Carl Panzram was an American serial killer, rapist and burglar, who was the mastermind behind heinous crimes conducted during the early 1900s. Born to a middle-class family, Panzram’s first ever act of crime came in when he was barely 12 years of age. He stole food stuff and revolver from his neighbour’s house. Upon being caught, his father sent him to Minnesota State Training School where instead of correcting his misdeed Panzram re-affirmed his faith in crime and criminal activities. A victim of rape and sexual abuse, Panzram’s criminal activities multiplied ever since then. The peak of it came in when he was imprisoned at the Fort Leavenworth's United States Disciplinary Barracks. The prison ripped Panzram of the little goodness that he had and turned him into a criminal. He escaped from the prison and took up shelter in different cities under various aliases. Panzram indulged in robbery, burglary, theft, rape, arson, and murder. Not many know that he even contemplated mass killings and other acts of mayhem. Poisoning a city's water supply with arsenic or scuttling a British warship in New York Harbor to provoke a war between the U.S. and Great Britain were some of the plans that Panzram thought of in his life. In his autobiography, he stated to have claimed 21 lives and committed sodomy on more than 1000 boys and men.