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Edmund Emil Kemper III also known as Ed Kemper was born in California in 1948. He is an American serial killer who is known for murdering 10 people including his mother and grandparents. Kemper murdered people between 1964 and 1973 which included both family and innocent young women. Kemper is known for his imposing size, standing over 6 feet tall. Ed had a very high IQ. He’s been made a fascination in popular culture with numerous tv shows and movies featuring fictionalized versions of his story. Ed was labeled as the “Co-ed Killer” and the “Co-ed Butcher.” One of kempers hell-bound murders was his grandma, Maude M. Hughey Kemper. Kemper hated living on the farm. Kemper got his rifle taken away due to him killing birds and other animals. This angered him.. On August 27, 1964 he let his building rage out on his grandparents. At 15 Kemper got into an argument with his grandmother and ended in him shooting her. Then Kemper got scared when his grandpa showed up so he went outside and killed him next to his car. Kemper hid the bodies. Moments later he told his mom to call the police because he killed his grandparents. Kemper told police that he wanted "to see what it felt like." Ed was then put into a mental hospital and was released at …show more content…

From May of 1972 to February 1973 Kemper killed his next eight victims. Kemper would pick up female hitchhikers and take them to his house. There, he would cut their hands and heads off. After cutting them off he would then engage in sexual activities to their headless bodies. Kemper would put their heads on sticks in the woods. Kemper picked up one hitchhiker, Cindy Schall, whom he shot and killed. Kemper then hid Schall’s body in his room. He dismembered her corpse there the following day and threw the body parts into the ocean. Several parts were later discovered when they washed up onshore. He buried her head in his mother's backyard as a form of mockery to his

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The answer to this is yes, he did murder 2 people. He was tied to 3 more murders but they were unconfirmed, one of those being his brother. Unlike Ed, his brother didn't grow up to follow the rules of their mother; Such as isolating himself and not dating. He encouraged Ed not to follow those rules and instead told him to get a wife and a family and started trash-talking their mother. Ed didn’t like that

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She’d been gutted and of course that led to further investigation. During questioning, Ed Gein admitted to killing two women, one of those being Mary Hogan and obviously Worden. As you can see Ed was not very stable. He even confessed to digging up womens’ bodies that were freshly buried and “practicing necrophilia” on them. He made suits of their skin and used body parts in various disgusting ways.

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She met the same fate as Anita and Mary Ann. In January of 1973, Ed Kemper had picked up a girl named Cindy Schall. He shot and killed her. He had then hid her body in his room, dismembered the corpse and the next day threw her parts into the ocean, where many were later discovered washed up onshore. He had also buried her head in his mother’s backyard.

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Other incidents: Before killing his mother, Edmund Kemper murdered six college girls (Edmund Kemper Biography, 2016). ​ Patterns of the crimes: Kemper's patterns were the same throughout. He would pick-up hitchhikers on the highway, take them to rural areas, kill them, decapitate them, commit necrophilia, and finally took their dismembered bodies to his apartment (Bonn, 2014). Police Investigations: n/a​ Suspicion of individual: Suspect confessed by phone call that

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