Howard Barton Unruh, who killed 13 people as he walked the streets of Camden, New Jersey, in a psychotic 1949 shooting spree that was the worst US mass murder at the time, has died at 88.

AS their parents frantically searched for them, three small boys were tucked quietly in the boot of a car, where any noise they may have made was muffled by insulation or drowned out by the sound of driving rain.