Carl Panzram, the notorious killer you never knew

I just got finished reading, on crimelibrary.com, the criminal story of an infamous killer, called Carl Panzram.  The story, is a 2 part informative piece, about this evil man’s life.  But, throughout reading it, I kept thinking of how in any possible manner, was a creature like this, ever allowed to enter into this world? Such evil and hate.  It scares me to know that a person like that, actually existed.  Imagine, a human being, lacking emotion?  All they know of, is hate, and their one desire, is to kill, rape and mutilate.  How can anyone, take a helpless child, rape them, kill them and mutilate them, without any state of conscience?  Is this killer, even a person anymore? What even defines a person, especially when you read of cases like this.

From since my “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning” post, I’ve been reading up on a lot of these notorious killers.  I first read, of course, Ed Gein, and then I went on to read about Dean Corll,  then about Bruce “George Peter” Lee and finally today, Carl Panzram.  Even though all of them, make my blood crawl, and give me a sunken feeling of fear for the human race, Carl Panzram, is the most thrilling reading I’ve ever had.  This man, can’t even be considered a man.  Yes, Ed Gein, killed people and used their skin to make lamps and their skulls to make bowls (now that is of course scary and weird), and yes Dean Corll, did want to murder young teenage boys, and perform brutal sexual acts on them and exhibit some kind of savagery with their bodies, in whatever shape or form, and of course, it’s crazy to know that Bruce “George Peter” Lee, loved burning things up, and had no remorse for deaths caused by it, from the age of 12.  Carl Panzram, surpasses them all.  Unlike Ted Bundy and BTK, Carl Panzram, killed and molested individuals, not just for the sexual pleasures of it (as with Ted Bundy), but because of hatred for the human race.  A misantrope, in the physical definition of it.  If the Webster Dictionary wanted to redefine what a misantrope is, all they had to do is either, link to Carl Panzram’s biography page, or use his picture next to the word. 

I know some people might feel nervous about me having any desire to keep reading about these people, but their psyche, causes huge excitement in me.  These people, aren’t really people.  They’re a totally different breed of human beings.  They lack the conscience that makes us who we are.  They follow their own brutal pleasures, even if it means killing or hurting others. 

The only sad thing, that I feel towards Carl Panzram, is the fact that he didn’t have a chance.  Being submitted to such sexual abuse at such a young age, in a place where discipline was suppose to reform you into a well kept individual, isn’t something that should have happened.  This young man, brought up in a family that surely caused his behaviors to become as they were, and to be thrown into a “Juvenile Detention” that preferred sodomizing the kids, rather than helping them, was a product of a series of brutal behaviors acted to or towards him.  One can’t just blame Carl Panzram for his behaviors, just because he was labelled an evil man.  This man, was once a kid.  A kid who was raped, beatened and tortured mentally and physically, creating the “beast” that he became at the early age of 16.  He had no chance, and that saddens me.  This man’s life, went downhill from birth.  No chance for educational upbringings, no love from a mother but just hate and resent, no care from the religious community that he was placed in at 7, where he was supposed to have been taken care of, but was sodomized!  What kind of society can we say we live in, if a little boy who happens to have some emotional problems, due to his activities with his parents at home,  can’t be helped, in the pure word of it, and not hypocritcally by religious idiots, who think raping a little child is more pleasurable than helping them!   I am disgusted with that, in so much ways, that I’d rather keep it to myself.  It’s sad, and I am sadden.  Because while reading his biography and whole criminal life, when Carl Panzram, wrote down in his own words, what he thought of himself and how he became like that, you could see a sign of intelligence in this killer, that you’d normally not expect.  He knew what he was doing was wrong, he knew there were consequences for it, but he didn’t care.  He didn’t care, because the world that he thought was suppose to take care of him, turned it’s back on him.  Instead, it lied to him, it killed him, it took away anything human about him.  It took his innocence from him, making him only be able to sodomize boys or men, instead of sinking into the comforting pleasures of a woman.

My heart breaks for Carl Panzram and if you take the time to read his biography and criminal life, as it’s mentioned on the Carl Panzram page on Crime Library, you’d be feeling exactly what I am feeling now.

I’m sorry Carl Panzram, I am sorry mankind couldn’t have been better to you, at the time when you needed it the most.  The only sign of compassion you ever experienced, was while you were in prison, from a prison officer willing to befriend you, and provide you with sympathy and a ear to listen.  He was the only friend you knew, and the only compassion you ever felt in this world.  It’s sad the place you had to feel this, was years into a criminal life that you couldn’t shake off. The prison system wasn’t meant to help you, but to make you a stronger criminal.  It wasn’t there to make you a better man, but to make you less of a man.  I am sorry for it all, and I hope that somewhere you are able to rest, from the hatred of the world that was presented to you.  You did wrong, and you did evil, but the evil was a retaliation on the world that “didn’t give a damn about who Carl Panzram could have been.”