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Documenting Another Serial Killer

Written by DeadGirl
Tuesday, 06 November 2007
Having profiled in documentary form the exploits of early American serial killers H.H. Holmes and Albert Fish, filmmaker John Borowski is now moving on to Carl Panzram. Hung in 1930 for killing a Leavenworth prison guard, here’s what serial killer Carl Panzram had to say about his previous criminal deeds: ‘In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and last but not least I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings,’ Panzram wrote as part of his autobiography, begun in 1928 and published in book form in 1970. ‘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.’ Panzram’s journals also chronicled episodes of juvenile home and prison brutality, another aspect of the story to be covered in the 2008 feature length documentary planned by John Borowski (Albert Fish, H.H. Holmes). The film will be produced by Mark Berry, L.A. editor for Bizarre Magazine. The Minnesota native was never at a loss for words. When it came time to be meet his maker, Panzram spat in the face of his executioner and exclaimed, ‘Hurry up you bastard! I could kill ten men while you’re fooling around.’ Coinciding with the current pandemic of police brutality, filmmaker John Borowski announces lifelong prisoner Carl Panzram as the subject of his upcoming feature film, which is slated to begin production in 2008. Panzram will examine the entire life and death of the serial killer, who revealed himself to be an intelligent, introspective and thought-provoking writer through autobiographical papers secretly passed to a humanitarian prison guard. The story of American prisoner Panzram is “an indictment of various early U.S. state prison’s use of brutal violence and torture,” says Borowski. Though a recent spike of media coverage has heightened awareness of police brutality, the U.S. has a lengthy history of corporal punishment that some consider a stain on the country’s penal institutional record. 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 prison guard. Panzram marks the third feature film for producer/writer/director John Borowski. The award-winning filmmaker has achieved international acclaim for his provocative documentaries on early American serial killers H.H. Holmes and Albert Fish. Information and limited collector edition posters are at the film's official website, www.panzram.com. http://www.filmstew.com/showArticle.aspx?ContentID=16607 http://www.ohmygore.com/newsuk-3773-Serial-Killer-Carl-Panzram-Subject-of-Film.html

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries