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E. KEMPER
Like most serial killers around the world, Edmund Emil Kemper III had family problems as a child. He spent every day seriously arguing with his mother. It turns out that they were not mere discussions but humiliations uttered by her mother. His parents separated when Kemper was 9 years old and from then on, a long succession of stepfathers attended his house. He missed his father a lot since the separation. Other than that, he never got along with his sisters who, like their mother, looked down on him. In fact, they were very afraid of Kemper and found it bizarre. All this when he was still a child and you will understand why this feeling. When he was approximately 10 years old, Kemper told one of his sisters that he was in love with a high school teacher... so far so good. The problem was its conclusion; he would have to kill her to get a kiss. This sentence was said spontaneously and authentically to his sister. Also, from an early age, Edmund enjoyed pranks quite eccentric for his age; simulating a death in a gas chamber and cutting off his mother's cats for example and Kemper was an absurdly tall child (2 meters) and weighed over 100 kg. Perhaps the biggest problem in Kemper's psychic resourcefulness was the way his guardians dealt with his exoticism. Instead of seeking psychiatric or even psychoanalytic help; At that time in the middle of the last century, the psychoanalytic school led by Sigmund Freud was becoming increasingly popular in Europe (and the world). However, instead, Edmund's mother preferred to transfer his room to the basement; place without the minimum of ventilation and lighting that is; segregate and hide their child from acquaintances and their own family. Parallel to all these difficulties, Kemper led a bad school life. Even though he was very tall, he was very afraid of being beaten and ridiculed by his peers. He ended up without friends and without a person he could confide in. Faced with the total lack of control in front of her son, Edmund's mother decided to delegate the responsibility of raising her parents. At the age of 15, Kemper then went to live with his grandparents on a farm in North Fork, California, which was quite isolated from the urban city. He spent the day hunting animals in the fields with his rifle given to him by his grandfather. However, he had a bad relationship with his grandmother. She complained that he kept staring at her nonstop to the point of frightening her. However, Edmund did not obey her and also did not understand why he should obey her. Until on a certain opportunity, fed up with not being understood, however difficult it really was, he decided to shoot his grandmother in the head. Not knowing what to make of his grandfather, he chose to be more practical; kills him too (as much as he liked him). He was eventually diagnosed as a result of such crimes as psychotic and paranoid. He was therefore admitted to the psychiatric hospital in Atascadero, where he finally no longer felt like a stranger to others. The more he listened to the sadistic and unhealthy experiences of his roommates (rape cases were his favorite) the more he psychically encouraged their sexual fantasies. Obviously he never narrated such fictions to his doctors. As in the eyes of health professionals, Kemper was an obedient patient, religious, focused on the tasks required of him, intelligent and, above all, repentant of his crimes, his medical discharge was on the verge of being granted. Meanwhile, he was awarded 18 months probation. Despite not being indicated by the doctors, he returned to live with his mother. He had a great admiration for the police career; his dream was to work in the police. It turns out that his aspiration was quickly frustrated because he was too tall for the maximum height allowed in the edict. He got quite upset and started collecting guns and knives. In addition to his great disappointment at not being able to be a police officer, even though he got a good job and acquired his financial independence, his mother continued to despise and humiliate him. At age 20, he bought a car that looked extremely like a police car and amused himself by giving rides to young women... that's when the massacre of schoolgirls began.
To finally satisfy his sexual fantasies, Kemper set the stage for future criminal practices. He removed the antenna from his car, prevented the opening of the passenger door and stored plastic bags, blankets and weapons inside the car. When he gave rides to students, they soon noticed that the driver was straying from the desired route and, when he was alerted to the distortion of the route, Edmund drew his gun and demanded that nothing more be said. After arriving at a remote location, he usually killed his victim by suffocating her with a plastic bag through numerous stab wounds or shots from a firearm to later "have sex" with the corpse. Afterwards, he took the corpses home.
