Kemper later stated that he derived pleasure from successfully lying to his family about killing the cat. Early on, he exhibited antisocial behavior such as torture of insects and cruelty to animals: at the age of 10, he buried a pet cat alive once it died, he dug it up, decapitated it, and mounted its head on a spike.
Weighing 13 pounds (5.9 kg) as a newborn, Kemper was a head taller than his peers by the age of four. later stated that "suicide missions in wartime and the atomic bomb testings were nothing compared to living with " and that she affected him "more than three hundred and ninety-six days and nights of fighting on the front did." Clarnell often complained about her husband's "menial" electrician job. was a World War II veteran who, after the war, tested nuclear weapons at the Pacific Proving Grounds before returning to California, where he worked as an electrician. He was the middle child and only son born to Clarnell Elizabeth Kemper ( née Stage, 1921–1973) and Edmund Emil Kemper Jr.
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Kemper then murdered his mother and one of her friends before turning himself in to the authorities.įound sane and guilty at his trial in 1973, Kemper requested the death penalty for his crimes. He targeted young female hitchhikers during his killing spree, luring them into his vehicle and driving them to secluded areas where he would murder them before taking their corpses back to his home to be decapitated, dismembered, and violated. Released at the age of 21 after convincing psychiatrists he was rehabilitated, Kemper was regarded as non-threatening by his future victims. Following the murders, Kemper was briefly diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia by court psychiatrists and sentenced to the Atascadero State Hospital as a criminally insane juvenile. He ran away to reunite with his father, but was left behind in North Fork, California, on Christmas Day in 1963, where, at the age of 15, he murdered his paternal grandparents. His parents divorced in early life as a child, he moved to Montana with his mother Clarnell, who kept Kemper locked in their basement which had been frequented by rats. īorn in Burbank, California, Kemper had a troubled upbringing. Most of his murders included necrophilia, with occasional incidents of rape. He is noted for his height of 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m) and his intellect, possessing an IQ of 145. Kemper was nicknamed the Co-ed Killer, as most of his victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California.
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Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer who murdered six college students before murdering his mother and her best friend from May 1972 to April 1973, following his parole for murdering his paternal grandparents.
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