ipl-logo

Murder, No Apparent Motive Analysis

1670 Words7 Pages

Imagine seeing someone who is a staggering six foot nine and 300 pounds (“Edmund Emil Kemper” 1). This person turns out to be the nicest, most polite person anyone has ever met (“Murder, No Apparent Motive"). This person is even friends with many cops (“Murder, No Apparent Motive"). Then they’re charged for 10 accounts of murder and no one could believe this person actually did this (“Murder, No Apparent Motive"). This was basically what happened with a serial killer named Edmund Emil Kemper III, also known as The Co-Ed Killer (Murderpedia 1). Robert K. Ressler actually said, “One individual who I can think of was described by the prosecutor as the nice serial killer he ever encountered… Edmund Kemper” (“Murder, No Apparent Motive"). Kemper’s …show more content…

Ed actually picked up many hitchhikers and released them ("Edmund Kemper Biography" 1). He did this mostly to see if he was able to keep his sanity and resist his urge to kill. He picked up two females and drove them to where they wanted to go (“Murder, No Apparent Motive). He even went passed where he killed his first two victims (“Murder, No Apparent Motive). He was able to resist the urge to kill and dropped them off safely, being sane he whole time (“Murder, No Apparent Motive). Ed had a variety of jobs that he worked at. He actually worked at the Atascadero Institution while he was a patient there (Murderpedia 5). He helped administer tests to patients and was eager to work, which is a good sign because most sociopaths don’t want to work (Murderpedia 5). Ed then wanted to be a police officer, but could not because there was a size and weight restriction at the time ("Edmund Kemper Biography" 2). Instead, he settled for something simpler, like being a part of the California Highway Department ("Edmund Kemper Biography" 2). Ed attended community college for a certain amount of time, too ("Edmund Kemper Biography" 2). Ed ironically had friends that were cops that called him “Big Ed” ("Edmund Kemper Biography" 2). Most of all, Kemper was able to act sane because he looked normal, had a normal car, and had a normal life when he was released from Atascadero (“Murder, No Apparent Motive"). Big Ed even admitted that he picked up girls just to talk to them because he was socially awkward (“Murder, No Apparent Motive"). Even when some girls would talk about who the killer was with him, he was able to act sane and not act out (“Murder, No Apparent Motive"). At one point, the police came to his house looking for a .44 magnum (“Murder, No Apparent Motive"). He actually talked to them, and gave them the gun, without blinking an eye (“Murder, No Apparent Motive"). Edmund had was able to act sane even

Show More
Related
515 Words | 3 Pages

One fateful Night, murder occurred in Ellis Household. Paul Dudden, the unhappy guest wanting to take over the Ellis house and force Amy Ellis to marry him. Paul Dudden’s death was unexpected but it was a murder. Only one person out of the 6 suspects could have done it. Wilfred hope killed Paul Dudden hoping to settle the dispute once and for all.

Read More
982 Words | 4 Pages

Jack Patton Dixon Criminal Justice 23 October 2017 Richard Kuklinski Richard Kuklinski is one of the most well-known serial killers in history. He was convicted of killing five people, but could have killed anywhere from one-hundred to two-hundred people. He is a very unique serial killer for many reasons. One reason is because he was paid to kill people. Most serial killers feel a compulsion to kill because of lust, anger, or similar reasons.

Read More
1622 Words | 7 Pages

Richard Angelo How can a good person become a serial killer? What makes them change their way of thinking? The desire of power, attention, and recognition are big factors that can make you change or transform into a bad person. These were the reasons that made good citizen Richard Angelo become a dangerous serial killer. Richard Angelo had a huge desire of becoming a hero and being a person to look up to.

Read More
380 Words | 2 Pages

It seems the closest that anyone has gotten to catching the Long Island Serial Killer may be a phone call. Little is known about whoever is responsible for the 10-plus bodies uncovered in recent years on Gilgo Beach in Long Island, New York. No suspects have ever been identified. But the victims’ friends and family do know this: The killer or killers like to taunt them.

Read More
966 Words | 4 Pages

Richard "Iceman" Kuklinski was viewed as a normal man by society for much of his adult life. This man was far from normal. Kuklinski was a psychopath and a sociopath who was driven to kill by his troubled childhood and his lifestyle as a paid hit man. This paper will focus on the criminological theory of why Kuklinkski committed these murders. Richard Leonard Kuklinski was born in 1935 to Stanley and Anna Kuklinski ("Meet Notorious Contract Killer Richard Kuklinski").

