Edmund Kemper Research Papers

Edmund Emil Kemper

Edmund Emil Kemper was a serial killer who killed six young women and several members of his family. He is known as the co-ed killer. He was charged with eight accounts of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Kemper was born on December 18, 1948, in Burbank, California. He was the middle child of E. E. and Clarnell Kemper. His parents divorced in 1957 and he moved with his mother and two sisters to Montana. He had a very troubled childhood; mostly his relationship with his alcoholic mother. She was mentally and physically abusive to him. He had dark thoughts as a child. At the age of 10 he was made to live in the basement away from his sisters because his mother thought he would harm them. He

He learned about firearms before he moved there but, his grandparents took them away after he killed several birds and small animals. Kemper said all his rage build up over time. On August 27,1964 he shot and killed his grandmother in the kitchen after a small argument. He said he killed her to see what it felt like. But soon after he killed his grandmother, his grandfather came home from work. Kemper shot and killed his grandfather in his car to keep him from seeing his dead wife. After that he called his mother who told him to call the police. He was fifteen years old when he was sent to California Youth Authority for his crimes. Tests said he had an extremely high IQ but suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. He was then sent to Atascadero State Hospital, a maximum security for mentally ill convicts. He was released in 1969 to his mother's

He attacked his mother while sleeping. He hit her with a hammer and then cut her throat. He decapitated her and removed her hands like he did his other victims. He also removed his larynx and put it down the garbage disposal. After hiding the parts he called his mother's close friend Sally Hallett and invited her over to his mother's house. When she got there he strangled her and hid her body in a