Posted on 08/14/2015 6:01:28 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
Carl Panzram (AKA: Jeff Rhodes, John O'Leary) possessed an obsessive hatred for the human race that bordered on the maniacal. This loathing for himself and his fellow man was manifested in a lifetime of murder and mayhem. "I have no desire to reform myself," he said in his published autobiography. "My only desire is to reform people, who try to reform me. I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill them." This human monster was one of the worst criminals in American history.
Panzram was the son of immigrant Prussian farmers. He was born June 28, 1891 on a farm near Warren, Minnesota. His father deserted the family when Panzram was only a boy, leaving a tremendous burden on his over-taxed mother, who had precious little time to give her children. Without the nurturing family environment Carl fell into bad ways. In 1899, he was brought before the juvenile court on a drunk and disorderly charge. He was only eight.
This led to acts of petty thievery, which convinced the courts to send Panzram to the Minnesota State Training School in Red Wing. There, the discipline was rigid, if not sadistic. Carl toiled in workshops from dawn to dusk, and he was often beaten by cruel guards. On the night of July 7, 1905, he set fire to the school warehouse that housed winter blankets and clothing...
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n 1912, Panzram left Mexico and went to California and the Pacific Northwest, where he committed various robberies, assaults, and acts of sodomy. Looking back on his gory career, he would recall with perverted pride: "I have murdered twenty-one human beings. I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arson, and last but not least I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings."
(Excerpt) Read more at annalsofcrime.com ...
The Annals of Crime, is the title of this blog. Yes, it’s a clue on what happened in this report.
Oh, so he was gay. And frolicsome.
proof that evil does exist and is not some abstract concept created by religion.
Sounds like a good Democrat.
I’d wager he got raped in that reform school and that is what caused his predilection.
I saw a couple other accounts on him that mention it, but this one doesn’t, that it was actually some hobos in an empty boxcar that initiated him to sodomy, and from his comment he did at first find it distressing, I believe.
“In late 1905, he was released from the school.[2] By his teens, he was an alcoholic and was repeatedly in trouble with the authorities, often for burglary and theft. He ran away from home at the age of 14. He often traveled via train cars; he said on one of his ventures on the train he was gang raped by a group of hobos.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Panzram
Wyatt Earp: What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?
Doc Holliday: A man like Ringo has a great empty hole through the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.
Wyatt Earp: What does he need?
Doc Holliday: Revenge.
Wyatt Earp: For what?
Doc Holliday: Being born.
Yeah, gang raped by hobos, that’ll mess you up good.
He seems to follow the “sadistic sexual” killer pattern, in that he progressed from petty crimes to burglaries to rape and murder, showing signs of being addicted to (getting sexual thrills) from the home invasions too. If he was already on that path before this incident, he may have ended up being a serial killer one way or another, but I think that explains the homosexual aspect of it at least.
That probably is the case in more serial killers than will be mentioned in our politically correct society. It makes me immediately think of the Dean Corl murders in Texas in the 70’s
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