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"I believe the only way to reform people is
to kill them"
 Carl
Panzram's criminal career started at the age of nine when he
was arrested for being drunk an disorderly, and by eleven he
was already in reform school. It was here that he first
learned true sadism. According to Carl, he was tied, naked,
to a wooden block and beaten regularly.
After years of jumping from one reform school to the next,
Carl joined the army to try and straighten himself out, but
all he managed to achieve was three years in a military jail
for insubordination. Obviously Carl was not a man that liked
taking orders.
The turning point in Panzrams life came in 1915 when, on yet
another charge, he made a
deal with the local DA for some light time, but Carl was in
for a surprise. He was double crossed by the lying District
Attorney and ended up receiving 7 years for his crime.
Panzram swore revenge, and also said he'd never serve the
full sentence.
During his time at Oregon State Penitentiary Panzram
continuously attempted escape, even though every attempt had
the same ending - with him being beaten. Between attempted
escapes Carl managed to set fire to the prison on two
separate occasions, he also started riots. Once, while
assigned to the kitchen, Panzram got hold of an axe and
smashed everything in sight. Eventually, in May 1918, he
escaped for good.
Panzram spent the next few years travelling. He first went
to South America, then Europe, even spending a little time
in prison in Glasgow. He eventually went back to the U.S.A.
where he stole enough money to buy himself a yacht. This was
the BIG STEP.
"I figured it would be a good plan to hire a few sailors to
work on my yacht, get them drunk, commit sodomy on them, rob
them and then kill them."2 dead
He then sailed around robbing other yachts at will, until
again being arrested, spending six more months in jail. Upon
release Panzram headed to the Congo.
"I sat down to think things over a bit. While I was sitting
there, a little kid about eleven or twelve years old came
bumming around. He was looking for something. He found it
too. I took him out to a gravel pit about one-quarter mile
away. I left him there, but first committed sodomy on him
and then killed him. His brains were coming out of his ears
when I left him, and he will never be any deader."
"Then I went to town, bought a ticket on the Belgian steamer
to Lobito Bay down the coast. There I hired a canoe and six
niggers and went out hunting in the bay and backwaters. I
was looking for crocodiles. I found them, plenty. They were
hungry. I fed them. I shot all six of those niggers and
dumped 'em in. The crocks done the rest. I stole their canoe
and went back to town."
 Panzram
continued travelling, and killing until he was arrested for
burglary in Larchmont, N.Y. At this stage he had committed
twenty murders, all unknown to the New York police. He
received five years for the burglary, and while attempting
to escape fell 30 feet on to the concrete ground, breaking
both ankles. Neither brakes was set, and the bones were left
to set themselves, assuring Panzram would be left with a
pronounced limp. Those old prisons sure sound like lovely
places. Upon release Panzram was again arrested for robbery,
this time in Washington.
It was here that Panzram made his now famous threat, "I'll
kill the first man that bothers me." Unfortunately for
Robert Warnke he payed no attention to Panzrams threat and
wound up with a crushed skull. For this murder Panzram was
given the death sentence.
He was hung on 5 September 1930.
FUNNY
CRAP
One of Panzrams last victims was in fact killed because he
was
attempting to rob him. I think he may have been more than a
little surprised by his intended victim pulling a gun and
proceeding to rape and kill him.
The best friend Panzram ever had was a prison guard, Henry
Lesser, who eventually wrote out Panzams life story.
He boasted of committing over 1000 acts of sodomy. No mean
feat I think.
His final words were "Hurry it up, I could hang a dozen men
while your fooling around."
"I don't believe in man, God nor Devil. I hate the whole
damned human race, including myself... I preyed upon the
weak, the harmless and the unsuspecting. This lesson I was
taught by others : Might makes right."
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