Edmund Kemper was born on December 18th, 1948 in Burbank, California. From a young age, Ed is faced with the divorce of his parents, and is left with no choice but to learn to especially hate women after continuous mocking circumstances from his mother and sister whom at the time he lived with. During his childhood, he engaged in mistreating and murdering animals, indicating and emphasizing concerning demeanor from a young age. After his sister teases him about kissing a teacher, he replies with “If I kiss her, I’d have to kill her first.” Kemper’s alcoholic and abusive mother locked him in the basement, and he escaped, hoping that his father would take him in. Rejected, he is sent to live with his grandparents in California but discovered …show more content…
The establishment of his name, The Coed Killer began with his first hitchhiker “victims Mary Ann Pesce and Anita Luchessa, both 18 year old Fresno State College coeds.” He stabbed and decapitated the girls, disposed of their bodies and kept their heads until later disposing of them as well. His third victim, Aiko Koo, 15 years old, was hitchhiking to a dance class. After suffocation, he raped her and put her in the trunk of his car. He described to investigators a feeling of power as if “[he] was the hunter and they were the victims.” With the purchase of a .22 caliber pistol, he shot 19 year old Cynthia Schall, kept her corpse in the closet of his mother’s apartment and dissected it the following day. “He buried the girl’s head in the backyard ‘with her face turned toward [his] bedroom window and, sometimes at night, [he] talked to her, say love things, like the way you do to a girlfriend or wife.” Kemper’s last coed killings would consist of “Rosalind Thorpe, 23, and Alice Liu, 21” who he both shot in his car and decapitated out of anger brought out from his