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You can't know that the way a serial killer behaves in prison, before cameras, before a parole board, before any body of people he's looking to sway, is any indication of his true nature. They'll say or do whatever they need to get what they want. It's difficult to truly know what they're thinking or feeling.
But from the sounds of it, Panzram reminds me more of Richard Ramirez. Total malevolence, total honesty about it. But I have to say the master manipulators who lie and put on a normal charming face freak me out more.
If he'd said "I've sodomized a thousand men", I could accept that just being an expression. Instead his exact words seem to have been "I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings". Odd choice of words. But I've only just found a few of his papers, give me some time to take a deeper look.
And you're not dreaming, I'm afraid. It's been reported that Garavito's relationship with his guards is amicable. I think if we cracked open a good many prisons with inmates serving life sentences for homicide, we'd find more than a few inmate/guard relationships that were almost friendly. The guards and inmates probably feel it's the easiest and most mutually beneficial way to get through their day-to-day.