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Co-Ed Killer: Edmund Kemper As A Serial Killer

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Sasha Sheppard Ms. Stubenrauch Psychology per. 1 10, December, 2015 The Kemper Files What would drive a person to kill? What would make them continue ending lives? According to the dictionary, a serial killer is a person who murders three or more people, usually due to abnormal psychological gratification. Edmund Kemper is indeed a serial killer. In this case study, I will examine the various factors that contributed to his drive to kill. Besides examining his motives and studying the symptoms that allude to mental illness. From a research standpoint, it could have been an abusive childhood, acute paranoid schizophrenia, and antisocial personality disorder that led Kemper to become the so-called “Co-Ed killer”. Edmund Kemper was born …show more content…

He picked up hitchhiker, Cindy Schall and shot her. While his mom was out, Kemper went to her home and concealed Schall's body in his room there. He eviscerated her body the next day, and tossed the parts into the sea. A few sections were later found when they appeared on shore. Kemper's mom got him a campus parking sticker with the goal that he could get her from the college. On February 5, 1973, he utilized that sticker to encourage a twofold murder. Kemper headed to the grounds after a fight with his mom and gave a ride to two coeds, Rosalind Thorpe and Alice Liu. Soon after picking them up, he shot the two young ladies. Kemper drove past grounds security at the doors with two dying women in his car. After the shootings, Kemper executed his two victims and further dissected the bodies, expelled the bullets from their heads, and discarded their parts in varying areas. In March, some of Thorpe's and Liu's remaining parts were found by hikers close to Highway 1 in San Mateo County. Though he may have enjoyed his murderous spree, Kemper was only gearing up for one of his final …show more content…

He told detectives later that he wasn’t ready to commit this final act and that was why he had killed in the first place. Edmund ended up at his mother’s house where they happened to argue. After the dust had settled, Clarnell Kemper retired to her bedroom to sleep, where Edmund would strike her in the head with a hammer. It’s said that he also cut her throat and removed her larynx. He then stashed her body somewhere within the house and went out for drinks. It was there that he decided his final murder. He went back to the house and invited over his mother’s friend “Sally” Hallett. The details are confused are about how he’d convinced her to come over. But while she was there, Kemper brutally attacked her and fled the next day. It was a while before he confessed to it all. He had actually fled and then come back to Santa Cruz to turn himself in. Because of his ability to hide his mental illness, and the fact that he had befriended a number of Santa Cruz P.D. they were quite surprised that the one deemed “Big Ed” had committed crimes so

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