(the same as his mother's) where he examined them and learned a little more about human anatomy. After the "autopsy", she would bury the remains. Not infrequently, she had sex with the headless dead. She took great pride and pleasure in talking in the days after the crime with the city police who told her about the cruelty of the new cases of homicide and rape — little did they suspect that the author was the one to whom they told the occurrences. As much as Edmund took immense pleasure in killing and raping schoolgirls, nothing compared to the delight he felt in fantasizing about a sexual relationship with his mother. It was Oedipal depravity in the extreme. His er*t*c compulsion grew stronger and stronger until he became uncontrollable. One day he entered his mother's room at dawn and with blunt blows from a hammer murdered his mother. Soon after, he decapitated her and even without her head, had sex with her own mother's dead body. Not satisfied, he took a knife and cut all the corpse's vocal chords because even without life, he continued to hear his mother's voice bothering him. Finally, he separated his mother's skull and proceeded to say everything he thought about her. Then he went to play darts in her room - yes, exactly that; he was coolly playing darts. Hours after the crime, he decided to invite his mother's best friend to dinner at his house. As much as it was strange, she accepted the invitation... it was a bad idea. When arriving at the residence of Kemper, this one assassinated to him by means of strangulation. Kemper was on an "inspired" night. The day after the 2 homicides on an Easter Sunday, Kemper woke up and traveled aimlessly fearing being arrested by the police. However, in the course of the trip, he came to like the idea of becoming famous for his atrocities, but when reading the local newspapers, he realized that he was not considered a suspect for the authorship of such crimes. He then decided to call the police and confess them. It was difficult for the police to believe in "Big Ed" as he was called in the police force as everyone knew him merely as a person who dreamed of being a police officer. But to everyone's surprise, Ed Kemper not only confessed to his crimes, but also led the police to all the places he used to dispose of the victims' bodies.
With the confession and presentation of the remains of the victims to the police authorities, the defense had little to claim in court. With this perspective in mind, attorney James Jackson, appointed by the court to act in the case, enlisted several witnesses seeking to prove Kemper's insanity. However, during the 3 weeks that the trial was held, not a single witness was able to convince the jury of insanity. The prosecution was successful and managed to reject every one of all the testimonies provided by the defense witnesses. The prosecution witness that most impacted the defensive thesis was psychiatrist Dr. Joel Fort. The doctor had interviewed Kemper at the psychiatric hospital in Atascadero, where he noted Kemper's obsession with sex and violence. He added Fort that Edmund Kemper, if he were released, would again kill the same type of victim in the same way. After 5 hours of deliberation, jurors reached a verdict finding Ed Kemper guilty of first-degree murder on the 8 counts. On sentencing, he was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole (he only escaped the death penalty because, at the time, the state of California had abolished it).
Convicted, Kemper spent a brief period at the California Medical Facility, a prison facility located in Vacaville, California. Afterwards he was permanently incarcerated in the Mindhunter Maximum Security World Prison, where he remains to this day. Kemper has given numerous interviews since his arrest and is considered by FBI agents to be one of the smartest criminal masterminds ever seen. His various dialogues with the Bureau have contributed to understanding the minds of serial killers. With an IQ of 148, he is also recognized by other inmates as a genius serial killer. In the opinion of many, Ed Kemper would never have been arrested if he had not taken the decision, in the past, to confess his crimes to the police authorities. Now 70 years old, he is considered a model prisoner with no involvement in fights or arguments with other inmates. Among the activities he performs in prison are scheduling appointments with psychiatrists for inmates, translating books into Braille and making ceramic cups. At his last hearing with the parole board, Kemper declined to appear and asked that his advocate, Scott Currey, come in his place and address a few words to the members. Upon attending the hearing, the lawyer thus pronounced "His feeling is that no one will ever let him out of here and he is happy. He is just happy with his life in prison..."
To finally satisfy his sexual fantasies, Kemper set the stage for future criminal practices. He removed the antenna from his car, prevented the opening of the passenger door and stored plastic bags, blankets and weapons inside the car. When he gave rides to students, they soon noticed that the driver was straying from the desired route and, when he was alerted to the distortion of the route, Edmund drew his gun and demanded that nothing more be said. After arriving at a remote location, he usually killed his victim by suffocating her with a plastic bag through numerous stab wounds or shots from a firearm to later "have sex" with the corpse. Afterwards, he took the corpses home.
