Carl Panzram | |
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 Panzram in 1915 | |
| Born | Charles Panzram June 28, 1891 Near East Grand Forks, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | September 5, 1930 (aged 39) USP Leavenworth, Kansas, U.S. |
| Other names | Jefferson Baldwin Cooper John II Harry Panzram Jack Allen Jefferson Davis Jefferson Rhodes John King John O'Leary John Ape |
| Years active | 1899–1929 |
| Notable work | Killer: A Journal of Murder |
| Motive | |
| Conviction(s) | First degree murder Countless burglaries, larcenies, robberies, assaults, and escapes Sodomy |
| Criminal penalty | Death by hanging |
| Details | |
| Location(s) | United States: Minnesota; Montana; Kansas; California; Texas; Oregon; Idaho; New York; Washington, D.C.; Rhode Island; Connecticut; Maryland; Philadelphia Portuguese Angola: Luanda Province |
| Killed | 5 confirmed 21 confessed 100+ suspected |
| Imprisoned at | ≈100 jails |
Charles "Carl" Panzram (June 28, 1891 – September 5, 1930) 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 murdered 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.
Panzram also confessed to having committed more than a thousand acts of rape against males of all ages. After a lifetime of crime, during which he served many prison terms and escaped from many prisons, Panzram was executed by hanging in 1930 for the murder of a prison employee at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.