“This boy’s name I don’t know but he was a Jew and he told me that his home was in Brooklyn, New York,” Panzram said, “where his uncle was a policeman at that time.” He held the youth prisoner while he taunted him with the knife. As the child pleaded and sobbed for mercy, he sodomized the boy again. Panzram later wrote that of all his murders, he enjoyed this one the most. Then he took the belt from the victim’s pants and strangled him with his powerful arms.
The boy, who has never been conclusively identified, lay in the bushes undiscovered for two days. On August 11, a local resident walking to work noticed torn clothing lying in the grass just off the road. When he investigated, he found the corpse of the boy, already decomposing and partially destroyed by animals.
On October 6, 1928, Panzram confessed to this murder and wrote a letter to the chief of police of New London, Connecticut, in which he wrote, “If there is anything more that you want to know about this case that I can tell you, I will.” At the bottom of this letter, Panzram apologized for lack of detail about some of his murders. “I have killed a number of people in different places and some of the facts escape my memory,” he explained.
