Charles "Carl" Panzram (June 28, 1891 – September 5, 1930) was an American serial killer, spree killer, mass murderer, rapist, child molester, arsonist, robber, thief, and burglar. In prison confessions and in his autobiography, Panzram confessed to having committed twenty-one murders, only five of which could be corroborated; he is suspected of having killed more than a hundred men in the United States alone, and several more in Portuguese Angola. He also confessed to having committed more than a thousand acts of rape against males of all ages. After a lifetime of crime, during which he served many prison terms and escaped from them just as much, Panzram was executed by hanging in 1930 for the murder of a prison employee at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. Early life Carl Panzram was born on June 28, 1891, on a farm near East Grand Forks, Minnesota, the sixth of seven children born to East Prussian immigrants Johann "John" Gottlieb Panzram and Mathilda Elizabeth "Lizzie" Panzram (née Bolduan, anglicised as Boldon, Bolden, Boldwon, or Baldwin). Panzram and his six siblings were made to work on the farm from a young age until truancy laws, which made it illegal for parents to not send their children to school, came into effect. Panzram's parents were not happy to have their children sent to school during the day and forced them to work in the fields throughout the night instead; Panzram later reported he would get just two hours of sleep before he would have to get up for school. Punishments in the home ranged from being chained to being starved. Panzram reflected on his early childhood with the sentiment that he was not liked by other children; by the age of five or six he was a liar and thief, and he recalled that he became meaner the older he grew. He also claimed that his parents had a lobotomy operation performed on him when he was very young. Panzram’s father abandoned the family when he was six or seven years old. Eventually, four of his five older brothers left as well; one of them died. Early criminal record Panzram's run-ins with the law started early; in 1899, at age 8, he was charged in juvenile court with being drunk and disorderly, and in 1903, at age 11, he was arrested and jailed for being drunk and "incorrigible," a term used when