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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 5638955" data-attributes="member: 120286">Edmund Kemper: The Coed Butcher                       By <a href="http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/about/authors/ramsland/index.html" target="_blank">Katherine Ramsland</a>                                     <a href="http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/kemper/edmund_1.html" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/kemper/edmund_1.html" target="_blank"></a>                      At age 15, this genius-level serial killer killed his grandparents. Then he killed pretty hitchhikers and ended up decapitating his mother.                  Time Bomb                                                    On August 27, 1964, 15-year-old Edmund Emil Kemper III was with his paternal grandparents on their 17-acre ranch in North Fork, California.  Hed gone there during the previous Christmas holidays, remaining for the rest of that school year before returning to his mother, and was now back.  He wasnt happy about that.  Already six-foot-four and socially awkward, he was an intimidating figure, and people tended to shunt him from one place to another.  Hed grown frustrated and angry, and later described himself as a walking time bomb.  If only someone had known then how to defuse his rage.  Instead, the people around him seemed to ensure that it would grow worse.<img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/trutv.com/graphics/photos/serial_killers/predators/kemper/1-1-Murder-and-Madness-book.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Murder and MadnessKemper disliked how his mother treated him, and his grandmother was just as bad. They were always pushing him around and telling him what to do.  According to his own statements, he harbored fantasies of killing and mutilating them. And not just them: As a child, writes psychiatrist Donald Lunde in Murder and Madness, Kemper wished that everyone else in the world would die, and he envisioned killing many of them himself.  He had also indulged in tormenting cats.  Hed buried one alive, then dug it up, cut off its head and stuck the head on a stick. <img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/trutv.com/graphics/photos/serial_killers/predators/kemper/1-2-Kempers-grandmother.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Edmund Kemper's grandmother as young womanThat August afternoon, he argued in the kitchen with his sixty-six-year-old grandmother, Maude.  Lunde, who interviewed him at length years later, says that he had displaced his anger at his mother onto Maude, so it did not take much to make him react.  Enraged, Kemper grabbed a rifle, and when she warned him not to shoot the birds, he turned and shot her instead.  He hit her in the head, writes Margaret Cheney in Why? The Serial Killer in America, killing her, and then shot her twice in the back.  (Lunde says that he also stabbed her repeatedly with a kitchen knife, and David K. Frazier writes in Murder Cases of the Twentieth Century that it was three times in the back.)  So his first killing, if this account is correct, was impulsive, more a thoughtless act than a planned predatory incident.  But then he had to do something to hide it from his grandfather.  He was a big kid for his age, the product of a six-foot mother and a father who was six-foot-eight.  So he did not have much difficulty dragging his grandmothers corpse into the bedroom.<img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/trutv.com/graphics/photos/serial_killers/predators/kemper/1-3-Kempers-grandfather.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Edmund Kemper's grandfather as young manBut then his grandfather, also named Edmund, drove up.   The man was 72, and it was he who had given the boy the .22 caliber rifle the previous Christmas.  Young Edmund heard his car outside.  He went to the window and made the decision to finish the job hed begun.  As the elderly man got out of the car, Kemper raised the rifle and shot him as well.  Cheney says that he then hid the body in the garage. In his way, writes Lunde, he had avenged the rejection of both his father and his mother. Not knowing what else to do, he called his mother in Montana and told her what he had done.  Clarnell urged him to call the police, and no doubt she was thinking of the dire warning that Cheney says she had given Edmunds biological father, whose parents were now dead. She had told him not to be surprised if the boy killed them one day.                                       Psychiatric Follow-up                                                    Thats the day he picked up Aiko Koo, who had given up waiting for her bus and hitched a ride.   Hed been feeling the energy that inspired his fantasies of murder.  This girl seemed perfect for his next grim venture.  He was surprised that she was only fifteen, but determined to carry out his plan.  About that encounter, Kemper said:  I pulled the gun out to show her I had it...she was freaking out.  Then I put the gun away and that had more effect on her than pulling it out.  He got out of the car, locking himself out, which gave her an advantage, but she was too scared to pick up his gun.  She could have reached over and grabbed the gun, he said later, but I think she never gave it a thought.  Instead, she unlocked the door and let him back in.He pinched her nostrils to force her to black out, says Frazier, and raped her.   Then he strangled her until he was sure she was dead and rode around with her body in the trunk of his car.  He had a few drinks before taking her home to dismember and dissect her in the same manner he had done with his first two victims.  Once he had tasted this power over women, he knew, it was only a matter of time before hed want it again.  But first he had to prepare to convince the psychiatrists who were monitoring his case that he was cured.The day after he killed Aiko Koo, Kemper went before a panel of psychiatrists as a follow-up requirement for parole.  