handgun. In 1921, he served six months in jail in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Panzram caught a ship to Southern Africa and landed in Luanda, the capital of colonial Portuguese Angola. In 1921, Panzram was foreman of an oil rig in Angola; he later burned it down out of what he said was spitefulness. Shortly after, he decided to seek out a virgin girl. Panzram paid a resident Angola family 80 eschudas (US$8.00) and, in exchange, was given an 11- or 12-year-old girl, whom he raped in his shack later that night; he returned the girl to her family demanding his money back on suspicion of the girl not being a virgin. The family then gave Panzram an 8-year-old girl, whom he also raped in his shack, but was eventually taken back to the family because he suspected that she too was not a virgin. He later claimed that he raped and killed an Angolan boy estimated to be 11 or 12 years old. In his confession to this murder, he wrote: "His brains were coming out of his ears when I left him and he will never be any deader." He also claimed that he hired a boat with six rowers, shot the rowers with a Luger pistol, and threw their bodies to the crocodiles. After his return to the United States, Panzram asserted he raped and killed two small boys, beating one to death with a rock on July 18, 1922, in Salem, Massachusetts, and strangling the other later that year near New Haven. After his murder spree in Salem, Panzram worked as a night watchman in Yonkers, New York, north of Manhattan, at Abeeco Mill factory. In Providence, he stole a yawl and sailed to New Haven, seeking victims to rob and rape, and boats to steal. In June 1923, in New Rochelle, New York, he stole a yacht belonging to the police chief of New Rochelle. He picked up a 15-year-old boy named George Walosin and promised him a job on the boat, but instead, sodomized him. On June 27, on the river near Kingston, New York, Panzram claimed he picked a man up but then believing the man was going to attempt to rob him, Panzram used a .38 caliber pistol from the stolen yacht to kill the John Doe victim. Panzram threw the body into the river. On June 28, Panzram and Walosin docked at Poughkeepsie,