Edmund “The Co-Ed Killer” Kemper
Edmund Kemper Born on December 18, 1948, Ed Kemper is best known for his enormous size, intelligence, dark fantasies, and his ten serial murders and necrophilic acts (World of Criminal Justice, 2002). During the 1970’s, Kemper sent the Santa Cruz college area in a panic, which unfortunately ended six of young female lives. Kemper had ten victims in total which included such acts from shooting his victims to acts of necrophilia and dismemberment. Kemper’s main targets were young college hitchhikers. A towering man standing just shy of 7’ tall (most reports state about 6’9”) who was close, if not considered a friend and nice guy, with many of the local police officers. This gave him an edge and an overwhelming feeling of confidence. His stature also gave an edge over his victims. An advantage he would seldom use as his modus operandi (M.O.) was to pick up hitchhikers by gaining their trust through words and then shoot them (BIO, 2014). His first kill and start towards a violent path was his grandmother which lead to a paranoid, but brief, flee attempt followed by an apprehension several states away in Colorado.
Edmund Kemper was born December 18, 1948 in Burbank, California. Kemper had two sisters and was the middle child to his father E.E. Kemper and mother Clarnell Kemper. His home unfortunately seemed to be very broken and his parents divorced before his 10th birthday. Kemper’s mother took Kemper and his sisters to Montana to live after the divorce. Kemper’s mother, on most accounts, resented him. Their relationship grew very unsettling and Clarnell blamed Kemper for all her problems and punished Kemper in very demeaning and abusive ways. There has been studies that show that child neglect, when...
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...aced them into the garbage disposal (Ramsland, Katherine). Shortly after, he invited his mother’s friend over, Sara Hallett, for dinner. When she arrived, Kemper quickly murdered and decapitated her before going to bed (Blanco, Juan). This is where Kemper starts to panic and fall into a state of paranoia.
On April 23, 1973, the Santa Cruz police received a call from a phone booth in Pueblo, Colorado from a man they had all eaten with, drank with, and talked with for hours: “Big Ed,” or Edmund Kemper (Ramsland, Katherine). It took him a couple tries before he finally got an officer to go to his house and find the horrific crime scene of Kemper’s mother and close friend. He would be picked up in Colorado and expedited back to California where he would eventually be found guilty guilty of first-degree murder on all eight counts, despite attempts at being found insane.
Edmund Emil Kemper III was born on December 13, 1948 in Burbank, CA. He was born to the union of Edmund E. Kemper Jr. and Clarnell Strandberg. After his parents divorced, Clarnell took Kemper along with his two sisters to live by her very high standards and abusive ways. She berated Kemper mentally by having him sleep in a windowless basement because she feared of the harm he may cause to his sisters. In turn, this caused the hatred that he had for her to fester and turn into hatred against all women. On many occasions Kemper would break off the heads and hands of his sister’s dolls and also have them play the game he called “The gas chamber” in which he was the victim to be executed (Fisher, 2003a).
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...dent because he was known to hang out in a bar in Santa Cruz where off duty police officers could be found, asking questions about the murders he had committed. He had even applied to become a police officer (Martingale 222). Kemper, by calling the police and describing details of the murders to get them to believe he was the “coed killer,” was finally getting the notoriety and recognition he felt he deserved for the first time in his life. The label of antisocial personality disorder can be applied to Kemper. He paid no attention to the pain and suffering he caused others and completely ignored their individual rights. This behavior started early in his childhood and continued until he became incarcerated. Edmund Kemper III is a sociopath, a psychopath, the “coed killer,” a serial killer, one of the most horrifying and most serious offenders living in prison today.
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