1930

A 2011 documentary film about Carl Panzram—American serial killer, rapist, and arsonist who confessed to 21 murders—available on Apple TV, Netflix, and Prime Video.

On June 20, 1929, Carl Panzram killed foreman Robert G. Warnke with an iron bar in the laundry of the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas. Panzram was executed by hanging on September 5, 1930.

Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann, known as "The Butcher of Hanover," murdered at least 24 young men and boys between 1918 and 1924 in Weimar Germany. Operating from the city's railway station, he lured vulnerable victims to his attic apartment before killing them in a calculated campaign of sexual violence and dismemberment that shocked the nation.

John Dillinger, the mastermind behind the Dillinger Gang's string of bank robberies across America, was shot and killed by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934. His death marked the dramatic end to one of the most intense manhunts of the Depression era.

On February 9, 1864, Colonel Thomas E. Rose of the 77th Pennsylvania Infantry led one of the Civil War's most audacious prison escapes from Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. Working in secret for 17 days, Rose and fellow officers dug a narrow 50-60 foot tunnel from the dungeon-like basement to freedom—an feat so remarkable that 109 men followed them out.