(the same as his mother's) where he examined them and learned a little more about human anatomy. After the "autopsy", she would bury the remains. Not infrequently, she had sex with the headless dead. She took great pride and pleasure in talking in the days after the crime with the city police who told her about the cruelty of the new cases of homicide and rape — little did they suspect that the author was the one to whom they told the occurrences. As much as Edmund took immense pleasure in killing and raping schoolgirls, nothing compared to the delight he felt in fantasizing about a sexual relationship with his mother. It was Oedipal depravity in the extreme. His er*t*c compulsion grew stronger and stronger until he became uncontrollable. One day he entered his mother's room at dawn and with blunt blows from a hammer murdered his mother. Soon after, he decapitated her and even without her head, had sex with her own mother's dead body. Not satisfied, he took a knife and cut all the corpse's vocal chords because even without life, he continued to hear his mother's voice bothering him. Finally, he separated his mother's skull and proceeded to say everything he thought about her. Then he went to play darts in her room - yes, exactly that; he was coolly playing darts. Hours after the crime, he decided to invite his mother's best friend to dinner at his house. As much as it was strange, she accepted the invitation... it was a bad idea. When arriving at the residence of Kemper, this one assassinated to him by means of strangulation. Kemper was on an "inspired" night. The day after the 2 homicides on an Easter Sunday, Kemper woke up and traveled aimlessly fearing being arrested by the police. However, in the course of the trip, he came to like the idea of becoming famous for his atrocities, but when reading the local newspapers, he realized that he was not considered a suspect for the authorship of such crimes. He then decided to call the police and confess them. It was difficult for the police to believe in "Big Ed" as he was called in the police force as everyone knew him merely as a person who dreamed of being a police officer. But to everyone's surprise, Ed Kemper not only confessed to his crimes, but also led the police to all the places he used to dispose of the victims' bodies.
With the confession and presentation of the remains of the victims to the police authorities, the defense had little to claim in court. With this perspective in mind, attorney James Jackson, appointed by the court to act in the case, enlisted several witnesses seeking to prove Kemper's insanity. However, during the 3 weeks that the trial was held, not a single witness was able to convince the jury of insanity. The prosecution was successful and managed to reject every one of all the testimonies provided by the defense witnesses. The prosecution witness that most impacted the defensive thesis was psychiatrist Dr. Joel Fort. The doctor had interviewed Kemper at the psychiatric hospital in Atascadero, where he noted Kemper's obsession with sex and violence. He added Fort that Edmund Kemper, if he were released, would again kill the same type of victim in the same way. After 5 hours of deliberation, jurors reached a verdict finding Ed Kemper guilty of first-degree murder on the 8 counts. On sentencing, he was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole (he only escaped the death penalty because, at the time, the state of California had abolished it).
Convicted, Kemper spent a brief period at the California Medical Facility, a prison facility located in Vacaville, California. Afterwards he was permanently incarcerated in the Mindhunter Maximum Security World Prison, where he remains to this day. Kemper has given numerous interviews since his arrest and is considered by FBI agents to be one of the smartest criminal masterminds ever seen. His various dialogues with the Bureau have contributed to understanding the minds of serial killers. With an IQ of 148, he is also recognized by other inmates as a genius serial killer. In the opinion of many, Ed Kemper would never have been arrested if he had not taken the decision, in the past, to confess his crimes to the police authorities. Now 70 years old, he is considered a model prisoner with no involvement in fights or arguments with other inmates. Among the activities he performs in prison are scheduling appointments with psychiatrists for inmates, translating books into Braille and making ceramic cups. At his last hearing with the parole board, Kemper declined to appear and asked that his advocate, Scott Currey, come in his place and address a few words to the members. Upon attending the hearing, the lawyer thus pronounced "His feeling is that no one will ever let him out of here and he is happy. He is just happy with his life in prison..."
1 | Feb 8th 2023 01:32