Edmund Emil Kemper III is an American serial killer, rapist, cannibal, and necrophile who murdered ten people, including his paternal grandparents and mother. Kemper was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic by court psychiatrists and sentenced to the Atascadero State Hospital as a criminally insane juvenile. He was released at the age of 21 after convincing psychiatrists he was rehabilitated. 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.
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Edmund Emil Kemper III is an American serial killer, rapist, cannibal, and necrophile who murdered ten people, including his paternal grandparents and mother. Kemper was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic by court psychiatrists and sentenced to the Atascadero State Hospital as a criminally insane juvenile. He was released at the age of 21 after convincing psychiatrists he was rehabilitated. 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. He then took their corpses back to his home to be decapitated, dismembered, and violated. Found sane and guilty at his trial in 1973, Kemper requested the death penalty for his crimes. Since then, he has been incarcerated in the California Medical Facility. He has waived his right to a parole hearing several times and has said he is happy in prison. He is noted for his large size, at 6 feet 9 inches, and for his high intellect, possessing an IQ of 145. He had a close relationship with his father and was devastated when his parents separated in 1957, causing him to be raised by Clarnell Elizabeth Kemper, a domineering, alcoholic who frequently belittled, abused, and humiliated him. He also had near-death experiences as a child: once, when his elder sister tried to push him in front of a train and another time when she successfully pushed him into the deep end of a swimming pool, where he almost drowned.
Edmund II was a World War II veteran who, after the war, tested nuclear weapons in the Pacific Proving Grounds before returning to California. He later said that his father affected him more than three hundred and ninety-six days and nights of fighting on the front did. His father often complained about Edmund II’s menial electrician job, and he later said \”suicide missions in wartime and the atomic bomb testings were nothing compared to living with her\” and that he later told him that no woman would ever love him as much as his mother did. He would sneak out of his house and, armed with his dad’s bayonet, go to his second-grade teacher’s house to watch her through the windows. He performed rites with his younger sister’s dolls that culminated in his removing their heads and hands; and on one occasion, when he did not try to kiss his teacher, he replied, “If I kiss her, I’d have to kill her first.” Kemper later stated that he derived pleasure from successfully lying to his family about killing the cat. He kept pieces of it in his closet until his mother found them, and kept them there until he turned himself in to the authorities. As a child, he exhibited antisocial behavior such as cruelty to animals: he dug it up, decapitated it, and mounted its head on a spike. He weighed 13 pounds as a newborn, and was a head taller than his peers by the aged of four.
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