Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes, listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes dramatizations and discussions of murder and assault,

that some people may find offensive.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

No single jail could keep a hold on Carl Panzram,

one of the most sadistic and unsympathetic serial killers of the

1910s and 1920s.

Throughout his life, Panz Ram spent time behind bars and prisons around the United States.

He served time under many different aliases.

In his own words, Pans Ram said, quote, in my lifetime, I have murdered 21 human beings.

I've committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larceny's, arsonies,

arson's, and last but not least, I've committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings.

For all these things, I am not the least bit sorry. In 28, 36-year-old Panzram was arrested for a burglary and voluntarily confessed

to murdering two young boys.

He was sentenced to 25 years to life at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary,

a medium security jail in Leavenworth, Kansas. Within his first moments at the prison, Panzram declared to a warden, quote,

I am doing a long time and I am an old crank and I want to be by myself.

I'll kill the first man who bothers me."

Levenworth authorities took the threat seriously, placing Panzram on laundry room

duty where he could work alone. The Laundry Room foreman was 47 year old

Corrections officer Robert Wornke, an unassuming and by the book Army veteran.

In a June 1929 letter, Panzram said, quote, I'm still on my same job and like it less each day.

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