The Creepiest Things Serial Killers Ever Said

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read

Carl Panzram killed at least 21 people, probably committed thousands of robberies, and was fond of burning down buildings. According to All That's Interesting, he was evidently also quite good at escaping from prison, or else prisons just had very sucky security in those days because he escaped from the Oregon State Penitentiary not once, but twice. After his second escape, he decided to spend his newfound freedom killing people on the yacht he owned for some weirdly inexplicable reason. After his yacht sank, he moved to Africa, killed some people there, then moved back to America where he killed more people. He was finally sent to prison in 1928, but not for murder ... for robbery. In prison, he killed someone else, and only then did it occur to anyone that he should maybe be tried for murder.

Even though he was clearly a depraved psychopath, Panzram evidently did not think he needed to be reformed. Other people, though, well, evidently everyone he killed had it coming, including the children. He apparently only killed them so they would become better citizens. "I believe the only way to reform people is to kill them," he said.

Panzram was executed by hanging in 1930. His last words were to the executioner: "Hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could kill a dozen men while you're screwing around!"

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