Hed done well in school, had tried finding a job, and as far as anyone knew, he had stayed out of trouble.  He knew what they wanted to hear and he put on his best act.  The first doctor talked with him for a while and indicated that he saw no reason to consider Kemper a danger to anyone.  The second one actually used the words normal and safe, according to Cheney.  Both recommended the sealing of his juvenile records as a way to help him to become a better citizen. Yet even as the two psychiatrists congratulated themselves on being part of a system that had rehabilitated a child killer, Kemper delighted in his secret.  Damio writes that not only had killed a girl the day before the analysis, but he had her head in the trunk of his car outside, which Kemper disputes. Once again, he was in the game.   He had succeeded at convincing the learned professionals that he was something other than he really was, and they had wrongly inferred that he was no longer a danger.  The judge did not agree, but had no grounds to deny the request to seal the records.  Thus, eight years after he had killed his grandparents, Kemper gained his freedom.  As he drove away with a clean bill of mental health, he felt pleased.  Now he was free to continue with his experiments.  He found a place to bury Koos head and hands above Boulder Creek, and there they remained undiscovered until the following May.<img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/trutv.com/graphics/photos/serial_killers/predators/kemper/9-1-Trophies-of-Kempers-vic.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Trophies of Kemper's victims  And he was not finished.  While he laid low for a while, he kept fantasizing about taking the lives of those young women.  He kept trophies and photographs of his grisly work to help renew the experience, and as he clashed with his mother time and again, the urge to kill built up within him.         Revenge                                                    After killing six young women, the six-foot-nine giant turned his anger against his ultimate target: his mother.   While most experts later claim that his killing was really about symbolic rehearsal for killing his mother, and once hed dispatched her, he no longer needed to kill, Kempers explanation is quite different.  He indicated in an interview that he had sensed the cops closing in after Sergeant Aluffi had paid him a call about his gun and he wanted to spare his mother the embarrassment of learning that he was the Coed Butcher.  However, his treatment of her corpse tells another story.Kemper also said that he feared that his mother had found the items he had taken from the women hed killed.   He wondered if he should flee or kill her.  I cant get away from her...She knows all my buttons and I dance like a puppet.  He knew that he would now kill her, but he waited for the opportune moment.  She went out with friends one evening and came home tipsy from alcohol (although some accounts say nothing about her inebriated state).Kemper went into her room, and according to him, she said, I suppose you want to talk now.   He told her no.  In his 1978 interview, he said he then started to cry and put his hand to his mouth.  It was the first time he had broken his composure.  Hed spoken about the other murders with no show of guilt, compassion or remorse, but his mothers death was another matter. He waited for her to go to bed, he said, and then went into her room with a claw hammer.   It was so hard.  He admitted that to remember it hurt him.  I cut off her head, and I humiliated her, of course.  She was dead, because of the way she raised her son.  But later he said hed wished shed stayed up and talked to him.  He put her head on the mantel and said what he wanted to say.  He also threw darts.  For the first time, she did not argue with him.  That felt satisfying, but he also knew it was over for him.  He would undoubtedly be linked to this crime.  He penned a brief note, quoted in Cheneys book: Appx. 5:15 A.M.  Saturday.  No need for her to suffer anymore at the hands of this horrible murderous butcher.  It was quick, sleep, the way I wanted it.Some sources indicate that Kemper believed having two victims would deflect attention from him, so he then invited Sally Hallett over.   He punched and strangled her, then laid her naked on his bed.  He spent the night with the two corpses in the house, with blood everywhere, and one account indicates that he tried to have sex with Halletts corpse.  He also beheaded her.  On Easter morning, he fled in Sallys car.   As he drove, he turned on the radio, hoping to hear on the news that someone had discovered the bodies.  Yet there were no news flashes.  That disappointed him.  By the time he reached Pueblo, after driving some 1,500 miles, he decided to instigate the discovery himself.  Stopping at a phone booth, he called the police.<img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/trutv.com/graphics/photos/serial_killers/predators/kemper/11-1-Edmund-Kemper.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Edmund Kemper, in custody, dwarfs others  Kemper made it easy for the cops.   He showed them where he had buried the head of Cynthia Schall in his mothers backyard, saying he had placed it there so he could take satisfaction in knowing, according to one detective, she was on his property looking toward the sky.  As they drove, he described each murder in minute detail and showed them where he had deposited each victims remains.<img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/trutv.com/graphics/photos/serial_killers/predators/kemper/11-2-Body-removed.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Body removed, Edmund Kemper's home                                                                     Read full story<a href="http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/kemper/edmund_1.html" target="_blank">http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/kemper/edmund_1.html</a></blockquote>

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