Panzram

Not a nice man

I first heard of Carl Panzram when I read 'Belly Of The Beast', a book by some convict or other that I picked randomly in the library. There was also a great movie made (starring James Woods as Panzram) which was based on a diary the killer wrote in prison. Chilling story and even more shocking are the things he said.

Carl Panzram quotes:

"I hate all the f*cking human race. I get a kick out of murdering people."

"In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons, and, last but not least, I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all these things I am not in the least bit sorry."

"I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me, and I believe the only way to reform people is to kill 'em. My motto is: Rob 'em all, rape 'em all, and kill 'em all."

"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 miles 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."

Check out the trailer for the film below and I recommend you Netflix the whole movie because you won't be disappointed. It never glamourizes the brutal thug (how on earth could they?) and pulls no punches.