The true story of lifelong criminal and serial killer, Carl Panzram who wrote his autobiography for a jail guard in 1928. Carl Panzram was a lifelong prisoner and a hate-filled serial killer. Brutalized in and out of various U.S. state prisons during 20th century America, Panzram unleashed a rampage of revenge that resulted in over 20 murders and countless acts of violent sodomy. A single act of kindness, by prison guard Henry Lesser, sparked a friendship that eventually influenced Panzram to write his autobiography. In 1930, Panzram was hanged for killing a laundry foreman at Leavenworth prison.
Acting
DiMaggio's voice work—warmth weaponized to chilling effect.
Direction
Borowski's restraint: lets Panzram's words do the violence.
Writing
Panzram's own prose, unfiltered and literary and horrifying.
Director
John Borowski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
John DiMaggio is Bender from Futurama—he used his natural speaking voice, making Panzram weirdly conversational.
Panzram's autobiography sat unpublished until 1970; Lesser's preservation is why we have one of the only first-person serial killer documents in existence.
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