Edmund Kemper

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English - January 30, 2021 23:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MB
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Edmund Emil Kemper III Dec 18, 1948 an American serial killer, serial rapist, cannibal, and necrophile who murdered ten people.Killed his paternal grandparents and mother. He is noted for his large size, at 6 feet 9 inches ( and his IQ of 145. Nicknamed the Co-ed Killer, as most of his victims were female college students.His parents divorced; as a child, he moved to Montana with his abusive mother before returning to California, where he murdered his paternal grandparents when he was 15. He was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic by court psychiatrists and sentenced to the State Hospital as a criminally insane juvenile.Released at the age of 21 after convincing psychiatrists he was rehabilitated, Kemper was regarded as non-threatening by his future victims. He targeted female hitchhikers during his killing spree, taking them into his vehicle and driving them to secluded areas where he would murder them before taking their corpses back to his home to be decapitated, dismembered, and violated. Kemper then murdered his mother and one of her friends before turning himself in to the authorities.Found sane and guilty at his trial in 1973, he received eight concurrent life sentences. Since then, he has been incarcerated in the California Medical Facility.

References:
https://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/kemper-edmund.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kemper
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/edmund-kemper
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/edmund-kemper
https://positivenegativeimpact.com/ed-kemper-fact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTnEY8y-p7M

Photographs and additional reading.
https://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/kemper-edmund-photos.htm

Resources:
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/mentalhealth/Pages/contact-service.aspx#24-hour
https://www.beyondblue.org.au
https://www.betterhelp.com
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