In my lifetime, I have murdered 21 human beings.

I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larceny's,

and last but not least, I have committed sodomy on more than a thousand human beings.

For all of these things, I am not the least bit sorry.

I have no conscience.

So that does not worry me.

I don't believe in man, God, nor devil.

I hate the whole damned human race including myself. These are the words of

Carl Panzram, an early 20th century American serial killer, rapist, arsonist, and

thief.

And I do believe he believed what he wrote there.

Unlike the majority of serial killers

we have covered here, Carl was extremely self-aware.

And unless he was trying to swindle a parole board into an early release or trick someone into doing something so he could escape from prison or rob, rape, or kill them, he wasn't afraid to tell you exactly who he was.

He didn't try and deceive himself into thinking he was somehow the good guy, he knew he wasn't.

He knew he was bad. He'd known it since he was a child. And he never seemed to show or express any interest in reforming.

He hated humanity, all of it, including himself. For him, life was not only not

sacred, it was best to end it in nearly any in all situations. Despite Carl confessing to 21 murders,

he suspected of killing well over 100 boys and men in the United States,

a dozen or more in Angola, and God knows how many other murders and any number of the many nations he

visited. He committed countless acts of rape against people of all ages, including

children. So many he literally lost count. Carl spent more than two decades of a less than four decade life

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