EVIL PSYCHOPATHS (True Crime) by Kerr Gordon

Author:Kerr, Gordon [Kerr, Gordon]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Canary Press
Published: 2011-02-01T16:00:00+00:00

Ed Kemper

The Co-ed Killer

Edmund Emil Kemper III had always been a little odd, but had been behaving increasingly strangely since the break-up of his parents’ marriage. At the age of nine, he had buried the family cat alive in the back garden of his house in Burbank, California. He had then dug it up, decapitated it and mounted its head on a stick. He dreamt of murdering people and would cut up his sister’s dolls and engage in strange sex games with them. His behaviour was not helped by his mother locking him in the basement at night for eight months, fearing that he would molest his sisters.

In 1963, aged fifteen, his mother was finding it impossible to control him and after he had run away from his father’s house, he was sent to live with his father’s parents on their remote Californian farm at North Fork, high in California's Sierra Mountains. Life there was very boring for Kemper. He was away from school and isolated from his normal life. One day there was an argument when his grandmother insisted that he stay home and do housework instead of going into the fields to work with his grandfather. He picked up a rifle to go outside and shoot something but when she told him not to shoot any birds he turned round and fired a bullet into her head before shooting her in the back. He heard his grandfather arrive and killed him with a single shot as he got out of his car. Kemper said to police interviewing him: ‘I just wondered how it would feel to shoot Grandma.’

He was diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and detained in Atascadero State Mental Hospital for the criminally insane.

In 1969, aged twenty-one, standing six feet nine inches tall and weighing three hundred pounds, he was released into the care of his mother, Clarnell. The doctors considered Clarnell to be at the root of most of Kemper’s problems and warned him not to go back to her, but he did. Needless to say, life with her was no better than it had been before. They argued violently and she would blame him because she could not get any dates. Indeed, she seemed to get on better with the students at the University of Santa Cruz where she worked as a secretary than she did with her own son. He eventually moved out, to Alameda near San Francisco, sharing a rented flat with a

friend. Most of his time was spent cruising around

the California highways, picking up young, female hitch-hikers.

Kemper held down a job at a Green Giant canning factory and, still a virgin, worked out his sex and violence fantasies with pornography and detective magazines. In 1971, he had a motorcycle accident for which he received fifteen thousand dollars in compensation. He was unable to work and now had time and money on his hands.

In spring 1972, Kemper after yet another tempestuous argument with his mother, he went out looking for a victim on whom he could vent his anger.

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