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Who Is Edmund Kemper?
Early Life
Grandparents' Murder
Release
'The Co-ed Killer'
Mother's Murder
Trial and Imprisonment
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Who Is Edmund Kemper?
Edmund Kemper, at age 15, killed both his grandparents to "see what it felt like." Upon release, he drifted, picking up and releasing female hitchhikers.
But he soon stopped letting them go, killing six young women in the Santa Cruz, California, area in the 1970s. In 1973 he killed his mother and her friend before turning himself in.
Early Life
Kemper was born on December 18, 1948, in Burbank, California, the middle child of E. E. and Clarnell Kemper.
After his parents’ divorce in 1957, he moved with his mother and two sisters to Montana. Kemper had a difficult relationship with his alcoholic mother, as she was very critical of him, and he blamed her for all of his problems.
When he was 10 years old, she forced him to live in the basement, away from his sisters, whom she feared he might harm in some way.
Signs of trouble began to emerge early. Kemper had a dark fantasy life, sometimes dreaming about killing his mother.
He cut off the heads of his sisters' dolls and even forced the girls into playing a game he called "gas chamber," in which he had them blindfold him and lead him to a chair, where he pretended to writhe in agony until he "died."
His first victims were the family cats. At ten he, buried one of them alive and the second, 13 year-old Kemper slaughtered with a knife.
He went to live with his father for a short time, but ended back with his mother, who decided to send the troubled teenager to live with his paternal grandparents in North Fork, California.
Grandparents' Murder
Kemper hated living on his grandparents' farm. Before going to North Fork, he had already begun learning about firearms
but his grandparents took away his rifle after he killed several birds and other small animals. On August 27, 1964, Kemper finally turned his building rage on his grandparents.
The 15-year-old shot his grandmother in the kitchen after an argument, and when his grandfather returned home, Kemper went outside and shot him by his car and then hid the body.
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