He claimed that after a guard punished him, he assaulted and critically injured the man with a wooden board. In the summer of 1906, Panzram was arrested for burglary in Butte, Montana, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment at Montana State Reform School in Miles City. He often traveled via train cars, and later recalled having been gang raped by a group of homeless men on one of these occasions. At age 14, a couple of weeks after his parole and two weeks after attempting to kill a Lutheran cleric with a revolver, Panzram ran away from home to live on the streets. By his early-teens Panzram exhibited alcoholism and had a lengthy criminal rap sheet, mostly for burglary and robbery offenses. In January 1906, Panzram was paroled from Red Wing Training School, where he had been detained after stealing money from his mother's pocketbook. 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 October 1903, Panzram's mother sent him to the Minnesota State Training School, purportedly a reform school Panzram later wrote in his autobiography, however, that he was repeatedly beaten, tortured and raped by staff members, in a workshop the children dubbed "the paint shop" due to leaving the room "painted" with bruises and blood. Not long after this second arrest, Panzram stole cake, apples, and a revolver from a neighbor's home. Panzram's run-ins with the law started in 1899, at age 8, when he was charged in juvenile court with being drunk and disorderly, and in 1903, at age 11, he was arrested and jailed for being drunk and "incorrigible," a term used when detaining youths. Eventually, four of his five older brothers left as well one of them drowned.Įarly criminal record Minnesota Correctional Facility – Red Wing, where Panzram was incarcerated from 1903 to 1906. Panzram's father abandoned the family when he was 7-years-old. Panzram reflected on his early childhood with the sentiment that he was not liked by other children by the age of five he claimed that he was a liar and thief, and he recalled that he became meaner the older he grew. Punishments in the household also ranged from being chained to being starved. Panzram's parents were very angry about having their children sent to school during the day and forced them to work in the fields throughout the night instead Panzram later reported he would get just two hours of sleep before he would have to get up for school. Panzram and his six siblings were made to work on the family farm from a young age until truancy laws, which made it illegal for parents not to send their children to school, came into effect. After a lifetime of crime, during which he served many prison terms and escaped from them just as much, Panzram was executed by hanging in 1930 for the murder of a prison employee at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.Ĭarl 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 (Janu– June 6, 1926) and Mathilda Elizabeth "Lizzie" Panzram ( née Bolduan Decem– December 6, 1923). Panzram also confessed to having committed more than a thousand acts of rape against males of all ages. In prison confessions and in his autobiography, Panzram confessed to having committed the murders of twenty-one boys and men, only five of which could be corroborated he is suspected of having killed more than a hundred boys and men in the United States alone, and several more in Portuguese Angola. United States Penitentiary, LeavenworthĬharles " Carl" Panzram (June 28, 1891 – September 5, 1930) was an American serial killer, spree killer, mass murderer, rap ist, child molester, arsonist, robber, thief, and burglar.
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