PRODUCERS


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JOHN BOROWSKI, producer - writer - director

 

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FILMS

ALBERT FISH (2007) - OFFICIAL SITE - IMDB

H.H. HOLMES (2004) - OFFICIAL SITE - IMDB

John Borowski is an award winning independent filmmaker whose films have been broadcast on television and distributed worldwide on home video. Facets Video distributes Borowski's films on DVD in North America.


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DOUGLAS WYNNE, executive producer

 

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MARK BERRY, producer

 

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Mark Berry is writer and photo journalist, working as the LA Editor for Bizarre Magazine and freelancing for numerous international publications. The Englishman produces and edits Naked - Magazine of the Weird and Wonderful and was film programmer at the maverick microplex, The Cube Cinema in Bristol, U.K.

INTERVIEWEES

SCOTT CHRISTIANSON, P.h.D - WEBSITE

Scott Christianson is an acclaimed author, investigative reporter, and scholar, who specializes in crime and punishment. His books include With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America (1998); Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House (1999); Innocent: Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases (2003); Notorious Prisons: Inside the World’s Most Feared Institutions (2004); and Bodies of Evidence: Forensics and Crime (2006). A former newspaperman and longtime high-ranking New York state criminal justice official who holds a Ph.D. from the University at Albany, he has taught at several universities and won many awards for his writing, journalism and human rights activities.


JOE COLEMAN , Artist - WEBSITE

Joe has painted a portrait of Carl Panzram who he sees as a "kind of unholy saint of nihilism: the very shadow of Christ."

The portraits Joe has painted include: Albert Fish, Ed Gein, Houdini, Poe, and Mary Bell.


MARK GADO, Writer

Mark Gado was a police detective with the City of New Rochelle Police Department in New York for the past twenty-nine years. His story about serial killer Carl Panzram, Monster of Minnesota (2004) won a Page One award for one of the top three magazine articles of the year. He has written dozens of articles on criminal justice issues and historical crime for Court TV's CRIME LIBRARY. He is the author of KILLER PRIEST (2006) and DEATH ROW WOMEN (2007). He is currently working on his next book, THE MISBEGOTTEN, a story of a third-generation detective who commits a series of murders in New York City.

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DR. G. THOMAS GITCHOFF, Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University Criminal Justice Administration Program

Dr. G. Thomas Gitchoff is a criminologist, and professor of criminal justice at San Diego State University and associate clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSD School of Medicine in La Jolla. He is uniquely qualified in the area of criminology, counseling and sentencing alternatives. He has qualified as an expert and has rendered his opinions in case evaluations in state and federal courts on numerous occasions. He has been appointed by the court in cases involving complicated facts and serious charges. His interdisciplinary capabilities will give the court a complete and useful evaluation of the defendant for sentencing purposes and constructive alternatives to incarceration.

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JOEL GOODMAN, Federal Bureau of Prisons Retiree

Joel Goodman retired in 2008 from the United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons after 31 years. He also has experience with St. Louis County Jail and Missouri State Penitentiary. He is an expert on jail, prison and community corrections operations and does litigation consulting.

His education includes a Bachelor of Science in Administration of Justice from the University of Missouri and a Master of Science in Criminal Justice Administration from San Diego State University.

Joel served as advisor on several Panzram projects including the 2002 book, Panzram: A Journal of Murder. He has been published in a variety of professional journals and lives in Colorado.


KATHERINE RAMSLAND, P.h.D - WEBSITE

Dr. Katherine Ramsland has a master's degree in forensic psychology from the internationally esteemed John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a master's degree in clinical psychology from Duquesne University, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Rutgers. She has published thirty-one books, including The CSI Effect, Inside the Minds of Serial Killers, The Human Predator, and The Forensic Science of CSI. She currently contributes editorials on forensic issues to The Philadelphia Inquirer; writes a regular feature on historical forensics for The Forensic Examiner; and teaches forensic psychology as an assistant professor at DeSales University in Pennsylvania. Her forthcoming books are Into the Devil’s Den, about an undercover operative, True Stories of CSI and The Devil’s Dozen.

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY - ROBERT RAY, Head of Special Collections and University Archives.

SDSU special collections holds the original, handwritten Carl Panzram Papers.

Robert Ray talks about the historic preservation of the Panzram Papers.