigs needed a steady diet of human flesh, and that he would kill the ranch hands and grind their bodies for hog feed when they started demanding their back pay. Tried in August 1902, Briggen was sentenced to life imprisonment and died a short time later, in San Quentin. The identity and final number of his victims remains a mystery.
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