Edmund Kemper III

Childhood

• Born in Burbank, Californa
• December 18, 1948
• Parents were Clarnell Stage and Edmund Emil Kemper Jr.

Childhood

• Middle child, between two sisters.
• Father was role model
• His mother was abusive and an alcoholic.

Childhood

• Verbally abused by mother and pushed around by his sisters.
• Showed psychopathic behavior early on.
• Antisocail and sadistic

Took family's cat buried it alive, dug it up cut off its head and mounted the head on a stick.

Childhood

• Parents got a devorce.
• Had to live with his mother out in Montana.
• Separation from his father devastated him.

Mother forced him to sleep in the locked basement because she thought he would rape his younger sister if he was not locked up.

Adolescence

• Ran away form home to go find his father.
• Found father, he had remarried and had another son.

Adolescence

• He stayed with his father for a short time, then his father made his go back to his mother.
• His mother wanted no part of him and sent him to live with his grandparents.

First Kills

• Age 15
• In an argument with his grandmother, grabed a rifie and shot her in the head.
• Heard his grandfather pull up in the driveway and met him outside and shot him to death as well.

Psychological Hospital

• When questioned about his grandparents murders he said that he killed his grandfather to avoid punishment.

Psychological Hospital

• But when asked about his grandmother he said he, "wanted to know what it felt like".

Psychological Hospital

• Did very well.
• He befriended his psychiatrist, even worked as his assistant.
• At this time his IQ was 136

Psychological Hospital

• Set free after only 5 years.
• Set free after only 5 years.
• Had his criminal recored expunged
• Fooled sycatrist, he had full intentions to kill again.

Murder Spree

• Went back to live with mother.
• Became a serial spree killer.
• 1972-1973Went back to live with mother. a serial spree killer.
• Went back to live with mother.
• He Became a serial spree killer.

Murder Spree

• Killing female collage students and commiting necrophillic acts with their corpses.

Murder Spree

• He would go "hunting" after his mother had an outburst against him.
• He would find girls hitchhicking, pick them up

Murders

• He would find girls hitchhiking, pick them up, take them to a secludeed area and murder them in a number of different ways.
• Stabbing, shooting, and smothering

He took one body back to his mothers house hid it in his room, decapitated it and buried it in his mothers garden.

When questioned he said it was "a joke" claiming "she always wanted people to look up to her".

Murders

• Continued his murderous rampage.
• His mother unknowingly inciting it with it with her outburts of rage.
• Until one day Kemper decided to end the cycle.

Murders

• On Good Friday 1973
• Kemper was at his mothers house resting.
• When she came in from a party, she went to her room to read a book.

Murders

• He went and stood on the doorway.
• His mother muttered something sarcastic about him.

Murders

• To which he replied " goodnight" and them he beat her to death with a claw hammer.

Murders

• He cut off her head, raped it and ripped her vocal cords out.
• He stuffed to vocal cords down the garbage desposal.

When the garbage disposal spit them back into the sink, Kemper found it humorous saying it showed their "resilience with her relentless b**ching"

Murders

• Right after he invited his mothers best friend over and them killed her as well.
• He them turned himself over to the police.

Prison

• He is one of the very few serial killers to turn themselves over.
• He was sentenced to life in prison.
• He still serves today.

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