He had a severely dysfunctional relationship with his mother, a neurotic, domineering alcoholic who frequently belittled, humiliated, and abused him.
Kemper had a close relationship with his father and was devastated when his parents separated in 1957, causing him to be raised by Clarnell in Helena, Montana.
He also had close-to-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. He stated in later interviews that some of his favorite games to play as a child were "Gas Chamber" and "Electric Chair," in which he asked his younger sister to tie him up and flip an imaginary switch he would then tumble over and writhe on the floor, pretending that he was being executed by gas inhalation or electric shock. He performed rites with his younger sister's dolls that culminated in his removing their heads and hands on one occasion, when his elder sister, Susan Hughey Kemper (1943–2014), teased him and asked why he did not try to kiss his teacher, he replied, "If I kiss her, I'd have to kill her first." He also recalled that as a young boy, he would sneak out of his house and, armed with his father's bayonet, go to his second-grade teacher's house to watch her through the windows. At the age of 13, he killed another family cat when he perceived it to be favoring his younger sister, Allyn Lee Kemper (born 1951), over him and he kept pieces of it in his closet until his mother found them. Kemper later stated that he derived pleasure from successfully lying to his family about killing the cat.
Early on, he exhibited antisocial behavior such as cruelty to animals: At the age of 10, he buried a pet cat alive once it died, he dug it up, decapitated it, and mounted its head on a spike. Weighing 13 pounds (5.9 kg) as a newborn, Kemper was a head taller than his peers by the age of four. Clarnell 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 Clarnell affected him "more than three hundred and ninety-six days and nights of fighting on the front did." was a World War II veteran who, after the war, tested nuclear weapons in the Pacific Proving Grounds before returning to California, where he worked as an electrician. He was the middle child and only son born to Clarnell Elizabeth Kemper ( née Stage, 1921–1973) and Edmund Emil Kemper Jr.
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Kemper then murdered his mother and one of her friends before turning himself in to the authorities.įound sane and guilty at his trial in 1973, Kemper requested the death penalty for his crimes. 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 before taking their corpses back to his home to be decapitated, dismembered, and violated. Released at the age of 21 after convincing psychiatrists he was rehabilitated, Kemper was regarded as non-threatening by his future victims. Following the murders, he was briefly diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia by court psychiatrists and sentenced to the Atascadero State Hospital as a criminally insane juvenile. He ran away to reunite with his father, but was left behind in North Fork, California on Christmas Day in 1963, where he murdered his paternal grandparents when he was 15. His parents divorced in early life as a child, he moved to Montana with his abusive mother Clarnell, who locked Kemper in their basement which had been frequented by rats. īorn in Burbank, California, Kemper had a troubled upbringing. Most of his murders included necrophilia, with occasional incidents of rape and cannibalism. Kemper was nicknamed the Co-ed Killer, as most of his victims were female college students hitchhiking in the Santa Cruz area. He is noted for his height of 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m), and for his high intellect, possessing an IQ of 145.
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Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer, rapist, cannibal, and necrophile who murdered six college students before murdering his mother and her best friend from September 1972 to April 1973 following his parole for murdering his paternal grandparents.
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