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Carl Panzram

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Murderer

The Resume

    (June 28, 1891-September 5, 1930)
    Hanged in Leavenworth Federal Prison, Leavenworth, Kansas
    Aliases include: Jeferson Bladwin, Jefferson Davis, Jeff Davis, Jeff Rhodes, John O'Leary and John King

Why he might be annoying:

    By his own admittance, he killed 21 people and committed sodomy on over 1000 men, including young boys.
    He often boasted about the murders and rapes and was always willing to do more.
    He was a pyromaniac, frequently burning churches and prison property.
    He was an alcoholic.
    He has a large tattoo of a boat’s anchor on his left forearm, another anchor with an eagle and the head of a Chinese man on his right forearm, and two eagles on his chest with the words “LIBERTY and JUSTICE” tattooed underneath their wings.
    He robbed houses often taking money and handguns.
    He robbed the house of former President William H. Taft, who sentenced Panzram for crimes years earlier when he was secretary of war.
    While working for an oil company in Africa, he lured six men to take him into the Jungle to hunt. He shot and killed all of them and fed the bodies to crocodiles.
    He purposely broke rules in jail despite knowing he would be severely beaten and tortured.
    He said: 'You will find that I have consistently followed one idea through all my life. I preyed upon the weak, the harmless and the unsuspecting.'
    He said: 'In my lifetime I have broken every law that was ever made by both man and God. If either had made any more, I should very cheerfully have broken them also.'
    He said: 'I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me, and I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill ‘em!'
    As the executioner prepared to hang him he said: 'Hurry up you bastard, I could kill 10 men while you’re fooling around!'
    He coined the phrase 'Might makes right.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He's dead.
    As a child he was a victim of beatings by teachers and his siblings.
    He was gang raped by four men as a teenager.
    While in reform school and in prison, he was often savagely beaten and tortured.
    He escaped from prison many times.
    In one of his escapes, he broke his ankles and injured his back during a fall. He was never treated for the injuries and served his 5 year sentence in constant agony. This left him permanently crippled.
    When they finally moved him to the prison hospital, they removed one of his testicles.
    He represented himself in his trial.
    When he was convicted he told the judge 'Visit Me!'
    In his last stint in jail, a guard befriended him and gave him a $1 to buy cigarettes and food. Panzram considered this the only act of kindness he ever received. He agreed to let the guard write a biography about him.
    He worked on a farm as a boy, and because of this he could not read well, which led to beatings in Reform School.
    It is difficult to judge which is worse, the crimes he performed or the mistreatment he was on the receiving end of.

Credit: Weatherman


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 9 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 11 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 87.50% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 12 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 22 Votes: 36.36% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 25 Votes: 44.00% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 27 Votes: 48.15% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 49 Votes: 65.31% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 182 Votes: 90.66% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 28 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 22 Votes: 59.09% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 23 Votes: 73.91% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 43 Votes: 83.72% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 131 Votes: 67.18% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 48 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 69 Votes: 75.36% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 98 Votes: 77.55% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 231 Votes: 75.76% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 318 Votes: 69.18% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 450 Votes: 70.44% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 951 Votes: 70.03% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 3902 Votes: 48.21% Annoying