What Caused Carl Panzram to Commit Murder

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With this next killer, Carl Panzram, the researcher seemed unsure of what caused this killer to commit their crimes. The author states that Panzram is the hardest to study. While examining this killer, the author notes that his crimes began at the age of 8 and carried on throughout his entire free life. He raped, burned, and brutally beat men, women, and children. Because of these heinous crimes he was dubbed by the world as too evil to live. Panzram agreed, stating, “I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency…” He further stated, "…My only regret is that I wasn 't born dead or not at all (Gado, 2011).” Some of the questions the researcher asks in this article pertaining to this killer was, what caused a human being to not only harm others in such horrible ways but to also hate themselves with such a burning passion? Was it nature or …show more content…

During examining Panzram’s childhood, the author notes that he came from a pretty normal family, in the sense that they grew up on a farm in Minnesota, where hard work and little play were common among children