Ed Kemper Bio, Age, Crimes, Sentence, Mother, Quotes, Mindhunter

Ed Kemper born as Edmund Emil Kemper III is an American serial killer and necrophile who murdered 10 people including his paternal grandparents and mother. He is noted for his large size and his height of 2.06 m.

Ed Kemper Biography

Ed Kemper born as Edmund Emil Kemper III is an American serial killer and necrophile who murdered 10 people including his paternal grandparents and mother. He is noted for his large size and his height of 2.06 m.

He was nicknamed Co-ed Killer since most of his victims were students at co-educational institutions.

Ed Kemper Age

Emil was born on December 18, 1948, in Burbank, California, U.S. He is 70 years old as of 2018.

Ed Kemper Iq

He has a high IQ of 145.

Ed Kemper Family | Young

He was born as the middle child and only son to Clarnell Elizabeth Kemper and Edmund Emil Kemper II. His father was a World War II veteran who tested nuclear weapons in the Pacific Proving Grounds after the war. He later returned to California where he worked as an electrician.

By the time he was 4 years old, he was already a head taller than his peers. However much he was highly intelligent, he exhibited behavior such as cruelty to animals. When he was 10 years old, he buried a cat alive and once it died, he dug it up, decapitated it and mounted its head on a spike. He later stated that he got great pleasure from successfully lying to his family about killing the cat.

When he was 13 years old, he killed another family cat when he perceived it to be favouring his younger sister, Allyn Lee Kemper over him and kept its pieces in his closet until his mother found them. He used to perform rituals with his younger sister’s dolls that culminated in him removing their heads and hands as one of his dark , and, on one occasion, when his elder sister, Susan Hughey Kemper (1943–2014), teased him and asked why he did not try to kiss his teacher, he replied: “If I kiss her, I’d have to kill her first.”

His favorite games a she was a kid was Gas Chamber and Electric Chair; he asked his younger sister to tie him up, flip an imaginary switch and then he would tumble over and writhe on the floor, pretending to be dying of gas inhalation or electric shock.

He had a close relationship with his father and when his parents separated in 1957, he was so devastated. The breaking up caused him to be raised by his mother Clarnell in Helena, Montana. His mother was a neurotic, domineering alcoholic who would frequently belittle, humiliate and abuse him. This made him have a dysfunctional relationship with her. She used to mock him and made him sleep in a locked basement as she feared he could hurt his sisters.

When he was 15 years old, he ran away from home to go reconcile with his father in Van Nuys, California where he learned that his father had remarried and had another son. His father sent him to stay with his grandparents after he had lived with him for a little while. His grandparents lived in North Fork where he hated so much.

Ed Kemper Mom

His mother’s name is Clarnell Elizabeth Kemper.

Ed Kemper Sisters

He has two sisters Susan Hughey Kemper and Allyn Lee Kemper

Ed Kemper Dating

After he had moved out of his mother’s house, he began working for the Highway Department. The same year, he began dating a 16-year-old Turlock High School student to whom he would later become engaged.

Ed Kemper Murders

Grandparents

On August 27, 1964, Kemper’s grandma, Maude Matilda Hughey Kemper (1897– 1964), was sitting at the kitchen table when she and Kemper had a contention. Chafed by the contention, Kemper raged off and got a rifle that his granddad had given him for chasing. He at that point came back to the kitchen and lethally shot his grandma in the head before discharging twice more into her back.

When his grandparents arrived home from grocery shopping, he went outside and shot him fatally in the driveway. He was uncertain of what to do straightaway thus called his mom, who asked him to contact the nearby police. He then called the police and hung tight for them to arrest him. Upon questioning, he said that he just wanted to see what it felt like to kill grandma and that he killed his grandpa so that he would not have to find out that his wife was dead.

His crimes deemed incomprehensible for a 15-year-old to commit and court diagnosed him as a paranoid schizophrenic before he got sent to the Atascadero State Hospital. Sometime later he had saved enough money and moved out to live with his friend in Alameda as he had regular fights and disagreements with his mother.

Other Murders:

In a span of 11 months, he had killed 5 college students, one high school student, his mother, and his mother’s best friend.

  • Mary Ann Pesce and Anita Luchessa on May 7, 1972.
  • Aiko Koo on September 14, 1972.
  •  Cynthia Ann “Cindy” Schall on January 7, 1973.
  • Rosalind Thorpe and Allison Liu on February 5, 1973.
  • His mother, Clarnell Strandberg, and Sally Hallett, his mother’s best friend on April 20, 1973.

He was indicted on eight counts of first-degree murder on May 7, 1973. While in custody, he tried to commit suicide in custody and survived both times. He was declared guilty on all counts on November 8, 1973, and was sentenced to 7 years to life for each count with these terms to be served concurrently. He was sentenced to the California Medical Facility.

Ed Kemper Book

  •  The True Story of the Brutal Co-Ed Butcher
  • The True Story of the Co-ed Killer; Historical Serial Killers and Murderers
  •  A Study of the Murders, Mutilations, and Matricide of Edmund Kemper III
  • The Life of the Co-ed Killer

Ed Kemper Quotes

  • “One side of me says, I’d like to talk to her, date her. The other side of me says, I wonder what her head would look like on a stick.”
  • “I remember there was actually a sexual thrill.. you hear that little pop and pull their heads off and hold their heads up by the hair. Whipping their heads off, their body sitting there. That’d get me off.”
  • “With a girl, there’s a lot left in the girl’s body without a head. Of course, the personality is gone.”
  • “I just wanted to see how it felt to shoot Grandma”
  • “If I killed them, you know, the couldn’t reject me as a man. It was more of less making a doll out of a human being.. and carrying out my fantasies with a doll, a living human doll.”

Ed Kemper 2019

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