In fact, it had the opposite effect. When he finally left, he knew what he wanted with his life. He was taught by Christians about God and objective morality, although none of this stuck with him. Pupils from this school would leave bruised, bloodied, and broken down.Īccording to his musings, he spent two years in the Minnesota State Training School, after which he was pronounced a "reformed boy". This was all in the name of what the attendees christened “The Painting House”. He was often tortured and made to do nasty things like dancing naked to the staff members. While there, the staff members raped him and beat him up. After the break in, his life took a drastic turn and he became the cold blooded, narcissistic killer that he was known to be.Īfter the house breaking incident, he was sent to Minnesota State Training School where his rage and hate for everything human was intensified. 1n 1903, be broke into a neighbor’s house and stole some apples, cakes, and a revolver. His life of crime began at a tender age of 11 and the rage was enhanced by different events in his life. He was raised with five other siblings by his parents John and Matilda Panzram who were immigrants from Germany. He left his musings with his only known friend Henry Lesser, a 26 year-old jail guard.īut how did Carl come to be? Carl’s Early LifeĬarl was born in East Grand Forks, Minnesota on June 28, 1892. He only lived for 39 years, in which he committed thousands of atrocities, and left victims in his wake. No one knew anything about him while he lived, no one came close to guessing that all the hundreds of heinous acts were done by a single man until the November of 1928.īefore his death, he confessed to 21 killings and more than 1000 male rapes and for these he said, “I am not the least bit sorry.” He was evil personified, and in his own words he "had no conscience, never believed in man, God, or the devil." “I hate the whole damned human race,” he quoted while documenting his life chronicles in jail. This cold blooded killer, lived with more than a dozen aliases. He robbed, raped, and murdered from one city to the next in multiple countries.
For 18 long years, the 6-foot tall, tattooed man with cold gray eyes acted as a single-man crime wave.
Carl Panzram is referred by many as the most sadistic American serial killer.