Read More
681 Words | 3 Pages

Murder on a Sunday Morning, is an Oscar award-winning documentary that tells of the conviction and trial of 15-year-old Brenton Butler for the death of Mary Ann Stephens in Jacksonville, Florida of May 2000. The film is a 111-minute movie directed by Jean-Xavier de Lastrade. The plot originates from the incident of Mary Ann Stephens being shot in the head by a black assailant; and then begins to unravel as Brenton Butler is arrested 90 minutes after the murder has occurred. Pat McGuinness, one of the main interviewees in the movie, takes up the case and defends Brenton Butler. The documentary presents the film from the trial, as well as interviews and investigations that Pat McGuinness and his partner Ann Finnel performed to gather facts for

Read More
861 Words | 4 Pages

Ed Regis is selfish, cowardly, and lazy which is bad because it could have led to him being in a serious situation with someone’s life on the line but since he was cowardly he may have fled, undoubtedly, he had deserved to die before his cowardliness hurt someone. After running away from the kids because there is t-rex nearby Grant, who is now with the kids, notices Regis in the dark and a juvenile tyrannosaur. After playing with Regis and Regis yelling at the dinosaur suddenly “Regis began to scream. No words, just a high-pitched scream. The scream cut off abruptly, and when the juvenile lifted his head, Grant saw ragged flesh in his jaws”(216).

Read More
589 Words | 3 Pages

Within Edward Scissorhands, when other characters meet Edward, they identify him as a freak of nature, as someone who might hurt them. When Kim was coming back home, she encountered Edward for the very first time. Numerous shot-reverse-shots were used to revealed the terror in her eyes. As she screamed at the very top of her lungs, she had woken up the entire house. Peg had to calm her down to tell her that Edward was someone not to fear, despite his gargantuan scissors for hands.

Read More
1943 Words | 8 Pages

A serial killer can best be described as a person who commits a series or murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern. A disturbing fact about serial killers is that most of them should be eminently identifiable. Serial killers commit their acts specifically in one place, therefore, give the residents of the community, its police force, and even their neighbors ample opportunity to find out what they are. The fact they are not caught is attributed to three factors. The first being the characteristics of the victims, which in Jeffrey Dahmer's case he prayed mostly on gay men.

Read More
804 Words | 4 Pages

On his expedition of digging up buried bodies, he seeked out help from Gus, a silly farmer, but once Gus had been admitted to a home due to his old age, “Gein became desperate for fresh trophies”, which is what led him to murder the two women. It was after the death of his mother, that Gein began creating a “woman suit”, which he would wear, because he longed to become a woman. Authorities also found out that Ed engaged in necrophilia with bodies he dug up, though he denied it, claiming the corpses “smelled too bad”. One of the police who had questioned Gein, Art Schley, was found guilty of having physically assaulted Ed, by “banging Gein’s head and face into a brick wall.” At the time Gein did not have to attend his trial because of the state of his mental stability, in total he was sent to two mental institutions, one of which eventually became a prison.

Read More
665 Words | 3 Pages

The victim had no shirt or pants on, and there was a slice on the back of his neck and the back of his left leg. There was also the rope used to tie him up, which could not be identified by trace analysts because they had never seen it before. He wiped his knife clean on Eberle’s shirt, and left the

Read More
1407 Words | 6 Pages

Mary Ann Pesce (18) and Anita Luchessa (18) were stabbed to death. Just over 4 months later, September 14, 1972, Ed picked up and killed his third victim, Aiko Koo (15) by strangulation. It would be another 4 months before Ed would kill again. Now 25 years old, Ed picked up and shot 19-year-old Cindy Schallner near Cabrillo College in California. There was a short time between Cindy and the next two victims, Rosalind Thorpe (24) and Alice Liu (23).

Read More
1375 Words | 6 Pages

Ted Bundy was a notorious serial murderer who’s reign of terror lasted from 1974 to 1978. Bundy was convicted of three homicides and was sentenced to death for all three charges. However, at the time of his execution, Bundy confessed to 30 murders however the exact number of victims is still unknown. Bundy’s crimes evolved over time but he was both a sexual sadist and a necrophiliac serial killer. At the beginning of his rampage, Bundy would sneak into the victims house in the middle of the night, violently attack them while they were sleeping with a blunt object and then Bundy would usually sexually assault them.

Read More
926 Words | 4 Pages

Introduction I. Look around this school and think about exactly how many students are here daily. How would you feel if I told you that one out of every twenty five people are sociopaths(Pratt 2006).The fact of the matter is that not everyone who is a sociopath is a serial killer but oddly enough it has been proven that all serial killers are sociopaths. II. I have chosen serial killers that I found intriguing and that I thought not many people would know a lot about.

Read More
1267 Words | 6 Pages

After his mother’s death Ed’s mental started began to degrade. He stopped bathing and boarded up all the rooms in the family home but 2. He also experienced frightening hallucinations. 18 months after he death, Ed dug up his mother’s body, removed her head and shrunk it. This was his first experience in grave robbing.

Read More

More about Murder, No Apparent Motive Analysis

Related Topics

Open Document