49 Facts About Carl Panzram

Charles "Carl" Panzram was an American serial killer, spree killer, mass murderer, rapist, child molester, arsonist, robber, thief, and burglar.

In prison confessions and in his autobiography, Panzram confessed to having committed twenty-one murders, only five of which could be corroborated; he is suspected of having killed more than a hundred men in the United States alone, and several more in Portuguese Angola.

Carl Panzram was born on June 28,1891, on a farm near East Grand Forks, Minnesota, the sixth of seven children born to East Prussian immigrants Johann "John" Gottlieb Panzram and Mathilda Elizabeth "Lizzie" Panzram.

Carl Panzram's parents were not happy to have their children sent to school during the day and forced them to work in the fields throughout the night instead; Carl Panzram later reported he would get just two hours of sleep before he would have to get up for school.

Carl Panzram reflected on his early childhood with the sentiment that he was not liked by other children; by the age of five or six he was a liar and thief, and he recalled that he became meaner the older he grew.

Carl Panzram's father abandoned the family when he was six or seven years old.

Not long after this second arrest, Carl Panzram stole some cake, apples, and a revolver from a neighbor's home.

Carl Panzram hated the school so much that he decided to burn it down, and did so successfully and without detection on July 7,1905.

In January 1906, Carl Panzram was paroled from Red Wing Training School, where he had been detained after stealing money from his mother's pocketbook.

At age 14, a couple of weeks after his parole and two weeks after attempting to kill a Lutheran cleric with a revolver, Carl Panzram ran away from home to live on the streets.

Carl Panzram claimed that after a guard punished him, he assaulted and critically injured the man with a wooden board.

Later in 1907, after getting drunk in a Helena, Montana, saloon, Carl Panzram enlisted in the United States Army and was assigned to the 6th Infantry at Fort William Henry Harrison.

Carl Panzram later claimed that while he had been a rotten egg before imprisonment at the military pen, any shred of goodness left in him was smashed out during his Leavenworth stint.

Carl Panzram claimed in his 1929 autobiography that after escaping from a chain gang sentence at Rusk, Texas, he went to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, in the winter of 1910 to try to enlist in the Federales.

Carl Panzram took a train to Del Rio, Texas, and got off in a small town 50 to 100 miles east of El Paso.

Carl Panzram later claimed to have abducted, assaulted, and strangled a man about a mile from town and then stolen $35 from the victim.

Carl Panzram was sentenced to six months in county jail, but escaped after thirty days.

Carl Panzram proceeded to Oregon, where he made a living as a logger.

Carl Panzram admitted years later that once, when hiding in a bordello, his wallet was stolen and he was infected with gonorrhea; he became paranoid, claiming throughout his western crime sprees that the police were always on his trail but could never catch him.

In 1913, Carl Panzram, going by the alias "Jack Allen", was arrested in The Dalles, Oregon, for highway robbery, assault, and sodomy.

Carl Panzram broke out of jail after two or three months.

Carl Panzram was later arrested in Harrison, Idaho, but again he escaped from county jail.

Carl Panzram was again arrested in Chinook, Montana, and sentenced to one year in prison for burglary, to be served at the Montana State Prison.

Carl Panzram was incarcerated at Deer Lodge for an additional year.

Carl Panzram was released on March 3,1915, with a new suit of clothing, $5.00 and a ticket to the next town six miles away.

Carl Panzram rode the rails though Washington, Idaho, Nebraska and South Dakota via the Columbia River.

Under the name "Jeff Baldwin", Carl Panzram was sentenced to seven years in prison, to be served at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem, where he was taken on June 24,1915.

Later that year, Carl Panzram helped fellow inmate Otto Hooker escape from the prison.

Carl Panzram was disciplined several times while at Salem, including 61 days in solitary confinement, before escaping on September 18,1917.

Carl Panzram began going by the name "John O'Leary" and shaved off his mustache to change his appearance.

Still free, Carl Panzram travelled to Peru to work in a copper mine.

In 1920, Carl Panzram committed a robbery in Newport, Rhode Island.

Carl Panzram specifically targeted the mansion out of animus he had been holding against Taft since his incarceration at Fort Leavenworth.

Carl Panzram stole a large amount of jewelry and bonds, as well as Taft's Colt M1911.

Carl Panzram caught a ship to Southern Africa and landed in Luanda, the capital of colonial Portuguese Angola.

In 1921, Carl Panzram was foreman of an oil rig in Angola.

Carl Panzram later burned it down out of what he said was spitefulness.

Carl Panzram returned the girl to her family demanding his money back on suspicion of the girl not being a virgin.

Carl Panzram picked up a 15-year-old boy named George Walosin and promised him a job on the boat, but instead, sodomized him.

Carl Panzram later conned his lawyer by giving him ownership of a stolen boat in return for bail money.

Carl Panzram skipped bail, and the boat was confiscated by the government agents.

Carl Panzram was discharged in July 1928, and he allegedly committed a murder that summer in Baltimore, Maryland.

Carl Panzram gave his correct name although he lied by claiming his age as 41 and that he was from Nevada.

In light of his extensive criminal record, Carl Panzram was sentenced to 25-years-to-life.

On June 20,1929, Carl Panzram beat Warnke to death with an iron bar.

Carl Panzram refused to allow any appeals of his sentence.

Carl Panzram was so astonished by this act of kindness that, after Lesser provided him with writing materials, Carl Panzram wrote a detailed summary of his crimes and nihilistic philosophy while awaiting execution.

Carl Panzram spent the next four decades trying to have this material published.

Virtuosity Carl Panzram is one of the prototypes of SID 6.7.