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Thank you. suitable for everyone. Please be advised. In Anthony Burgess's novel, A Clockwork Orange, a violet young man named Alex, is sent to prison and subjected to an experimental program designed to condition the violence out of him. As you can imagine, it ultimately does not work.

Despite this, in the final chapter, Alex considers leaving his life of crime and violence

behind for good. But in the version originally published in the United States, the book ends

on a darker note. The final chapter was scrapped, and the story ends?

With Alex lovingly imagining his next act of violence.

Carl Pansram never read a clockwork orange, but he basically lived the American ending.

Passed through reform schools and prisons from childhood, but he basically lived the American ending.

Passed through reform schools and prisons from childhood,

subjected to systematic abuse from nearly every authority figure in his life,

Carl emerged with no seed of goodness left to grow. By his own account, he murdered 22 people, committed hundreds of burglaries and arsons,

and sexually assaulted over a thousand victims across multiple continents.

Anthony Burgess believed that reform was always possible, even for insanely violent criminals.

And that idea is at the center of the final chapter of a clockwork orange.

But Carl Pansram proved him wrong.

Thank you. proved him wrong. From Audible Originals and Treefort Media, I'm Candace D. through my work as an FBI profiler and psychiatric nurse.

I've interviewed countless murderers, including many serial killers.

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