Edmund Kemper Research Paper

INTRODUCTION The purpose of my research is to apply four theories, as learned during the course of our instruction, to the life and serial murders committed by Edmund Emil Kemper III. Kemper, a 6 foot 9 inch tall, 280 pound good looking and intelligent man, came to public knowledge in 1973, when he was arrested for the serial killings of six college age girls from Santa Cruz, California and also the murder of his mother and her close friend, who were located dead and dismembered, in closest of Edmund Kemper’s residence. Edmund Kemper, who was only twenty two years old when he made a phone call from a pay phone in Pueblo, Colorado to the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Department and got into contact with Officer Jim Conner. Edmund Kemper,

During the course of his life he became the middle child of three that endured the separation of their mother and father, succumbed to the rejection by his father when he attempted to reconnect and ended up living with his grandparents, who also showed him no love and proved to be distant to him. At the age of 15 he was sent to a state hospital, due to crimes he committed against his grandparents, then after release he ended up back with his mother, who was still cold and

E. and Clarnell Kemper of Burbank California. Edmund Kemper had both an older and younger sister and became extremely close to his father. By the age of nine, his mother and father divorced and he moved with his mother and sisters to Montana to start fresh. This part of Kemper’s life proved to be very difficult to him and his mother decided that he needed to toughen-up and was afraid of his behavior as related to his sisters, so she would lock him in the basement, where it was said to be dark (only one single light bulb hanging from the ceiling), cold, damp and he could hear rats running throughout (Ramsland, 2014). “Clarnell was described as an alcoholic, cold, distant and extremely critical of Kemper.” (Ramsland, 2014). Later in life, after the murders were revealed, Kemper would blame his mother for his murderous acts and dreamed of killing her as a child. Kemper developed a dark fantasy life that emerged into cutting the heads off of his sister’s dolls, perform sexual acts with the dolls, killing his childhood cat, and even acting out a game called "gas chamber in which he had them blindfold him and lead him to a chair, where he pretended to writhe in agony until he died.” (Kemper, 2014